Tomorrow my family will be frying our
turkey for the fourth year in a row-and our experiences over the
years serve as important lesson on the beauties of capitalism. The
first year we fried the turkey, everything went smoothly-until we
were confronted with the task of pouring several gallons of used
peanut oil from the huge turkey frying pot into the narrow opening
of the plastic oil container. My brother and I tried to be as
steady as we could, but it didn't prevent us from spilling oil onto
his grass (to this day there's still a section of the lawn that
doesn't grow properly). The following year, not wanting to do any
further damage to the lawn, we decided to make the cement patio our
base of operations-however, when we spilled the oil again, it
required a hose and a ton of detergent to clean it up. Last year,
however, my brother discovered that someone had invented a turkey
frying oil pump for the express purpose of sucking peanut oil from
a turkey frying pot and cleanly transferring it through a tube back
into the oil container. I could not think of a more perfect
demonstration of the brilliance of the market system to match
supply with demand. You cannot imagine a government planner in a
Soviet-style command economy saying, "You know what, we really
could use a turkey frying oil pump." God bless capitalism! And a
Happy Thanksgiving to all!
topics:
Law, Oil
