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Feast Most Foul - Thanksgiving dinners PETA would love.
www.opinionjournal.com (WSJ) ^ | November 23, 2005 | MEGHAN COX GURDON

Posted on 11/23/2005 11:37:35 AM PST by neverdem

Cast your mind back to the Thanksgivings of your childhood--or if not yours, then Norman Rockwell's. See the flushed, familiar faces, the expanse of white damask, the jewel-like bowls of candied yams and cranberry sauce, and Granddad carving the large, gleaming, nut-brown . . . artichoke?

Wait--sorry. I've been looking at too many children's picture books. For though it's true that publishers still turn out Pilgrim- and Indian-themed stories about America's most beloved holiday--with pumpkins, cornucopias and roasted turkey--the aim of a surprising number of children's books about Thanksgiving seems to be to put little readers off their meat. In these stories, succulent turkey is out; crunchy veggies are in. And a plump gobbler isn't served on the table but at it.

"Thanksgiving dinner always means turkey! Or does it? One little pilgrim is not so sure . . " So goes the sell on the cover of Peggy Archer's "Turkey Surprise" (Dial, $10). In it, forest creatures help a turkey hide from two pilgrim boys, the younger of whom eventually succeeds in persuading his brother not to bag a fowl for Thanksgiving. In "Over the River: A Turkey's Tale" (Simon & Schuster, $14.95), illustrated by Derek Anderson, turkeys on their way to Grandma's house similarly manage to outwit and escape their pursuers before sitting down to a jolly meat-free Thanksgiving meal.

In "Thelonious Turkey Lives! (On Felicia Ferguson's Farm)" (Knopf, $15.95), by Lynn Rowe Reed, Thanksgiving's approach causes the eponymous avian hero to become "nervous about dinner--being dinner, that is." He assumes that Felicia is "trying to fatten him up for the chopping block." So he foments a barnyard insurgency to destabilize the apparently ferocious farmer, only to discover in the end that she merely wants his feathers to use as decorations on fashionable hats.

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KEYWORDS: animalwhackos; peta; thanksgiving
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To: trisham
My wife's a vegetarian - but for her it's a "it's so good for you!" thing and not a "how can we eat fluffy bunnies" thing.

She grills a mean veal cutlet for someone who hasn't eaten one in 10+ years.

I know one adult man who is an "ethical" vegetarian, but even he's allowing his kids to eat meat and make the choice for themselves when they get older.

41 posted on 11/23/2005 12:51:26 PM PST by wideawake (God bless our brave troops and their Commander-in-Chief)
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To: wideawake
She grills a mean veal cutlet for someone who hasn't eaten one in 10+ years.

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Now that's unusual. The vegetarians I've met are not so tolerant. I don't think they have much talent as chefs, either.

42 posted on 11/23/2005 12:56:21 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: 2Jedismom

Ohhhh, that sounds good. I'll be there.

(That is what you meant, right?)

Dan


43 posted on 11/23/2005 12:58:06 PM PST by BibChr ("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
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To: ErnBatavia

Last year there was a photo in the newspaper that showed a free vegan Thanksgiving. There were five takers.


44 posted on 11/23/2005 12:58:56 PM PST by Lady Jag (Honor - Dignity - Courage - Troll Consumption)
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To: neverdem

Made with soy, of course!

45 posted on 11/23/2005 1:01:57 PM PST by Lady Jag (Honor - Dignity - Courage - Troll Consumption)
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To: Lady Jag
free vegan Thanksgiving. There were five takers.

...handful of dandelions, and it's a wrap!

46 posted on 11/23/2005 1:13:48 PM PST by ErnBatavia (Frist would be a great Majority Leader if he had 65 seats..make that 75)
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To: wideawake
What sort of weakminded idiots buy these kinds of books for their kids?

People like the ones in my town. Volvo. Greenpeace. Smug Arrogance. Maxed out Credit cards and a No Interest Mortgage, with a paper-shuffling Widow-Fleecing job, and a wife they will discard on her fortieth birthday, read the script and bought it, and hates his life enough to vote Democrat.

(With apologies to the Monty Python Travel Agent skit.)

