Happy Thanksgiving!
I told it “thanksgiving dinner but badgers and weasels around the table” and this is what I get. Badgers obviously have better PR.
Joke’s on the robot – we’re having roast beast of Olde Englande. I never realized until Uncle B pointed it out that Americans have two turkey holiday meals less than a month apart, and then no turkey again for ten months.
It usually takes us that long to eat the leftovers.
Posted: November 27th, 2025 under personal.
Comments: 12
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Comment from dissent555
Time: November 27, 2025, 4:38 pm
Make a stock with the turkey carcass and leftover bits. Then use it to make soup for a few of those frigid January days.
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: November 27, 2025, 5:03 pm
Boiled turkey carcass smells disgusting. Never again.
Comment from Subotai Bahadur
Time: November 27, 2025, 5:08 pm
It depends on your culinary inclinations. We have turkey for Thanksgiving. We have prime rib roast and Cioppino for Christmas dinner. And we have Peking duck for Chinese New Year. And Americans get a lot of turkey through the year in various processed foods.
Subotai Bahadur
Comment from Pupster
Time: November 27, 2025, 6:48 pm
We do prime rib for Thanksgiving and ham for Christmas, nobody is a big turkey fan around here. Sometimes we will roast a turkey breast but the full big bird is just too much of a hassle.
Comment from Crowhouse
Time: November 27, 2025, 9:00 pm
Ham is very popular for Christmas. Maybe 1/2 the people I know have it.
Comment from M
Time: November 27, 2025, 11:05 pm
We have ham for Christmas. I didn’t even know people had turkey for Christmas until I was an adult. I knew people who had tamales, and people who had lasagna. Nobody who had turkey. Happy Thanksgiving!
Comment from Durnedyankee
Time: November 28, 2025, 11:26 am
We did turkey every week when a Durned Yankee wasn’t able to fund a durned job for 6 months.
Turkey is awesome, and despite the recent failing Trump economy hype, a good bang for the buck.
I can smell it cooking down right now since the carcass went straight from the table into the stew pot where it will end up as a hearty turkey noodle soup eaten between open faced turkey sandwiches, and “used” Thanksgiving Re-dinner till the sides run out.
What never survives is the cream cheese stuffed celery, and the spicy pimento cheese and cracker spread.
But ham…ah, lovely ham. Ham dinner, ham steaks for breakfast, ham sandwiches,ham slices sneaked and devoured when the boss isn’t it looking, and finally ham and bean soup or potato vegetable chowder made with the ham bone and ham scraps.
Yeah, ham is the winner.
I pray you all had a thoroughly lovely holiday! Even if Weasels had to sit in the other room at the mustelid “kids” table and didn’t get included in the family photo.
Comment from Durnedyankee
Time: November 28, 2025, 1:19 pm
Did you ever notice Badgers always seem to be snappy dressers and pleasant dinner guests and hosts?
Comment from technochitlin
Time: November 28, 2025, 2:47 pm
@Durnedyankee
British badgers, maybe, but Yankee Badgers are a whole ‘nother ballgame…
Comment from Uncle Badger
Time: November 28, 2025, 3:05 pm
Yes, I’m afraid we try to forget our American relations. Mind you, cousin honey badger is always good for a laugh. Though you tend to have to move home afterwards. Things get broken.
Hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving. Her Stoatliness and I did.
Comment from Rich Rostrom
Time: November 28, 2025, 9:43 pm
Turkey legs are very popular fairground food in the summer.
Comment from Mark Matis
Time: November 28, 2025, 10:12 pm
You REALLY need to deep fry a turkey some time.
Be careful, though, lest the Russkis think you have launched an ICBM attack…
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