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Yes OCD.. Sometimes the rituals drive my crazy :P

When I was younger I used to mix mayo and ketchup together for my fries or drown them in vinegar and salt.

Wow fries! The miracle food! Look at how versatile they are???

I mean **** even if you were to find a three month old one in the car you could still utilize it..

Like clean under your nails with it... Or use it as a coffee stirrer or scrape the ice of the windshield...

LOL

Sooo you were a Fancy sauce gal "ketchup and mayo"

shahaya.... you could even soak that Beach in Water and re eat it with fancy sauce!!! :D or pick your teeth with it. shat even leave it under your seat so you can have a snack in a few months while stuck in traffic....mmmm interesting ha

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Drippings would be gravy. Yes the coffee in the US is terrible but the bacon in Australia is a travesty!

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haha! I was in Hawaii in July. I was served sweet potato that was too sweet to eat! I'm sure everything served had sugar in it. We had one (very expensive) dinner that was so sweet it was inedible. Yes, we roast pumpkin here and eat it with salt and pepper. I have made pumpkin pie (30 years ago, in England) and it was OK. Not special - just OK. I far prefer roast pumpkin and roast sweet potatoes with lots of gravy!

But yes, the bacon and ham in the Southern Hemisphere is crapED. And sausages. No idea how they get it so wrong!

On another tack, I was at a Rotary Club quiz night tonight. We agreed we should have a Thanksgiving day dinner NEXT year. Too short notice for this year. Think we will roast the turkey though, not fry it. scared of burning the house down!

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Oops - that last paragraph - wrong thread. Sorry!

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Honestly y'all....you cannot compare fried turkeys to KFC fried chicken. It's nothing like it. As junkie said, the key is you make a tasty hot pepper/cayenne/butter mixture and inject every region of that dead bird with a syringe. I like to make mine extra spicy cause that's just how we roll here in the south. Then you drop that sucker in hot canola oil and the skin seers immediately sealing in all the juices. It's actually the tastiest way to cook a turkey and if you're not afraid of a little butter it's quite healthy compared to fried chicken. It is, at least, low carb. I've made quite a few and even dated one for a while I think during my drinking years.

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Honestly y'all....you cannot compare fried turkeys to KFC fried chicken. It's nothing like it. As junkie said, the key is you make a tasty hot pepper/cayenne/butter mixture and inject every region of that dead bird with a syringe. I like to make mine extra spicy cause that's just how we roll here in the south. Then you drop that sucker in hot canola oil and the skin seers immediately sealing in all the juices. It's actually the tastiest way to cook a turkey and if you're not afraid of a little butter it's quite healthy compared to fried chicken. It is, at least, low carb. I've made quite a few and even dated one for a while I think during my drinking years.

I agree with ya, EXCEPT, we fry ours in peanut oil...can't wait to have some on Thursday!!

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Oh yeah. Shitted. You're right. Peanut oil. I forgot.

So, following along this thread has been interesting, and now the turkey talk had me doing a little research..'cause it just seems like frying anything has to be " bad", but turns out, according to the author, Michele Jacobson, http://www.nutritionprescription.biz/3/post/2012/10/surprising-nutritional-facts-about-deep-fried-turkey.html, it is nearly the same....

"Per serving, the two types of turkey are about the same. A 4-ounce serving of roasted turkey has 241 calories and 12 grams of fat while a 4-ounce serving of turkey deep-fried in peanut oil comes in at 253 calories and under 14 grams of fat, a very subtle difference.

Fried turkey is traditionally prepared in 100 percent peanut oil because it naturally maintains high temperatures throughout the cooking process resulting in a bird that is crispy on the outside, moist on the inside and has a slight nutty taste."

If Inquiring minds wanted to know...

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Haha, can I save that?? You saying I'm right?!? I might need it for future reference ;-P I didn't know of y'all cooked it different over in the big state of Texas :)

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.... a bird that is crispy on the outside, moist on the inside and has a slight nutty taste." ..

Yep....I knew I dated one for a while. You just described her perfectly.

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Fucked off.

PAAAHAHAHA I love you too, Butter ;-P

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Btw Butter, one of my good friends decided to have the sleeve...he was totally convinced when I showed him your before and after pics. He had his surgery last Monday and is doing really good. Just wanted to let you know that you've inspired someone you don't even know:)

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PAAAHAHAHA I love you too, Butter ;-P

My wife's people live up north of Alexandria where the churches and fried turkeys run rampant and sensibility has been outlawed. My tiny martial victory is that I don't have to go there for both thanksgiving and Xmas. I'd rather go turkey day and stay home Xmas but I get outvoted on that every year. But either way I get gumbo.

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