Poor Richard’s Almanac

Silence Dogood here (again). Hard on the heels of yesterday’s bizarre query, “Can you grow yogurt like a plant,” comes today’s classic: “marijuana butter ‘rice cooker’.” First of all, our friend Ben and I had to wonder why the “rice cooker” part was in quotes. Was someone trying to use their rice cooker to whip up a batch of marijuana butter, or did they want to know how to make marijuana-butter-saturated rice in a rice cooker?

Sheesh. While it’s true that I’ve added butter and spicing directly to my rice cooker before turning it on and cooking the rice, the spices I was using were whole cumin and black mustardseed or whole fenugreek. I can only say that if marijuana tastes as bad as it smells, using it to flavor something as bland as rice would be a very bad idea. No wonder people baked it into brownies instead!

I myself would be in favor of making cilantro butter and stirring it into hot rice. Or cooked carrots. Or brushing it on hot ears of corn on the cob… hmmm. Maybe it’s time to head off and pick some cilantro!

As for the strange searches, they’re certainly great for entertainment value. We never know what tomorrow will bring!

              ‘Til next time,

                          Silence