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This isn’t a cake in the traditional sense of the term because it’s cooked with ground turkey breast, yams, and mashed potatoes. But Amy Wisniewski’s concoction is shaped like a cake, so you might as well serve it for dessert. You can find the recipe at the link.
Link via Geekologie | Photo: Amy Wisniewski
Alex may think his turkey cake looked like poo, but it has a long way to go to make it to this collection of Thanksgiving turkey cakes gone wrong. Link
Whoa! Where did the time go? I’d like to wish everybody a Happy Thanksgiving! Thank you for reading Neatorama – the blog won’t be as fun without its loyal readers and commenters 
(My wife and I lovingly call the cake above, which we got from the local supermarket, our Thanksgiving poo cake. I think that’s supposed to be a turkey or something. Oh, and it was surprisingly good!)
We all know about the Puritans and the Indians, and we love to stuff ourselves with turkey and cranberry sauce. But how much do you really know about this popular holiday? For instance:
Although the official proclamation was to celebrate Thanksgiving on every fourth Thursday of November, Franklin Delano Roosevelt actually changed the date to the third Thursday of March from 1939-1941. He made the change on the assumption that the economy would benefit from a longer holiday shopping season. Public outrage, however, soon changed that and Thanksgiving was back on schedule ever since.
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Photo: Kossy@FINEDAYS [Flickr]
Today, the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, is traditionally the busiest travel day of the year in the United States. And if you’ve ever flown commercial airlines, then you’ve probably got a horror story or two.
So, let me ask you this question: what is the worst airline you’ve ever flown and why?
I’ve flown pretty much all major carriers (both domestic and international) and there’s only one airline I’ll never ever fly again but that’s another story. I want to hear yours.
Drive sober in Salinas, California, and Tuesday could be your lucky night. At a certain DUI checkpoint, some motorists who pass through will be awarded a free turkey!
This is the seventh year Salinas police have added a giveaway to the Thanksgiving week DUI checkpoint.
It’s become so popular, Salinas police are now asking drivers not to go through the checkpoint more than once just to try to win a turkey.
Police keep the location secret ahead of set up.
The turkeys were donated by police, businesses, and private citizens. Link -via J-Walk Blog
The annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade rolls through New York every year, but how much do you really know about the annual production? Today’s Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss will test your memory ahead of the big event. I scored a miserable 20%! Surely you can do better. Link
This 1936 ad for Camel cigarettes encourages you to stop and smoke between each course of your Thanksgiving feast. Link to Flickr page (full size). -via Metafilter
Can’t decide what kind of pie to serve after Thanksgiving dinner? Make them all in one pie pan! Cakespy at Serious Eats experimented with pecan, apple, and pumpkin pie recipes to make this triple threat. The best results came from the pie divided into sections, as seen in the picture. The recipes are included. Link -via Unique Daily
This recipe for turkey stuffing calls for “18 White Castle hamburgers (no pickles), chopped into 1-inch pieces,” (or you can substitute bread, but it won’t be the same). I suppose if you live in the southern part of the US, you could substitute Krystals. Both brands are commonly called sliders. The recipe is a part of Thanksgiving for Chicago chefs Chris and Jill Barron, who share their Thanksgiving cooking schedule. Link to story. Link to recipe. -via Boing Boing
(image credit: Flickr user DaddyPlus5)
Family Schmamily … I’m Here For The Turkey – $9.95
This Thanksgiving, after fighting the long lines at the airport, navigating the parking lot that used to be called freeways, and defusing family tension at the dinner table, everyone could use a little humor. So wear this T-shirt and hope that your family sees the humor in it and give you an extra serving of turkey!
From the Neatorama Shop: Link
Design by the talented Chris Murphy
Did your stuff yourself so much on Thanksgiving that your pants no longer fit you? Well, don’t worry – here’s a gadget that will solve your problem:
When your waistband feels too snug, reach for the Waistband Stretcher. You don’t have to get rid of your favorite jeans, skirts or slacks thanks to this simple waist-band stretching device that lets you add from 1-5 inches (depending on size of garment) to the waist of cotton pants, skirts, and shorts. Just moisten the garment’s waistband, insert the waistband stretcher, extend the garment to the desired size and let dry – voila, a more comfortable fit!
Photo: brickfrenzy [Flickr]
Thanksgiving may be over, but turkey-related madness continues! Here’s a weaponized turkey mecha that is both whimsical and technically elaborate by Adrian Drake of Brickfrenzy: Link – via The Brothers Brick
In a recent Jello mold competition, some of the entries were mighty interesting. This one won third place over all, it is a pumpkin pie and twinkie turkey. Can you say yummy?
Link Via BoingBoing
Forget the turducken, here’s the turgooduccochiqua by Wil Shipley of Call Me Fishmeal blog. It’s a quail inside a cornish game hen inside a duck inside a chicken inside a turkey inside a goose. Oh, and with bacon between the layers.
