 There's only so much turkey a man can take. iReporter, Grilling.com writer and Smoke in Da Eye competition BBQ chronicler and team member Clint Cantwell found himself having to gobble down waaayyyy too much of the bird. After roasting, deep-frying and smoking three different turkeys for Thanksgiving last year, he needed a bit of a palate cleanser. Naturally, he swung swine-ward. Cantwell crafted a pig entirely out of pork as a Thanksgiving appetizer. "Pork E. Pigskin," as he was dubbed, had hot links for legs, a sausage body, ham ears, Vienna sausage nose, a pork rind tail and a bacon wrap. We greatly admire Cantwell's ingenious spirit, but we also sympathize with the man. Though most of us aren't flocking about with multiple birds for a single holiday, turkey can still get a little tedious year after year. Has that ever driven you to explore other options? Post your most creative alternative solutions - or passionate feelings about traditional poultry - in the comments below and we just might feature them in an upcoming post. Previously - T minus 21 – Stocking up for the big day and all T minus Thanksgiving coverage Got a Thanksgiving query or dilemma? Need techniques for roasting turkey or just looking for recipes to bust up your holiday rut? Wanna know what one of our anchors eats for T-Day? We're here to help. Post your question in the comments below and we'll do our best to assist. |
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I don't even eat pork. I ain't Jewish, I just dont dig the swine. That, okay on one hand cute, but it's like taking a bunch of cadaver parts and forming them into a human baby-like shape.
We opted for a pig roast versus a turkey roast this year and here's how it went:
http://thesuppermodel.blogspot.com/2011/11/southern-style-thanksgiving.html
It was a truly southern-style thanksgiving! I must recommend it.
On the one hand, this looks really cute. On the other hand, it is also really gross. The only bacon in pig form that I will be eating is when it is on a BLT (http://imunchie.com/bar/munchies/blt-sandwich)
i used to love this sort of stuff. and then i realized i was drastically undervaluing the role diet plays in good health..i want to be around to play with my grandkids.
if you want science-based info on pork, check this out: http://nutritionfacts.org/topics/pork/
If God didn't want us to eat meat he wouldn't have made it taste so good.
Duck Duck Goose!
Ummm... what's wrong with a pork roast?
Before I quit eating meat, I LOVED bacon. I still like the smell of it. But that? It looks like old roadkill sculpted into shape and then burned. Makes me want to hurl.
LOVE bacon. But that looks plain nasty. Like a person who has 3rd degree burns (sorry).
This sounds amazing. Recipe please! Do you mix anything with the meat?
For those who were concerned, Pork E Pigskin still lives on in video form http://www.youtube.com/smokeindaeye#p/u/30/CRBExw8x1F0
2 words... Bacon Explosion (google the recipe)
I send my turkey to a bacon spa. It gets a salt scrub, a bacon butter deep tissue massage, a hand-woven bacon spa robe, some time in the sauna and a little tanning to finish it off. http://bit.ly/vT9Ivv
Growing up, we would usually have 20 people for Thanksgiving dinner. Sometimes we would do two turkeys or toss in a ham for variety, but turkey was always the mainstay.
Turkey is a nice tradition, but sometimes gets a bit old. We have ham every other year and its a nice switch up. But, that pig-thing is just DISGUSTING!! Never have I seen something that made me think of a heart attack so fast. Yuck!!!
Vincent: Want some bacon?
Jules: No, man. I don't eat pork.
Vincent: Are you Jewish?
Jules: Nah, I ain't Jewish, I just don't dig on swine, that's all.
Vincent: Why not?
Jules: Pigs are filthy animals. I don't eat filthy animals.
Vincent: Yeah, but bacon tastes good. Pork chops taste good.
Jules: Hey, sewer rat may taste like pumpkin pie, but I'd never know 'cause I wouldn't eat the filthy motherfnkker. Pigs sleep and root in sh!7. That's a filthy animal. I ain't eatin' nothing that ain't got sense enough to disregard its own feces.
Vincent: How about a dog? Dog eats its own feces.
Jules: I don't eat dog either.
Vincent: Yeah, but do you consider a dog to be a filthy animal?
Jules: I wouldn't go so far as to call a dog filthy, but they're definitely dirty. But, a dog's got personality. Personality goes a long way.
Vincent: Ah, so by that rationale, if a pig had a better personality, he would cease to be a filthy animal. Is that true?
Jules: Well, we'd have to be talkin' about one charming motherfnkking pig. I mean, he'd have to be ten times more charming than that Arnold on Green Acres, you know what I'm saying?
Vincent: [laughing] That's good.
I know, that movie is the best! Gonna watch it tonight.
*BARF*
hippy
turkey sucks, why does one of the hardest meats to cook have to be tradition? Why couldnt they have chosen a meat that is easier for people who dont know what they are doing?
Yay its almost time for a 10lb lump of dry overcooked protein. Thanksgiving has got to be the only day I wish I was a vegetarian.
Turducken: A Turkey stuffed with a duck that's stuffed with a chicken.
Lol a pigeon inside of a pheasant inside of a chicken inside of a duck inside of a turkey inside of a pig inside of a cow.
Being italian, we ALWAYS have at least one kind of pasta or gnocchi at Holiday Dinners.
Christmas Eve we do vegetarian and seafood in keeping with the Feast of the Seven Fishes.
I use to cook a turkey every year, but spending hours and hours defrosting, brine baths, roasting; then gone in 30 minutes was frustrating. Now every year I rotate between: gaming hens, duck, goose, hunters delight (venison, quail, boar) and the turkey makes a show every 4 to 5 years. Tradition is what you make of it. I like not spending 3 days worrying over an 18 pound bird.
bbq ribs for me, every year
I managed to talk my mom into doing ribs one year, that was by far the best thanksgiving. Usually I associate thanksgiving with a big mound of dry poultry
That thing looks freaking amazing!
Agreed! Tasty or not, it's an awesome food sculpture.
First and foremost, I must go on record as being a roasted turkey lover. While I do tend to think of Turkey as being quintessential to a Thanksgiving dinner, I have branched in the past by preparing Duck, Goose, Grouse and even Cornish Game Hens (12 of them). But as you can see, I kind of stick with the fowl theme. I feel that people should experiment with what works best for them. This is one of the reasons I hate the phrase "Turkey Day". It's really NOT about the Turkey, but about giving "thanks" for the abundance in your life. But let's face it, when you have a large family, (17) turkey provides the most full bellies.
Christmas tends to be the more experimental holiday for me as far as a main course goes... Being either leg of Lamb, Rabbit, Ham, Roast Beef, Bison Roast or other some such large slab o' meat. Because after the Thanksgiving Turkey, I am really not into having YET another one on Christmas. Kind of overkill as far as I am concerned.
I find Catwell's appetizer an interesting and fun idea. I would probably not attempt this myself but I have done other such things without zoo-morphing them. Such as Pork loin chops wrapped in Prosciutto and topped with a caper sauce.
I see a lot of people freaking out in the comments. It's an appetizer for Pete sake. It wasn't a main course and I doubt that anyone is going to go on a carcinogenic overload from eating it once a year. Granted bacon is full of Nitrates and Nitrites, but there are companies whose products are devoid of these chemicals... same with the sausage. It just takes a little label reading.
I am not a person for tradition but if there is no Turkey on Thanksgiving Then I ain't going to be there
Garnish with Baconators.
The coolest Thanksgiving I ever had was with my husband, his sister and her husband and another couple. I was the only one of the six who even liked turkey, so we decided to have sushi instead. We spent all day making different sushi and that night when we had "Sushi Day dinner" we only managed to eat about half of what we made. It was fantastic and I wish I could do it again.
