# What do you do with the leftover turkey? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 28, 2008, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-do-with-the-leftover-turkey/474793 "2008-11-28T13:54:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![phall0106](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phall0106/32/5934_2.png) [@phall0106](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phall0106)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-do-with-the-leftover-turkey/474793/41 "2008-11-30T13:35:35Z")
What do I do with my leftover turkey? I have a 14 year old boy. All leftovers somehow magically disappear from the kitchen. ---
**Author:** ![Lanzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Lanzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lanzy)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-do-with-the-leftover-turkey/474793/42 "2008-11-30T15:09:47Z")
7 Jack Russels, never had leftovers to worry about. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-do-with-the-leftover-turkey/474793/43 "2008-11-30T16:03:34Z")
Sandwiches, of course. But the skeleton and all the rest goes in the gumbo pot. Mmmm…gumbo…food of the ghods. SWMBO’s got a big pot going in the kitchen and the house smells even better than it did when she was cooking the turkey on Thursday. Mmmmm… ---
**Author:** ![katie1341](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/91b2a8/32.png) [@katie1341](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/katie1341)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-do-with-the-leftover-turkey/474793/44 "2008-11-30T16:56:18Z")
> [@Lanzy](#): > > 7 Jack Russels :eek: Holy cow. You must have the patience of a saint! My sister has two, and they are a handful! ---
**Author:** ![vison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e47774/32.png) [@vison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vison)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-do-with-the-leftover-turkey/474793/45 "2008-12-01T01:08:09Z")
“This is one of the most useful recipes, for though not ‘chic’, it tells us what to do with turkey after the holiday, and how to extract the most value from it. Take the remnants, or, if they have been consumed, take the various plates on which the turkey or its parts have rested and stew them for two hours in milk of magnesia. Stuff with mothballs.” This was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It is in the _Nonsense and Stray Phrases_ section of his writings titled “The Crack Up”. This particular “recipe” is called “Turkey Remains and How to Inter Them with Numerous Scarce Recipes”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-do-with-the-leftover-turkey/474793.md?page=2)