You have a plan for Thanksgiving? Eating in immoderation, I hope? Preferably with friends or at least relatives who don’t make you too crazy?
M’hijito and I are going, once again, to the home of his delightful friends, the couple with the twins. 🙂 Better them than me, eh? Seriously, the children are outrageously adorable and really very well behaved. Uhm…at least, they were at the stage they were in the last time we saw them. LOL!
Every year this couple throws a gigantic TG shindig, to which they invite ALL the friends and relatives. This provides an opportunity to trot the old folks around, which is entertaining. Lots of good food and booze are served, children play, dogs oversee, old folks gossip, young adults work their buns off. What could be better? Assuming you’re an old folk or a small child, that is.
I really enjoy my son’s friends. It’s always a delight to have the opportunity to see them in action and talk with them. Wish there were more such opportunities.
Every Thanksgiving, too, I avail myself of the cheap prices on bad turkey, so as to get meat for the dogs, enough to feed them for a month or more. Right now a Butterball is in the oven; it should be ready in another three hours.
At 79 cents a pound, these things are really no bargain. They’re injected with sodium-laced water, so, according to the package, 8% of what you’re paying for is water.
Hm. So this turkey is 11.59 pounds. That means I actually got 10.66 pounds of meat and bone for my $9.15. Sooo…if you divide $9.15 by 10.66 pounds, that should give you the real price per pound, right? $9.15/10.66 = $1.50 a pound. Cripes!
When you consider that maybe half the thing is bones, I could’ve done better buying a boneless pork roast at Costco, and probably gotten better quality meat for the hounds. A LOT better….
Add to that the fact that the agricorp that produces Butterball turkeys generated the first-ever conviction for felony animal abuse for its atrocious treatment of its captive birds, and you’re given even more pause.
Because of Ruby’s allergies, which lead to ear infections, the vet asked me to quit feeding her both beef and pork. She hasn’t had either in weeks, and her big old rabbity ears have pretty well cleared up.
That may have to do with the fact that she stole and ATE the whole tube of ear ointment… Does Otomax work internally? Argh.
Anyway, I’m pretty sure the problem is beef — the quiescent infection flared up when I gave her a rawhide chew toy, which is, of course, a beef product. But still feeling leery, I decided to hold the pork until such time as my health is good enough to allow for wrestling with the dog over her ears again. It’s no fun to treat this dog with ear wash and ointments!
So that’s why I bought a substandard turkey and stuck it in the oven.
Oh well. I hope this one doesn’t taste like factory chemicals, the way the last icky Butterball turkey I bought did. That one, I wouldn’t even feed to the dogs. I’m hoping to get a meal or two for myself, despite the low quality; then cut up the rest for the dogs and use the bones to make broth, which can be frozen for future use.
Speaking of turkey, if you imbibe do check out Revanche’s recipe for turkey meatloaf.
And so, to work…
Happy Thanksgiving, One and All
