Wednesday Open Comments Thread
by David Benzion · 11/22/2006 5:41 am
Today–share your Thanksgiving horror stories.
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That picture truly is worth a thousand words.
FIRST!
Looks just a little well-done!
#1.
My apologies. You were just ahead of me, I guess.
Bsue you must of been up at 4:30 LOL to make first. Off to work but here is my contribution for the men and their grilling.
http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n260/emmekelley/Redneckgrill.jpg
Horror story No. one: Daughter-in-law cooked turkey with packet of giblets, neck, liver, plastic wrapping and all inside the turkey and didn’t discover her faux-pas until “Dinner is served” Her response: “I didn’t know they were in there. The recipe didn’t say to look inside the turkey.” Luby’s had twelve extra guests that day. In her defense, her second bird was better.
We are going to McGonigal’s Mucky Duck with our neighbors on Saturday night.
Anybody here been there?
Cholesterol City, I feel my arteries siezing up already.
Before I go about my pre-Thanksgiving rat killing here is the recipe for our main dish this holiday. We are expecting quite a few people and in light of the uber politically correct mode this country seems to be in I think it quite appropriate.
Whole Stuffed Camel
From Richard Harter’s World
In a cookbook called International Cuisine, presented by California Home Economics Teachers, 1983 (ISBN 0-89626-051-8), you will find:
Stuffed Camel
1 whole camel, medium size
1 whole lamb, large size
20 whole chickens, medium size
60 eggs
12 kilos rice
2 kilos pine nuts
2 kilos almonds
1 kilo pistachio nuts
110 gallons water
5 pounds black pepper
Salt to taste
Skin, trim and clean camel (once you get over the hump), lamb and chicken. Boil until tender. Cook rice until fluffy. Fry nuts until brown and mix with rice. Hard boil eggs and peel. Stuff cooked chickens with hard boiled eggs and rice. Stuff the cooked lamb with stuffed chickens. Add more rice. Stuff the camel with the stuffed lamb and add rest of rice. Broil over large charcoal pit until brown. Spread any remaining rice on large tray and place camel on top of rice. Decorate with boiled eggs and nuts. Serves friendly crowd of 80-100.
Happy Thanksgiving
Looks sorta like Queen Shelia Suckola Gibbs y Rodriques y… political career.
Last year, I tried to get fancy and decided to cook a Turduckin (in case you’re not familiar, that’s a turkey stuffed with a duck stuffed with a chicken with dressing between the layers). I followed Paula Deen’s recipe from the the Food Network to the letter, i.e., same sized turkey, duck and chicken, etc. Roasted the dang thing for the requisite number of hours as called for in the recipe, then proceeded to the family gathering bearing said Turduckin. While the bird was roasting, I was thinking, “for such a densely packaged bird, the cooking time seems awfully short. Oh well, the recipe can’t be wrong, its from the Food Network.”
When we cut the thing open, the dang thing was uncooked! Needless to say, we threw the thing away. Good thing my brother-in-law always smokes a turkey regardless of what everyone else decides to bring. I will never get fancy again.
Numero 6 Jamie
Been there many times in the past just not recently. Who’s on the bill for Saturday?
#6 Jaime
This is Stormy writing on Marc’s account…
I’ve been to the Duck many times — it’s a favorite place! Though I’ll admit I haven’t been much since we moved out to the boonies!
I hear it is now smoke-free, which is great. They are great supporters of local musicians. I have actually performed there a few times (not as a payed act, but as part of benefits, etc.)
It was a lot of fun!
They usually have a good, responsive crowd. Once when I was performing, a table of folks was getting a bit noisy — just talking and some of the other folks asked them to be quiet. Some groups take their music very seriously!
Have fun!
#6 Jamie
Short answer in case I get HALed again. Been to the Duck, great place.
That picture reminds me of MANY family meals. My poor stepmom could NOT cook. I can’t tell you how many times I would walk by the kitchen and glance over to see a skillet on the stove in flames!!!!
When Hamburger Heaven was invented, us kids thought we had died and gone to heaven.
#6 Jaime
Never been, always wanted to. Anybody special playing Saturday?
#8 Sqauwk
My wife lived in Lybia for a few years and actually saw it done. She has a similar recipe in her book.
#8, 10
I suppose the camel recipe would be called camlamken, a la turducken?
#8 Sqauck, when did camel season open and where can I get me a huntin license?
Jaime,
re: McGonigal’s Mucky Duck
Been there, loved it. I recommend the Guinness stew. It’s very tasty.
http://www.mcgonigels.com/foodmenu.htm
They have a fantastic beer selection as well, if you’re so inclined.
