(More than likely still LIVING with Mom!)
Haven’t they done ENOUGH damage to our culture with their Man Buns, Hipster Beards and obsession with craft beer? ;)
smaller turkeys have a lot less calories than the big artificially plumped birds.
Yea, I think I'll get a chicken and tell folks it's an environmentally sensitive turkey.
Global warming causes smaller chickens.
No they are not “fat like that” because they are penned up.. they are bred to be that rediculously large. Selective breeding has produced turkeys so rediculously large breasted they can’t even reproduce naturally...
While you are free to criticize the industrial farming of chickens, they aren’t fat like that because they are penned. They are fat like that because they are genetic freaks bred to be that way.
It’s a long climb up from the basement.
Get a personal Cornish hen instead then.
“[G]rowing guilt over wasteful leftovers,” Ha! The leftovers are usually the best part of the whole weekend. So many good things can be made from them. Even though single, I still prefer a 12 - 14 lb. bird because of the great leftovers.
To heck with turkey. Bone in shank ham is what I am serving. I love the leftovers a lot more - split pea soup, scalloped ham and potatoes, etc. No tiny turkey for us!
Millenials are also “Disrupting” language with ridiculous use of the word “Disruption”.
How many people on my LinkedIn are “Influencers” ?
Everyone. I need to invent a buzzword.
Wasteful leftovers?! Bah!
Fried turkeys have to weigh ten pounds.
Someone inform them via their preferred social media that leftovers are to be eaten LATER. Up to a few days later. Hence, the name.
For us, a “small” bird is 10 lbs. It’s usually just the two of us, and after a week of turkey at every meal, it gets a little monotonous.
My family was so poor, we had Thanksgiving Day sparrow!
Credit to ‘Laugh In’.
Gonna have a crowd on T Day. Got the maximum bird. Love a big table filled with people noise.
We de-bone the leftovers, pack them in quart-size freezer ziplocks, and freeze them for up to 3 months (Butterball rules).
Take out a ziplock, defrost overnight in the fridge, and you have a meal or a sandwich ready to be made...
I love roasted turkey, but there may be something to getting smaller ones, if only a few people will be eating.
At a certain point, one has just had enough turkey for a good while. The meat has a distinctive flavor, so even were you to put it in salads or soups, that same flavor is going to dominate.
For the same reasons, I’ve been buying smaller watermelons while they’re in season. I don’t want to get stuck with a gargantuan melon taking up residence in my fridge and getting mushier by the hour. I’m taking a second look at those soccer ball sized melons. Sometimes bigger is not better.
Two small turkeys, instead of one large, means more legs!
A 6-pounder? That’s only enough for 2, if you consider the bones, etc., and want any leftovers.
But this has always been an issue for those who sell turkeys. The small ones are in greatest demand because there are so few of them—and more with small families or gatherings looking for them.
IMO the solution is to get a chicken, duck or goose instead. But if a new small turkey comes available, then I guess that’s fine too.