@narfcake
Was it thrown from a helicopter hovering over the unsuspecting crowd gathered below?
“Forty live turkeys were dropped from a helicopter onto an unsuspecting Cincinnati shopping mall below…”
“One just went through the windshield of a parked car. This is terrible, Oh, the humanity!” reported Les Nessman.
“As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.” stated Station Manager Arthur Carlson
(I did a lot of searching for the whole episode… I wonder if a rights holder is actively getting it removed from YouTube?)
Also, that one won’t play embedded. But I felt it was slightly better than this one, which can be played here. So if you don’t want to leave Meh…
@fairchild521@jouest At Thanksgiving, my Dad would always tell the story of the year (before my time) that my older brother shot a wild turkey and proudly brought it home for Thanksgiving dinner. And how as they ate dinner, they had to spit out the occasional shot pellet.
Does Walmart count as a grocery store? Tho truth be told the vast majority of my turkeys get bought at Winn-Dixie when they go down to less than 50 cents a pound. Just smoked one I bought last year over the weekend.
As an aside, 25+ years ago my father-in-law ordered a turducken from a restaurant in Gulf Breeze. It was amazing!
@jouest@pmarin
They run great sales, especially on the weekend. It’s a stock up and save kind of thing.
As an aside, Mom, bless her French heart, used to call it Winnie Dixie all the time!
@chienfou@jouest@pmarin Piggly-Wiggly is several steps up from W-D’s store-brand and brand-you-never-heard-of quality. But then, so is the dumpster behind Pizza Hut.
Since covid my company hands out turkeys a week or so before the big day. Although with back to work this year I think they will be re-initiating Thanksgiving day lunch (full turkey dinner for lunch) so I may be out of luck for a free bird. Oh well…
@tinamarie1974
I used to work for a place that handed out free turkeys for Thanksgiving. Never cared bc I was in my twenty’s (and always worked a double on Thanksgiving) and they just ended up in someone else’s freezer until I forgot about them.
At previous residences, local farms sold them. At current location, a local butcher takes reservations for a certain number. Maybe I’m a sucker, but I do think they are better than the grocery store.
Ham is from my friend’s grandmother that used to babysit neighborhood kids. Her family was from West Virginia and she made some good, down home, Northern cooking.
@jouest@yakkoTDI moving (part-time) to North Carolina introduced me to all the regional terms and biases. Also don’t say “Well, Bless your heart” if you mean to say something nice. Doesn’t mean that.
Last year I got mine from a feather raffle. For $100 I won a 20lb turkey, chicken and 3 bottles of wine. Other people (don’t know how much they spent, they could have just gotten lucky) won like 5 turkey, 5 chickens and 10 bottles of wine.
Distil Farms in California-- home of the $150 (uncooked) heritage turkey (and worth every penny, I might add,) because I can’t bring myself to dispatch the sweet little New Brunswick turkey hen I’ve been caring for these last six years. . .
“Never name something you might have to eat for dinner”
-Augustus Call; “Lonesome Dove.”
There is an annual Turkey Drop. A guy drops rubber chickens from a cherry picker. There is a race to the prize and different age categories. One year both my children won turkeys. There is usually a one per family limit, but it was during 2020 and not a lot of people showed up.
Once, as kids, Dad took the two oldest boys turkey hunting. We had our hunter’s safety certs and licenses.
Major disappointment. Turkeys are the stupidest animals ever created. We came across a small group of them, and each of us in turn was able to kill one, and the rest of the turkeys didn’t seem to care a bit.
As challenging as shooting milk jugs. And pretty scrawny compared to Butterballs.
I think that was the last time I ever went hunting.
@blaineg There are few disappointments as acute as hauling a 10-point buck to a processor, paying $125 to get it taken apart, vetted and packed, and getting back 42 pounds of uncured shoeleather.
@blaineg I didn’t grow up with hunting and learned it from my in-laws after getting married. Imagine my surprise to learn that after botching a shot on a turkey, a large man could indeed belly flop one to death in a pinch.
Back when all my cousins got together for holidays; someone would always get a Greenberg Turkey from Tyler, Texas. Since my grandma passed away, we don’t get together like that anymore.
We get ours from a turkey farm. My 10 year old wanted to come pick it up last year and sheepishly asked if we’d have to kill it.
Fast forward to me being chastised by my spouse: What is “the family turkey hammer” and why did you make him hold it for the drive out there?!?!
@jouest you’re evil
@jouest You sure are evil- my kind of evil!
/giphy Turkey Hammer…
We typically get at least one from a restaurant that smokes them. Then all we have to do Thanksgiving day is reheat it.
@ybmuG brilliant
One year I got a turkey from a radio station event. Does that count?
@narfcake
Was it thrown from a helicopter hovering over the unsuspecting crowd gathered below?
“Forty live turkeys were dropped from a helicopter onto an unsuspecting Cincinnati shopping mall below…”
“One just went through the windshield of a parked car. This is terrible, Oh, the humanity!” reported Les Nessman.
“As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.” stated Station Manager Arthur Carlson
@narfcake @PhysAssist beat me to it!!!
@narfcake @PhysAssist @tinamarie1974 one of the funniest episodes! Now i want to find it somewhere and watch it again!
@narfcake @PhysAssist @ybmuG agree!!!
@narfcake @PhysAssist @tinamarie1974 @ybmuG Not the whole episode, but does this count?
(I did a lot of searching for the whole episode… I wonder if a rights holder is actively getting it removed from YouTube?)
