Plans for Turkey Day 2007: White or Dark Meat?

[itsbecca]

It's just me and the boy this Thanksgiving. It wasn't really plausible to fly home, and our other invitations weren't very enticing (driving 8 hours both ways to murder bambi's relatives in the sticks of Michigan w/ my brother in-law. Oh how could I turn this offer down?) We'll probably be hitting some local chinese faire and playing video games all day. I imagine there will also be drinking.

[itsbecca]

Originally Posted by esophagus

I believe I told this story back on Canadian thanksgiving. My moms family was poor when she was growing up and they used to mix up leftover turkey, stuffing, gravy, and mashed potato in a pot and eat that for weeks after thanksgiving. It looks quite unappealing, but it's delicious. Being as delicious as it is, we have started doing it. In fact, I make a plate for myself on Thanksgiving day. The stuffing is the part. Good Turkey lives off the stuffing.

We would do something similar except put the thanksgiving goulash on a roll and you get a leftover sandwich. So so good.

[jimski]

I usually have to do the In-law Shuffle and hit three dinners in six hours, but this year (because my wife and I have siblings who also have in-laws) it has shaken out so that everyone is doing the turkey dinner on a different day. Long story short: four Thanksgiving dinners this week. The first one was today. I hope this happens every year until I die. Which ought to be about four years from now if I keep having to feast this often.

White or dark meat?! Why, the very thing I love about Thanksgiving is the appearance of the rare dark turkey meat. Every slice of Oscar Mayer Deli Whatever the other 364 days of the year is made of the drab, dry, bland white breast. Keep it, I say! Keep your breast! I'll be in the kitchen, gnawing on the leg bone!

[humphrey-lee]

I'll do what I've done for four years straight now: Work a 9 hour day, then come back to my apartment to watch whatever is left of football and drink some beer by myself. So much fun.

[esophagus]

Originally Posted by itsbecca

We would do something similar except put the thanksgiving goulash on a roll and you get a leftover sandwich. So so good.

Agreed. I always do that to.

[jimski]

So, ABC News is featuring as one of its top stories an article about the beginning of the Thanksgiving holiday, the holiday when families come together to celebrate how lucky and grateful they are for all the wonderful things they have.

The article's headline is "The Nightmare Begins."

The article is probably about travel, but I'll never know. To paraphrase Scott Pilgrim, if News had a face I would punch it.

[jgg0610]

This year we are avoiding the annual trip to the in laws. I'm planning on sitting at home and continuing to heal up from a little surgery that I had last week. As far as turkey meat, it's always the white meat for me.

[kahunablair]

Sadly this is the most low-key Thanksgiving ever for me.
Due to schedules and such half my family is here in Jersey, and the other half is in Virginia.
For a Family of 6, going down to a 3 person Thanksgiving is a wee bit anti-climatic.

White Meat all the way.

[xyzzy]

All the flavor and fat is in the dark meat. Why would anybody pick white meat? I don't get it.

[kahunablair]

Originally Posted by xyzzy

All the flavor and fat is in the dark meat. Why would anybody pick white meat? I don't get it.

Easy. We're bigots.