*blinks*

[kyburg]

Dude, Thanksgiving is looking like 19 people.

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Dude, they don't make turkeys big enough for that many people.

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Oh, well. We'll have a ham, too.

And did I tell you Jim is working this Thanksgiving? Yeah. He's working.

*FWUMP*

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[riverheart.livejournal.com]

they don't make turkeys big enough for that many people.

Yes, they do.

Go get an organic free-range one. Some of those are *quite* large. (I remember the year I sent a friend to get one, and he came back with a 25 pounder. I said, "I told you to get a small one!" "This was the smallest one they had," he said.)

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

Of course, the real problem with those is getting them in the oven. That and getting them OUT of the oven. And carving them.

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

Last year's turkey was a tad over 25 lbs. The calculations I'm working with call for 27 lbs - and after calling the market, the bird shopping begins now because the ads begin the 14th - and I won't be back until the 19th.

And I fully intend to have everything in the house before I leave. *nods firmly*

[riverheart.livejournal.com]

Deb and Pat cooked a forty-pounder for their wedding. It was the smallest one *they* had, too; the others were still running around and quite a bit larger. Pat had to deform outward the largest aluminum roasting pan to be had in Bellingham, and it still only just barely held the turkey. It was do-able, though.

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

*blinks* 40 lbs.

I know Mom was good at doing mock-ups like this, but that's admirable.

[riverheart.livejournal.com]

They had just killed and plucked it earlier in the day - their wedding day, as I mentioned. I'm the one who married them. :-)

Next time you come up here, we need to get you and unclejimbo up there to their farm; they're entirely nifty people. If Jim thinks my three retrievers are fun, wait until he gets around all those dogs, most of them related to mine. He'll have a ball (and so will the dogs).