Ha… Tejano is still babbling (alone as “the Defender”) on the Brownback thread from yesterday….
Jaime, ditto on Dude’s recommendations. And its an excellent place to see live music.
22 years ago today was my brother’s 11th birthday. We had just seen Pres. Kennedy the day before when he dedicated the Brookes Aerospace Medical Center near our house in San Antonio. A few hours later at this time on Nov 22, 1963, he would be dead. Our whole nation would pay a price for that. Vietnam would never have happened - at least not the way it did.
17 year later on Nov 22, 1980, my nephew would be born. Today he’s a Marine sergeant serving in the Anbar Province in Iraq.
While we dine comfortably tomorrow, he and those he serves with will be watching our backs. There is much to remember and be thankful for - particularly for these Americans who step forward to serve their country today. They are the best.
When I think about it, there are so few today on the other side of the coin from conservatives who have sons and daughters who have stepped forward on their own to serve now or at all since the end of the draft.
If you think I’m wrong, please correct me. Ask people you know who are liberals who in their family is serving their country today. Some will lie and say their son or their nephew or their niece. When you ask them what branch of the service, what rank, where they are located, and their unit, they won’t be able to give you an answer. If they were writing to them, they’d know that. And if their family members are serving and they are not writing to them, what kind of relative are they when they say I don’t know all of that.
I wish I was wrong, but experience tells me I’m not. So for those who serve, and the families of those serving today, I shall remember you in my prayers, and enjoy my day tomorrow knowing that they are the reason I can enjoy it in peace and safety and comfort. For those who have served and with whom I served, thank you for what you taught me with your courage, your leadership, your kindness, and your generosity - particularly at the times I didn’t deserve it.
I salute to all of them.
Oldie butt a goodie
POPCORN STUFFING FOR TURKEY
printer friendly version 4 qts. dry bread crumbs
1 cup minced onions
1 cup celery
1/2 cup raisins
1/4 cup butter substitute (ex. Shed’s Spread or Canola Oil) (optional)
1/2 cup popcorn/uncooked
2 tsp salt - or salt substitute (Mrs. Dash’s)
1/2 tsp pepper
2 tsp poultry seasoning
2 cup skim milk
Mix ingredients and stuff cavity of the bird until full.
Place in baking pan and bake at 325 degrees in a pre-heated oven.
Turkey is done when popcorn blows out the a$$ of the bird, knocking door of oven open as it flies around the room.
Happy Thanksgiving!
fasternu
#17
Shush! Don’t let him know we know! Hopefully he will just keep babbling on over there!
Bigs
#19
Nicely said.
#19 WELL STATED.
My son won’t be home for Thanksgiving or Christmas, he is headed to Guatanamo Bay.
Navymom, we’ll Gitmo isn’t Paradise, but it’s alot better than Iraq or Afghanistan! At least he’ll be out of harms way. And for that we are all thankful. I know he’ll call his mom too! When you’ve raised a son who steps forward on his own to serve, you’ve done well.
Thank you all for the input with regards to the Mucky Duck. I do not know who is performing. I heard about this place for the first time yesterday. I went to the website and it looks like a great place.
The Beef Guiness sounds great. I see they have Fish & Chips. The Samon (a Pubsnak) also looks good.
Oh, and the draught beer list! I will probably stay with the stouts but, anybody familiar with the caskconditioned St. Arnold’s ?
NO “PARENT” LEFT BEHIND
These are REAL notes written by PARENTS in a Alabama school district. (Spellings have been left intact.) Most of them are funny, but some are just sad.
1– MY SON IS UNDER A DOCTOR’S CARE AND SHOULD NOT TAKE PE TODAY. PLEASE EXECUTE HIM.
2– PLEASE EXKUCE LISA FOR BEING ABSENT SHE WAS SICK AND I HAD HER SHOT
3– DEAR SCHOOL: PLEASE ECSC’s JOHN BEING ABSENT ON JAN. 28, 29,30, 31, 32 AND ALSO 33.
4– PLEASE EXCUSE GLORIA FROM JIM TODAY. SHE IS ADMINISTRATING.
5– PLEASE EXCUSE ROLAND FROM P.E. FOR A FEW DAYS. YESTERDAY HE FELL OUT OF A TREE AND MISPLACED HIS HIP.
6– JOHN HAS BEEN ABSENT BECAUSE HE HAD TWO TEETH TAKEN OUT OF HIS FACE.
7– CARLOS WAS ABSENT YESTERDAY BECAUSE HE WAS PLAYING FOOTBALL. HE WAS HURT IN THE GROWING PART.
