Happy Bird Day

Originally posted by Gburl
Wish all of you that celbrate this day a happy bird day. Hope that you are able to sit around the table with family and friends.
Gene

Happy Thanksgiving to you as well as all. So much to be thankful for. My best to all.

Doug 🙂

Originally posted by dyl
What is Thanks Giving day may I ask?




P.S. At first I thought the title was referring to Bird's opening...

Adam Sandler can explain it best...

"The Thanksgiving Song"

"They wanna hear the thanksgiving song! All right.."
"This is uhh, This is the Thanksgiving Song"
"I hope you enjoy it."

[Starts playing]
Love to eat turkey
Love to eat turkey

Love to eat turkey
'Cause it's good
Love to eat turkey
Like a good boy should
'Cause it's turkey to eat
So good

Turkey for me
Turkey for you
Let's eat the turkey
In my big brown shoe
Love to eat the turkey
At the table
I once saw a movie
With Betty Grable
Eat that turkey
All night long
Fifty million Elvis fans
Can't be wrong
Turkey lurkey doo and
Turkey lurkey dap
I eat that turkey
Then I take a nap

Thanksgiving is a special night
Jimmy Walker used to say Dynomite
That's right
Turkey with gravy and cranberry
Can't believe the Mets traded Darryl Strawberry
Turkey for you and
Turkey for me
Can't believe Tyson
Gave that girl V.D.

White meat, dark meat
You just can't lose
I fell off my moped
And I got a bruise
Turkey in the oven
And the buns in the toaster
I'll never take down
My Cheryl Tiegs poster
Wrap the turkey up
In aluminum foil
My brother likes to masturbate
With baby oil
Turkey and sweet potato pie
Sammy Davis Jr.
Only had one eye

Turkey for the girls and
Turkey for the boys
My favorite kind of pants
Are corduroys
Gobble gobble goo and
Gobble gobble gickel
I wish turkey
Only cost a nickel
Oh I love turkey on Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving everybody!

Originally posted by dyl
What is Thanks Giving day may I ask?

here is a brief history behind thanksgiving:

"The Pilgrims who sailed to this country aboard the Mayflower were originally members of the English Separatist Church (a Puritan sect). They had earlier fled their home in England and sailed to Holland (The Netherlands) to escape religious persecution. There, they enjoyed more religious tolerance, but they eventually became disenchanted with the Dutch way of life, thinking it ungodly. Seeking a better life, the Separatists negotiated with a London stock company to finance a pilgrimage to America. Most of those making the trip aboard the Mayflower were non-Separatists, but were hired to protect the company's interests. Only about one-third of the original colonists were Separatists.

The Pilgrims set ground at Plymouth Rock on December 11, 1620. Their first winter was devastating. At the beginning of the following fall, they had lost 46 of the original 102 who sailed on the Mayflower. But the harvest of 1621 was a bountiful one. And the remaining colonists decided to celebrate with a feast -- including 91 Indians who had helped the Pilgrims survive their first year. It is believed that the Pilgrims would not have made it through the year without the help of the natives. The feast was more of a traditional English harvest festival than a true "thanksgiving" observance. It lasted three days.

Governor William Bradford sent "four men fowling" after wild ducks and geese. It is not certain that wild turkey was part of their feast. However, it is certain that they had venison. The term "turkey" was used by the Pilgrims to mean any sort of wild fowl. "

this is no doubt where the 'happy bird day' tradition comes from.


unfortunately, there the 'bird' has nothing to be thankful for especially these days.

