Re: lutefisk
- From: "Nels E. Satterlund" <Nels.E.Satterlund@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 16:29:23 -0700
David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
prd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Paul Dormer) writes:
In article <447E6BB2.6090900@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, seawaspobvious@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Sea Wasp) wrote:
And THAT ignores the 6-8 hours in running water to defrost it, or else buying a fresh bird and trying to figure out where in the name of God you can put it for the day or two before you cook it (because the store will be closed on Thanksgiving itself, and even if not, you're going to start the cooking WAY early if you want to eat in the early afternoon which is traditional).UK fan John Dallman tells a story of turning up in his office one Christmas Eve to find an oven-ready turkey sitting on his desk. His company had just been taken over, and the new owners thought it would be nice to give all their new employees a turkey each for Christmas.
Turkey is the traditional Christmas dinner in the UK (we have no equivalent of Thanksgiving), but anyone having turkey for Christmas would already have bought it by Christmas Eve. Furthermore, John lived on his own and was going to his parents for Christmas, and they already had their bird. It was also too big to fit into his freezer without first spending the afternoon trying to find a meat saw with which to cut it in half.
Most Americans would be in the same position I think -- while a turkey
would fit in my freezer *if there was nothing else there* (okay, even
with a moderate amount of other stuff there), it's not that common for
me to have enough room for a turkey in the freezer or refrigerator.
And I, also, would have already bought my turkey by then.
DEC gave out turkeys, but they were distributed from a truck outside
the plant I worked at, so 1) it was easy to skip if you didn't want
it, and 2) it was a well-established tradition by then, and they did
send out warnings.
Even so, our household had two DEC employees, and Pamela and I spent
Christmas away from home essentially every year, and many years the
whole household was out in Minneapolis for the Christmas-to-New Years
week. Lucikly Jerry took his home to his mother usually...leaving us
only two to deal with.
When we did that as part of an employee party we also had a food bank on hand to accept donated Turkeys ...
Nels
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