Bacon is filled with carcinogens.
I'm guessing by "carcinogens" you mean "the things that make food uber-tasty."
That. Is. Awesome.
Fowl meat is worst growth medium agent for Cancer cells making it a Carcinogen accelerator. In Labs fowl broth can be used as a nutrient agar/ growth medium to grow cells. Don’t believe me; ask your doctor or pharmacist. The more fowl (any) you eat, the more likelihood of multiplying cancer cell in the body. So in our household we stick to the most ancient of diet: fish, lamb or goat meat.
GINGER BROWN SUGAR MUSTARD & PAPRIKA CHILIPEPPER & MOLLASSES AND HONEY / BASTE PORK 350 ACCORDING TO AMOUNT OF LBS COOKING
sounds. a-m-a-z-i-n-g
I and all my relatives heartily endorse this.
I do something similar in a way, my family and I respect the turkey tradition but instead of the regular stuffing which only 1 person likes we fill it with bacon strips, it gives the turkey more flavor and it takes away some of the dryness of it.
Turkey is custom, steak is better, pork WILL KILL YOU. Every doctor knows that you bacon lovers are eating BAD FATS. A stick of margarine is the same as eating 4 pieces of bacon. Pork in ALL forms whether, bacon, sausage, pork loin, whatever is horrible for your health. Smoking a pack a day is safer than clogging arteries with pig. Unclean meat.
-Dr. J
Margarine =100% chemicals. At least pork is a real food.
Bring it on!!!! And, I use REAL butter, Thank you very much. Much easier for the body to process. And, I also READ the label. All about paying attention to what you are eating. And, really? Once in a while won't kill you.
Since we now host Thanksgiving at our house we get to decide and we always have turkey BUT we also have some other meat. Maybe ham, buffalo or beef. We often have over 12 people so we need more than a single turkey and we like variety. I don't think we've ever had much in the way of leftovers. My problem is getting out of the rut of mashed potatoes, stuffing/dressing, gravy, carrots and Brussel sprouts along with apple pie, pecan pie and pumpkin pie. I need some new sides!
Sick of turkey? Are you mad, sir?!
Wow, love bacon wrapped bacon....with a side of bacon/
Only shortening your years on this Earth...
Let them eat bacon... natural selection in action.
Depends on your definition of life. If you would rather sacrifice some time to better enjoy life now by having a slice of bacon rather than "sacrifice" and never enjoy life and live to 105 on tofu, be my guest. I'd prefer to have the bacon and live life to the fullest (pun intended).
The best turkey I've ever eaten came from a ranch in Eastern Oregon, Wish Poultry, run by one Mark Wishard. His turkeys are his own 'unimproved bronze' turkey, which are raised out in a big fenced in 250 acre field, and no where else in the country aside from a few scattered flocks here and there in back yards or colleges apparently. He raises a lot of them, but you still have to reserve a turkey months in advance, because they go fast. They are never frozen.
I have never had any turkey even remotely as flavorful, succulent, tender, and just downright delicious, than from that one little farm.
One word. TURDUCKEN.
If everyone became a vegetarian right now, what would we do with all the livestock? Let's take for example cows. Cows as we know them don't exist in nature. Would you turn them all loose? They would become feral and trample and eat all your bean fields. Would you kill them? If you kill them, what would you do with the carcases? Some of them would escape anyway and breed in the wild. They would become pests like deer have become. Eventually predators like wolves and cougars would become more plentiful and they would prowl in the suburbs, killing cats and dogs and even children. How everyone eats is their own choice and I'm not badmouthing vegetarianism, but I'm just throwing out some food for thought.
...I'm sorry but your argument is just plain stupid. It's like a clone of this classic: "if everyone in the world was gay, then humans would die out." I'm not even a vegetarian, nor do I ever plan on being one, and I know your argument makes absolutely no sense whatsofreakingever. In fact it's such a horrible argument that you single-handedly made all carnivores look stupid. Even the COWS are embarrassed.
REPLY TO ttony21: You need to chill out, and you need to learn some manners!! This is an open forum for ideas and opinions ... not an open season on people and their comments.
It IS true though, if everyone in the world were gay there would be no natural forces to keep the human population alive. We'd need intervention in the form of technology. Why use an example that disproves what you're trying to say?
Women who hate gay men are like men who hate little girls because they don't play football well.
Cows take up a lot of space for grazing... we could use that space for more National Parks for all the animals that are being driven to extinction.
IGNORE THE VEGGIE-VORES! They should be on our side! Farm animals like pigs and cows and turkeys all contribute to "global warming" because they exhale carbon dioxide. Every animal eaten saves tons of greenhouse gases over what would have been its lifetime.
Save the planet! Eat meat!
Wrong. Factory farming conditions create greenhouse gases. Allowing animals to be raised naturally on the pasture would eliminate this problem. You need to research the facts before posting.
Dee, sorry but Gozer is correct. Facts or no facts eating meat saves the planet!
It's scary pictures like this that have made me a vegetarian. Try a Tofurky, that pork will kill you young, dudes.
I refuse to slaughter helpless tofus. The turkey shall snuff it this year.
I ran out of tofurken, so I just ate watered down packing peanuts.
Was about the same. Needed salt.
My favorite thing about turkey besides the eating part is taking the neck, organs and hiding them in place like the toilet, shower, and under pillows. hahaha
I usually make a very large turkey in order to have leftovers and send some home with friends and family. I also make two kinds of stuffing – one in the bird and a vegan one. The stuffing can end up as a meal in and of itself. Besides the sauteed onion and celery I've added different things like tart apples, baby corn, pecans, crumbled bacon, chopped cilantro, mandarin oranges, slivered almonds, dried cranberries or cherries, water chestnuts, etc. and have also tried apple juice or other liquids instead of (or in addition to) broth as a binding agent.
We've had everything from Rock Cornish game hens, goose, tempura, ham, duck to crown rib roast for Thanksgiving in the past. I always try to make a turkey at some point in the year though, because we love the traditional fixings and having extra for homemade turkey sandwiches and turkey enchiladas.
We serve our turkey from a platter and don't make a presentation of the whole bird. When I'm preparing it I use whatever spices I think will complement the bird's stuffing as a rub and then cook it upside down and covered in order to keep it moist.. I uncover it the last hour or so and then let it brown and baste it. This method doesn't make for a pretty bird but it does make for a delicious one.
Wishing you all a Happy Thanksgiving!
Anything other than turkey is sacrilege.
Except if it is tofukey.
That picture almost makes me want to go vegan.
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It's not Thanksgiving at my house until we've all watched the video of William S. Burroughs reciting his 'Thanksgiving Prayer'.
I will do this...then give it to the moslems...force feed them you know...LOL!
I have something I'd like to force feed to you. I just made it this morning when I got up.
Bacon and eggs?
Bacon and eggs perhaps?
DEAR GOD WAS IT BACON AND EGGS???????
A Clark bar or a Baby Ruth?
Can I help? Please????????
I love veal, baby cows are the best
Yup, when I go to an Italian restaurant, the veal Parmesan is my first choice. Second is gnocchi.
Grosser than gross, and cruel.
Your face is cruel. BOOOOYYAAAAAAHHH!
They kill em first before baking them. I bet you like lobster, and they get boiled alive.
