Chuckles — The Hansel and Gretel Inspiration

Watching a couple of friends recently munching happily on their breaded fried chicken made me remember my disastrous first attempt of cooking the same thing at a very ignorant age, meaning, before I knew that oil can splatter anywhere while cooking, and that it’s very painful to have it land on your skin, and before I knew what bread crumbs were.

When the recipe called for bread crumbs, I didn’t know what it was and how it looked like.

Then inspiration struck. I remembered my Hansel and Gretel story book, and how the bread crumbs were little square tidbits that they dropped on the forest floor.

Searching through the refrigerator, I found some bread slices and cut them up into little squares.

Needless to say, the chicken looked like some alien food morsel by the time I was through with them.

When my sister saw the weird looking chicken drumsticks, she only stopped laughing when I glared at her for finding my harrowing ordeal amusing.

And, of course, that’s when I learned that bread crumbs for cooking were sandy grains of bread, and not bread squares.

In retrospect, in order to avoid future confusion, maybe that’s how the Hansel and Gretel art should be drawn; or maybe, it shouldn’t be called crumbs, for you can hardly call grain size bread as crumbs.

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