# I'm going to cook a penguin instead of a turkey for Thanksgiving **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 17, 2006, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-cook-a-penguin-instead-of-a-turkey-for-thanksgiving/380874 "2006-11-17T19:51:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2006, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-cook-a-penguin-instead-of-a-turkey-for-thanksgiving/380874/61 "2006-11-18T20:54:23Z")
[QUOTE=FairyChatMom] I was born in this country - does that make me… dinner??? :eek: [/QUOTE] You live 7 miles from the Wawa in the middle of nowhere. You’re safe for now. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2006, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-cook-a-penguin-instead-of-a-turkey-for-thanksgiving/380874/62 "2006-11-19T00:56:47Z")
[QUOTE=Sean Factotum] We’ve got an egret nesting in the drainage canal behind my house. I’m thinking that bird better fly away before Monday, or he’s dinner. [/QUOTE] Egrets? I’ve had a few, but then again, too few to mention. ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2006, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-cook-a-penguin-instead-of-a-turkey-for-thanksgiving/380874/63 "2006-11-19T02:00:39Z")
[QUOTE=chowder] Organic Ostrich stuffed inside a camel stuffed inside an elephant stuffed inside a blue whale. We have a whole bunch of hungry buggers coming around for Christmas lunch 😃 God knows what I’m gonna serve as dessert. [/QUOTE] Wafer-thin mint? ---
**Author:** ![Runestar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/74df32/32.png) [@Runestar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Runestar)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2006, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-cook-a-penguin-instead-of-a-turkey-for-thanksgiving/380874/64 "2006-11-22T17:41:54Z")
I’ve been slowly replacing the sunflower seed in our bird feeders with chestnut stuffing. First thing tomorrow morning I’m going out to the yard with a butterfly net and… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Hockey\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2006, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-cook-a-penguin-instead-of-a-turkey-for-thanksgiving/380874/65 "2006-11-22T19:02:21Z")
Stingray ke-babs. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2006, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-cook-a-penguin-instead-of-a-turkey-for-thanksgiving/380874/66 "2006-11-22T19:31:12Z")
[QUOTE=pimaspinner] Stingray ke-babs. :eek: [/QUOTE] I know it’s classy to cook them on the bard, but they’re kind of thin. I roll them up with ham and Swiss cheese for Skate Cordon Bleu. ---
**Author:** ![Dumbguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2bfe46/32.png) [@Dumbguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dumbguy)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2006, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-cook-a-penguin-instead-of-a-turkey-for-thanksgiving/380874/67 "2006-11-22T19:54:57Z")
I’m feeling sort of Shakespearian, so I was planning to roast my niece in a nice worcestershire-garlic marinade (a little cumin gives it some bite). The after-dinner bickering should be a little less perfunctory this year. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2006, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-cook-a-penguin-instead-of-a-turkey-for-thanksgiving/380874/68 "2006-11-22T20:06:53Z")
As I started reading this thread, all I could think of was [Komodo Dragon](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099615/). Won’t be the same without Bert Parks introducing it, though. ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2006, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-cook-a-penguin-instead-of-a-turkey-for-thanksgiving/380874/69 "2006-11-22T20:12:20Z")
Anybody know what roast peacock is like? Where could i buy one? Are all gallinaceous fowl (chickens, peacocks, pheasants, turkeys) pretty much alike, taste-wise? Why did the ancient Romans have such a taste for exotic fowl? ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2006, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-cook-a-penguin-instead-of-a-turkey-for-thanksgiving/380874/70 "2006-11-22T20:16:10Z")
**Winston Smith** wrote: > [@](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > : > > Originally Posted by h.sapiens > > Albatross! > > Dodo! I know you’re trying to be provocative, but you’d probably _hate_ Dodo. The Dutch used to call them a name that translates as “Nauseating Birds”. I know that they were supposedly killed off by European sailors, dogs, and imported rats eating these previously predator-free flightless creatures, but you also have to realize that the sailors who got to the Indian Ocean islands where the Dodos (and the related Solitaries) lived had probably been living on weevilly bread and oversalted beef-in-cask for months, and damned near any change would taste good. But even _they_ called these “nauseating birds”. See Willy Ley’s essays in “The Unicord, the Lungfish, and the Dodo” or his “Exotic Zoology”. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2006, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-cook-a-penguin-instead-of-a-turkey-for-thanksgiving/380874/71 "2006-11-22T20:50:33Z")
[QUOTE=ralph124c] Why did the ancient Romans have such a taste for exotic fowl? [/QUOTE] I wonder if it had anything to do with the many exotics brought to Rome for the coliseum. ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2006, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-cook-a-penguin-instead-of-a-turkey-for-thanksgiving/380874/72 "2006-11-22T22:24:57Z")