I like this Piggie a lot. Lets see, I do eat bacon. I eat bulk sausage with eggs for breakfast or as a sandwich at times. I eat Vienna sausages when hunting and working in remote area's. I eat ham slices. I eat Polish Kielbasa at Fairs and we grill it too at home. Nothing wrong with a bag of Pork Rinds either, great snack. So I defiantly making this pig, adding olives for eyes, and maybe a Slim Jim beef stick curled up with toothpicks. A slice of this pig, little mustard on brown bread is going to be the hit of any tail gate party. Thanks! (by the way- been eating all these items for 59 yrs of my life)
We have turkey and usually ham. The turkey has to be there... but only when my dad makes it... and not my grandparents... who seem to have an aversion to flavor...
A pig? That is just grose. Vegetarian communities have known for a LONG time that a pig, no matter what the heck you do to it, is bad for your heart. And if people knew how these pigs, turkeys, etc, was raised, they would never eat another piece of meat again.
Nah... you know what's grose? Mispellings. [sic]
And of course this is bad for vegetarians. That's why you need to build your body's defenses by eating a variety of foods, including meat.
I know how they were raised, how they were slaughtered, and how they were processed.
More bacon, please!
Vegan food is bad for your tongue.
Yuck, it would be like taking beef and making it look like a cow. I personally don't want to eat beef, chicken, pork, etc. that looks like the animal it came from. I have never bought a whole chicken. I just buy the boneless chicken breasts. At least it doesn't resemble a chicken.
Cowards like you should never eat meat.
What??!! You mean meat comes from animals??!! Like, grose! Wouldn't they have to kill the animals? Or do they just, like, harvest pieces off them?
I am now no longer a vegitarian. I must eat this. This picture in now hanging on my wall to remind me that my true nature dictates running through the woods and butchering inferior animals to eat them; perhaps their families too. Further, anybody who thinks that eating this is sin, as former vegitarian I can tell you talking yourself into thinking that meat is sinful or immoral is one of many steps into a self-righteous solitude. A real vegitarian does not want meat which I can understand. A poser vegitarian feels bad about some other aspect of their life and thinks the act of not eating a helpless creature will even the score with....god? Karma? Who knows.
Seriously, lay off the preaching and enjoy your tofurkey for Thanksgiving. But a crusade against meateaters is silly and arrogant. And the meateaters pity with your dry soyburger.
I'm thinking a true vegetarian knows how to spell it.
I have been a vegetarian for over 30 years. I do not preach, and I do not eat tofurky
I l!ck spelling it v-a-g-e-t-a-r-i-a-n.
oh my god. truly amazing, i am in love!
Don't care what the main dish is (this year we're doing king crab) but have to have some stuffing on the side or it's not Thanksgiving to me. As for this "pig", I absolutely LOVE bacon or "meat candy" as some call it but this thing looks totally disgusting!
I'm not sure the family would be up for a pork pig Thanksgiving. Although, the shock value of dropping that gut bomb on the table with my wife's entire family sitting there would almost be worth the fallout. Put me down for two.
We quit doing 'turkey and all the trimmings' about five years ago. I was always the only one capable/willing to cook, and I was never a turkey fan to start with. One post-Thanksgiving evening several years ago, I pondered my general indifference to turkey and the stress of cooking a huge feast alone and decided I was DONE. I now make homemade pizza every Thanksgiving. Crust from scratch, homemade sauce, lots of good toppings. We bake pizzas, drink wine, watch movies, RELAX and give thanks for our wonderful life. No turkey needed!
This looks absolutely horrid. If anyone wants to know an excellent substitution to turkey on thanksgiving, have roast leg of lamb;rosemary and garlic. It is amazing!!! A little on the expensive side but I really love lamb.
So, where's the SPAM? You can't leave out the SPAM....!
You can make the piglets out of a can of spam.
I marked other, I'm actually a #1, but why settle for just one meat? I usually have venison too.
Never thought it through, but your question forced me to. I don't care what we have for dinner on Thanksgiving as long as the family's there. Turkey's good; probably was more appreciated years ago when we couldn't find turkey all year round in the poultry case, but only just before The Day. I've also served a vegetarian 'meat loaf,' a goose, and had a mass-produced hamburger in the airport while waiting to come home at a time when I'd arrive too late for the big feast. The food's great, but not the most important part of the holiday. Happy Thanksgiving, all!
Aren't all pigs made out of pork already?
Apologies if I'm the 8999th person to point that out.
No, I think all PIgs are made out of skin and bones and guts and gross slop that they eat in their pig pens! :( BUT, all pork is Pig i'm sure! LOL...
Sorry, this is a truly sickening concept and the picture you guys have up is even worse.
eewwww, I totally agree!!! Looks SICK! Hannibal Lechter-ish!
We should make a couple thousand of these and send 'em to Al-Queida!
Or Israel
The bacon is a bit greasy for my taste....Im not a huge fan of turkey but its a Thanksgiving tradition.
Instead of a whole turkey, I just put a boneless turkey breast in the crock pot with chicken broth. That way I don't have to eat turkey for a week afterwards but I still get a little bit of turkey whenever I want it.
People contemplating an alternative to turkey should read Calvin Trillin's proposal that spaghetti carbonara become the traditional Thanksgiving dish.
My husband and I served spaghetti carbonara at a breakfast the morning after our wedding because it's bacon, eggs and bread, all in a mouthful and the *perfect* hangover food.
When did we lose our sense of humor??? Lighten up Francis, it's a little food fun!!
Surely, you jest.
No, I do not. And stop calling me Shirley.
@Bill - "food fun"???? Really? How much fun was this for the pig or pigs that were slaughtered to make this grotesque photograph?
and how many soy plants had to die so you could have soy milk (or I should say soy JUICE) on your cereal and in your coffee?
They wouldn't know. They stopped caring when they got a bolt to the head.
For all its appeal, Turkey is a bland, mass-produced bird, often bred inhumanely. Why do people limit themselves when it comes to the Thanksgiving menu? It's a Feast. Once you recognize that, you have a whole world of choices.
Why not make an Italian Feast. Get Ada Boni's excellent Italian Regional Cuisine cookbook and choose 1 region (Tuscany, Calabria, Parma, Sicilian. If you're rich, try Piedmont truffles). Or a healthy, inexpensive, yet exotic Mediterranean Feast? If you can cook Asian, an Asian Feast. Fish, Beef, Pork, lamb or rabbit, maybe even ostrich or buffalo. Meat choices abound. Or you can try a vegetarian feast that if done right, people will remember well for years.
Or if you must have the bird, try a different bird, like Cornish game hens. I don't recommend Goose or goose, it's all dark meet.
Make it more relaxed, focus on a happy gathering, enlist friends to help. Kitchen conversations are the best. Even invite a Turkey and feed it stuffing.
Think outside the Bird-box or ham-hock and truly make your feast the celebration of sensual overload.
Why not just be intelligent enough to realize that all meat and dairy is terrible for your health? It's all about the seasonings and trimmings that make for a great meal. All meat is basically bland and tasteless until we season it to our taste. Textured soy protein has the texture that satifies the human palat, with none of the detrimental effects of growing and eating livestock. The effects of producing meat for our consumption is the #1 cause of pollution and disease in the U.S. and the pharamceutical, chemical, food processing companies...along with the meat and dairy associations applaud us all for participating in their record profit growths and our disease rates. People, wake the f up already!
give it a rest !!!!!!!!!!!!!! eat what YOU want to eat and leave the rest of us alone...............stay out of my business !!!
"Why not just be intelligent enough to realize that all meat and dairy is terrible for your health? It's all about the seasonings and trimmings that make for a great meal. All meat is basically bland and tasteless until we season it to our taste."
Ah. I see what the problem is now. You know you usually cook meat first, right? Steak tartare aside, I've never had a "bland or tasteless" filet mignon or rib eye. Are you swallowing it whole?
