Poultry Fat Causes Chaos on Virginia Roads - Jalopnik Comments

Poultry Fat Causes Chaos on Virginia Roads

Novaload — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 23:08:54 EST

@billstewartx: "Give that chicken fat back to the chicken and don't be chicken again!" -- do you actually remember that too??!!

Novaload

Poultry Fat Causes Chaos on Virginia Roads

SeanKHotay — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:01:00 EST

"Mom, my car turned into a grit!"

SeanKHotay

Poultry Fat Causes Chaos on Virginia Roads

-chet — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:00:23 EST

What, the authors thought "KFC" is not-PC enough so they have to use "disposal facility".

-chet

Poultry Fat Causes Chaos on Virginia Roads

FreeMan — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 09:09:10 EST

Not quite as gross, but similarly inconvienent...

My Dad & I were traveling cross country in '86 on our way from Idaho, we'd stopped in Indiana for my student orientation at college, then headed to NYC so I could spend the summer with my grandparents. (Mid-town Manhattan - not a bad gig, BTW...)

In the middle of nowhere PA, I-80 suddenly slows to a crawl. After about 10 miles, we get to the next exit where the cops have the road closed and are forcing everyone off the interstate. After about another 10 miles or so, several hours of idling, a couple of excursions to the weeds at the side of the road for bathroom breaks (man, I'm glad I'm a man!), and a number of strolls along the side of the road to the truckers in front and behind to see if they had any news on what the tie up was. We finally found out that an Army semi had turned over and scattered a whole load of bomblettes across the road.

The reason traffic was so bad was that we had to follow a couple of little PA state & county roads that finally took us through the dinkiest 1/2-bit backwoods town where there was a stop light. After sitting in traffic for at least 4 hours (it may have been 5 by then), the local cop pulled up to the intersection at the same time we did and started directing traffic through on the red. We didn't stop to ask, but he did bear more than a passing resemblance to Barny Fife.

FreeMan

Poultry Fat Causes Chaos on Virginia Roads

FreeMan — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 08:51:00 EST

Hey! Post-meister! We need a new category: Story of the Day. Give the first award to akirachan!!!!

FreeMan

Poultry Fat Causes Chaos on Virginia Roads

M0L0TOV — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 07:54:00 EST

Meh, [www.youtube.com] me thinks this is more automobile related.

M0L0TOV

Poultry Fat Causes Chaos on Virginia Roads

biminitwst — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 06:50:55 EST

And then, theres this classic:
Ghetto Fried Chicken.
Be sure to turn it up!
[www.youtube.com]

biminitwst

Poultry Fat Causes Chaos on Virginia Roads

wheels OF satan! — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:55:45 EST

go you
CHCKEN FAT
everybody sing!
go you chicken fat go!

wheels OF satan!

Poultry Fat Causes Chaos on Virginia Roads

Tocsin — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:12:53 EST

@akirachan:
I'm not sure WHAT the point of that comment was, but by god it's an awesome comment.

Someone should write a collection book of great band stories, it seems like everyone who has ever picked up a musical instrument and joined a band to make some money has some pretty interesting stories to tell - myself included - it'd make for an awesome book.

Tocsin

Poultry Fat Causes Chaos on Virginia Roads

mytdawg — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:50:15 EST

Item #5 on this particular list...

[prevention.com]

mytdawg

Poultry Fat Causes Chaos on Virginia Roads

mytdawg — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:41:37 EST

Something like this happened a few years ago when a truck carrying animal fat (bound for a hair conditioner plant, If I remember correctly) overturned on a freeway somewhere.

The road had to be closed down for several days because the fat could not be removed from the road way. Eventually the company that makes Dawn dish washing detergent (Kraft?, Beatrice?, P&G probably) sent a truck of that to clean the road off. I would not be surprised if they have to do that again.

mytdawg

Poultry Fat Causes Chaos on Virginia Roads

jjfeke — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:35:37 EST

In 1989 I was heading back to Denver from working in the wheat fields till sunset in the summer. Ahead Colorado troopers were sending all traffic off to the shoulder for what seemed like 10 miles. There was a strong smell of rotting flesh in the night air that was incredibly putrid. None of this made sense until our headlights caught this still life of a cows head from the slaughter house devoid of skin staring back at us. A truck on it's way to the rendering plant had opened up and dumped it's greasy fetid contents for 15 miles. Images and odor beyond comprehension.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Archives About Advertising Legal Help
Consumerist Deadspin Defamer Fleshbot Gawker Gizmodo Gridskipper Idolator Jalopnik Jezebel Kotaku Lifehacker Valleywag Wonkette
at us from the asphalt. Individual hooves and parts followed. A truck on it's way to the rendering plant had dumped it's fetid contents for 15 miles on the freeway including loads of cow fat

jjfeke

Poultry Fat Causes Chaos on Virginia Roads

akirachan — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:32:08 EST

@Novaload: Thanks, glad you liked the story, and every bit of it is true. And just to be on the same page, it was Tyson that we played for, and we played a bunch of country songs by artist like Garth Brooks, Alan Jackson, George Jones, etc, and a few Beatles songs....My favorite song to play was "Guitar, Cadillacs" by Dwight Yoakam.

akirachan

Poultry Fat Causes Chaos on Virginia Roads

Novaload — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:10:32 EST

@akirachan: Wow, that is a great story! And so unlike the Deliverance version you would have gotten in Georgia!
The country boy is a much maligned soul. Nature's gentleman. Not to be confused with a red neck.

