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Trick Up Your Thanksgiving: Are these Recipes Crazy or Creative? [POLL]

Trey — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 22:24:36 +0000

As millions of families are sitting down to their traditional Thanksgiving feasts of oven baked or fried turkey, green bean casserole, stuffing, and multitudes of desserts. Some families will break with tradition to spice up this age old feast with such delicacies as Velveeta Cheesecake or bacon wrapped turkey and even more outlandish creations. Check out these wild meals!

Where Did That Turkey Come From?

Jen Austin — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 14:11:09 +0000

Texas doesn't have bragging rights in terms of the biggest turkey-producing states, but it does produce its share.

Nine to ten million Texas turkeys are produced each year, and most of those come from Central and East-Central Texas, according to a map from Smithsonian Magazine.

Which state is the biggest turkey producer? I'll give you the answer so you can impress your friends and family at the Thanksgiving feast today.

Turkey: Smoked, Oven Roasted or Fried? [POLL]

Lucky Larry — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 16:02:57 +0000

With Thanksgiving coming up Thursday, the annual radio station Thanksgiving lunch with the staff and family is coming up tomorrow afternoon and of course the main dish at the luncheon will be turkey. But how that turkey gets prepared for us was up for a great debate! When the topic first came up, the turkey [...]

Thanksgiving Turkeys Will Be Cheaper Than Expected This Year — Dollars and Sense

Mike Adams — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 20:00:03 +0000

The price of turkey is going to be cheaper than expected this year, largely because many retailers were able to lock in the cost of the birds before the summer’s drought sent feed prices way, way up. Now retailers plan to offer customers the lowest possible prices on Thanksgiving turkeys in hopes of driving them [...]

8 Wacky Presidential Turkey Pardon Moments [VIDEOS, PHOTOS]

Rose Maura Lorre — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 17:01:35 +0000

Saul Loeb/Mike Sprague, AFP/Getty Images As holidays go, Thanksgiving sure has its share of odd traditions. Live parades with lip-synched musical numbers! Mincemeat pies and Jell-O molds! Grandma Ruthie removing her dentures at the dinner table! Not even the President of the United States is spared his share of the inanity. Case in point: the [...]

William Shatner Preaches Turkey Fryer Safety In Bizarre PSA [VIDEO]

Bob Sassone — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 19:00:26 +0000

This Thanksgiving PSA from William Shatner rests somewhere between his musical stylings and that time he threw a chair on ‘$20,000 Pyramid’ on the weirdness scale.

In the video below that Shatner made for State Farm Insurance, the onetime Capt. Kirk talks about the dangers of deep-frying a turkey.