The whole "meat is bad for you" is just propaganda from animal rights people. But they've probably never sat down to a tender veal parmigiana, either.
I think, though, that we can ALL agree that the BEST part about meat- especially BBQ meat- is the apoplectic reactions it provokes with vegans and vegetarians. If the trade off is enjoying my meat or living longer with no meat, keep your soy.
"Textured soy protein has the texture that satifies the human palat[sic]"
ROFLMAO So does a filet mignon with a nice little bowl of drawn butter to dip it in.
If something didn't have to die for my meal, it isn't worth eating.
Is there a particular reason you see fit to foist your misery on the rest of us? Go gnaw on your lawn clippings and dead foliage, then get back on your high horse for a trip to STFU Ranch.
I selected "other" because I hate turkey and avoid it at all costs, even at thanksgiving. Usually I just fill up on trimmings, since I am allergic to ham, and that's the other thing served by the family.
I told myself for years...most of my life, that I liked eating meat..that it was necessary for my enjoyment (mainly) and my health (for protein). Well, I was wrong. Even though it may seem to be socially, religiously, pollitically and physically correct to do so, it's quite the opposite in every possible way. Even God, in the Old Testament instructed Daniel and his people not to eat meat so that they would have the strength to prevail.....we have taken the notion that we are above all else to a tragic level in that the animals and animal products we consume are consuming us. We are making the worst decisions and choices, and we are turning and blind eye and intelligent mind to certain catastrophy. Cheers.
Way to cherry pick the Bible beatch. Are you perhaps the same as wellandweller above? BTW's I am not going to be told meat has no taste from a vegface. Its delicious.
About as polar opposite from tofurkey as one can get!
Grab a vat of mayo and about 10 loaves of bread and you have Elvis's favorite meal.
You're right....and he's been dead since 1977...not a good diet.
That may be true about Elvis, but it wasn't just the diet. The vast amount of drugs in his system contributed
And some day, you will be dead, too, so why follow your diet? It's obviously not good for you since it will end in your death.
I used to make turkey chili and cornbread for Thanksgiving.
With skyrocketing cancer, diabetes and heart disease rates along with the exploding obesity of U.S. adults AND children, the only thing this photo really depicts is the foul nature of uneducated people that consume things that eventually consume them. Look in the mirror and around you at all of the fat and diseased people and ask yourselves if you're making intelligent decisions and choices in the ways you go about things....and then watch "Forks Over Knives".
I recommend you got to youtube and look up Epic Meal Time, because they one-upped this...
(by the way, they're Canadian)
Um, I don't think you're supposed to eat the whole thing.
Got judgement?
Just know that the bacon pig has "a sausage body", and that anyone who eats too much of it will too.
My wife switched to cooking a whole roast duck for Thanksgiving 5 years ago and we haven't gone back to turkey ever since .
I like pork and bacon, but every time I have it, I always think of the hypocrisy of people who look down upon other people eating dogs but yet eat pigs even though they can be domesticated and they are generally smarter. It's why I only eat pig once in a blue moon.
Hey, sewer rat may taste like pumpkin pie, but I'd never know 'cause I wouldn't eat the filthy mofo. Pigs sleep and root in s**t. That's a filthy animal. I ain't eat nothin' that ain't got sense enough to disregard its own feces.
hahaha! love that, one of my favorites! I quote it whenever someone tries to get me to eat something I dont want to!
You know what they put on French fries in Holland instead of ketchup?
Mayonnaise.
I've seen 'em do it, man. They f**kin' drown 'em in that s**t.
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"You know what they put on French fries in Holland instead of ketchup?
Mayonnaise.
I've seen 'em do it, man. They f** kin' drown 'em in that s* *t."
Pigs do have the sense, as all animals do, to not lay around in their own feces....the fences we build for them, along with the confined animal feeding operations, give them no other choice. When will stupid humans wake up and realize that we are being eaten by the stupid animals that we eat, through: cancer, heart disease, diabetes and gross obesity? Sometimes we really do get what we deserve.
I agree this is a nastee dish, but if you swear off eating pork because the cleanliness of the animal. Then you need to check your diet. Chicken/Poultry arent exactly the "Felix Unger" of the food chain and some fish eat anything. For me moderation is the key.
But bacon tastes goood, pork chops taste goood.
Actually I prefer beef. I do like the taste of a good burger. Do you know what they call a Quarter Pounder in France?
Hey, do you know what they call a "bacon pig" in France?
Aww someone else who quoted Pulp Fiction, how dare you! Have to admit, that movie was chock full of fun quotes.
When I eat bacon and pork, I don't think about dogs, except for the one usually drooling about two feet away. She likes pork products, too.
Few years back my brother was telling me over the phone of his thanksgiving of a full turkey dinner, family, friends, and how he ate too much, worked to much, etc. Then he asked me about our dinner. I told him about the frozen pizza and beer which was met with silence from his end. After a pause I said "Kind of jealous aren't you" He agreed I had the better thanksgiving. No mess, No Fuss
That wasn't jealousy. It was silent pity.
We have 22 people coming to our table this holiday. We bought a locally raised and butchered turkey but we are also cooking a pork shoulder in the smoker. That will be served with my husband's famous "orange BBQ sauce". We like people to have a choice and we also enjoy the heck out of the leftovers!
Can't be too famous, I've never heard of him.
kevireno, you are dumb. Your attempt at humor failed miserably *facepalm*
This may be one of the ingenius things I have ever seen. BRILLIANT!
eat anything you want but do it with your family
That pig is disgusting.
I agree. I'd skip a Thanksgiving dinner if this plopped on the table. It would make me want to puck just looking at the thing!!
that's just a big bowl of wrong
It's on a tray, Clark. ;-p
I like turkey, especially if it's cooked properly. It just wouldn't be Thanksgiving without it, and I would NEVER consider something else for the day! Christmas is all about turkey and ham, or just ham, but I gotta have turkey at Thanksgiving. We call it Turkey Day!
In the UK goose was once (and may still be, but I ain't fer sure) the standard meal for X-Mas. Good bird but a bit greasy, but that means one really has to over-cook it to dry it out. Tried it once before and was quite delicious, albeit expensive (I forget how much it is per pound; plan on spending ~$50 for a decent size bird). Cheers!
We use rotisserie chicken, formerly from Kroger and now from Costco. Cheap, easy, AND good. We don't have any leftovers unless we buy two, which we often do.
And what do you mean, "too much turkey"? Whachutalking'bout, Willis?? Unless you're literally drowning in it, there's no such thing as too much poultry!!
I have an incubator and do my own birds. Next year(January or February) I will start a hatch of about 20 turkeys. Going to be eating my own, home-raised meal on Thanksgiving 2012. Can't wait.
Myself and my band of slaver/raiders will be looking for your turkey farm. Prepare.
I like to trade off every other year with a nice Kosher Ham.
That's good, old fashioned verbal irony.
I've done turkey dozens of times, all different ways. I'm thinking I might do duck leg confit this time around, just to change things up.
Yuk, this has got all the markings of:
1) Greasy
2) Salty
3) High Cholesterol
4) Bad for you
5) Nasty Looking
Nothing clever about this, just another amateur making a mess of his diet.
You can eat all the junk this you want.
I choose to eat healthy food and I feel and look better, not to mention I might live longer.
The real challenge in cooking today is to create meals that have the following characteristics:
1) No salt, sugar, or fat added during preparation.
2) Low fat and salt content to the proteins selected for the meal.
3) A healthy balance of protein, carbohydrate and minimal fat. (Elimination of animal protein is a plus).
