Why are skillets also called spiders? Some of the three-legged, long-handled pans used for frying actually resemble spiders. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Spider Skillet”
Here’s a slang word from 1888 that I’m pretty sure some of our listeners still use.
This is from Johnson Station, Mississippi now.
Okay.
A spider as a skillet, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Do you use that?
No, but I’ve heard it in the South.
I’d like to hear from you if in your family or in the history of your family, you all use spider to mean a skillet.
I want to hear a little bit more about how that came about and where you’re from and a little bit about your family and your history and stuff.
Did you make red-eye gravy in it?
Yeah, exactly.
What did you do?
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