(Purdue paid a band for a Christmas party?! I'm impressed!)

Novaload

Poultry Fat Causes Chaos on Virginia Roads

charles_barrett — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:28:05 EST

Let's face it, with the modern world's horrific disregard for human life (let's blow up shoppers and commuters! Hoo-haw!), it makes the reality of abattoirs and rendering houses hard to cope with. I still want the meat, but I cannot stomach watching it come to pass. I'm a wimp, no question. In a way, it's like having a maid empty a chamber pot in the 1800s: we all shit, but I can pay someone else to handle the dirty work, and choose to do so. It is not quite at the Soylent Green level.

charles_barrett

Poultry Fat Causes Chaos on Virginia Roads

akirachan — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:26:54 EST

@Novaload: Hey that's cool, there must be alot of folks that pride themselves for being in the "poultry land" as it were. I've also visited a town in West-by-god-Virginia where there's a Tyson plant. I can't remember the name of the town, but I do remember our van breaking down ( we had a show at the Tyson plant for their christmas party...I was the bass player...things we do for money).

Anyway, the next day, after the show, the van blew one of the gaskets, so it was leaking oil like crazy. [Had we known how slippery chicken fat was, I bet Bo ( the owner of the van, as well as the band leader), as crazy as he was, would have gotten a bunch of chicken fat to replace the oil! After all, he was known to extinguish a fire in his Volvo by peeing on it!] So we stopped by a Burger King parking lot, and found this guy who claimed to be a mechanic. He started fixing the van in the parking lot, got done replacing the gasket, we fired it up, he followed us to make sure it was fixed, and eventually the other gasket blew and the thing started leaking with a vengeance!

So he suggested we take the van to his "shop" which was basically the roadside gravel driveway in front of his mom's house. The limping van took all 6 of us to his house in the country, where there was a running "crik(creek)" separating the road and his mom's house. While he was fixing the van we got cold, so we gathered what twigs and branches that were laying along the road and started a little fire. Then one of his buddies come along in his truck full of used tires, and hollers, " hey that ain't no way to start a fire, here, let me help ya!" and throws one of the old tires in the fire! It did make the fire substantially bigger, but the column of black smoke was so huge we got scared!

I don't really remember what happened after that, all I know is we spent the night at his mom's house and drove home in a rented Chrysler.

akirachan

Poultry Fat Causes Chaos on Virginia Roads

Novaload — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 20:29:39 EST

@akirachan: Sorry but that title belonged for decades to the Shenandoah Valley in VA--at one point, number one in the world. When we were kids, the "local" tag was a small metal strip that fit above your regular plate (way before decals) and for a long time ours said "Turkey Capital of the World" so whenever you travelled, people would laugh, point, stare. You can sit at traffic lights and watch turkeys and chickens being hung upside down and sailing into oblivion. You would never, ever eat chicken again if you went through one of those places.

Novaload

Poultry Fat Causes Chaos on Virginia Roads

akirachan — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 19:38:14 EST

@FLB: Yeah, I had a friend who's from Gainsville, GA and when he invited me to his thanksgiving at his parent's house, he took me to the Tyson factory. It smelled like death ( wait, there's a lot of that there I guess).
Apparently that town pride itself for being the "Poultry Capital of the U.S." or something...

akirachan

Poultry Fat Causes Chaos on Virginia Roads

FLB — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 19:32:41 EST

@akirachan: Have you ever smelled poultry fat? Or, worse, poultry fat gone bad? ;)

FLB

Poultry Fat Causes Chaos on Virginia Roads

akirachan — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 19:21:46 EST

@FLB: If that's true, which I'm sure it is, why aren't we seeing an organic version of "Slick 50" or whatever? That would be "killing two birds with one stone!" ( yes pun intended)

akirachan

Poultry Fat Causes Chaos on Virginia Roads

Slant666 — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 19:13:10 EST

So is that what 007 uses in the Aston Martin?

Slant666

Poultry Fat Causes Chaos on Virginia Roads

M0L0TOV — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:51:37 EST

@Dr. Spaceman:
We distort, you comply.

M0L0TOV

Poultry Fat Causes Chaos on Virginia Roads

FLB — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:50:22 EST

For those of you who've never set foot in a poultry plant, I don't think there's anything as slick as poultry fat. It makes any surface slippery. It's much worse than ice.

FLB

Poultry Fat Causes Chaos on Virginia Roads

akirachan — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:49:10 EST

eew, gross!

akirachan

Poultry Fat Causes Chaos on Virginia Roads

Dr. Spaceman — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:38:19 EST

So that's what it's like to drive behind Rush Limbaugh!

fair and balanced/

Dr. Spaceman

Poultry Fat Causes Chaos on Virginia Roads

AustinMiniMan — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:32:45 EST

So that's what it's like to drive behind Rosie O' Donald!

AustinMiniMan