4) Maintain the nutritional value of the products, (raw preferred with vegetables, of minimal cooking)
5) But local and in season products.
Feature a cook that can do that and you will have something to write about.
Bah humbug, you Communist!
If you take all of those things that you mentioned and put them in a bag together do you know what you would have? A BAG OF SUCK!!! Long live the pig!!!
Yeah, and you're going to die from cancer, or ALS or MS or some other neurodegenerative disease or gut-based cancer thanks to your crap diet. Look up rabbit starvation. Read http://www.archevore.com. Fix your health. Animal fat and protein is not to be demonized. People can cure their diabetes by eating only grass fed meat, rare as possible.
you smell like pooh
fried turkeys have been a staple for years – jazz it up a bit with various injections
sake and butter are a favorite have been experimenting with brandy, butter and teriyaki mixtures
the key to a good fried bird is to rub in thoroughly with peanut oil and warm in the oven prior to frying
the other protein is going to be a salute to venison – similar to the pork thing – and there will be lots of very thick cut bacon – and several bottles of single malt whisky – from tasmania
I am German and make a goose every Thanksgiving. The hardest part is getting a fresh one in these parts of the world. :-)
CNN please lose the iReport system and use this article as just one example of badness, this rates next to your iApple and iJobs reporting.
WTH?
"The texture of the "skin" reminds me of objects made from human skin favored by the Nazis. Major gag."
That remark makes you worse than Hitler! (Or does my response make me worse than Hitler?)
/ Godwin's Law
Pretty bad when you misspell your name that badly.....and may I also offer a good cardiologist? Or how about mortician? ...or how about a good song "I got you Babe" from the original cast of BABE the movie. Ok...I'm kidding. Hold the bacon....and I do mean hold the bacon, I am not picking up anything that is staring at me.....unless it is Johnny Depp.
Check out Epic Meal Time's idea: a bird inside of a bird inside of a bird inside of a bird inside of a bird inside of a pig!
LOL I KNEW SUM1 HAD TO POST THIS> YOU SIR ARE THE MAN
Uh what's that in the bottom right corner of the last picture??? A Skull and cross bones??? I think I'll stick with the bird!
...But I don't speak Pig Latin!!!!
For smaller households give Capon a try – it is still fowl and you can stuff it – but it is usually more tender than turkey and not so big that a family of two needs to rent freezer space just to store the leftovers.
Tried making turkey every which way and combination – brined, roasted, bbq rotisserie, turducken (yuk), until one day I fried it. Been deep-frying a whole turkey every year since. Best ever tasted and always takes less than an hour. Although I've been told that the turkey alone is good enough, I always serve another protein (usually rib roast). Been asked to change it up, so this year it's porterhouse steaks. woohoo. As much as we all love bacon, I dont' think the 'pig' would go over well. Not very aesthetically pleasing. eep.
Im from New Orleans and its not Thanksgiving without Gumbo. I expect to have Gumbo before anything else.
I'm from new orleans too and I agree, but I want to add beef rice dressing. Can't have thanksgiving without it in the south.
You can use beef broth instead of boullion cubes.
1/4 cup oil
1/4 cup flour
1 lb ground chuck
1 onion, chopped
1 bell pepper, chopped
1/4 cup dried parsley flakes
3 beef bouillon cubes dissolved in 2 cups hot water
Salt and red pepper
2 cups cooked rice
Green onion tops
Make a roux with the oil and flour. Set aside. Brown ground chuck, onions, bell pepper, parsley flakes, and salt and pepper. Add dissolved bouillon cubes and roux. Stir well and simmer 30 minutes. Mix rice and green onion tops green onion tops into meat mixture and serve.
Sounds delicious, thanks for sharing that! I do have to say that I am from the broth-before-bouillon camp, and there are many brands of excellent broths available in cartons now. Unless you're one of those folks who keeps the bones from roasts and makes their own- that's really the way to go.
Thanks again!
That would go great with Turducken, which is what my family has every year since we had it in Louisiana.
Know what ya mean but I'm from New Mexico and It isn't Turkey day without a big ol' pot of posole. With fresh , homemade tortillas. I'm gettin' hungry.
Thanks for making me NOT FEEL BAD about Being a Vegetarian at Thanksgiving this year. That BACON PIG made me Remember Why I Don't Eat that Disgusting BURNT DEAD ANIMAL Crap anymore.
Are you kidding? All that bacon looks amazing. I love burnt animals. They taste great.
Shut up hippie! BACON IS DELICIOUS!!!
The self righteous vegetarian couldn't pass up on opportunity to tell everyone how perfect he is. I promise you that pig tastes 10 times better than any tofu or veggie burger that you can muster up. I saw a t-shirt one time that makes me think of you. It read: vegetarian: ancient tribal slang for villiage idiot who cannot hunt or fish. It's fine to be a vegetarian if it makes you happy but nobody reading this really cares, we are happy carnivores.
The human body is that of an omnivore. Vegans are vitamin deficient. That's why they look sick or discoloured all the time because they are lacking some serious nutrition. Some baby died a few months back in the news because his vegan parents refused to feed him meat. Now they're probably in prison for neglect.
Vegetarian does not always mean 'vegan'. Lots of vegetarians get their protein from eggs and dairy. I wonder if bacon would be as appealing to meat eaters if they could personally visit the places where it's made, or had to make it themselves for that matter.
Actually, nothing you just said is true. That baby died because the parents were absolute morons, not because they were vegan. Plus, you don't feed meat to a baby anyway so you're actually wrong about why the baby died as well. Also wrong about vitamin deficiency. I am a vegan and I am nowhere near vitamin deficient in any way. And I actually keep track of what vitamins I am consuming, and get regular blood tests to make sure all my levels are okay. I highly doubt most "omnivores", especially people who would eat this weird pig concoction, are that dedicated to their vitamin intake. Idiot.
@zumajim I don't really care how bacon is made. It tastes good, so I eat it. Same with anything else. Where it comes from or how it's made really doesn't matter if it's yummy.
Ever eaten Soylent Green?
Heh-heh.
Katie, no one living a healthy life requires "regular blood tests". Sounds like you unconsciously understand what risks you are taking by being unhealthy.
for every portions of meat you skip, we'll eat three times as much
That is absolute BS, of course.
"... that disgusting burnt dead animal crap at all."
Well for starters, crap is not for eating....
Explains alot tho'. ;)
he ll, s/b @ .... never mind
Ha ha, my food pOOps on your food!
Well, it's a strange, hasty and difficult meal to eat *living* burnt animals, oneStarman...
I have stayed away from Turkey for many years due to the thoughts of the mass killing of them. They may look and act stupid in people's eyes but they still feel pain and everything else that goes along living on this planet. I don't like the thought of human beings probably enjoying the killing of any animal (don't tell me they don't) I would think a couple of marbles are missing for this to be your job. If they're not missing @ the start there is potential! Bout 2 yrs ago I bought a small turkey for the holiday for my mother's sake and felt terrible. I won't do it again for anyone's sake. I just feel like everybody just gorges themselves @ certain times of the years because "it's a holiday" and the symbolic of it all. What really finished me is when the idiot Sarah Palin was interviewed and in the back round there was a guy shoving a turkey's head in the machine to decapitate it and you see the animal kicking. How disgusting ! BOTH of THEM! Poor turkey
7,000,000,000 people on the planet now. How do you propose to feed them all?
I don't!
So just eat some Tofurkey and be done with it. Or else make some new bean & grain dish you've never tried before. Indian and Middle Eastern cuisine has provided a boundless territory for my own culinary explorations!
