Originally Posted by BeerCan
I miss meals like this. When I lived in Alabama I had a friend from NO, that used to organize a boil every year. Good fun and good food
When I first moved to Tampa, FL in 1987 some of the men in the neighborhood wanted to know how to fry a turkey. So, I gave a class. There was one neighbor that was drinking very heavily as I gave instructions.
All the guys there went out and bought themselves a turkey fryer kit (pot, thermometer, burner).
That thanksgiving I heard sirens coming towards my neighborhood. The man that had been drinking during my tutorial, his sun porch was on fire! He had filled the pot with peanut oil before using water as a dry run to see how much oil he needed by placing the turkey in the water. He had overfilled the pot with peanut oil and it overflowed into the burner, catching his porch on fire, causing over $22K in damages.