{"id":2667,"date":"2012-11-22T09:00:21","date_gmt":"2012-11-22T16:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=2667"},"modified":"2012-11-22T09:00:27","modified_gmt":"2012-11-22T16:00:27","slug":"odd-lots-thanksgiving-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=2667","title":{"rendered":"Odd Lots, Thanksgiving Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Some brilliant if loopy stuff came out of the 70s, and one of the most brilliant is the episode of <em>WKRP in Cinncinnati<\/em> where <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kewego.com\/video\/iLyROoafYtDe.html\" target=\"_blank\">they shoved live turkeys out of a helicopter<\/a> and were surprised when the turkeys soon hit terminal velocity and went splat. (No turkeys were harmed&#8211;nor even shown&#8211;in that episode.) Thanks to Frank Glover for the link.<\/li>\n<li>There are in fact turkeys that fly. Carol and I bought <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Heritage_turkey\" target=\"_blank\">a heritage turkey<\/a> of the sort that can and probably did fly, if not very far nor fast. Although it&#8217;s still thawing as I write this, the theory is that the meat will be darker and juicier coming from muscles that are actually used in the bird&#8217;s daily life. We&#8217;ll know soon.<\/li>\n<li>I often eat eggs two meals a day, and don&#8217;t quail at eating eggs at all three meals. Which made me wonder if you could get turkey eggs somewhere, and what they&#8217;re like. They&#8217;re a little bigger (about 25%) and considerably pointier&#8211;and almost unavailable. Why? They&#8217;re lots more valuable as turkeys than as eggs. As so often, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.straightdope.com\/columns\/read\/1262\/why-cant-you-buy-turkey-eggs-in-stores\" target=\"_blank\">Cecil Adams has the last word<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Leave it to <em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em> to highlight a conflict I would not have imagined on my own: <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887323622904578128881516487390.html\" target=\"_blank\">the issue of putting Marshmallow Fluff in the sweet potatoes<\/a>. People have evidently come to blows over this.<\/li>\n<li>I was astonished to learn (from the above article) that Marshmallow Fluff has existed since 1920. I&#8217;ve tasted it exactly once (as best I remember) when my poor mother attempted to use it in gingerbread house roof frosting circa 1960. The frosting softened the hard gingerbread slabs and the roof caved in.<\/li>\n<li>The obvious question to arise after you cease boggling over putting Marshmallow Fluff in the sweet potatoes: Is there a marshmallow-flavored liqueur? Yup. <a href=\"http:\/\/ifitshipitshere.blogspot.com\/2011\/12\/holiday-spirits-smirnoffs-new-whipped.html\" target=\"_blank\">Smirnoff has it.<\/a> And a bald woman in their product advertising, egad. Like a marshmallow, get it?<\/li>\n<li>If that doesn&#8217;t seem odd, well, consider <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oddballdaily.com\/2011\/12\/12\/9-weird-liquors-from-around-the-world\/\" target=\"_blank\">other weird cordials from around the world<\/a>, including cannabis liqueur, smoked salmon flavored vodka, and (yukkh!) baby mice wine.<\/li>\n<li>No, I didn&#8217;t find a turkey-flavored liqueur. However&#8211;and I am not making this up&#8211;Jones Soda sells (among other things, including Green Bean Casserole soda) <a href=\"http:\/\/usatoday30.usatoday.com\/news\/nation\/2003-11-26-turkey-gravy-soda_x.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Turkey &amp; Gravy soda<\/a>. How does it taste? Do not fail to read the description in the article.<\/li>\n<li>I failed to find turkey-flavored vodka, but I did run across <a href=\"http:\/\/gothamist.com\/2010\/11\/22\/vodka-infused_turkey_your_solution.php\" target=\"_blank\">a recipe for 100-proof vodka-flavored turkey<\/a>. Hic.<\/li>\n<li>We&#8217;re long past Marshmallow Peeps season, but here&#8217;s an entrepreneurial idea: sell pre-staled Peeps. It takes a year or so to get them stale enough to pass muster with aficionados, but I have it on good authority that they don&#8217;t get moldy. Don&#8217;t ask why; you don&#8217;t want to know. Twinkies were <em>not<\/em> outliers in this regard.<\/li>\n<li>As for Thanksgiving itself, the holiday and the state of mind, I will simply refer you to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=117\" target=\"_blank\">what I said in 2008<\/a>. It&#8217;s all still true&#8211;and since then Jackie has lost a good deal of weight and become ours. Be thankful. Live mindfully. Appreciate those you love and who love you. And thanks to everybody who takes a detour out of their busy online lives to read me here!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some brilliant if loopy stuff came out of the 70s, and one of the most brilliant is the episode of WKRP in Cinncinnati where they shoved live turkeys out of a helicopter and were surprised when the turkeys soon hit terminal velocity and went splat. (No turkeys were harmed&#8211;nor even shown&#8211;in that episode.) 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