And there's always groat cakes (heavy on the 30-weight), Laughing Cow cheese, maraschino cherries, mescaline...
Awww, the bleeding heart liberal!!! That is so cute. I guess you never stopped to think that every animal that we eat meets this same fate. Slaughtering of animals is not a pretty thing and that is why it is not celebrated. But whether a hunter butchers his catch or the Tyson company rips the head off of turkeys, they all meet the same end. So what if we didnt have Thanksgiving, everybody still has to eat. They would eat chicken, or beef or fish and those animals are slaughtered as well. You position makes no sense.
I'm actually kinda disgusted. I like pork and bacon and meat in general, but this kinda pushes me the other way.
That was my thought exactly!
We should start dropping these on the Taliban.
LMAO!!!
awesome!
I really love turkey, but don't care what gets served at the holiday meal. I have no qualms with preparing a turkey at any other point throughout the year.
http://choperena.blogspot.com/2009/11/fakesgiving-third.html
Oh! And the piggy looks yummy, but might benefit from some ingredient modifications.
That is just nasty and too early in the morning to look at. Could care less about the turkey but I usually brine the breast for others. The sides with sweet potato and pumpkin pie make me happy.
Turgooduccochiqua...google it yummy
All that AND a side of bacon?! yum-freakin'-ee!
Shall I bring the white or the red wine? Pfft, I'll bring a case of both!
While the dark meat is almost palatable if smothered in gravy, I pretty much would eat any other meat before I pick Turkey. And when I'm momma and I get to make Thanksgiving dinner, there won't be a turkey in sight. For now, though...I just eat lots of sides and have a small serving of Turkey to see if it was any better than the last time (so far, no).
use a brine..makes the white meat taste like dark meat and the dark meat heavenly..oh and don't overcook the thing like all our parents/grandparent do.....I mean seriously 8-10 hours for a 20 lb turkey..what where you thinking granny????????
Growing up, it was turkey and ham at Thanksgiving. Once my husband's family joined our family, it's now turkey and duck (and sometimes ham and sausages). We are definitely thankful for our meat!
We have had turkey sometimes (pomegranate glazed, citrus scented turkey and the like – NEVER "just" bird!) - but it's not a requirement for my household. We have had standing rib roast (yum!), amazing T-bone steaks, a vegetarian pizza rustica from the Vegetarian Epicure cookbook, and a host of other amazing foods.
The real "point" of thanksgiving is, for me, taking time to appreciate the many blessings and good people in my life - I try to do this every day, but Thanksgiving Day is the "official" you-will-formally-acknowledge-these day. The food is nice as a way to call a bunch of those wonderful people together, but it's very important to me that the dinner not obscure the reason for the day. That's a major reason why I try not to get too stuck on one menu that is repeated every year so that it becomes the focus. I LOVE Thanksgiving Day, mostly because I do get to spend it with my favorite people.
Gross.
That thing looks like a heart attack waiting to jump on somebody. My BP went up just looking at the pictures.
Lol....It's very hard to feel empathy for a person's sad state of health when they knowingly and willfully go out of their way to eat like this picture (substitute seasoning for bad humor and taste as depicted here) suggest. Watch the award winning 2011 documentary "Forks Over Knives" and you'll see why the animals are eating people as fast as people are eating them with Cancer, Diabetes and Heart Disease, and of course, along with U.S. Obesity rates in adults AND children growing exponentially each year. It would be a more ironic photo opportunity if it depicted a human's body covered in diseases from eating the pig. If you enjoy eating meat that is diseased and then tainted with antibiotics in order to just get the animal to processing still alive, then go ahead...afterall, it's your health in the end....or not.
So in your mind, the diseased meat should not be eaten even though when cooked to guidelines, any pathogens would be eliminated. That makes a ton of sense. I bet more people have died eating cantelope in the past ten years then eating steak.
No one asked you for sympathy.
My husband and I aren't big fans of turkey. We do Ham for Christmas so our tradition has become to grill ribeyes and serve that with King Crab legs. Its our favorite meal so we have been doing that for the last 8 years.
My favorite Thanksgiving is still the year my husband and I snuck out of my sister's home right before the meal and went to a Chinese Restaurant, then a movie. Sometimes ya just gotta take a hard left off of the road of Family Tradition.
Why did you sneak out? Was the family fighting or something?
Awesome! My husband and I did this at Christmas time – our first Christmas together, we were in LA, and we'd been inundated with his various family parts for days (difficult!). We slipped out and took the rental car for a drive to the beach - Then we went out for Thai food together. It was beautiful.
being a Canadian..saying Christmas and going to the beach in the same paragraph is just sooo wrong
You and your hubby rock! I love my family and all, but sometimes you just have to run like the wind .... !
Tried serving something else one time and I have gotten a raft of S**T over it ever since and that was 20 years ago. I try to serve some interesting sides or maybe just a small turkey and an alternative main course.
EPIC MEALTIME! BACON STRIPS... BACON STRIPS... A DEEP FRIED!!!
Bison roast and venison steaks (or venison stew if the weather is really bad). the turkey is there, but it isn't the centerpiece. One year we made pizza: 5 meats, 6 cheeses, 4 veggies and served with microbrews.
Daaayyuum, I'm hanging out at Kims pad. I bet that pizza was awesome.
Can I come over?
make the venison into sausage and add it to your stuffing..also venison summer sausage and cheese tray..your good to go
Bison roast and venison steak sounds/tastes good any time of the year, IMNSHO! But considering how pricey they can be for me (not a hunter, so no venison in the freezer) special occasions are warranted. I've always wanted to try ground venison chili, a la LBJ, but have to make do with either ground bison or, to keep my response topical, ground dark turkey. Delicious either way!
Damn, now I'm really hungry, and it's getting near lunchtime...
YUM! Maybe we'll make pizza this year...
My kids grew up outside of the US. Elswhere, american Thanksgiving is not celebrated, but by ex-Pats. Though we had the best turkeys in the world available, the essence cooking it for the holiday came in, at best, second best.
Being a frugal mother, yet still wanting to impart a sense of tradition, I cooked for my family a) what they actually would eat, and b) as close to the Ami tradition that I could. Turkey does not, for me, define the holiday. Attitude does.
Sage & celery buns are traditional for my family. My kids could care less about turkey, though my daughter does want goose with red cabbage and dumplings for Christmas. We can follow the "rules", but forge our own paths.
Honey brined turkey and a spiral sliced ham...mashed potatoes with celery root..and dressing(not stuffing.. keep it out of the birds crotch..barf!) but it all falls to the wayside when it comes to the PIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love turkey, smoked, deep fried or roasted, but I eat it year round so it's not just a holiday thing. I have done lobster, and thick ribeye steaks for Thanks giving. Also the deep fried prime-rib was a big hit. I might have to make the little bacon pig this year, as we all know "pork fat rules".
i like turkey, but have been dying to try a turducken for like forever!!! BTW, that bacon pig gives me a stroke just looking at it!
actually turduken is over-rated..everything just tastes like duck. I don't mind duck but better off just eating the duck
I ain't eatin' anything that has the word 'turd' embedded in it along with a duck.
LMAO! You and me both!
I could skip the turkey except for two important reasons. First, one of my favorite dishes is stuffing cooked inside the bird. And the other is that the turkey drippings and giblets form the base for our family gravy recipe. We make a lot of gravy.
I know, right? Lots and lots of graaavvvvyy!
I dont like turkey. Nice slow roasted pork or beef is so much tastier.
true..but you eat that 373 days of the year..leave turkey for thanksgiving and Christmas....rest of the year..bring on the Brisket!!!!!
