Crisco at 115: Still Cooking After All These Years

Fox News Radio's Tanya J. Powers. Hello, my dear, how are you? I'm good. How are you? Well, I'm doing good. So we're going to talk instead of wars and famine and we're talking cooking with you right now. We are. Oh, we are doing cooking. I just need to know what is y'all's favorite. food that Criscoe is used to make. Anything. Is it fried chicken? Is it pie crust? Anything. Oh, God. Keep talking. Yeah. Chicken. Yeah. Chicken pot pie. Yeah. I'm going to be like that little girl in the back on the airplane where your lips is. Yeah, exactly. Suck in, you know. So I have a question. Do y'all remember, and this, I mean, I'm sure there are still people who make it like this. I probably would if I was making it. Do you all remember when frosting was made with Crisco? Yes. Yes. Mm-hmm. Yeah, I do. Is that not just like the best memory? Oh, yeah. The frost. You just eat the... Oh, man. My great-grandmother made fried chicken with Crisco. She would... And she would literally start off with a live chicken. We won't go into all the details. Hello. Oh, okay. At the time it was all sitting done, there was about a half a can of Crisco and a pot, and it was the best chicken you all ever have. Tonya, why are we talking to you this morning about Crisco? Well, I mean, like you said, we've just worn out the serious topics. We are talking about this because it is the 115th anniversary, or birthday, really, of Crisco. It came out in 1911. And honestly, if you think about it, I did quite the rabbit hole dive on Crisco yesterday because, I mean, I'm... I've known about Crisco all my life. My grandmother used it. Like you said, you know, you grew up eating things with, you know, Chrisco still, I still have some in my cabinet today. Mike Drop, hosted by former Navy SEAL Mike Ridland. How would you characterize your prowess? I'd say my style is that I just kind of outwork everybody until I get there because I'm not a quitter. It's just you. It's yourself. Everything else is team-oriented. The motivation, it was a sort of anger at myself for being weak. That ends up being the driving factor. That anger, that pride, that ego, I think it's a muscle. It gets stronger. When you take that voice seriously, you start to change your life. Mike Drop, follow and listen on your favorite platform. I remember my grandmother, I remember she had to open the Crisco with a handheld opener and she dipped it out. It was white and you had to dip it out and put it in the pan and let it melt. Yeah. Gosh. Anyway, go here. Yeah. I don't know why it interrupted. Yeah. They were actually kind of ahead of their time, if you think about it, because you know how the trend now and has been for a few years is like plant-based everything, right? They're plant-based, this and that and the other. That was kind of their focus when they came out. They were like, oh, this is an alternative to lard and butter. It's, you know, all vegetable.

Which is like they were doing the plant-based thing before it was cool. Before it was cool. They were plant-based when plant-base wasn't cool. Wasn't that a song house? Thank you. I always thought Criscoe started out as like a mechanical lube or something. It did. Yeah, they used it on machinery. There are 58 recipes on their website. That may be one of them. I have people to look at all of them. But I can tell you, they do have the one for the frosting. They have one for fried chicken, one for pie crust and chocolate chip cookies. And they also have a recipe for seasoning your cast iron skillets with criss-up. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, of course. Yeah. I was told. They actually have the recipe for that on their website. I loved it. You know, I shouldn't say this, but if Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was listening to this broadcast right now, he'd just shoot himself with that. I'm telling you, I think we could definitely convert him to Crisco if he's not already, you know, accustomed to that. Tony, you've done a deep dive. I have to ask you this. I was told at one time that Oreo filling used to basically be Crisco and Sugar. When you were doing your deep dive, did you discover that or no? I did not find anything out about that. But, you know, having having had that amazing frosting that's made with Crisco, I can see it. Very possible. I can definitely, I mean, it wouldn't be out of the realm of possibility, but no, I don't know the answer to that. That's a good question. People who don't grow up in the South just don't get it, do they? Well, you know, it's really funny. I don't think they quite understand our love affair with Crisco and how big of a... I mean, remember the ads? The ads were that I got, like I said, I was looking into this yesterday and I was listening to some of the ads. I've forgotten all the Loretta Lynn ads. Oh, that's right, yeah. I'll never forget my grandmother's t-shirt. It said, don't touch my Crisco. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Remember that. That was her motto. She was around her. There you go. Uh-huh. Yeah. Okay. All right. Well, that's Crisco talk here on WVAP. Thank you, Tanya. Tanya J. Powers News Radio. Absolutely. All right. Start your day with the morning jolt of Drake C. Toll. See, now it's on demand. My podcast is kind of a radio thing, I think, but also it's a bit of a TV show, and it's about whatever I want it to be. It's listening live as it happened, when it happened, with the instant reaction. You're home for talking sports. We go back, the Drake Toll Show, Westwood One Sports Network, and there will be on demand on your radio. Anywhere in the country, I'll see you there. Westwood One Sports Talk. Your home. for Drake C. Toll. Follow and listen on your favorite platform.