The Quack Shack

[WannaBeHillBilly]

The one time a year when Wednesday is Friday!

Happy Thanksgiving Weekend to Everybody!​

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Whalemart Ducks!

Me, yesterday being tired from having hit a deer on the road in broad daylight, being pushed around in a Blue Home-Stuff store by other turkey-panicking shoppers, i decided not to drive to my favorite shop for the few grocery items but instead walk over to that blue and yellow big-box store and buy the few items i need to survive the upcoming craziness.
Big mistake! That shop was packed full with people who believed in that fake-news that the end of the world is coming tomorrow, followed by the belief in free stuff for everybody in the stores for 30 seconds on Friday morning…
Anyways, i dropped my two bottles of milk, three packages of bratwurst (they were on sale and i couldn't resist) and some bottles of apple cider in to the cart and tried to escape to the cash register. Unfortunately there was a freezer full of turkeys in my way and a sign said 99¢ per pound… So i bought a young turkey for $12 and a roasting pan for 10.

Surprise! - There is only one open register at a Superstore for half of the inhabitants of a decent sized city, everything else are these impolite, mumbling robots that i would like to shoot a bazooka at. The line is wrapping around the pharmacy and the quick-money for you center.

Finally after en eternity it is my turn and the snailshier is slowly keying(!) my items in (scanner is broken). »That will be xx$!« Swipe my card, enter my pin and…
»Happy Holidays, sir!« - me (about to snap): »No, Happy Thanksgiving, Ma'am!« -
employee, looking cowed »i'm not allowed to say that!«

That's it! I snap…

I wink to the employee, turn around and raise my voice:

»Apparently it is no longer desirable to say that anymore, but:
Happy Thanksgiving to y'all!!!«​

A moment of silence, then people clapping, whistling and shouting »Happy Thanksgiving (to you too)!« all around the store.
An embarrassed looking manager approaches me, asking »what was that about?«, i asked her back »are you the one forbidding your employees to wish us a Happy Thanksgiving?!« - she lowered her eyes and admitted »no sir, not me, my superiors…« - »Allright, i'll be back for Christmas then!«

I got some thumbs-up in the parking-lot too…

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

So with my rant over, there's a new problem now:

How to cook that thing?
I understand that the netting must be removed, but what about the foil?
If i fail, it will be Bratwurst for Thanksgiving…

 

[Canadian Wind]

Dangit, Hillbilly... Are you okay from hitting that deer? Is your car okay?

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Dangit, Hillbilly... Are you okay from hitting that deer? Is your car okay?

Thank you very much! - I'm okay, the car's front bumper could clipped back on (all plastic nowadays) but the deer wasn't so lucky and had to be put down.
I am driving very careful during twilight and darkness, always expecting an animal to cross the road, but in bright sunlight? Utterly unexpected…

 

[Canadian Wind]

**shakes head** Don't they know it's hunting season and they should be hiding??

Glad you and the car are okay, but that's too bad for the deer. The do seem to be more active in daylight hours lately, I had three-four cross in a file in front of me when driving home last week.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

**shakes head** Don't they know it's hunting season and they should be hiding??

Glad you and the car are okay, but that's too bad for the deer. The do seem to be more active in daylight hours lately, I had three-four cross in a file in front of me when driving home last week.

Well, here it is wild boar hunting season at the moment, mallards and deer are safe for now.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

I totally forgot to upload this video, showing the mallards and ducknagers running in and out of the pond. At ~1:40 the duck-dock is being used by two mallard-drakes…

 

[Miss Lydia]

I totally forgot to upload this video, showing the mallards and ducknagers running in and out of the pond. At ~1:40 the duck-dock is being used by two mallard-drakes…

That's a mess of ducks you got there @WannaBeHillBilly.
So pretty too.

Should be directions on the packaging your turkey came in on how to cook.

 

[Magnolia Ducks]

Brine that bird. I jerk mine but a good way to cook after brining is to spatchcock it. That way it cooks faster and stays moist.