"jmcquown" > wrote in message
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> On 5/21/2014 11:14 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
>>
>> "Gary" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>>
>>> Here's a funny that my brother-in-law told me once years ago.
>>> He was living with roommates at the time.
>>>
>>> One morning he woke up and made a cup of instant coffee. There was
>>> already some water in a pot on the stove, so he just heated that up
>>> and made his coffee with it.
>>>
>>> It was so nasty. Turned out that a roommate had boiled some hotdogs
>>> and ate them the night before so he made his coffee from that old
>>> hotdog water. heheh
>>
>> Ew. Was there not an oil slick on the top?
>>
> Why would hot dogs boiled in water be oily?

I don't know but any time I boiled them there was a little oil on top of the
water.