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Carving the turkey like a 1791 gentleman
Telegraph.Co.UK ^
| 24/12/2007
| Nick Britten
Posted on 12/25/2007 5:30:48 AM PST by COUNTrecount
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To: COUNTrecount
That’s disgusting. Where’s that diner’s ‘couth?
His pinky fingers on both hands should be extended outward in a gesture of finesse and elegance as evidence of his mastery of refined dining manners.
To: COUNTrecount
"Manners, respect and simply doing things right were all the rage back then and were drilled into people in every aspect of their lives." It must have been wonderful to live like that, because people like that built the Great Work of Time, the Empire, and all it subsequent societies.
Now, it's getting the finger in traffic and being killed for crack.
Maybe it's just me getting old.
Merry Christmas.
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posted on
12/25/2007 5:43:25 AM PST
by
Gorzaloon
To: COUNTrecount
"
But it also reveals that turkey was not the most popular choice for Christmas dinner. It fell some way behind the favourites: a boiled cod's head or half a calf's head."
Ah ... there's a Monty Python sketch in there someplace.
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posted on
12/25/2007 5:44:55 AM PST
by
G.Mason
(And what is intelligence if not the craft of out-thinking our adversaries?)
To: COUNTrecount
Table manners...
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posted on
12/25/2007 6:00:13 AM PST
by
NautiNurse
(Plants are people too)
To: COUNTrecount
Which half of a calf’s head is proper holiday etiquette?
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posted on
12/25/2007 6:00:17 AM PST
by
mtbopfuyn
(I think the border is kind of an artificial barrier - San Antonio councilwoman Patti Radle)
To: COUNTrecount
Any attempt to hack at the turkey will end in guests being "bespattered" and so should be avoided.This just ain t that hard people!
Use a thin razor sharp carving knife and..
Use Method 2 for carving the breast
Merry Christmas!
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posted on
12/25/2007 6:02:16 AM PST
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: TR Jeffersonian
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posted on
12/25/2007 6:20:50 AM PST
by
kalee
To: Gorzaloon
It must have been wonderful to live like that, because people like that built the Great Work of Time, the Empire, and all it subsequent societies.I was struck watching the 1938 version of "A Christmas Carol" yesterday when Dick exclaimed "Yes! Q.E.D.!"
How many of today's films or TV shows would get way with an unexplained, undiluted "Q.E.D." thrown right in the face of viewers? Not many.
It's a testament to the literacy of 1938 and of Dickens' own time that such a simple story could be told with that kind of finesse.
(ps - It goes without saying that only a handful of today's college juniors understand "Q.E.D." or when it might be employed).
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posted on
12/25/2007 6:27:21 AM PST
by
angkor
("We are not very many mistakes away from a second Holocaust." Newt Gingrich, Nov 15 2007)
To: mylife
I just rip the meat off the turkey with my rubber glove covered hands. Guests are presented with a platter of meat and miss all of the carnage in the kitchen.
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posted on
12/25/2007 6:28:58 AM PST
by
listenhillary
(You get more of what you focus on)
To: COUNTrecount
boiled cod's head I'd feel awkward asking for a cod piece at Christmas dinner.
To: listenhillary
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posted on
12/25/2007 6:30:15 AM PST
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: COUNTrecount
Any attempt to hack at the turkey will end in guests being "bespattered" and so should be avoided. Use an ounce or so of C4 for simultaneous carving and serving. Guest can eat whatever they are "bespattered" with. Eye and ear protection are recommended.
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posted on
12/25/2007 6:42:37 AM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(Government is the hired help - not the boss. When politicians forget that they must be fired.)
To: angkor
Well, Quantum Electrodynamics confused the Dickens out of me.
To: Tijeras_Slim
I'd feel awkward asking for a cod piece at Christmas dinner.And you should. A man without his own cod piece is no man at all.
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posted on
12/25/2007 6:50:53 AM PST
by
jdub
To: Tijeras_Slim
To: angkor
(ps - It goes without saying that only a handful of today's college juniors understand "Q.E.D." or when it might be employed). Well, I am old enough so we had Latin in (Public) high school. NOT that it was in everyday conversational use at the time-Honest.
To: COUNTrecount
"--a boiled cod's head or half a calf's head."Yuck! I'm glad I'm a vegetarian!
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posted on
12/25/2007 7:19:41 AM PST
by
Savage Beast
("History is not just cruel. It is witty." ~Charles Krauthammer)
To: COUNTrecount
Cod Head... It's what's for dinner.
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posted on
12/25/2007 7:25:48 AM PST
by
csvset
To: COUNTrecount
....I have an etiquette question.....should the turkey drumstick be eaten with the fingers?....or should the fingers be eaten separately.
rimshot!
....actually we’re avoiding the whole turkey thing.....my wife is putting on a Dove & Sausage gumbo as we speak.
Merry Christmas and God Bless Us Every One!
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