# Turkey Time MMP(Somebody's gotta do it!) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [November 19, 2012, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turkey-time-mmp-somebodys-gotta-do-it/641493 "2012-11-19T11:32:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Silver\_Tyger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Silver\_Tyger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Tyger)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2012, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turkey-time-mmp-somebodys-gotta-do-it/641493/41 "2012-11-19T18:37:12Z")
Thanks guys. ---
**Author:** ![Capt\_Kirk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@Capt\_Kirk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt_Kirk)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2012, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turkey-time-mmp-somebodys-gotta-do-it/641493/42 "2012-11-19T18:44:04Z")
Happy Birthday **Shiny Cat** Must be nice to be 21 and legal finally :):eek: **Jim** ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2012, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turkey-time-mmp-somebodys-gotta-do-it/641493/43 "2012-11-19T18:48:33Z")
Happy birthday, **ShinyCat!** Eat that cake, eat ALL OF IT!! Do NOT share 😃 **Jynx** , that is such sad news ☹ I haven’t lived in VB for a few years, but I still check news and last names in case it’s someone I used to know. (I don’t _think_ it is, but Dominion was a big company; I hope it wasn’t) Poor Jake, the ear of corn! I shall nosh on one of his friends tonight so he can have someone to pal around with in…um…corn heaven, I guess. ---
**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 19, 2012, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turkey-time-mmp-somebodys-gotta-do-it/641493/44 "2012-11-19T18:49:30Z")
> [@Capt\_Kirk](#): > > Must be nice to be 21 and legal finally I’m posting with children! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Jynxster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d07c76/32.png) [@Jynxster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jynxster)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2012, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turkey-time-mmp-somebodys-gotta-do-it/641493/45 "2012-11-19T18:59:20Z")
On a nicer note, I forgot to add that we will be also serving caviar, pickled scrimp, champange and fondue as horses overies (hors d’oeuvres in Jynxster Dad speak) ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Tyger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Silver\_Tyger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Tyger)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2012, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turkey-time-mmp-somebodys-gotta-do-it/641493/46 "2012-11-19T19:19:30Z")
> [@Capt\_Kirk](#): > > Happy Birthday **Shiny Cat** > > Must be nice to be 21 and legal finally :):eek: > > **Jim** LOL. You’re ten years off. It blew **Rick** ’s mind when I told him how old I was. He thought I was turning 22. **Tao** , I can’t! Most of it is at my parents’ place! And between my sister and my dad, I expect it all to be gone before Thursday. If my dad didn’t have a piece with breakfast, I’ll be surprised. ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2012, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turkey-time-mmp-somebodys-gotta-do-it/641493/47 "2012-11-19T19:22:32Z")
> [@Silver\_Tyger](#): > > LOL. You’re ten years off. You’re _ **11** _?!?!? :eek: You **knew** it had to happen, right? 😃 Happy Birthday! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2012, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turkey-time-mmp-somebodys-gotta-do-it/641493/48 "2012-11-19T19:27:01Z")
**Jynx** how sad! ☹ Also hope your screw up is not as bad as you think (they rarely are) and that your other co-workers are all better soon. Reckon my guests would be mad if’n I just went to **Jynx’s** place for TDay? What if I did the turkey, dressin’, gravy and sweet **N.O.T.** pie and left a key under the doormat so they can get in? I want shrimpies, caviar and champagne! 😃 ---
**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 19, 2012, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turkey-time-mmp-somebodys-gotta-do-it/641493/49 "2012-11-19T19:39:37Z")
> [@Jynxster](#): > > On a nicer note, I forgot to add that we will be also serving caviar, pickled scrimp, champange and fondue as horses overies (hors d’oeuvres in Jynxster Dad speak) What does it mean, “scrimp”? ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2012, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turkey-time-mmp-somebodys-gotta-do-it/641493/50 "2012-11-19T19:43:52Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > Tomorrow, I will fire up the smoker, which will contain two turkey london broils, turkey andouille snausages, & assorted other things. (including maybe some fish for tomorrow’s dinner??) One will be wrapped up & left in a fraternity house fridge on Wed morning to (hopefully) be picked up when we are done on Thurs to be transported to where I’m eating. I really hope anyone in said fraternity is either home with family or working with us so that it doesn’t “disappear” in a drunken after-midnight fridge raid! > The other will be for dinner with my family on Friday & the remains, along with the snausages & other things will be turned into smoked turkey jambalaya on Satidy. The jambalaya is the _real_ reason I cook. Oh, and I’m definitely heading to Spidey’s house, hopefully BEFORE everything gets sent up to some frat house; they won’t appreciate it like I will! ---
**Author:** ![Jynxster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d07c76/32.png) [@Jynxster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jynxster)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2012, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turkey-time-mmp-somebodys-gotta-do-it/641493/51 "2012-11-19T19:50:55Z")
After I listed aaaaaaaaaalllllllllllllllllll that fud youda tink that we have an army coming. There will be 4 of us, including me. So please come over to help us eat and drank of it and save me from my parental units! **Oh and HAPPY BURFDAY Shiny Sparkly Kitty a.ka. Silver Tyger!** ETA Scrimp = [Shrimp](http://www.marthastewart.com/318183/pickled-shrimp) ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2012, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turkey-time-mmp-somebodys-gotta-do-it/641493/52 "2012-11-19T19:55:58Z")
> [@Jynxster](#): > > After I listed aaaaaaaaaalllllllllllllllllll that fud youda tink that we have an army coming. There will be 4 of us, including me. So please come over to help us eat and drank of it and save me from my parental units! Ok! Mumpers we meet up at **Jynx’s** place on Thursday! If that does not send the parental units screamin’ into the streets then nuttin’ will. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ems](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@ems](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ems)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2012, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turkey-time-mmp-somebodys-gotta-do-it/641493/53 "2012-11-19T20:32:46Z")
Page 2 on a Monday? Holy cow people 😃 Thanksgiving this year is at my Father-in-Law’s place in TX. There will be 10.5 of us with the 0.5 being a 2 1/2 year old who can actually eat his own weight in mashed potatos if you let him. The menu involves: - Deviled eggs and I am thinking of making crab puffs for appetisers plus veggies and dip and cheese ball thingy. I am only involved in the crab puffs. - 2 deep fried smallish turkeys seasoned/injected with butter and cajun seasonings and butter - Scalloped potatoes - Dressing (family receipe) - Gravy (family recipe) - Mamaw’s Green beans (family recipe you only get if you are born into the family or once you are married into it) all I can tell you is it involves bacon and is NOT green bean casserole which is evil. - Squash casserole - Mashed potatoes (see toddler comment) - Cranberry sauce - I am pretty sure canned and sliced - Something called ‘Coke Salad’ which **mr ems** loves and is definitely not a salad - Fresh dinner rolls - Pecan pie - Pumpkin or Sweet Potato pie - Double chocolate bread pudding with a pecan streusal topping I think thats it. Although looks like I forgot something. There is hardly anyone at work here today. So it is nice and quiet and I am being semi-productive. So must get back to work so I can scoot out a little early. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2012, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turkey-time-mmp-somebodys-gotta-do-it/641493/54 "2012-11-19T20:37:47Z")
A friend has agreed to cook Thanksgiving dinner for me, as I don’t have access to a kitchen. Fortunately, she has just abandoned the Fuhrman “Eat to Live” vegetarian diet and returned to the “Why is there meat in the ice cream?” Paleo diet, so there will be MEAT. Possibly in the wine, and I’m reasonably certain in the salad. Oh, and the main course. Meat, meat, meat. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2012, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turkey-time-mmp-somebodys-gotta-do-it/641493/55 "2012-11-19T21:23:17Z")
