Default User wrote:

> I was watching the Julia Child DVDs, one show was on "french fries". In
> the requisite lecture on safety, Julia told us that when deep frying
> not to have children or "a bunch of kooks and weirdos" running around
> the kitchen while doing it.

I expect that Julia Childs was referring to anybody who might walk past
the stove and start lecturing about the health dangers of deep-fried foods.