Turkey Dinner for Turkeys
People, if you want an alternative to your turkey Thanksgiving dinner check out, Adopt-a-Turkey.com.
Check out these adoptable dudes, stuffing themselves!
Nommity nommity nommity
Jeanette P. way to pour on the guilt like gravy. Thanks.
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OK, I'm in! Thanksgiving for all!
EPIC NUFFEST IN 3... 2... 1...
As well as stuffing themselves, do they self baste?
Masterfully!
Theo, thats naughty.
[Let he who is without sin baste the first... um, never mind - Ed.]
I give thanks for Cute Overload! Thanks for talking about the Thanksgiving for the Turkeys dinner, which sounds like such a fun and positive event. Look at the beaks on those turkeys, btw--evidence of "debeaking" by the turkey processors. So sad. Go, little turkeys! Snap up those cranberries and dig into that pie! :) P.S. Turkeys aren't the prettiest animals, but don't their wattles look like red neckerchiefs in these pictures? Perfect so they don't get punkin on their vests.
I love the top two photos- definite flufferkin material, therefore suitable for a long life of feastingks and attentions. I love this post, it makes me happy I'm a vegetarian.
I'm feeling quite smug for being a veggie, too, Psilopathic. They look so happy! Chomp away, Turkingtons!
Mmm, turkey lurkey!
I feel conflicted eating meat anymore. It's hard to divorce myself from the living, breathing animal anymore... and yet, MMMMM, Turkey!
I wonder if they can somehow create meat without having to create a head connected to it. :(
stuffing themselves. ha!
Cute! but it won't stop me from eating one this Thursday, they taste too good!
I bought my Tofurkey, DID YOU???
@Dave: scientists are hard at work "growing" meat in the lab:
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/04/invitro_meat
Bone-less Appetit!
P.S. Love the turkeys in the pie-eating contest. Go you gobblers, go!
I'm sensing extreme disapproval from the turkey in the top right pic. Perhaps disapproving turkeys need their own website and book...
That top right turkey seems very disgruntled about the whole affair. Sheesh. Gives bunnies a run for their money!
I like nommity nommity, it has a nice sound to it. I think it might be better than nom nom nom. Discuss.
Heyyyy...jinx!
Notice that the turkeys in the upper left pic and the bottom have been debeaked--an awful part of being a creature bred to provide meat. How can something treated like that taste good? Be a vegan!!
I never thought turkeys could be cute -- guess I was wrong!
I wish they'd provide information on the organization's website about finding cruelty-free meat. Not everyone wants to be vegetarian, but I'm sure lots of people would be open to finding local, free-range meat instead of poor debeaked turkeys.
(fighting urge for a Palin joke)
Check out this article on turkey-free turkeys:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122653028076622317.html
There's more than Tofurky out there. Personally, I blame the 7th Day Adventists and their pioneering faux-meat ways. I am totally hooked on the (Morningstar) spicy black bean burgers.
Kelthulu - They do talk about free-range and organic meat here:
http://www.adoptaturkey.org/aat/issues/freerange.html
Apparently, not as great as you might think. I assume they are still killed in the same way, which is the main reason I try to avoid meat. No turkey for me this Thanksgiving!
nommity v. nom nom? I kind of use these terms differently from one another... But it's too difficult to explain.
Yea, Happy Turkeys! I've been a vegetarian for 21 years, and am happier for it. There are free-range turkeys out there for those who would like to eat a turkey without the cruelty it endures at a factory farm. (My meat-eating-and-loves-it husband has considerably cut down his meat-eating because I cook vegetarian meals. He even likes fake chicken nuggets and Boca burgers, but doesn't think they taste like meat.)
oh you guys, having your thanksgiving all the way over here, so weird. (shakes head) turkeys look funny and i'd rather have salmon or lasagne for thanksgiving, like the one we have in october....
I guess technicaly nom nom is a verb and nommity is a... noun.
"EPIC NUFFEST"... Except at first I read that as a superlative, you know, as in mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the nuffest of them all.
Yes, I'm expecting a nuff fest, too, although so far so tame. Let the holiday season commence! Better go look at the licky licky Druncle kitteh again just to be safe.
Um, just read about Adopt-a-Turkey at the website... forget about free range turkeys!
i don't really like tofurkey- i prefer a good ol' Quorn Turk'y Roast (baked in a roasting bag with lots of veggies, dried fruit and nuts): http://www.quorn.us/cmpage.aspx?pageid=462&productid=146
nommity nom nom nom...
