I wake up screaming #5: Thanksgiving leftovers edition
Isoglossia.com wishes a happy, if that’s the word these images conjure up, Thanksgiving weekend to all of our readers in the United States. To any slightly deranged Canadian visitors, we’re sorry we missed your Thanksgiving a few weeks ago, but to be honest we don’t really understand what Canadian Thanksgiving is aboot.
To readers clicking through from other countries, don’t you have anything to be thankful for? And aren’t you ashamed and enraged that your leaders haven’t set aside a special holiday for showing your thanks in a sordid orgy of gluttony and excess? Followed immediately by a government-sanctioned frenzy of debt-leveraged commercialistic materialism? Aren’t you? To the barricades!
Anyway:
Family resemblance: could this Italian turkey be a Catalan fugitive?
The only possibility for a personal Thanksgiving that comes to my mind is a “salad festival”: you (as in: you and me and everyone else) put a mirriad of appropriate ingredients on the table and let everyone mix their own salad and celebrate. Depending on the source of the ingredientss in question, your little festival also financially supports: Holland’s vegetable growing industry, Germany’s canning industries, Slovenian invisible cows etc. etc. Or: BIO farmers in your region.
Now how does that sound?
Comment by alcessa — Friday 24 November 06 @ 12.23 MST+2.00
In case anyone’s curious about what you mean by “Slovenian invisible cows”, alcessa, the link they need is right here.
Comment by sgazzetti — Friday 24 November 06 @ 13.06 MST+2.00
So… in the last photo, that hatch is where you pull out the giblets and pack in the stuffing?
Comment by Elsa — Friday 24 November 06 @ 14.32 MST+2.00
You’re not really down with the mouse-over thing, are you, Elsa?
Comment by sgazzetti — Friday 24 November 06 @ 15.22 MST+2.00
Oh god. And I thought the nodding, false-eyelash-wearing-blinking Macy’s Thanksgiving Turkey float was the scariest turkey ever. THIS is by far the winner. It is HIDEOUS.
Comment by Nance — Friday 24 November 06 @ 18.09 MST+2.00
Re. your picture # 3, where “Everything is edible” is noted using your techincal term, mouse-over thing.
Come on! Where/how is that fleshy member used anywhere? I’d appreciate a family-value language amswer, if you please. No flights of fancy or funk,please!
Comment by DarkoV — Saturday 25 November 06 @ 01.10 MST+2.00
Canadian Thanksgiving is about oh-my-god-do-we-have-enough-food-for-the-winter?! Yes? Great!
Comment by Roo — Saturday 25 November 06 @ 23.18 MST+2.00
Um … what are the white podlike/egglike things I see in the background of a couple of the photos? I accept that they might be some sort of municipal cement thingies but I suspect they are related to the mutant turkey. This begs the question: which came first? The turkey or the pods?
Comment by Jagosaurus — Monday 27 November 06 @ 14.41 MST+2.00
Wait. Where’s #4 in this series?
Comment by Jane — Monday 27 November 06 @ 22.58 MST+2.00
Darko: you take ‘everything’ a bit too literally. Is that family-friendly enough for you?
#4 is the Catalan horror show photo-essay, Jane. This mouse-over thing is really causing confusion around here.
The pods pre-date the turkey, definitely.
Comment by sgazzetti — Tuesday 28 November 06 @ 09.53 MST+2.00
Oh. But the mouse- over stuff is so exHAUSTing.
You are going to destroy the pods aren’t you? For the greater good?
Comment by Jane — Tuesday 28 November 06 @ 16.33 MST+2.00