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Default Chicken leg experiment


"Mark Thorson" > wrote in message
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> Sqwertz wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 12:33:32 -0500, cybercat wrote:
>>
>> > I preheated the oven to 400 F, put just a thin coating of olive oil in
>> > a
>> > ceramic baking dish, them mixed up:
>> >
>> > 3/4 cup flour
>> > 1 tablespoon rosemary
>> > 1 tablespoon thyme
>> > 2 tablespoons paprika
>> > 1 teaspoon cayenne
>> > a goodly amount of salt.
>> >
>> > Washed six chicken legs and coated them well, even pulling back the
>> > skin and
>> > packing the flour mix underneath.

>>
>> Flour under the skin? That sounds like a recipe for glue.
>>
>> What happened to the stuff under the skin?

>
> Never assume how other people live. This reminds me
> of an Ann Landers column from many years ago in which
> an anxious reader related her story about getting
> together with some other housewives, and they were
> talking about cleaning the bathroom and what a chore
> it was to clean the toilet, when she discoverd that
> one of the more challenging parts of that job (to
> some of her friends) was cleaning the inside of the
> toilet tank. She'd never heard of anybody doing that,
> and she was writing to Ann to find out whether it was
> normal to clean the inside of the tank. As I recall,
> Ann had never heard of that either.


I've cleaned the inside of my tank at some of the places I've lived.
Sometimes it gets really mucky in there. Sometimes not. Not sure what
causes it.