Hello Fellow Travelers!
Happy Thanksgiving! Especially to those of you who literally "traveled" yesterday. I traveled "a fur piece" but observed our Thanksgiving Tradition of watching the Macy's TG Day Parade (in HD) with our morning coffee! I was flipping through the channels when I stopped on something as educational as it was timely on the Discovery Channel. "When Turkeys Attack" is as scary and hilarious as it sounds! And, as an added bonus, we learned about nature!
As it turns out, our traditional Thanksgiving protein is scrappy (at best) alive, more typically the live entrée is bad-tempered, aggressive and looking to settle a score! They're spoiling for a fight! Between heart-stopping videos of befuddled victims, humans, assaulted by talons and beaks, or just being "menaced" (you haven't been stalked, until you've met the business end of an angry gobbler!) turkey "experts" commented on the wiliness, the permanent bad mood turkeys are always in!
Turkeys are descendants of pterodactyls, and they haven't mentally changed much in the passing millennium. They would definitely eat us if they were big enough, and the fact that they cannot, combined with their inability to fly keeps them mean. Turkeys are the original "angry birds".
That and they just look better headless and featherless. They look even better roasting in an oven. Or in a deep fryer. Or on the front of a whiskey bottle.. So don't ever lose any sleep (not that you do, I certainly do not) over the millions of turkeys that are the delicious, if fleeting, "guests of honor" on our holiday dinner tables! Just don't over cook them! And pass the cranberries!
Ben Franklin had many brilliant ideas but proposing that the turkey be our national bird was not one of them. I mean have you seen their heads? And those wattle things, what is going on with those?
The turkey is sneaky, belligerent, bullying and vicious. Nothing very "noble" about a turkey. In other words, made for American politics!
Hmmm, maybe Franklin was onto something after all...
Drumstick, anyone?
Happy Thanksgiving! Especially to those of you who literally "traveled" yesterday. I traveled "a fur piece" but observed our Thanksgiving Tradition of watching the Macy's TG Day Parade (in HD) with our morning coffee! I was flipping through the channels when I stopped on something as educational as it was timely on the Discovery Channel. "When Turkeys Attack" is as scary and hilarious as it sounds! And, as an added bonus, we learned about nature!
As it turns out, our traditional Thanksgiving protein is scrappy (at best) alive, more typically the live entrée is bad-tempered, aggressive and looking to settle a score! They're spoiling for a fight! Between heart-stopping videos of befuddled victims, humans, assaulted by talons and beaks, or just being "menaced" (you haven't been stalked, until you've met the business end of an angry gobbler!) turkey "experts" commented on the wiliness, the permanent bad mood turkeys are always in!
Turkeys are descendants of pterodactyls, and they haven't mentally changed much in the passing millennium. They would definitely eat us if they were big enough, and the fact that they cannot, combined with their inability to fly keeps them mean. Turkeys are the original "angry birds".
That and they just look better headless and featherless. They look even better roasting in an oven. Or in a deep fryer. Or on the front of a whiskey bottle.. So don't ever lose any sleep (not that you do, I certainly do not) over the millions of turkeys that are the delicious, if fleeting, "guests of honor" on our holiday dinner tables! Just don't over cook them! And pass the cranberries!
Ben Franklin had many brilliant ideas but proposing that the turkey be our national bird was not one of them. I mean have you seen their heads? And those wattle things, what is going on with those?
The turkey is sneaky, belligerent, bullying and vicious. Nothing very "noble" about a turkey. In other words, made for American politics!
Hmmm, maybe Franklin was onto something after all...
Drumstick, anyone?
Great commentary! When I see a small band of stupid turkeys crossing Fair Oaks Blvd, here in Sac Co, just to get to an empty parking lot in a mini-mall, and they're just like the same birds my brother photographed in Bloomfield Hills Michigan, I recall their dinosaur heritage, a sad legacy of the once dominant life form, so why did turkeys survive at all, that stupid? Something about fertility I suppose, some similarities to Canadian Geese...
ReplyDelete