Handyman Tip - Roach Bait

Al Carrell: Well Bon Appetite! No, I'm not going to start a cooking show. I'm mixing up a magic formula that's going to help you to get rid of roaches. We're putting in the minced onion, it's a small onion that'll do adding to the other ingredients that we've already got in there. Now we've got a quarter cup of lard. You can use shortening. I didn't even know that they still make lard, but they do and if you don't have shortening or lard, you can take bacon drippings. It's even more pungent and more attractive to the roaches. We also, in addition to that, we need to put in a cup of flour. The secret ingredient is boric acid powder. Now boric acid powder is something you can buy at the drug store. It is an acid, so you don't want to get kids around it. But we just mix this up real good and when we get it to the point where it's pretty well mixed up, start adding a little bit of water to make it more pasty. And what we're going to do then is we get it into a pasty form. It's pretty good already, as a matter of fact. It's pretty pasty looking. We'll peel off a little bit and roll it in our hands, and be sure you wash your hands afterwards, and what we're going to do is make a little ball. It probably needs to be mixed a little bit more, but you get the idea. These balls are going to then be placed under the kitchen sink, behind the refrigerator, behind the washing machine, any place that roaches are going to go and where kids and pets can't get to it. Let me recap that formula for you. One cup of flour, one minced onion, 1/4 cup shortening and 12 ounces of boric acid powder. And as you mix, add just enough water to make it into a paste. And now, it's adios la cucu racha!

Episode 019 1995 - 96 Season

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