CBC - Halifax Water is warning residents to be careful about what they pour down the kitchen sink after an accumulation of bacon fat clogged sewage pipes in the Ridgevale Drive subdivision in Bedford. Some basements were damaged when raw sewage built up during a two-week break in February and spewed into homes. Dan Legge said it's not the first time the basement of his Ridgevale Drive home has flooded this way.
"Almost the entire level here was impacted," he said Friday."It would have come in through the toilet, through the shower and, of course, all over the floor.
So was it Canadian or Good Old American Bacon?
I'll be honest, I struggle with what to do with the grease every time I cook, constant battle between just dumping it down the sink, out the window, or adding to the growing collection of lard sitting in jars under our sink. What are other people doing? Are you guys just storing dozens of glass jars of bacon fat and grease under the sink like I am? It's starting to gross me out but I literally have no idea what I'm supposed to do with it. I'm always tempted to just dump it down the sink and run some hot water with it but I'm petrified of coming home for lunch one day and finding my apartment awash in my own feces because the toilet backed up on some bacon fat.
Can you just throw this shit in the garbage? Seems like a sure fired way to attract rabid raccoons and Possums to my dumpster. Plus I'm not so sure jars of lard are something we should be just dumping at the landfill. That shit has to be bad for the environment, and yes I see the irony in me worrying what the fat does to the environment and not my own arteries.
Can someone please just let me know what they're doing with their fat and grease so I can put this question to bed once and for all?
PS: "Tim Outhit, who lives in the neighbourhood, knows about these floods — sewage flooded his basement a few years ago. But he doesn't know why people in the area appear to be eating so much bacon. "I always thought it was a pretty healthy neighbourhood. We're always out walking and shovelling and bicycling. But apparently someone along here likes their fried food," he said."
