"ChattyCathy" > wrote

> Nancy Young wrote:

>> OMG, I've been famous in these parts for years because I
>> once baked a ham in that damned plastic bag. Who knew
>> it was there?? It was invisible. I glazed the thing and baked
>> it. Hours later there was a little shrunken ham in a shriveled
>> plastic bag.

> <grin> I'd almost forgotten about your ham. Closest I've come to
> something like that was many, many years ago when making a roast
> chicken was a big accomplishment for me. Back in those days they used
> to put the giblets, livers and neck into a little plastic baggie and
> shove it in the cavity of the chicken. Of course I didn't realize the
> baggie and its contents were still in there when I put the chicken in
> the oven.. 'nuff said.

Haha ... our chickens still include that lovely surprise, I don't
know exactly how I avoided that mishap. I don't really even
remember the first time I roasted a whole chicken.

Don't care to pay for that at chicken prices when all I do is
toss them ... no, I'm not making anything with them.

> Luckily that practice has stopped - nowadays they sell all that stuff
> separately here - so I am sure a few newbie cooks have been saved some
> traumatic kitchen moments <veg>

Every year we hear about the people who roast turkeys with
the surprise stuffing.

nancy