8– MEGAN COULD NO T COME TO SCHOOL TODAY BECAUSE SHE HAS BEEN BOTHERED BY VER Y CLOSE VEINS.
9– CHRIS WILL NOT BE IN SCHOOL CUS HE HAS AN ACRE IN HIS SIDE.
10– PLEASE EXCUSE RAY FRIDAY FROM SCHOOL. HE HAS VERY LOOSE VOWELS.
11– PLEASE EXCUSE PEDRO FROM BEING ABSENT YESTERDAY. HE HAD (DIAHRE, DYREA, DIREATHE), THE SH**S. NOTE: [WORDS IN ( )’s WERE CROSSED OUT.
12– PLEASE EXCUSE TOMMY FOR BEING ABSENT YESTERDAY. HE HAD DIARRHEA, AND HIS BOOTS LEAK.
3– IRVING WAS ABSENT YESTERDAY BECAUSE HE MISSED HIS BUST.
14– PLEASE EXCUSE JIMMY FOR BEING. IT WAS HIS FATHER’S FAULT.
15– I KEPT BILLIE HOME BECAUSE SHE HAD TO GO CHRISTMAS SHOPPING BECAUSE DON’T KNOW WHAT SIZE SHE WEAR.
16– PLEASE EXCUSE JENNIFER FOR MISSING SCHOOL YESTERDAY. WE FORGOT TO GET THE SUNDAY PAPER OFF THE PORCH, AND WHEN WE FOUND IT MONDAY. WE THOUGHT iT WAS SUNDAY.
17– MY DAUGHTER WAS ABSENT YESTERDAY BECAUSE SHE WAS TIRED. SHE SPENT A WEEKEND WITH THE MARINES.
18– PLEASE EXCUSE JASON FOR BEING ABSENT YESTERDAY. HE HAD A COLD AND COULD NOT BREED WELL.
19– PLEASE EXCUSE MARY FOR BEING ABSENT YESTERDAY. SHE WAS IN BED WITH GRAMPS.
20– GLORIA WAS ABSENT YESTERDAY AS SHE WAS HAVING A GANGOVER.
21– PLEASE EXCUSE BRENDA. SHE HAS BEEN SICK AND UNDER THE DOCTOR.
22– MARYANN WAS ABSENT DECEMBER 11-16, BECAUSE SHE HAD A FEVER,
SORETHROAT, HEADACHE AND UPSET STOMACH. HER SISTER WAS ALSO SICK, FEVER AN SORE THROAT, HER BROTHER HAD A LOW GRADE FEVER AND ACHED ALL OVER. I WASN’T THE BEST EITHER SORE THROAT AND FEVER. THERE MUST BE SOMETHING GOING AROUND, HER FATHER EVEN GOT HOT LAST NIGHT.
NOW WE KNOW WHY PARENTS ARE SCREAMING FOR BETTER EDUCATION FOR OUR KIDS.
#27 Thanks for the reassurance. My boy has been to the Persian Gulf a few times already, agree I would rather him be at Gitmo. He is a good guy, and my only kid, so I can’t help but worry and miss him, especially during the holidays.
I sure don’t know how families did it back during the older wars when mail was snail mail, there was no email or cell phones!!!!!!!
I guess I can consider email and cell phones one of the things I am very thankful for at Thanksgiving. May sound stupid to some, but not to military families!
Malcolm…That is disgusting if it is really the way that school district says the notes read. How can you not know the correct spelling of common words? Sad, very sad of people who don’t seem to learn.
Malcolm #29, when I got back and read some of the things I post here, it makes me cringe. Like my #22 above: 17 year should be years. I salute to all of them should be I salute all of them. Sometimes my fingers don’t write what my brain tells them to write.
LOL, again, when I go back, not when I got back.
This is my “first” attempt to inject comments on LST. Since this open I have three things.
1. Happy Thanksgiving to all of you!
2 I’ll be first to be politicly incorrect and use the proper words “Merry Christmas” a little early
3 The resounding silence on LST Re Muslum Clerics and US Airways, I am outraged, there is a place and time for prayer, and it is NOT in the isle of an airliner at take-off.
Just my thoughts enjoy family and Thanksgiving
I couldn’t resist.
Blond Joke
A blonde woman was driving her car home one night when she suddenly found herself in the middle of a really bad hail storm. The hail stones were as big as golf balls and her car gets dented up really bad. The next day she takes it in to a repair shop to have the dents looked at.
The repair guy noticing that she is blonde and quite dingy when she speaks, decides to have some fun and tells her to blow into the tail pipe of the car really hard when she gets home, and that doing this will cause all of the dents to pop out.
