While seeking shade under a hugh old tree, my husband stumbled upon some elderly folks. They were all waiting for children at a school nearby, to be released, to fetch them home. While eating some deep fried snacks from a stall nearby, they started chatting.
They talked about oil used for deep frying from restaurants being sold to small stall holders instead of being discarded. I have heard of that before. While I advocate recycling, I think this is a bad business practice as the over used oil can become carcinogenic.
If this is the first time you have heard of this and think that is scary, wait till you hear what the elderly have to say. Be ready to give up eating deep fried food.
In Thailand, some shops deep fried plastic bags in their oil as the chemicals leached from them makes the deep fried food crispier. Nah, that can't be true, right? The old man added that in his younger days, he has seen a shop owner, deep fried plastic drinking straws in his kuali of oil first before he deep fried what he sold.
So, the next time you seek shade, go to where the elderly are seated to see if you can have their thoughts recycled and committed to memory. Pass the stories down for them before they are lost and forgotten.
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