I'm still debating whether to have any of the turkey this Thanksgiving (I gave up poultry last month). That turkey in the upper right-hand corner is not helping!!! He's very disappointed in me, I can tell.
Oh, well. So long as I can have my candied sweet potatoes and stuffing balls. OM NOM NOM.
if they keep eating all that pie, i wont need to make desert. i can get it all at once.
The spouse and I were adopted two years ago by a free-range group of turkeys.
They showed up on a Tuesday, and basically never left. They roost atop our greenhouse frame, or in the trees. We provide cracked corn and sunflower seeds and water. They wander at will on our property.
As my mom put it: Those are the smartest, luckiest turkeys ever -- they found the only vegetarians in (insert rural community name here)!
One of the hens has become so tame that she'll actually come in the house. She knows where the container of corn is, and she'll stand there til you open it, then she'll stick her head in and start scarfing down food like mad. Unnerves the cats, though. "Big Bird, in our House! AAAAHHHH!"
Hey Temperance -- I'd like more info on your technique for your Quorn turkey roast. We've got one in the freezer and are looking forward to baking it on Thursday. Your technique sounds yummy!
I guess that's a good way to fatten them up before the big day.
Thanks so much for posting this! In 2007 271,000,000 turkeys were killed for food. And they didn't have to. Go veg for this Thanksgiving!
Uhhmmm, I'm really sorry...but there is absolutely nothing cute about those critters.....
It really doesn't matter if they're cute or not; no living being has to die so humans can eat. Just my humble opinion folks... obvy you can do whatever you feel is right.
Vegetarian approved!
@Plaid-shirt Pyrate: Nothing is as unnerving as "prey" that's five times your size.
plaid-shirt pyrate: there's a basic recipe for it on back of the box, i just like to add extra stuff: cut-up potatoes, corn, carrots, red onions, garlic, something green, dried cherries, and pecans.
my favorite 'stuffing' is a special k loaf (the kind without cottage cheese).
chow!
Mmmmm turkey. I'm okay with these guys not being cute. But they sure are yummy.
I hate when this comes up everything thanksgiving. What a terrible thing to waste money on when there are starving children and needy families out there (and yes, I'm a vegetarian but not the people hating sort).
I still think they're ugly enough to eat. But you folks are a month late, thanksgiving was B4 hallowe'en! (canadian eh?)
How about an extra helping of guilt? See in that last pic, how one of the turkeys looks a little bluish-gray? Their head and necks turn bluish like that when they're alarmed or frightened.
Thank goodness you didn't post the pictures of the Turkeys being interviewed. While they were happy about living, the guy in the background was firing up a woodchipper. I didn't see any trees....
(Can't believe I'm the first to make a Sara Palin reference.)
Yummy and cute, nice!
I've adopted, bitchez!
(I'm a sucker for crap like this.)
Yayy, I get to feel unconflicted on Thanksgiving again. Not because I'm a vegetarian or ethically superior in any way. Just because I'm a bachelor who's incapable of preparing any meal more complicated than dry cereal and bourbon (the Thanksgiving dinner of champions!).
Not very turkeyish, but I was playing with the Gender Analyzer (http://www.genderanalyzer.com)... and when I fed it Cute Overload's URL, I got:
"An error occurred
Sorry, we can only classify web pages written in english"
Maybe a little too much LOLspeak? ;-)
Just another crazy animal rights group wanting us to all become unhealthy vegetarians like them.
Quinadal -- spoken like a true red-blooded moron.
Those turkey guys totally look like Skeksis!
[Hmm, I bet you're right, and turkeys are what inspired the design for the Muppet Workshop peeps, at least partly... - Ed.]
Turkeys eat pie and cranberries? I didn't know that. I'm learning things on CO.
We bought lobster tails for Thanksgiving...so we've saved a turkey. It will be a disappointment to our cats though. They loved turkey leftovers.
I was there! The Celebration for the Turkeys was incredible. The turkeys were every bit as cute as they look in the pics. :-) They gobbled in excitement and then gobbled up loads of pumpkin pie, cranberries, and other goodies. The birds' welfare was the first priority, and they were surprisingly calm at being watched by better than a hundred people. If they were excited it was from rushing to the unexpected offering of tasty goodness!