When she gets home she starts blowing into the tail pipe as hard as she can, over and over. Just then, her best friend who also is blonde shows up. Her friend sees her blowing into the tail pipe and is quite startled by the action. She blurts out all flippantly, “What are you doing!?”
She tells her the repair guy told her to blow into the tail pipe real hard and the dents would pop out. Her girlfriend says, “Duh! You need to roll
up the windows first!”
#28 Jamie
You’re in for some good Irish music from The Rogues.
If the cask is Saint Arnold’s Elissa. Be prepared for a hop infusion. I’ve quaffed a few of these at the Gingerman. Oh so good.
I have not been to the Duck recently so it might be SA’s Amber. You can’t go wrong either way. Just be prepared for ale the old fashioned way, a little warm.
/now I’ve gone and made myself thirsty. Only 2 hours til SA Christmas Ale time!! ;-0
Is that what “autoerotic” means?
What does the average LSU player get on his SATs?
…….Drool.
What do you get when you put 32 LSU Cheerleaders in one room?
…….A full set of teeth.
How do you get an LSU cheerleader into your dorm room?
…….Grease her hips and push like heck.
How do you get a LSU graduate off your porch?
…….Pay him for the pizza.
Why do LSU cheerleaders wear bibs?
…….To keep the tobacco juice off their uniforms.
What are the longest three years of a LSU football player’s life?
…….His freshman year.
How many LSU freshmen does it take to change a light bulb?
…….None. That is a sophomore course at Mississippi.
I’m declaring 5:00
Everyone have a nice safe Thanksgiving.
How Do Crazy People Go Through The Forest?
…They Take The Psycho Path
What Do Eskimos Get From Sitting On The Ice too Long?
…Polaroid’s
What’s The Difference Between Roast Beef And Pea Soup?
…Anyone Can Roast Beef.
What Kind Of Coffee Was Served On The Titanic?
…Sanka.
What’s The Difference Between a Bad Golfer And a Bad Skydiver?
…A Bad Golfer Goes, Whack, Dang!
…A Bad Skydiver Goes Dang! Whack.
If you post jokes on a blog and no one is there to read them are the still funny?
Happy Thanksgivin All.
Happy Thanksgiving!!!!
Thanksgiving Blessings To You and Yours!
Several years ago my family had a meeting to discuss the Thanksgiving menu. We all agreed that we liked turkey just fine, but there were other, more tasty cuts of meat out there. Does eating beef on Thanksgiving make us bad people?
#44 - Only if you’re Hindu ;- )
If you are Cajun it’s ok, they cook all sorts of strange stuff for thanksgiving. Love those boneless chickens stuffed with either mudbug/rice, or shrimp/rice. A sixpack of those beats a large stuffed turkey hands down…unless you use a couple chickens to stuff the turkey. Yummmm. Good leftovers too.
I don’t know if that turkey has been basted in honey and a teriyaki marinade but it sure looks a little over-cooked if it hasn’t!
It’s already the 23rd here, so I’ll grab turkey leg and test if for you all!
Not kosher, but we have in the past had baked ham also.
46 Marc: yuuummm, those chickens are fabulous! The meat market in my strip center sells boneless chicken with jalepeno cornbread, or shrimp and sausage dirty rice, or crawfish and rice. 2 1/2 hrs from frozen to mealtime. Off to cook! Happy Thanksgiving and everyone eat WAY too much! (don’t forget to put on your eatin’ britches!)
Dang it! I didn’t go to “Froberg’s Market” in Alvin and get yellow squash for my baby girl, down from College Station, can’t find it anywhere in Clear Lake. Back when she was in FFA, several times, I brought fried squash an’ onions to our get-togethers. I had one lady ask, what was my recipe? RECIPE?!?! You slice ‘em up and cook them with sliced onions and a little black pepper, in P-Nut oil, don’t need no dang recipe!!
BREAKING NEWS,… The girls just got home and found squash at Kroger’s! YES!
Gotta clean out the turkey cooker and fill it with P-Nut oil ($25.00 for 4.5 Gal @ Academy), cook the giblets and egg bread tonight and we’ll be all set for turkey day!!
Woahhh. AT is changing…for the better. Sounds cool to me.
LST, put this on front page status.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=6064
Whoa……..I can’t attribute this to anything other than my slow but BUSY day as I kept up with work while simultaneously having a puter tech set up my newest system…………this is the first Nov. 22nd I can recall in the last 43 years that I didn’t hear a peep about JFK until evening………..I find that remarkable and a bit sad………….
PLEASE - everyone traveling ride SAFE and INVISIBLE and have the BEST Thanksgiving EVER!