It's not Christmas without ham. Turkey can have one day.
the other 373 days a year? Where is this planet you call home?
lol gueess got to exited about the bacon and slipped a key..hahahahah
I'm laughing so hard at my desk right now that my boss came and asked me what was so funny. Hilarious!
Oh HELL yes!
pretty disgusting!
At my thanksgiving I laways enjoy a delicious vegetarian dinner. no need to kill any animal just for pleasure.
I had a tofu "turkey" one year that was pretty darn good.
Did it look like this one?
Biggest laugh I had in a long time.
Hahahaha! Hilarious! No, actually it was more like a loaf.
So, according to vegan logic, it's ok to kill helpless plants, fruits and vegetables, but not animals? Everything dies, might as well make something tasty out of it.
ditto. I've tried to explain the relatives that it's difficult for a vegetarian to participate in a feast where the center of attention is a giant, dead (genetically malformed) bird. They always say there will be lots of vegetables I can eat, but that misses the point ...and then, of course, what passes for vegetables in the typical American Thanksgiving meal is usually cooked-to-death glop. Even back when I ate meat the Thanksgiving gorge fest was repulsive to me. I will be having a light and healthy, vegetarian, grain-based dish this year. We usually incorporate the real traditional foods - corn and squash.
trust me your vegetable crops kill as much if not more wildlife then that turkey..of course it is always funny that vegetarians actually kill the cute fluffy ones that live in the wild..at least us meat eaters grwo our animals for one reason..to eat them.....you guys just pay farmers to chop up the little furry bunny rabbit babies in their sweet little burrows..you monsters!!!!!!
Fiona, are you saying you are uncomfortable going to Thanksgiving feasts because you're a vegetarian...? Do you expect everyone else to change their diet and tradition for your comfort, or do you just avoid socializing with meat eaters?
It has also been scientifically proven, and the data confirmed, that plants have feelings both of positive and negative. Plants have fear responses as well. It is time for you vegetarians to open minds and evolve. Life feeds on Life. PERIOD.
geeze JuLowe..i was about to go cut my lawn..wtf..that's got to terrify the little grass......
Hmm, never heard of that. Gotta google that on the internets and see what I see.
Have you ever heard a carrot scream when you grated it? Not a pretty sound.
I couldn't hear it over my own screaming when I scraped my knuckles on the grater.
Oh, Andrew, put a cork in it. I decline invitations to meat fests because the sight and smell of meat (and the gluttons scarfing it down) makes me gag. What the hel* would I expect anyone to change their eating habits to suit my tastes? You are assigning your own selfish mode of thinking to me. My point is that meat people just don't get how repulsive the standard Thanksgiving meal is for a true vegetarian or vegan. The smells, the sounds, the gluttony. The joy of sharing a meal together with family. In my long experience that is more Hallmark-card fiction than fact. There is a reason so many movies have been made about disastrous holiday gatherings. Tension and turkey. Yum, yum.
Vegetarians and vegans can be gluttons too. Just sayin'
man you must be the life of these family meals.......staring with your hatefilled eyes on your "gluttunous" relatives with all their disgusting chewing and slurping.....seriously i hate broccolli but you don't see me glancing disgust at people when they eat it.
now perhaps your family lacks basic table manners and that is your problem..but most of us civilized meat eaters slowly chew and eat our our animals..while picturing them alive and screaming in our minds.......mmmmmmmm squeel little piggy..
LOL! You are so right. It is disgusting to watch people overeat because "that's what Thanksgiving is for." (My brother's theory...) It is NOT what it is for in MY estimation.
I have meat eaters in my household, though I am predominantly veg (for 29 years though not vegan). I cook meat dishes for others; it doesn't bother me at all (a legacy of living in the "third world" with significant food insecurity in my 20s). I would never presume that others would change their diets to match mine, though I have often served vegetarian food - yes, even at Thanksgiving. My meat guys have not even noticed there wasn't meat when I've done it. :-)
Gluttony and the fake "Aren't-we-a-happy-and-thankful-family?-Be-nice." holiday celebrations are the PITS. Funny in comedies – NOT in real life. I'm with you on this one.
"... how repulsive the standard Thanksgiving meal is for a true vegetarian or vegan."
Sounds like you're saying that vegetarians & vegans not repulsed by the standard Thanksgiving meal aren't true vegs. Bet you're drinking the wrong kool-aid on that front.
"Delicious vegetarian dinner"? From my point of view, that is just oxy-moronic. Meat is Murder? Yes. Tasty, tasty murder.
Save a Cow....Eat a Vegetarian
But spare me the vegmite/marmite!
IF LAS VEGAS ALLOWED ME TO BET, I COULD MAKE A LOT OF MONEY. MY BET IS ,THIS PERSON RECIPE BELONG TO A FAT AS=
My bet would be that you never made it past first grade to learn where the Caps Lock is.
my bet is he wasn't jewish
Or if he is, he's VERY Reform...
I have been enjoying Turduckens the past few Thanksgiving holidays. The variety is awesome!
Some Pig, but not as cool as the TurBacon on Epic Meal Time:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/ximgpv_turbaconepic-thanksgiving-epic-meal-time_fun
Filthy disgusting monster gluttons.
Jeezus Chryst people, ever hear of roast beef? Pretty scary to see that greater than 70% of you think that you have to have some nasty turkey every year. If you're going to go to all the trouble, eat what you want!
I guess people want Turkey, genius.
70%? Source please.
Just a guess, but I'm going to assume it's the sum of the first three pro-turkey categories in the poll attached to the very article you supposedly read.
See the article above where they have all those stats? right there.
Pull over and sign this ticket for not having a sense of humor. Yes I read it. Move along now. That is all.
Calling someone out about stats has nothing to do with humor. Snarky begets snarky.
Second offense gets you Eatocracy time out. Move along now. That is all.
I have never liked Turkey, Ham, mashed potatoes, cranberries, stuffing, gravey or any of the stuff assosiatied with Thanksgiving. Besides its really about just being thankful and celebrating with family & Friends, which seems to be what everyone else in the family insists on having. So they have their FOWL or PIG and I have Lobster or King Crab Legs with either Filet Mignon or Prime Rib and everyone looks at my plate and askes for a bite.
Heh, now that's the way to do it! Too many "turkey-slaves" on here. :)
My family almost always does turkey for Thanksgiving, unless it's a small group (three or less), then we do cornish hens. Pork is saved for the Big Day: Christmas! We have ALWAYS done a Christmas ham (salt cured, Dad's fav). Christmas is never a formal meal – we pop the pig in the oven around midnight and cook it slow, wake up to the whole house smelling wonderful (and we always left ham sandwiches and beer for Santa; Dad swore he was sick of milk and cookes by the time he got to our house.) Then we just munch on ham and the other goodies for the rest of the day. Thanksgiving is the (only) formal meal of the year, all the trimmings and Mom's awesome totally from scratch cornbread dressing!
"we always left ham sandwiches and beer for Santa; Dad swore he was sick of milk and cookes by the time he got to our house." Haha! That's the best. Thanks for sharing!
"we always left ham sandwiches and beer for Santa; Dad swore he was sick of milk and cookes by the time he got to our house." That's awesome. Maybe I can get my son to start a tradition of ham sandwiches and beer for me, I mean, Santa. :D
I hate turkey. If possible, I have duck or goose on holidays.
