Turkey Time ...

Turkey day, yea some call it a celebration but I prefer to think of it as mass genocide!
This is the day we all gather around and think about how good we have it as we attempt to figure out new ways to cook a creature of another race.
How would we feel if Aliens came down and decided to cook us for dinner?
Well I guess we would be afraid, you would kind of know what it felt like to be a tribe in South Africa who find out there new neighbors like good old fashioned Long Pig.
We have come a long way from the good old days of cooking turkey on a spit or in the ground on leaves, and because of this I think we have lost some of the magic.
That is I mean people took to baking turkeys in the oven for so long that they made it not so special anymore.
Most people think that they can cook a turkey too and that’s a whole other issue you lords of dryness!
A few years back though some crazed redneck, I am guessing a redneck but come on you will think it too, decided to drop a whole turkey into a big pot of boiling oil … being of redneck ingenuity we are still not sure if it was vegetable, lard motor or something else but we are positive it was not Olive oil … rednecks for some reason dislike olive oil as much as they do deodorant and proper tooth care …
Low and behold … the next great thing!

I have had deep fried turkey now a few years in a row and this is the first year without.
(Whimper & Cry)
It is the best … nah the ONLY way a turkey should be cooked in my mind now!
There are certain issues with it though that people need to take into consideration.
If you are old and/or have a hard time picking up a 16 pound bird, have stupid children or pets, or are just in general referred to as not so bright you should not try deep frying a turkey.
Hum, I think I just contradicted myself because rednecks can do it … hum must be a strange genetic abnormality that allows them some how.
The average number of house fires is 800 a year from people messing up this magical art.
Back to some form of a point though … So many people forget what the day is about.
It isn’t about the killing of hundreds of thousands of birds.
It isn’t about how we took over the Native Americans home land and forced them into the lives they now live after they saved our dumb butts way back in the day.
It isn’t about getting to see family once a year so that we can act like we like each other trying to get into each others wills … and then go home and bad mouth each other … OK it is about that too but again not the point …
It IS though about being thankful for who and what we have.
We might think that we don’t have a lot but I have been and scene third world countries and we have so much!
Take a moment and look around and see what all you have to be thankful for and about.
If you are reading this that means you more then likely have it SO much better then so many others but again look around and take note.
We all say thanks for this and that but so many of us say it in passing because we are supposed to and not realize that we take most of it for granted.
I am thankful for my friends, family, job and all of the perks that come with it.
I’m thankful also for a house, working vehicles and so many other things.
That’s just the tip of the iceberg though!
I am trying not to go into preacher mode … hum … that would be a different direction to take my life into … sorry was thinking with my fingers again … just saying take note of all the little things too.
Enjoy your day, enjoy your lives, enjoy each other and enjoy your Turkey … mind you they now think turkey was not at the first Turkey day dinner from a diary entry they found but that’s another story …

Side Note!
Does anyone else think that Thanksgiving is really pushed by the Native Americans because they know that after we eat we get lazy and one Thanksgiving they are going to riot and uproar and take the country back … or is it just me?