Well, I’m heading home now. It’s been a long day, and I’ve got a penguin to prepare. I wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving, and I’ll check in at some point and let you know how the penguin tasted. Yummy. Can’t wait. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2006, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-cook-a-penguin-instead-of-a-turkey-for-thanksgiving/380874/73 "2006-11-23T02:36:11Z")
[QUOTE=pimaspinner] Stingray ke-babs. :eek: [/QUOTE] Crikey! My girlfriend received a package from her father (who lives in a different city here) a few weeks ago, delivereed to her workplace. Some of her colleagues saw her putting it straight into the fridge freezer in the office kitchen, and naturally asked what it was. “A frozen penguin head” she answered. They rolled their eyes - that’s just her being her! - so she showed them. It was a frozen penguin head, being transported across state lines for amoral purposes\*. They don’t ask her questions like that any more. - no, _not_ porpoises. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2006, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-cook-a-penguin-instead-of-a-turkey-for-thanksgiving/380874/74 "2006-11-23T02:49:17Z")
[QUOTE=Winston Smith] Well, I’m heading home now. It’s been a long day, and I’ve got a penguin to prepare. [/QUOTE] Culinary hint: I just saw leopard seals on Wild Kingdon killing penguins and _shaking_ them out of their skins. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2006, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-cook-a-penguin-instead-of-a-turkey-for-thanksgiving/380874/75 "2006-11-23T10:35:29Z")
[QUOTE=Runestar] I’ve been slowly replacing the sunflower seed in our bird feeders with chestnut stuffing. First thing tomorrow morning I’m going out to the yard with a butterfly net and… 😉 [/QUOTE] You’re gonna have butterfly for lunch?? You’ll need a damn big one 😃 Or a moth ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2006, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-cook-a-penguin-instead-of-a-turkey-for-thanksgiving/380874/76 "2006-11-23T10:41:28Z")
Not that we have such a thing as Thanksgiving here, but I might still splash out and serve a rhinoceros stuffed inside an elephant. There ought to be a name for it… ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2006, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-cook-a-penguin-instead-of-a-turkey-for-thanksgiving/380874/77 "2006-11-23T10:51:48Z")
[QUOTE=Winston Smith] Well, I’m heading home now. It’s been a long day, and I’ve got a penguin to prepare. I wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving, and I’ll check in at some point and let you know how the penguin tasted. Yummy. Can’t wait. 🙂 [/QUOTE] You know we’ll be needing pics of the stuffed penguin. Will you leave the flippered feet on? Harder to get him in the oven, but I think it’ll really punch up the presentation. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2006, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-cook-a-penguin-instead-of-a-turkey-for-thanksgiving/380874/78 "2006-11-23T12:25:03Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] Not that we have such a thing as Thanksgiving here, but I might still splash out and serve a rhinoceros stuffed inside an elephant. There ought to be a name for it… [/QUOTE] " I’ll have a **Jonas Special** , spicy on the rhino with a ginger and paprika dry rub on the elephant skin. Ditch the tusks, soak the toenails off and make _sure_ the rhino’s giblets are not undercooked. " 😃 ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2006, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-cook-a-penguin-instead-of-a-turkey-for-thanksgiving/380874/79 "2006-11-23T12:27:55Z")
Hummingbirds. Lots of hummingbirds. They cook and thaw much quicker than turkey. Watch out for the beaks and tiny bones. Hubby wanted the neighbors’ children, but he only wanted to cook them, they would be much too gamey to eat. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2006, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-cook-a-penguin-instead-of-a-turkey-for-thanksgiving/380874/80 "2006-11-23T14:18:50Z")
I can’t believe how slow you folks are today. A rhino stuffed inside an elephant, what would you call it? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-cook-a-penguin-instead-of-a-turkey-for-thanksgiving/380874.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-cook-a-penguin-instead-of-a-turkey-for-thanksgiving/380874.md?page=5)