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Default Chicken leg experiment

On Sat, 01 Mar 2008 12:01:43 -0800, Mark Thorson >
wrote:

>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.


yeah, but as i recall ann ironed her handkerchiefs. or, more likely,
had her maid do so. or maybe it was abby.

your pal,
blake