Family Makes Foul Discovery Inside Frozen Turkey

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Family Makes Foul Discovery Inside Frozen Turkey Unexpected Stuffing Puts Hamper On Holiday Dinner POSTED: 7:51 AM EST November 24, 2004 UPDATED: 8:37 AM EST November 24, 2004

BRIDGETON, N.J. -- A Cumberland County, N.J., family made a shocking discovery as it was preparing for their Thanksgiving dinner.

Diane Hall and her family found a turkey head inside their frozen turkey.

"I went to pull it out and it popped out in the sink," said Hall.

At first, Hall wasn't sure what it was but her nephew, Eric Loatman, knew exactly what it was.

"I said, look, there's the head. She said, 'No, it's not.' I said, 'Yes, it is, see the eyes, nose and beak,'" said Loatman.

"It's gross, sickening," said Hall.

She checked the wrapper to see who distributed the turkey and called Heartland Foods in Minnesota.

[Xenalyte]

Dude, that is just FUNNY.

[Xenalyte]

And when did it get so cold over there?

[al baby]

if poland were to invade turkey from the rear would grease help

[Xenalyte]

Every single answer I've come up with would net me a suspension, but the speculation is indeed entertaining.

[sweetliberty]

"maybe they thought the turkey originally didn't have a head."

Or maybe the moron illegal who prepared the turkey didn't realize that Americans don't expect to find the head packaged with the giblets.

[sweetliberty]

[voteconstitutionparty]

I remember my mom finding a chicken head inside of a store chicken. She threw it away,and we ate the chicken.

[Coleus]

  gobble gobble, I hate thanksgiving

I wonder how she would feel about eating a roasted pig?  Pork Rinds are delicious. oink oink

[auggy]

"This small piece of fried chicken turned out to be a battered and fried chicken brain."

How do you know it was a brain?

I would think that would be very hard to identify.

[auggy]

"Looks like my left nut after surfing"

Looks more like a nut sack to me.

[Libertina]

LOL Turkeys have heads? This is a problem? LOL

[F16Fighter]

"Looks like my left nut after surfing"

Lol...

Hey al, that IS magnified a bit, eh?

[benice]

I smell a lawsuit......they look for any excuse.

[SamAdams76]

City people crack me up. I suppose they were suprised to find out that frozen supermarket turkeys were actually real, living birds at one time and THEY HAD HEADS! Oh, the horror!

Bought a fresh turkey from the butcher this year and cooked it up in tin foil after drenching it in olive oil. When we pulled it out of the oven, it was so moist and tender that the meat fell off the bones. There might have been a head in there but if there was, I probably ate it.

[ladyinred]

I cooked a Butterball too. The head was not among the giblets inside thank heavens! Butterball is the only way to go!!!

[cyclotic]

I plucked all the hair off a blue lucky rabbit's foot in High School. The skeletal foot made a pretty cool key chain.

[ez]

I can think of a lot worse things.

I once found a band-aid which had previously protected a finger at the center of a tuna salad sandwich.

[mlmr]

Chicken-head Ice Cream with beaks for extra crunch.

[CFC__VRWC]

But I like this story better than some of the sappy, heartwarming ones I've heard. Much more entertaining.

There's actually a media outlet somewhere that puts out "heartwarming" Thanksgiving stories? Most of them seem to run two kinds of stories on Thanksgiving:

1. "How dare you sit there in your warm living room with a full stomach when there are homeless people starving thanks to Bush's tax cuts for the rich!!!

2. "How dare you sit there in your warm living room with a full stomach when Bush is blowing up Iraqi babies in his illegal oil war!!!!!"

[LibertyRocks]

Well at least we know it's REAL CHICKEN! That's almost reassuring frankly.