Probably something like "What wondrous bounty! God is surely gracious to you, His southern children, to so bless you that you can immerse these great fowls wholly in rich oil for their cooking."
To which your average redneck backyard chef would reply "D@mn straight!"
Honestly, if people could have fried turkeys whole hundreds of years ago, they would have. Tuck would have had a vat of oil going in Sherwood Forest if he'd thought of it.
Of course, then we'd have to call him the Turkey Friar.
"Of course, then we'd have to call him the Turkey Friar."
*groan* :o)