Hi honeys!!! I’m in the Holiday Inn Express in Johnstown, done with my work for the day, and exhausted. As I expected, the aircraft isn’t here - supposedly it will arrive tomorrow. It durn well better!! But I did meet with my buddy Kathy and we talked about other stuff coming my way and things I intend to do regarding all engineering drawings in the company. There should be a buttload of work awaiting me when I get back, so yay! There’s a KFC next to the hotel - I’m thinking chickie pot pie for supper. I don’t much like dining out alone, so I’ll just walk over there and get my food to go. Since I’m a Priority Club member, I got 2 bottles of water and 2 baggies of snacks - woohoo! Plus the free internet, and exclusive control of the remote - double woohoo!! 😃 As to the OP - my mom is hosting and last count was 16 for dinner. I don’t know what all the sides will be, but I did specifically request baked sweet N.O.T. - I don’t like the burnt hockey pucks that my sister favors. I do know she’s making **swampy** ’s favoritest veggie in the whole universe ( 😉 ) but the rest will be a surprise. I’m taking 2 punkin pies and one custard pie, along with cool whip and the canned whipped cream. I was going to make a cake, too, but others are bringing desserts, so cake would be too much. Instead, I may bake a cake and take it into work some day, just because I’m nice, dammit! 😃 My trip here was a royal pain!! Accident on the Beltway delayed me by at least an hour - it was almost noon before I got to the office - slightly over 5 hours of driving - ugh. But what I have to do tomorrow shouldn’t take more than a couple of hours, so once I make my sketches, take my measurements, and take a bunch of photos, I’ll be outta here. With luck, I’ll miss the Tuesday rush hour on the Beltway… yeah, right… Well, late breakfast and no lunch - I think I’ll mosey over to the Colonel’s now… Happy what’s left of Monday! ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2012, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turkey-time-mmp-somebodys-gotta-do-it/641493/56 "2012-11-19T21:39:38Z")
About to head over to the church house to get stuff started. Glad you made it safe **MOOOOOOM**! How nice of your mom to make fresh creamed corn just for me! 😛 **BooFae** reckon we’ll have time to make it to **mmmmmm’s** place as well? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sticks_and_scones/32/16951_2.png) [@Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sticks_and_Scones)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2012, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turkey-time-mmp-somebodys-gotta-do-it/641493/57 "2012-11-19T22:17:24Z")
Hi guys. It could be nearing the end of the world. I got my hair cut short and told my mom about it and sent her a picture and she said “nice.” :eek: Normally I am subject to much scrutiny for this sort of thing. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2012, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turkey-time-mmp-somebodys-gotta-do-it/641493/58 "2012-11-19T22:45:04Z")
well, show us the picture. ---
**Author:** ![Capt\_Kirk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@Capt\_Kirk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt_Kirk)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2012, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turkey-time-mmp-somebodys-gotta-do-it/641493/59 "2012-11-19T23:32:19Z")
Shopping for Turkey day round one is complete Turkey 13lbs/6 kilos appx Leg o Lamb 6lbs/2.75 kilos appx Portabella mushrooms x 6 Slab o thick cut bacon Orzo pasta 1 lb/ 453 grams Red NOT 3 lbs/ 1.36 kilos Garlic, onions,scallions, green onions, fart blossoms, mixed mushrooms, fresh parmesean and asiago, 3 artichokes, crescent rolls, 3 lbs/1.36 k of unsalted butter, 1 liter Italian olive oil, bread for bread crumbs, and all the stuff I need to make desserts of homemade caramel, heath pieces, baking chocolate on homemade simple crust. We shall feast like kings Happy Monday all **Jim** ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2012, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turkey-time-mmp-somebodys-gotta-do-it/641493/60 "2012-11-19T23:36:25Z")
My foodie friend who’s cooking T-day just went shopping… > [@](#): > > I shouldn’t have a car. I shouldn’t have access to a car. Well, a car combined with a credit card. It’s too expensive. I can’t be trusted. Was left on my own to venture to Berkeley Bowl. $250 later… I said we need to get her a bicycle so that, when she buys a backpack full of meat and has to haul it back up the hill, she will be… punished. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turkey-time-mmp-somebodys-gotta-do-it/641493.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turkey-time-mmp-somebodys-gotta-do-it/641493.md?page=4)