Which Thanksgiving is Better?

Happy Thanksgiving fellow turkey lovers. I would have blogged earlier but I have been busy sifting through all of responses I have gotten from my last Blog: "Ghosts - are they real or is my cat Harry just messing with me . . ."

This has always been difficult for me because I also have American blood in me and of course the obvious question always comes up this time of year: Which Beatle was your favourite? I'm also asked which Thanksgiving is the real one? Well, until he died from that awful Ping-Pong accident - Paul was always my favourite.

As for Thanksgiving - a more thoughtful answer is required. Both involve the overeating of Turkey - and I am always in agreement with that. My American cousins serve theirs with biscuits, and dressin' and maybe a sweet potato pie for good measure.

Here, in the northern frontier where we have nothing better to do than "stand on guard for thee," we serve our turkey with Stuffing and Mashed Potatoes. We generally don't serve up sweet potatoes because they make us throw up. As in football, the Canadian Turkey is much bigger with sharper teeth and longer claws than the American bird. And, unlike the American Turkey, the claws of the Canadian bird carry a poison not unlike the poison of the Plains Meerkat. The meat of the Canadian turkey is also sweeter because they only eat low-bush pineapples. But once you get past that - it's good eating either way.

What does this have to do with technology? Well my friends, there have been new innovations in the manner in which a turkey can be cooked. Ovens can have a convection feature. In the old days it used to take a long time to cook a turkey. For example, a small, 25 pound turkey used to take the whole day to cook. You had to put the bird in the oven at 6 in the morning and it might be done by 4 pm in time for dinner. Now with convection ovens the whole process only takes 20 minutes (if you use the maunfacturers dialectic probe made from Corbomite). Another innovation is the deep fried version of turkey. Deep frying a turkey only takes 12 minutes - however, it does take another 3 hours to dowse the flames in your house when the frying oil overflows and comes into contact with the open flame.

Which Thanksgiving is the real one? Well, I'm afraid I have to side with my American cousins. You see, they invented it first because they also invented Pilgrims. We didn't get those in Canada until 1956 when the CRTC changed their regulations. Plus, they get Thursday & Friday off to watch football & go shopping - we just get Monday - not to watch football or go shopping . . .

Well, that's all for now in terms of cooking technology. Be sure to tune into next week's Blog:

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