Some of the posters on this particular column must be "mentally challenged" or else they are trying to be funny. But they are not. I am of Czech descent. We almost never had Turkey, we had Duck, Goose, or game. Thanksgiving is about giving thanks for living in this great country. If some of you are so callous that you think you have to be cutesy about family customs....then God help us. What a bunch of nitwits.
blah- blah- blah- blah -blah- I'm -a -nitwit- blah- blah- blah- blah- blah
callous: unfeeling – insensitive – heartless – hard. Huh?
Where is it written that Thanksgiving has to be a solemn occasion? Many family traditions across America are forged in humor. As far as the comments here, what is so offensive about people being in a good mood and expressing it in silly ways? They're having fun, killjoy. Get a grip.
Since it sounds like your sense of humor was relocated to your a$$, go find someone to give it a good swift kick so it'll re-lodge itself in your heart where it belongs. And have an ice day.
@Maladee. you just made my Day !!!! Thank you for the laugh..
For my family, Thanksgiving is about sharing, celebrating and giving thanks for family, friends and a good life. We have many family traditions that we enjoy together, it's part of getting together – and yes, sometimes the traditions are silly – but who cares?!?! Not sure what your problem is, but lighten up!!
And here I thought Thanksgiving was all about being glad that we lifted the native cuisine off the Indians before we slaughtered 95% of them.
Mmmmmmm.... bacon
... snort, drool ...
That's exactly how that heifer sounds when she stuffs that fat piehole of hers.
Cornish hens or crown roast.
Here's a best of both worlds solution, my mother-in-law taught us to wrap the turkey in bacon and roast the bird that way. Although you don't get crispy skin, you will get the most amazingly moist turkey ever. And the best, we peel the bacon off the turkey when its done and serve it as an appetizer. Not to mention how wonderful the house smells. Try it, you'll love it!
If you put slices of salt pork instead of bacon on the turkey and cover with wet mesh and foil you get crispy skin and super moist turkey – even the breast. Also, it is not as salty as bacon.
What an awesome idea. Thank you!
Care to share the recipe, or does it vary from year to year?
Do you need more than the description given? Yikes!
don't do it!!!!! bacon tastes like crap if eaten off any poultry..cook it that way..remove bacon for last 45 minutes skin will brown...please don't eat that bacon it will be the worst bacon you have ever eaten.
if need be cook up a seperate side of bacon.but please don't eat the turket infused bacon..you will regret it
The only regrets we have ever gotten were from my nephew who got stuck in traffic and couldn't dive into the bowl of very crsip and tasty bacon. We actually do cook up a very small side of bacon just to keep the peace.
I LOVE LOVE LOVE Turkey! But the last 4 years that my fiance and I have been together he tries to talk me into cooking something else. I of course refuse because I've finally perfected cooking a perfectly juicy bird no matter the size and everyone including him rave over the tryptogoodness everytime I make it. So we have a compromise: He makes his amazingly delicious ham in addition to the turkey and and everyone is happy!
Fiance for four years and he still hasn't married you? I guess you really do love turkies.
We always have turkey AND a pork product so you get the best of both worlds.
since it was just Mom and me growing up, a whole turkey would have been a huge overkill. So we started our own tradition instead, crab sauce and raviolli and/or spaghetti, and we'd see whatever new James Bond movie had come out (since they always seem to come out around Thanksgiving), if no new Bond was available we'd see some other action flick. it's great and i miss doing that sometimes!
We have a crown pork roast – its delicious and simple to make. Thanksgiving is always a blend of flavors for my family – we have vegetarians, vegans, meat eaters, and a mix of everything so we serve lots of different dishes. Its my favorite holiday.... yum!
One year, it was just going to be the two of us. We opted to go to a movie then came home and cooked two Swanson Hungry Man Turkey TV Dinners. By far, not the best Thanksgiving meal we ever had, but it was fun. What made the meal memorable was that the cleanup took less than a minute!
Typical American solution to meager cooking skills, a coronary obstruction bomb if I ever saw one. When I was 17 years old my abuela taught me to fix and cook a turkey so tender and juicy, you can shake the meat off the bone, and I'm a man. You can fix a turkey to taste like smoked ham, beef, oregano-pepper or any combination of herbs that you've heard of, it's not exactly rocket science. Every year my Texas son-in-law sends me two plane tickets for Thanksgiving and puts us up for a week, just so I can do the turkey and stuffing at his house for the big bash. Turkey is much better for you than a fake processed-meat pig. Learn to cook, folks.
Jorge, do you think you could show just the slightest bit of reverence?
He can't, especially when he posts as Justadude
Georgie, your ignorance is staggering. And your hatred towards America and Americans is showing. Go cook some rice and beans instead.
Clint Cantwell is a competion-winning cook. You know, the kind of cooking that was perfected by Americans in the South. Known as BBQ. I guess making a taco and torta are haute cuisine in your cabeza, huh? Jack donkey.
Your reply strongly resembles one that an arrogant, jingoist, racist twit might make.
I'm American and can and have cooked fabulous turkeys, or so I have been told. I just don't care for turkey (or poultry in general) and don't eat it myself. This year I'm doing a beef tenderloin because I cannot bear another turkey. I do have to make the traditional stuffing, or the family would kill me, so I'll have to buy some poultry to make homemade stock as that is what truly makes the stuffing!
One year my mother cut the drumsticks off the turkey before it was roasted. Her reasoning was that no one ate the drumsticks anyway. The resulting 'bird' was visually so depressing that we spent the entire meal complaining that the turkey didn't taste right, My brother went so far as to put a blindfold on "so I don't have to look at the sacrilege." My poor mother was nearly in tears by the end of the meal and of course then we all felt bad. It took us the rest of the day to atone for our bratty behavior but to this day, someone always remembers to mention the "year of the legless turkey" during Thanksgiving dinner. We all have a good laugh about it.
Hahaha! Thanks for sharing!
fish-monger??
Well, I can't say for sure, but as a Christian, I assume the worst.
Yea, Yea, Yea...Turkey is the "traditional" meat for T Day, but I've fixed rabbit, goose, duck, ham and even some vegan dishes for T Day and noone complained at all. Over the years, I've found that it's not about what you fix. It's about who shows up to share it with. This is a family holiday, so as long as you are sharing your fixin's with your family and/or some very close friends then the "bacon pig" above is as apporpriate as anything else you might want to fix.
Mmmmm, rabbit fricasee with beer, bay leaves, shallots, baby carrots and snow peas, roast goose with a garlic butter basting and stuffed with dirty wild rice, ham cooked in wine, pineapple juice and Frangelico, peppered with cloves...
It's not my favorite, but it's tradition. It's me hubby's favorite, so it's what we have.
I don't care what we have as long as the family gets together.
MMMMMMM bacon!
Homer!? Well, hi diddly ho neighborino!
That looks....... really good and really gross at the same time. Maybe it's the whole trying to make it look like a real pig that kind of freaks me out haha
I don't see what the problem is though.... if you want turkey AND a pig, get both. At my Thanksgivings we always have turkey, honey baked ham, and sometimes a goose. Oh and always a lasagna or baked ziti for our Italian family traditional touch. Needless to say we have leftovers... mmm
I think the freakiest thing is that it has eyes. Well, that and the expressive angle of the ears.
The texture of the "skin" reminds me of objects made from human skin favored by the Nazis. Major gag.
(since my first response was mis-directed):
"The texture of the "skin" reminds me of objects made from human skin favored by the Nazis. Major gag."
That remark makes you worse than Hitler! (Or does my response make me worse than Hitler?)
/ Godwin's Law
You seriously make a habit of checking out items that Nazis made out of human skin? And you call this picture "major gag?" Might wanna check out your hobbies, first.
Well pigs do have a lot in common with humans... people probably even taste like pork... wonder what human bacon tastes like?