# 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:** 5\ **Page:** 5
**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, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-cook-a-penguin-instead-of-a-turkey-for-thanksgiving/380874/81 "2006-11-23T14:29:29Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] I can’t believe how slow you folks are today. A rhino stuffed inside an elephant, what would you call it? [/QUOTE] I can’t get past elephants raping and killing rhinos lately in the news. I dunno, “Rhino on a Stick”? ---
**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, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-cook-a-penguin-instead-of-a-turkey-for-thanksgiving/380874/82 "2006-11-23T14:37:14Z")
> **[Urban Dictionary: Elephino!](https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Elephino%21)** > > Punch line to the greatest joke EVER! Combination of "elephant" and "rhino". Pronounced "hell if I know". ---
**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, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-cook-a-penguin-instead-of-a-turkey-for-thanksgiving/380874/83 "2006-11-23T14:41:04Z")
Okey, Mr. Smart guy, what do you get when you cross an elephant with a mouse? Elephant Mouse Sin(theta). ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2006, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-cook-a-penguin-instead-of-a-turkey-for-thanksgiving/380874/84 "2006-11-23T15:06:13Z")
[QUOTE=ralph124c] 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? [/QUOTE] From _The Oxford Companion to Food_ (Davidson): … Witteveen (1989, 1990) in an essay which is the best source of information on the subject, observes that peacocks seem not to have made goods eating. . He cite modern experiments which confirm the view expressed by some authorities in pre-medieval times that the flesh of a peacock is tough and needs to be hung and then given a prolonged cooking if it is to be edible. Implicit confirmation of this is provided by the fact that when the turkey arrived from the new World it rapidly displaced the peacock. The displacement was taking place in England before 1600. In Europe generally, peacock was rarely on the menu after the late 17th Century, nor did they continue to appear in cookery books … I would enter the information about penguin, but it was never an important source of human food. In the same way, Dodo is not mentioned. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2006, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-cook-a-penguin-instead-of-a-turkey-for-thanksgiving/380874/85 "2006-11-24T15:31:36Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] > **[Urban Dictionary: elephino](https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=elephino)** > > elephino: a cross between an elephant and a rhino originated in the joke: What do you get when you cross an elephant and a rhino? answer: elephino [/QUOTE] Aww, I had the answer Mangey! I was all excited when I saw no one had answered yet and then you go and post the answer to your own question. ☹ I actually did have penguins for Thanksgiving. When I went to my sister’s house my neice and her kids were playing a computer game called Penguins!, so we all played with the Penguins for a while. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-cook-a-penguin-instead-of-a-turkey-for-thanksgiving/380874.md?page=4)