Photo: wjsdelicous [Flickr]
Can you identify which bird is which by looking at the fowl strata?
Photo: wjsdelicious [Flickr]
The entire Flickr photoset: Link | CNN video calling it a "hoax" (Oops!) – via reddit.
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
Photo: Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York (c. 1932) via Swapatorium
design:related blog has a neat post about some fabulous vintage photos of past Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parades. For photos of the very first balloons that appear in the parade (back in 1927), go here: Link – via BuzzFeed
This papercraft turkey is not only cute, but it also would make a great centerpiece. There’s also a cute pilgrim and indian couple to download. Get yours free here.
If you can’t make it home to Thanksgiving dinner, here’s an adorable set up to make you feel nice and cozt anyway. Can you tell what it is? Here’s a hint, it’s a cake in a cup form. Yup, it’s a cup cake Thanksgiving dinner.
AdoptaTurkey.com recently threw a Thanksgiving dinner for their feathered friends. They are hoping that seeing these birds in action will win your heart and change your plans for this Thanksgiving by adopting a bird instead of eating one. Regardless of your opinion on eating turkey, you have to admit this turkey dinner is pretty darn cute.
Via Cute Overload
The following is reprinted
from The
Best of The Best of Uncle John's Bathroom Reader.
First Thanksgiving 1621 by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, via Library
of Congress
It's one of American history's most familiar scenes: A small group of
Pilgrims prepare a huge November feast to give thanks for a bountiful
harvest and show their appreciation to the Indians who helped them survive
their first winter. Together, the Pilgrims and the Indians solemnly sit
down to a meal of turkey, pumpkin pie, and cranberries.
Just how accurate is this image of America's first Thanksgiving? Not
very, it turns out. Here are some common misconceptions about the origin
of one of our favorite holidays.
MYTH: The settlers at the first Thanksgiving were called Pilgrims.
THE TRUTH: They didn't even refer to themselves as Pilgrims
- they called themselves "Saints." Early Americans applied the
term "pilgrim" to all of the early colonists; it wasn't
until the 20th century that it was used exclusively to describe the folks
who landed on Plymouth Rock.
MYTH: It was a solemn, religious occasion.
THE TRUTH: Hardly. It was a three-day harvest festival that included
drinking, gambling, athletic games, and even target shooting with English
muskets (which, by the way, was intended as a friendly warning to the
Indians that the Pilgrims were prepared to defend themselves.)
MYTH: It took place in November.
THE TRUTH: It was some time between late September and the middle
of October - after the harvest had been brought in. By November, said
historian Richard Erhlich, "the villagers were working to prepare
for winter, salting and drying meat and making their houses as wind resistant
as possible."
MYTH: The Pilgrims wore large hats with buckles on them.
THE TRUTH: None of the participants were dressed anything like
the way they've been portrayed in art: the Pilgrims didn't dress in black,
didn't wear buckles on their hats or shoes, and didn't wear tall hats.
The 19th-century artists who painted them that way did so because they
associated black clothing and buckles with being old-fashioned.
MYTH: They ate turkey ...
THE TRUTH: The Pilgrims ate deer, not turkey. As Pilgrim
Edward Winslow later wrote, "For three days we entertained and feasted,
and [the Indian] went out and killd five deer, which they brought to the
plantation." Winslow does mention that four Pilgrims went "fowling"
or bird hunting, but neither he nor anyone else recorded which kinds
of birds they actually hunted - so even if they did eat turkey, it was
just a side dish.
"The flashy part of the meal for the colonists was the venison,
because it was new to them," says Carolyn Travers, director of research
at Plimoth Plantation, a Pilgrim museum in Massachusetts. "Back in
England, deer were on estates and people would be arrested for poaching
if they killed these deer ... The colonists mentioned venison over and
over again in their letters back home."
Other foods that may have been on the menu: cod, bass, clams, oysters,
Indian corn, native berries and plums, all washed down with water, beer
made from corn, and another drink the Pilgrim affectionately called "strong
water."
A few things definitely weren't on the menu, including pumpkin
pie - in those days, the Pilgrims boiled their pumpkin and ate it plain.
And since the Pilgrims didn't yet have flour mills or cattle, there was
no bread other than corn bread, and no beef, milk, or cheese. And the
Pilgrims didn't eat any New England lobsters, either. Reason: They mistook
them for large insects.
MYTH: The Pilgrims held a similar feast every year.
THE TRUTH: There's no evidence that the Pilgrims celebrated
again in 1622. They probably weren't in the mood - the harvest had been
disappointing, and they were burdened with a new boatload of Pilgrims
who had to be fed and housed through the winter. |
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and mind-boggling articles from everything they have written
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Since 1988, the Bathroom Reader Institute has published a series of popular
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Hosting a Thanksgiving dinner? Why not add a little "flair" to your tablesetting by making this turkey centerpiece made from … tampons!
Another crafty creation from the folks at Tampon Crafts: Link – Thanks tcraft!
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