Blue Crab Boulevard

Yeah, But Was It Smoked?

So, a guy goes to an auction at one of those self-storage places. You know, where if you don't pay the rent, they sell your stuff. He gets a good deal on a smoker, takes it home and finds out there's a bonus inside.

A human leg, from foot to above the knee. And it's original owner wants it back.

The smoker had been sold at an auction of items left behind at a storage facility, so investigators contacted the mother and son who had rented the space where the smoker was found.

The mother explained her son had his leg amputated after a plane crash and kept the leg following the surgery. The mother said her son plans to drive to Maiden, about 35 miles northwest of Charlotte, to reclaim his amputated leg, police said.

Um. Inquiring minds want to know if it was smoked. Demented inquiring minds want to know what dry rub was used.

Weird Stuff | Gaius Tuesday, 25 September , 2007

By feeblemind, Tuesday, 25 September , 2007 @ 7:23 pm

And feeble minds want to know why the leg was being stored in a smoker?
By Gaius, Tuesday, 25 September , 2007 @ 7:29 pm

It wasn’t done yet?
By Uncle Pinky, Tuesday, 25 September , 2007 @ 8:08 pm

Always use juniper berries, a dash of hot sauce and bay leaves in a pig brine. Molasses or brown sugar, but plenty of salt. Beer or ginger beer as the liquid. At least 6 brining hours in the fridge. Dry rubs have too many variations, depending on your spice source.

These rules are immutable, whether the cut is pork or “long pig.”

But if you’re going to smoke, I like hickory and applewood.
By Uncle Pinky, Tuesday, 25 September , 2007 @ 8:11 pm

Was that tasteless?
By Gaius, Tuesday, 25 September , 2007 @ 8:40 pm

Sounds pretty tasty. But I think I’ll try it on regular pig - not the long ones.
By feeblemind, Tuesday, 25 September , 2007 @ 9:42 pm

There was a Union General, Sickles(?) perhaps, that had a leg amputated and had it preserved. Whether it was smoked over hickory or mesquite chips, I know not.
By Uncle Pinky, Tuesday, 25 September , 2007 @ 10:18 pm

Feeblemind,

If i’m thinking about the same guy you are, he pickled it in booze…I think brandy or rum. Pickle first, dessicate later. Might be an old urban legend, but having spent a good bit of my youth in the South and overseas… if’n I lose a piece, I’m goin to keep it out of the hands of my enemies

Sympathetic magic is such a primitive concept, yet curiously durable. Even if you do not subscribe to it, it’s best to keep your body parts away from those who would use them for emboldening themselves and their followers.

Which is why the boil on my rump named “Columbia” shall never be used for propoganda purposes.

Wait…
By Gaius, Tuesday, 25 September , 2007 @ 10:47 pm

Yeah, it was Dan Sickles - it is still on display.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Sickles
By feeblemind, Wednesday, 26 September , 2007 @ 7:15 am

Uncle Pinky, don’t you mean he MARINATED his leg in booze? Heh heh heh.
By mockinbird, Wednesday, 26 September , 2007 @ 3:51 pm

I’m rather a breast man.