Also, that one won’t play embedded. But I felt it was slightly better than this one, which can be played here. So if you don’t want to leave Meh…
One year we shot one on our property to have for Thanksgiving. and don’t worry haters we had a license.
@fairchild521 in my experience, this is where you really learn the difference between a svelte wild turkey and a gigantic bred-for-meat one.
@fairchild521 @jouest At Thanksgiving, my Dad would always tell the story of the year (before my time) that my older brother shot a wild turkey and proudly brought it home for Thanksgiving dinner. And how as they ate dinner, they had to spit out the occasional shot pellet.
Does Walmart count as a grocery store? Tho truth be told the vast majority of my turkeys get bought at Winn-Dixie when they go down to less than 50 cents a pound. Just smoked one I bought last year over the weekend.
As an aside, 25+ years ago my father-in-law ordered a turducken from a restaurant in Gulf Breeze. It was amazing!
@chienfou Winn-Dixie is just Meh for people stocking up before Hurricanes
@chienfou @jouest Meh has better snacks than Winn-Dixie.
@chienfou @jouest Is that like Piggly-Wiggly?
@jouest @pmarin
They run great sales, especially on the weekend. It’s a stock up and save kind of thing.
As an aside, Mom, bless her French heart, used to call it Winnie Dixie all the time!
@chienfou @jouest @pmarin Piggly-Wiggly is several steps up from W-D’s store-brand and brand-you-never-heard-of quality. But then, so is the dumpster behind Pizza Hut.
@jouest @pmarin @werehatrack
You are welcome to your opinion.
Buffet at the DoubleTree. If I crave leftovers there’s always Golden Corral the next day or two. Easier than all the hassle.
Since covid my company hands out turkeys a week or so before the big day. Although with back to work this year I think they will be re-initiating Thanksgiving day lunch (full turkey dinner for lunch) so I may be out of luck for a free bird. Oh well…
@tinamarie1974 very legit perk, though!
@jouest I was definitely thankful while it lasted.
@tinamarie1974
I used to work for a place that handed out free turkeys for Thanksgiving. Never cared bc I was in my twenty’s (and always worked a double on Thanksgiving) and they just ended up in someone else’s freezer until I forgot about them.
@Star2236 @jouest I spoke too soon. I got my turkey drop email this morning! 10-15 lb turkeys will be available for pick up on the 20th!
@jouest @Star2236 @tinamarie1974 Nice!
At previous residences, local farms sold them. At current location, a local butcher takes reservations for a certain number. Maybe I’m a sucker, but I do think they are better than the grocery store.
@Skipbidder 100 percent
Neighbor’s compost pile? We never could figure out what they were looking for but seemed to be happy. No, we didn’t eat them.
@pmarin
I had a wild turkey living in my back yard this summer that looked like that.
I am not going to ruin Thanksgiving with turkey. Ham or steak are tradition.
@yakkoTDI steak
@jouest My grandfather liked steak.
Ham is from my friend’s grandmother that used to babysit neighborhood kids. Her family was from West Virginia and she made some good, down home, Northern cooking.
@yakkoTDI I don’t know if you’re actually calling West Virginia the north, but hilarious and charming if so
@jouest @yakkoTDI moving (part-time) to North Carolina introduced me to all the regional terms and biases. Also don’t say “Well, Bless your heart” if you mean to say something nice. Doesn’t mean that.
@jouest @pmarin I am calling it the North because I was hatched here in Florida and all those so called Southern states are up North.
Last year I got mine from a feather raffle. For $100 I won a 20lb turkey, chicken and 3 bottles of wine. Other people (don’t know how much they spent, they could have just gotten lucky) won like 5 turkey, 5 chickens and 10 bottles of wine.
I will go to Bear Creek Smokehouse, and annual trek for my son and I. The Shoults family’s been cooking my birthday for about 20 years. and ham, too
Distil Farms in California-- home of the $150 (uncooked) heritage turkey (and worth every penny, I might add,) because I can’t bring myself to dispatch the sweet little New Brunswick turkey hen I’ve been caring for these last six years. . .
“Never name something you might have to eat for dinner”
-Augustus Call; “Lonesome Dove.”
There is an annual Turkey Drop. A guy drops rubber chickens from a cherry picker. There is a race to the prize and different age categories. One year both my children won turkeys. There is usually a one per family limit, but it was during 2020 and not a lot of people showed up.
@user80562513 this is some awesome small town nonsense!
VAN GOGH! MANGO! TANGO! AWESOME!
My old employer used to give out frozen turkeys as the Christmas bonus.
I much prefer the profit sharing bonus at the current place.
Once, as kids, Dad took the two oldest boys turkey hunting. We had our hunter’s safety certs and licenses.
Major disappointment. Turkeys are the stupidest animals ever created. We came across a small group of them, and each of us in turn was able to kill one, and the rest of the turkeys didn’t seem to care a bit.
As challenging as shooting milk jugs. And pretty scrawny compared to Butterballs.
I think that was the last time I ever went hunting.
@blaineg There are few disappointments as acute as hauling a 10-point buck to a processor, paying $125 to get it taken apart, vetted and packed, and getting back 42 pounds of uncured shoeleather.
@blaineg I didn’t grow up with hunting and learned it from my in-laws after getting married. Imagine my surprise to learn that after botching a shot on a turkey, a large man could indeed belly flop one to death in a pinch.
Back when all my cousins got together for holidays; someone would always get a Greenberg Turkey from Tyler, Texas. Since my grandma passed away, we don’t get together like that anymore.