YSaC, Vol. 1592: Cold turkey.

2013 September 3

Unthawed turkey


Free turkey. I unthawed it but won’t have Time to cook it. Must pick up

If the turkey has been unthawed, that implies that it was, at some point, thawed. Which implies that it was frozen, then brought to an unfrozen state, then un-unfrozen. No wonder Sparky won’t have time to cook the turkey!

Thanks, Ralph!

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  1. 2013 September 3

    It’s turkey lurkey time
    Tom turkey ran away, but he just came home
    It’s turkey lurkey time
    He’s really home to stay, never one to roam

    We had a big dinner for him. The end.

    Adores: 1
  2. 2013 September 3
    Llama Derp permalink

    Frozen unfrozen
    Turkey salmonella time
    Thanksgiving barfing

    Adores: 6
    • 2013 September 3

      Turkey, turkey,
      Get unthawed free turkey.
      Turkey, turkey,
      Eat it up, yum.

      Turkey, turkey,
      Tummy feels so murky.
      Turkey, turkey,
      Barf it up, yuck.

      Adores: 5
      • 2013 September 3
        Irregular Fractal permalink

        There once was a turkey unfrozen
        Its purchasers clearly were dozin’
        The results of this process
        Brought about staphylococcus
        And confusion as wrong words were chosen

        Adores: 5
  3. 2013 September 3

    Left off the message was this…

    “Unthawed in 1987, but should be fine. Never mind that awful stench, that’s just ‘turkey’ smell. And, the blue fuzz is the rub that came with it. It’s all good..and it’s free, so just take it and shut up.”

    Adores: 8
    • 2013 September 3
      One Moving Violation permalink

      If it had green fuzz instead of blue, you could pass it off as a durian. Would still have to give it away instead of sell it though.

      Adores: 5
  4. 2013 September 3
    nojazzhere permalink

    …..”won’t have Thyme to cook it.”….. Try a little salt and pepper, perhaps a little rosemary.

    Adores: 8
  5. 2013 September 3
    shmennikins permalink

    Is the process for unthawing turkey similar to the recipe for unscrambled eggs?

    Adores: 4
    • 2013 September 3
      Brer Fox permalink

      I think it’s like unlaid eggs, or maybe even unhatched eggs, or uncracked eggs, or unfer…you know, I think unscrambled does it.

      Adores: 2
  6. 2013 September 3
    One Moving Violation permalink

    *Shows picture of naked turkey*

    Okay clath, which ith better grammar?

    Ow! My eyeth! What hath been theen cannot be untheen.

    or

    Oh thit, that ith tho dithguthting! What I thawed could not be unthawed.

    Adores: 6
    • 2013 September 3
      Brer Fox permalink

      I thawed I thaw a turkey bathter thumwhere.

      Adores: 3
  7. 2013 September 3
    CapnMac permalink

    To thaw or not to thaw,
    That is the question.
    Whe’er ’tis nobler to suffer
    The hurf & hork of tainted fowl,
    Or, to lurk, frozen solid in
    Least convenient freezer corner.
    But, hark–no, “hark” as in cast eyes upon–
    Dear Yorick; for ’tis this not the fowl
    Gi’en years’ back for fair Ophelia’s wake?
    Was that not Pollonoius’ favorite, Horatio,
    Subject to too much mad devotion,
    Febrile devotions upon turkey lips most foul?
    Alas, Yorick, I know not how we have come
    To this boneyard of such woe.
    Canst thou help clean this spot, this fowl
    Spot away?
    And gather here, not to praise,
    But to bury oursel’s in Salad…
    For Salomnella is not a reasonable host.
    [exeunt]

    Adores: 13
    • 2013 September 3

      So fair and fowl a day I have not seen.
      Is this a carving knife I see before me?
      The handle toward my hand.
      Out out fowl spot.
      All the perfumes of Arabia shall not
      Cleanse this foul fowl.
      She should have died hereafter;
      There would have been thyme for such a bird.
      Unthawed and unthawed and unthawed,
      Cooks in this petty pace from day to day
      To the last turkey of recorded time,
      And all our yesterdays have lighted fowls
      The way to frozen breasts. it is a tale
      Told by an sparky, full of sound and fury,
      Signifying nothing.

      Adores: 6
      • 2013 September 3
        bratty innocence permalink

        Did anyone else notice how questionable turkey inspires Shakespearean-ish comments????

        Adores: 3
  8. 2013 September 3

    Wait…if something is ‘unthawed’ wouldn’t that, by definition, mean it’s frozen?

    I see what you did there, Sparky.

    Well played.

    Adores: 6
    • 2013 September 3
      DigitalAxis permalink

      Sparky is probably operating under the assumption that “thawed” and “unthawed” mean the same thing, just like “flammable” and “inflammable” and “OH GOD IT BURNS”

      Adores: 4
    • 2013 September 3
      KatyCat permalink

      That’s what I was thinking, too, CJ. Which then leaves me to wonder… was this a deliberate “put it in the freezer as the first step of cooking”, in which case I don’t think I want to use that cookbook, or is the house just so cold that leaving a turkey on the counter results in frozen fowl, in which case I NEVER want to see their air conditioner bill.

      Adores: 0
    • 2013 September 3
      andy permalink

      I’m about to heat up an unthawed pizza for dinner.

      Adores: 0
  9. 2013 September 3

    I will not eat your turkey raw,
    I will not touch it if unthawed,
    I will not even touch your ham,
    For I am vegan, Sam-I-Am.

    (Waiting patiently for ham touching thread to begin . . .)

    Adores: 9
    • 2013 September 3

      I ham what I ham and that’s all that I ham. I only touch it at Thanksgiving with the unthawed turkey.

      Adores: 1
      • 2013 September 3
        KatyCat permalink

        I like my ham in a can, but I wouldn’t touch it unless I had a stick.

        Adores: 3
        • 2013 September 3

          I like HamCan too! Wonder what’s keeping him from posting today?

          Oh no! Bad puppy! Leave that unthawed turkey alone!

          Adores: 2
        • 2013 September 3
          HamCan permalink

          PECIL!

          Adores: 3
  10. 2013 September 3
    andy permalink

    I wonder if this is the same Sparky who was on here a few months ago announcing a load of (previously) frozen meat that was sitting out on the front lawn for the taking.

    Adores: 3
    • 2013 September 3

      andy, you may be on to something! Sparkies Unthawed Meats didn’t make it on eBay, so now he’s set up working out of his home.

      Adores: 0
  11. 2013 September 3
    Demon Duck of Doom permalink

    I smell a lawsuit. Somebody call Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer!

    Adores: 4
  12. 2013 September 3
    CapnMac permalink

    Hmmm, always the possibility (no matter how miniscule) that Spark’ meant ur-thawed; the presumptive thaw that preceded all others.

    Not that a Permian-era turkey would have much present value, either. But, unlike Spark’s posting, it’s at least a game bit of mental exercise.

    Adores: 1
  13. 2013 September 3
    limelolly permalink

    Does unthawed turkey make it ‘chili’?

    Adores: 2
  14. 2013 September 3
    Ralph permalink

    Whya no chicken?

    Adores: 2
    • 2013 September 3
      limelolly permalink

      Because the duck goosed the flock.

      Adores: 1
  15. 2013 September 4

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    Good Morning, Wild Unthawed Turkeys!

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