47 posted on 11/23/2005 1:19:30 PM PST by Gorzaloon
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To: ErnBatavia
...handful of dandelions, and it's a wrap!

The five who showed up look like they needed food bad, so that is good. They looked happy to be warm but they also looked like they were having a hard time swallowing.

Still, if I was one of them, knowing how it tasted, I'd have passed on it and gone through some restaurant dumpsters instead.

48 posted on 11/23/2005 1:25:55 PM PST by Lady Jag (Honor - Dignity - Courage - Troll Consumption)
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To: Lady Jag


I'm sorry, but if I saw something like that on the dinner table, I'd be looking for the Great Dane who did it and whoop his sorry *ss.
49 posted on 11/23/2005 1:27:55 PM PST by reagan_fanatic (Darwinism is a belief in the meaninglessness of existence - R. Kirk)
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To: reagan_fanatic
I'd be looking for the Great Dane who did it and whoop his sorry *ss.

Yes, I doubt you could get the poor pup to eat it.

It's the worst stuff I have ever tasted and I've had some weird stuff.

50 posted on 11/23/2005 1:36:36 PM PST by Lady Jag (Honor - Dignity - Courage - Troll Consumption)
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To: Lazamataz

Panties on turkey. Kinky.


51 posted on 11/23/2005 1:45:54 PM PST by Killborn (Pres. Bush isn't Pres. Reagan. Then again, Pres. Regan isn't Pres. Washington. God bless them all.)
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To: Lazamataz
I hate PETA so much that I now slowly torture my turkey to death.

Good idea...I think I'll stack up a bunch of naked turkeys and get some ugly girl with a cigarette to pose next to them...maybe put underwear on the head of another turkey.

52 posted on 11/23/2005 1:50:18 PM PST by highlander_UW (I don't know what my future holds, but I know Who holds my future)
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To: Lady Jag

There's a Korean place near where my wife works that has a tofu side dish that tastes like French toast with a slight zing to it. If done up right tofu can be a decent side dish.


53 posted on 11/23/2005 2:01:44 PM PST by Junior (From now on, I'll stick to science, and leave the hunting alien mutants to the experts!)
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To: Junior
If done up right tofu can be a decent side dish.

Tofu requires other ingredients on order to make it palatable. It's still soy.

54 posted on 11/23/2005 2:08:49 PM PST by Lady Jag (Honor - Dignity - Courage - Troll Consumption)
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To: Lady Jag

Indeed. It's great in miso soup, or prepared like that Korean restaurant did. Tofu was never designed to be eaten as is; it was meant to be an ingredient in cooking.


55 posted on 11/23/2005 2:14:22 PM PST by Junior (From now on, I'll stick to science, and leave the hunting alien mutants to the experts!)
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To: neverdem
If you don't eat meat, you'll
end up looking like this:


56 posted on 11/23/2005 2:18:29 PM PST by quark
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To: BibChr

Heh heh!!

I'm gonna log off the computer...hubby will be home soon and I have a few more items to get before tomorrow.

Happy Thanksgiving, my FRiend...


57 posted on 11/23/2005 2:20:26 PM PST by 2Jedismom (Expect me when you see me!)
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To: Junior

Lard and butter aren't meant to be eaten as is, either, but you don't see it served as the main course disguised as real food.


58 posted on 11/23/2005 2:20:43 PM PST by Lady Jag (Honor - Dignity - Courage - Troll Consumption)
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To: neverdem
Tomorrow here there will be Turkey, Duck with orange sauce, Lamb and Salmon as well as the absolutely essential squash, turnips, mashed potatoes and gravy, sweet potatoes, green beans and the five pies I baked today.

Anyone else notice that I capitalized the meats? There's a reason.

59 posted on 11/23/2005 2:27:26 PM PST by muir_redwoods (Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopechne is walking around free)
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To: Lady Jag
I always wondered what that stuff was really like. I reasoned that they must use tempeh or extruded soy protein or something remotely capable of being eaten. That is just nasty!

Having spent the day making all the sides for our dinner tomorrow, all I have left to do is stuff and roast a 20-pound turkey. Can't wait. This is our favorite holiday!
60 posted on 11/23/2005 3:08:12 PM PST by reformedliberal (Bless our troops and pray for our nation.)
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