No fair calling, this ain't Regis, no "phone a grandpa" allowed. You either know it or you don't @CajunlostinCali
I never said bacon fat. Ever. Spoke against it as well. 3 laps down. You might as well load er up on the truck
And you call yourself a traditionalist. The old Cajuns mostly used pig fat in just about all of their cooking because they were poor and store-bought vegetable oil was a lot more expensive than the fat. Still is. A couple of years ago a friend of mine wanted to fry a turkey but he didn't want to spend $30 on peanut oil. He found some rendering plant that sold him a 5 gallon bucket of pig lard for about $5. The turkey came out great. Unlike what shane says without really knowing, bacon fat does not overpower the taste of the other ingredients but rather is a flavor enhancement. It's not going to make a piece of chicken or a shrimp taste like a strip of bacon. Flavor enhancement is what cooking is all about.
I think that designation comes from them yankee coonasses. It's a sin, actually. Same as using gas grills.
