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We had the Turkey Enchiladas last night (and pretty good they were too - you could hardly tell it was turkey) and Dij the Cat finished off the last of the meat with his lunch1
So a question: in the UK, pretty much the only time you see turkey on the menu is Christmas. Why? If it's that good - and it isn't, it's a fairly dull meat IMO - why don't we eat it every month?
And more importantly, why do people buy a bird so large they need a also buy a new cooker to fit it into, and end up seemingly eating the damn thing until Easter?2
1) With gusto, and every sign of real enjoyment. Mind you, this is a cat that eats mice, rats, dragonflies, and spiders ...
2) I buy a single smallish turkey breast and cook that in the sous vide - more than enough for two people.
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Turkey is without merit. On holidays where it's traditional, we usually have prime rib or a roast, or duck if it's a smaller group.
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Turkey white meat is unappealing; I eat (devour) the back half -- this goes for chickens as well.
White meat is good only for sandwiches.
When I were a lad my mother cooked a turkey once a month. (No, not the same turkey.)
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Turkey was great for us; after my dad and I came back from our annual hunting trip(s) we would have moose (or caribou) in all the variations possible: steak, roast, sausage, ground, pot roast - my dad actually made corned moose a couple of years - even he couldn't stand it (800 lbs of moose takes a while to process and eat - we did our own butchering). Caribou was closer to elk, but still generally the same. One year I got a largish black bear on bow and arrow, that was pretty good.
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I think the tradition goes back a few hundred years (see A Christmas Carol), when most people were poor and meat was a treat. That was much the case in my family in the 1950s and early 60s. Most days our meals could not exactly be termed 'hearty', but we generally had a cheap roast on Sundays. At Easter we had chicken, which was a treat in those days, and at Christmas we had turkey, two occasions for feasting. The traditional part has now been so devalued, by multiple Christmas meals in December, that there seems little point in choosing what is essentially a very average meat. However when catering for 12-14 adults it is a good choice.
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It's all a big conspiracy from Big Turkey.
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We had a largish duck which was fine for the four of us. Leftovers went into a soup that was finished today.
In Hungariaorszag, turkey is eaten year round and is the turn to cheap meat; more so than chicken.
veni bibi saltavi
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We had our staple christmas lunch/dinner and the next few days as well- prawns wrapped in prosciutto and BBQ'd, kilos of cooked prawns, bugs and ham.
I do feels sorry for you poor sods where it is so cold a roast dinner is a must.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Yeah - but at least our country isn't currently on fire.
Hope you get torrential rain soon - if I could ship you some of ours, I would!
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In the US, Thanksgiving is the traditional day to eat turkey and feast. We now use thanksgiving to give thanks for lots of food and lots of football.
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So the office cleaning lady asked me if I wanted to smoke a joint with her! I had to decline.
I try to stay away from high maintenance women!
I, for one, like Roman Numerals.
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that's so typical of you: high ranking people treating service workers as unworthy of even light conversation.
(OIOW they're people too... why not share your smoke with her?  )
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To put it in the words of J.J.Cale:
Quote: Low-down, slow down,
Keeping low down
In that funky way
Higher, higher, higher,
How high can you go
Ride me high this morning,
Ride me high some more
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Just as well it would have been a high crime!
They call me different but the truth is they're all the same!
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PARTY?
I'm not convinced, the "PARSED" ... "PART" correspondence is very weak so I'm probably wrong.
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You have the form but no.
And my def of parsed may be a bit weak
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I don't know if I will miss him, as I felt he was a mean person at his core. His behavior was rooted in meanness and not entertainment. This is why he was finally fired for the last time, and no one would really hire him again. Who wants to work with such negativity.
With that said, he was a radio host icon, and will go down as one of the greats, for good or bad.
It's much easier to enjoy the favor of both friend and foe, and not give a damn who's who. -- Lon Milo DuQuette
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Slacker007 wrote: This is why he was finally fired for the last time, and no one would really hire him again.
What do you mean? He worked at WABC 770 AM until he retired in March 2018.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Imus was an a**hole and was fired many times in his life for being an a**hole.
Don Imus - Wikipedia[^]
Richard Andrew x64 wrote: He worked at WABC 770 AM until he retired in March 2018.
He did not retire on his own accord. The company went through a bankruptcy and stopped paying him.
It's much easier to enjoy the favor of both friend and foe, and not give a damn who's who. -- Lon Milo DuQuette
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How sad. Died in a hospital surrounded by Aggies.
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Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Guys, Let us not forget the hundreds of thousands of dollars (maybe millions) Imus spent on kids with cancer at his ranch during the holidays, trying to lift them out of feelings of hopelessness and get them to understand that they still had a purpose in life. He was not all evil, was he? ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
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I for one will miss him!