When Jen, ESC and I were coordinating and getting ready for SAFF, I volunteered to bring some fantastic coffee with me because I had a little tin from when B and I went to the beach. As it turned out, we never got around to drinking it at SAFF, and I suffered through crap coffee (once), gave up and drank diet coke every morning for my caffeine fix. I never got up early enough in the morning to fix the coffee I had brought with me in our hotel room and then didn’t realize until maybe the last day we were there that there were no filters had I wanted to brew coffee anyway.
SO, I didn’t drink my lovely coffee while at SAFF and the small tin of coffee came home with me. (And maybe has been stored on the floor in our bedroom because it seemed like a good idea at the time.)
Fast forward to today.This morning when I was making coffee, I didn’t realize that B had already poured water into the coffee maker and so I added another 4 cups of water to the coffee maker bringing the total to 8 (EIGHT! AH AH AH AH!) (Em, I totally did that just for you.) (OK, and a little bit just for me.) cups of coffee. There wasn’t quite enough coffee in the big tin, so I went back to the bedroom and got the small tin to finish the job.
(Also, let me make a side note here and just mention that I have not opened this small tin of coffee since the beach.) Imagine my surprise when I opened the tin this morning to discover bacon grease. Not coffee. (Unless you count the few little crumbs soaked in bacon grease at the bottom of the tin.)
I was, to say the least, stunned. I briefly wondered if this was a wild joke that Jen and/or ESC had pulled, but then realized there was no way they could have pulled it off unless they did it while at Claudia’s, and if they had, they would have probably tried to get me to drink coffee while we were at SAFF.
No, this had to have happened at home. But when?
When I mentioned it to B, he promptly told me that yes, he had dumped the small tin of coffee into the big tin when we got home from the beach, and the last time he fixed real bacon (as opposed to the microwaveable kind), he poured the grease in the small tin and then stuck the tin in the fridge.
Do you know what this means? This means, I drove to GA and then rode with Jen and ESC up to SAFF in Asheville, NC and back with A TIN OF BACON GREASE DISGUISED AS COFFEE.
I am now also aware of the fact that I married a man who puts random (gross) objects in the fridge.
I’m still dealing with the ramifications of what this says about me as a person.
I am laughing SO hard right now. I nearly spewed my Three Musketeers candybar all over my keyboard.
No, that’s what you do with bacon grease. Then when the can gets full it gets thrown away. Some people actually keep it to cook with.
Yeah, but how many people drive around with it in their car thinking it’s coffee?
Also, my grandma used to do that, but with a glass jar and she never put it in the fridge that I remember.
I’ve never kept bacon grease in the fridge (although it sounds like a good idea because it probably would keep the grease from smelling at room temp. – so your man is pretty smart. Plus, he cooks bacon. And bacon is fantastic. I think he gets an A+ for smartness and cooking.)
I’ve also never driven my bacon grease to any exotic locations.
My little brother once ate a huge dollop of Crisco, thinking that it was vanilla frosting.
: P Bleh!
Yet one more benefit of vegitarianism…I don’t EVER have to worry about smuggling bacon greese (*ech*) across state lines.
p.s. I like the new look of your blog – the dancing girl makes me happy!
So, is your awesome coffee Bustelo? Cuz we drink that all the time at Casa de La. You’ll feel right at home when you come to visit!
We’ll have bacon!
I’m so glad you didn’t end up having time to brew coffee at SAFF; what a nasty surprise that would have been. You’d definitely have been better off drinking that watered-down slurry at IHOP.
My mom used to keep a big pot of french fry grease (vegetable oil, not bacon fat) in the fridge, and it was the only thing that pot ever got used for. I don’t even remember eating fries all that often, so lard knows how long it lasted.
At least he’s not using it later to spread on his toast. I had a friend who did that.
mmmmm…nothing better than a good tin of bacon grease in the morning. Can you imagine if we had gone to make coffee??? HAHAHAHAHA!
For the record, there is nothing wrong with keeping bacon grease. I pour it into a GLASS JAR (for see-through, full disclosure) and use it to flavor up some beads, eggs, whatever.
Mmmmm…
B is right. I save bacon grease, too. I use a glass jar, but my fam keeps it in an old coffee tin, as well, they always did. I do not think any of us drove it across state lines, though. We love our bacon, but we don’t feel the need to transport it with us on road trips.
OMG! Hilarious, are you sure you are half-korean? That sounds ecactly like some of the things I have done before.
I’m just sick that ESC and I didn’t discover that while at SAFF. And who the hell needs bacon flavored beads, ESC?
HAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA! *wiping away tear* Haaaa! Hee! Whooo!
Oh my – I don’t think it says anything negative about you as a person, and as for your husband… well… that sounds like something MY husband would do.