Made with soy, of course!
Posted on 11/23/2005 11:37:35 AM PST by neverdem
Cast your mind back to the Thanksgivings of your childhood--or if not yours, then Norman Rockwell's. See the flushed, familiar faces, the expanse of white damask, the jewel-like bowls of candied yams and cranberry sauce, and Granddad carving the large, gleaming, nut-brown . . . artichoke?
Wait--sorry. I've been looking at too many children's picture books. For though it's true that publishers still turn out Pilgrim- and Indian-themed stories about America's most beloved holiday--with pumpkins, cornucopias and roasted turkey--the aim of a surprising number of children's books about Thanksgiving seems to be to put little readers off their meat. In these stories, succulent turkey is out; crunchy veggies are in. And a plump gobbler isn't served on the table but at it.
"Thanksgiving dinner always means turkey! Or does it? One little pilgrim is not so sure . . " So goes the sell on the cover of Peggy Archer's "Turkey Surprise" (Dial, $10). In it, forest creatures help a turkey hide from two pilgrim boys, the younger of whom eventually succeeds in persuading his brother not to bag a fowl for Thanksgiving. In "Over the River: A Turkey's Tale" (Simon & Schuster, $14.95), illustrated by Derek Anderson, turkeys on their way to Grandma's house similarly manage to outwit and escape their pursuers before sitting down to a jolly meat-free Thanksgiving meal.
In "Thelonious Turkey Lives! (On Felicia Ferguson's Farm)" (Knopf, $15.95), by Lynn Rowe Reed, Thanksgiving's approach causes the eponymous avian hero to become "nervous about dinner--being dinner, that is." He assumes that Felicia is "trying to fatten him up for the chopping block." So he foments a barnyard insurgency to destabilize the apparently ferocious farmer, only to discover in the end that she merely wants his feathers to use as decorations on fashionable hats.
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She grills a mean veal cutlet for someone who hasn't eaten one in 10+ years.
I know one adult man who is an "ethical" vegetarian, but even he's allowing his kids to eat meat and make the choice for themselves when they get older.
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Now that's unusual. The vegetarians I've met are not so tolerant. I don't think they have much talent as chefs, either.
Ohhhh, that sounds good. I'll be there.
(That is what you meant, right?)
Dan
Last year there was a photo in the newspaper that showed a free vegan Thanksgiving. There were five takers.
...handful of dandelions, and it's a wrap!
People like the ones in my town. Volvo. Greenpeace. Smug Arrogance. Maxed out Credit cards and a No Interest Mortgage, with a paper-shuffling Widow-Fleecing job, and a wife they will discard on her fortieth birthday, read the script and bought it, and hates his life enough to vote Democrat.
(With apologies to the Monty Python Travel Agent skit.)
The five who showed up look like they needed food bad, so that is good. They looked happy to be warm but they also looked like they were having a hard time swallowing.
Still, if I was one of them, knowing how it tasted, I'd have passed on it and gone through some restaurant dumpsters instead.
Yes, I doubt you could get the poor pup to eat it.
It's the worst stuff I have ever tasted and I've had some weird stuff.
Panties on turkey. Kinky.
Good idea...I think I'll stack up a bunch of naked turkeys and get some ugly girl with a cigarette to pose next to them...maybe put underwear on the head of another turkey.
There's a Korean place near where my wife works that has a tofu side dish that tastes like French toast with a slight zing to it. If done up right tofu can be a decent side dish.
Tofu requires other ingredients on order to make it palatable. It's still soy.
Indeed. It's great in miso soup, or prepared like that Korean restaurant did. Tofu was never designed to be eaten as is; it was meant to be an ingredient in cooking.
Heh heh!!
I'm gonna log off the computer...hubby will be home soon and I have a few more items to get before tomorrow.
Happy Thanksgiving, my FRiend...
Lard and butter aren't meant to be eaten as is, either, but you don't see it served as the main course disguised as real food.
Anyone else notice that I capitalized the meats? There's a reason.
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