45 million turkeys are killed each year at thanksgiving. they spend 6 months on factory farms packed in dark sheds with only 3 sqft/bird. to keep them from 'damaging' each other, a portion of their upper beaks and toes are seared off with a hot blade and without anesthetics. turkeys stand in their own waste and the ammonia fumes burn their eyes and lungs. dosed on antibiotics and bred to enormous weight, they suffer from crippling, collapsed lungs and heart attacks. many don't survive past the first few weeks drowning in their water dishes or starving because eating with mutilated beaks becomes too painful.

the road to the slaughterhouse sometimes involves heat exhaustion, freezing, or transport accidents. they are hung upside down by their crippled legs and their heads are dragged through a stunning tank, which immobilizes them though not to unconsciousness. their throats are slit, but not always properly and they end up in the scalding tank (for feather removal) alive.



it is tragic that that the day when we are supposed to be thankful for our blessings, so many sit down to eat these beings who never saw the light of day or took a breath of fresh air. as plutarch wrote several hundred years ago:

"But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy."


there are many alternatives such as

Tofurky
1-888-TOFURKY; www.tofurky.com

Unturkey
1-800-335-1959; www.nowandzen.net

Tofu Turkey
610-433-4711; www.freshtofu.com

Native Wellington
760-416-0070; www.nativefoods.com

as well as vegetarian 'turkey' recipies - just search for 'vegetarian turkey' on the internet.


in friendship,
prad

Originally posted by chancremechanic
What the hell is tofu turkey?...I wouldn't eat something made out of soybeans and called "turkey". Granted, the mass production of turkeys is alfowl (alful), and I'd rather have a wild one that got fat naturally, but with overpopulation of the human species it gets harder to hunt turkeys every year...so I guess it's hormone/antibiotic fed turkey for me this year-again. I deep-fried mine this time and it was deelicious....😏

Aye. I was by myself this year, so I just took a turkey breast and some potatoes and eggs and made a really beautiful omelette.

Originally posted by chancremechanic
What the hell is tofu turkey?...I wouldn't eat something made out of soybeans and called "turkey".

why not?
is the problem that it is called turkey or that it is made out of soybeans?

in friendship,
prad

Originally posted by pradtf
why not?
is the problem that it is called turkey or that it is made out of soybeans?

in friendship,
prad

Because it is soybeans...I want the "real deal" on Thanksgiving..the day after, I'll drink a soy shake....if I have to...cheers

Originally posted by chancremechanic
Because it is soybeans...I want the "real deal" on Thanksgiving..the day after, I'll drink a soy shake....if I have to...cheers

and cheers to you! soy shakes are great!

anyway, we used to do that 'real deal' for years in the 60s - prepare, stuff, baste etc. however, in the early 70s, we started to explore alternatives and found that we were more than pleasantly surprised (for several reasons other than just the fantastic tastes).

below is a tofu turkey recipe we have tried several times. it is quite simple (there are more elaborate variations), but it is pretty easy to create and quite tasty. (it is from the very vegan cookbook that the familycaregiverssupport.org organization created)


5 pounds of firm tofu

Stuffing
4 cups of bread cubed
1 Tbsp. olive oil
1 tsp. oregano
1 tsp. basil
1 tsp. thyme
1 large onion chopped
3 stalks of celery chopped

Basting liquid
1 cup Liquid Aminos (braggs)
½ cup sesame oil

Mash tofu with a fork and place in a colander. Squeeze out the excess water.

Use a heavy pot to press the tofu down. Remove the pot and scoop out the middle of the tofu, leaving a one inch layer pressed to the colander in the shape of a bowl.

Mix stuffing ingredients and place in the tofu "bowl". Cover the stuffing with the tofu that had been scooped out earlier and press firmly.

Carefully flip the tofu turkey by inverting the colander onto an oiled pizza plate.

Baste tofu turkey and bake at 350 for 30 minutes covered then 20 minutes uncovered. Keep basting periodically until tofu turkey until is cooked.

eat


in friendship,
prad

Originally posted by chancremechanic
Thanks for the recipe...I'll keep it handy when and if I go vegan...which is doubtful...but thanks just the same...

well thank you kindly too 🙂

in case you are interested, there is a growing collection of rather good veg recipes categorized on our clan's veggiechess site (www.towardsfreedom.com/veggiechess/) in the goVeg section just follow the free food link. you don't need to be veg to enjoy them 🙂

in friendship,
prad