chickenannie wrote: Are the numbers your total weight of processed birds?
Turks have processed me...
And all that sparring has resulted in a bucking of the trend : http://www.economist.com/daily/chartgallery/displayStory.cfm?story_id=14959618 - if the link dies:
Turks have processed me...
And all that sparring has resulted in a bucking of the trend : http://www.economist.com/daily/chartgallery/displayStory.cfm?story_id=14959618 - if the link dies:
ONE thing Americans should be thankful for this Thanksgiving is that they have not put on as much weight as the average turkey. Between 1960 and 2008, turkeys bulked up by around 11lb (5kg) to 29lb, an increase of 64%, according to the United States Department of Agriculture. Coincidentally, in that same period the average American man gained 28lb, almost the equivalent of a turkey, according to data from the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, another government agency, and a Gallup poll of 2008. This year an estimated 250m turkeys will be raised, 8% fewer than a year ago, but still almost enough for one bird each for America's 308m people.
We are in the commercial sargasso this year: Both daughters `donated' their employer's `gifts'. So, we are cooking those at present (just got finished with KP duty, i.e., cutting up potatoes). We usually order a Slate Tom from an acquaintance who is trying to make a go of it as a turkey `rancher', but he sold out before I got an order in.
The only appetite that this flesh is heir to, that our turks might alert to, is a tendency to be a bit too curious, e.g., sacrifice `em, section `em, stain `em, mount `em, stage `em:
However, there are other perspectives I consider:
For an even odder view, from the turkey's point of view, BoingBoing TV's 2007 Thanksgiving `Turkey Wrap' is cute (it is censored, but ya been warned).
We are in the commercial sargasso this year: Both daughters `donated' their employer's `gifts'. So, we are cooking those at present (just got finished with KP duty, i.e., cutting up potatoes). We usually order a Slate Tom from an acquaintance who is trying to make a go of it as a turkey `rancher', but he sold out before I got an order in.
The only appetite that this flesh is heir to, that our turks might alert to, is a tendency to be a bit too curious, e.g., sacrifice `em, section `em, stain `em, mount `em, stage `em:
However, there are other perspectives I consider:
For an even odder view, from the turkey's point of view, BoingBoing TV's 2007 Thanksgiving `Turkey Wrap' is cute (it is censored, but ya been warned).
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