Remember, it’s about 20 minutes per pound for a frozen frozen turkey and 15 minute for a fresh one.
While you’re sitting around the table with your family this Thanksgiving, opine this – Americans sometimes eat as much as 5,100 calories today! The average person eats enough each Thanksgiving to gain 1.3 pounds. That would breaks down approximately as:
2 turkey legs (with the skin on)
6 oz. turkey breast (with the skin on)
2 cups mashed potatoes (made with butter and whole milk) plus 1 cup turkey gravy
½ cup cornbread stuffing
2 slices canned cranberry sauce
1 cup candied sweet potatoes with marshmallow
1 cup Brussels sprouts with walnuts
1 cup green bean casserole
2 crescent rolls
1 piece pumpkin pie with 1 cup vanilla ice cream
2 pieces pecan pie each with 2 Tbsp whipped cream
and 1 slice apple pie
(And now you know why people in the plumbing industry refer to tomorrow as Brown Friday.)
Each year, the president of the U.S. pardons a turkey and spares it from being eaten for Thanksgiving dinner.
The first turkey pardon ceremony started with President Truman in 1947, (however, the Truman Library and Museum disputes the notion that he was the first to do so or even if he pardoned the bird.) In December 1948, Truman accepted two turkeys and remarked that they would “come in handy” for Christmas dinner. President Biden pardoned Chocolate and Chip turkeys the other day. They will live out the rest of their days at North Carolina State University, in Raleigh, NC., unless the price of turkeys continues to rise.
Kids, don’t let anybody fool you – Turkey is merely the excuse to have delicious stuffing. There are those who will make their stuffing with wild rice, oysters, saltines – I am not here to judge. I will merely present to you the stuffing that has been passed along on my mother’s side of the family for more that 60 years – so good or bad, it’s fed a lot of very hungry people.
Demand Euphoria!
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