Fast food should not be one’s main source of nourishment.  Our bodies need healthier options, but some are visiting fast food outlets late at night.  I mean really late, like when the place is closed.  What they want is yellow grease, the stuff they fry food in.  It’s worth big bucks in today’s topsy-turvy world.

“The bandit pulled his truck to the back of a Burger King in Northern California one afternoon last month armed with a hose and a tank. After rummaging around assorted restaurant rubbish, he dunked a tube into a smelly storage bin and, the police said, vacuumed out about 300 gallons of grease.”

“In 2000, yellow grease was trading for 7.6 cents per pound. On Thursday, its price was about 33 cents a pound, or almost $2.50 a gallon. (That would make the 2,500-gallon haul in the Burger King case worth more than $6,000.)”

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