Katfish
A happy Thanksgiving to all, and to all some killer fried turkey (six of ‘em in my case).
sargevining Says:
Buck Sargent is coming home. Some of you may recall an epic poem he wrote months ago called
Mind the Gap that I posted snippets from and a link to on LST.
He’s a member of the Stryker Brigade and was extended 4 months. He’s been a very prolfic MilBlogger.
Here’s a bit from his farewell poem, that tells folks at home a bit about how he feels about how things have gone down here and the way he’s been used by some folks:
Not the best of Times nor the first of times
Their torturous logic as a stab in the dark,
A Tale of Two Papers in a turbulent era
Faulting our rejoinders for inspiring the terror.
A full-court press levied upon public opinion
Hysterical headlines that often read like the Onion,
“Nothing to fear but fear itself,” their instruction
Ignoring the wrathful clearly seeking our destruction.
Comparisons newly made between Tet and today
Left untold & unmentioned: what it meant to that fray,
For it was not in the trenches where Charlie prevailed
But in American parlors once support jumped the rails.
Those foolhardy boys again would have us turn tail in disgrace
One public negativity scene they’d wholeheartedly embrace:
Repeating scenes of retreating choppers from another embassy roof
Of the human costs of gratification they remain shockingly aloof,
Hurry up and quit: the meme that dictates what is news
Their best Stratego move to end the war,
Still being for us to lose.
Al Jazeera “West” rates jihadi snuff films newsworthy
To them, propaganda: just what slanders the enemy,
Those cable newsful idiots feigning surprise at the controversy
Over aiding, abetting, and providing comfort to our anomie,
Kept far afield from returning flag-covered caskets
They’ve stooped to lower passion plays of cause and effect,
Surely a ratings bonanza in the heartland this must be
Film at eleven: soldiers shot through the neck.
Will we again see a conflict our fourth estate chronicles fairly?
One of triumphs and/or heroism
Not just base acts of terrorism?
Combining cons of the present with stilted prose of the past
To get us the hell out of Dodge and beat the horse to do it fast.
Watch them wait til ‘08 to abruptly notice we’ve not lost
A heritable albatross quickly shed at a veritable modicum of cost,
Saved up turgid praise for the inaugural gaze of a former First Lady
A Fiasco soon downgraded from virtual certainty to a maybe.
snip
Three years and counting will tend to make realists
Out of even the loftiest and most committed of idealists,
The constant drippity, pity-drip of antiwarrior defeatism
Dovetailing in accordance with UNaccountable elitism,
All their tired Ugly American’t neocon trashing
Betrays the true State of Denial: our Rubiconian crossing.
We’re we soon to flee the field, World Opinion would it laud us
The EUnuchs, the Mullahs, the Turtle Bay City Rollers…
Once again would sing our praises and exultantly applaud us.
But can we afford once more to project such vacillation as a nation
Adding to Beirut and Somalia another “paper tiger” reputation?
Perhaps herein lies a shortcut for upholding one’s grit,
Reckon, What Would Jacques Do?
Then select the path directly opposite.
Clowns on the Right of us
Jokers to the Left
Here we are,
Stuck in the Middle with you.
As public support troopwires the next political third rail
See: Freudian slips at our expense along the campaign trail,
The condescenti assume smugly our mental fatuity
Their tolerance of our kind a bare naked gratuity,
Though if ever they be willing to match IQ’s face to face
A heady challenge readily accepted any time, any place.
Would it that war is the Lord’s way of teaching Americans geography
And that only the mental homely could become “stuk n Irak,”
This institutional second class citizen soldiery
Was it not what volunteerism was meant in deed to redact?
Moxie warfare as proxy welfare?
We thought our service was sacrifice,
“Halp us,” monsieur Kerry
Ketchup to the best and the brightest,
Until all can jet to Paris with our heiress meal tickets
The proud rabble that man the pickets:
Oui, America’s finest?
Whereas some broods take leave to meander the Continent
A handful delay futures to shoulder million dollar equipment,
Not necessarily a matter of job insecurities
Young adults often detour on the spiral path to maturity,
As the sublime while away time between pubs, clubs, and hostels
Our rank and file are preoccupied with bloody hostile insurgencies.
But within our life vested nation,
The young and the listless,
The failures to launch,
This day cared generation,
So vulnerable to the worst of the print media distortions
That support less our cause than most late term abortions.
The whole thing can be found here:
http://americancitizensoldier.blogspot.com/2006/11/enemy-of-good_23.html
Mind The Gap can be found here:
http://americancitizensoldier.blogspot.com/2006/07/mind-gap.html