Ideas needed

[PossumGirl]

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LOL[:)]

Mr RH spotted 'a bird within a bird, within a bird 'etc in the Waitrose Christmas pre- order book - £200 ! We are having turkey  - again ! 

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This may be the famous "Turducken" which started out in New Orleans I believe.  Friends of ours made it one Christmas.  It was very good, but they did the whole thing themselves and it took them forever!  I believe the damned thing had to cook for something like 10 or 12 hours!

PG

[Pierre ZFP]

You have to remember that you have to get the turkey lined up just right, maybe a bit of corn on the ground so it will bend over.  Then get a specially trained duck to fly just off the ground at very high speed ....... I don't think asking 200 quid for that lot is too much [;-)]

Anyway, I like turkey.

 

[Russethouse]

Luckily we like turkey too and the children (grown up)also love all the trimmings. Like Boxing day better - cold turkey, mash, pickles etc........great !

[Saint]

Hi, all, I had an idea for christmas that we could tell some stories about childhood but picked the wrong thread so it was deleted. However, here is the gist...

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE 1940's, 50's, 60's and 70's!!

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a tin, and didn't get tested for diabetes.

Then after that trauma, our baby cots were covered with bright colored lead-based paints. We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.

As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags. Riding in the back of a van - loose - was always great fun.  We drank water from the garden hosepipe and NOT from a bottle.

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this. We ate cakes, white bread and real butter and drank pop with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because......

WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!

 We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on. No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K. We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no cell phones, no text messaging, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
 
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents. We played with worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.

Made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not poke out any eyes.  We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them!
 
Local teams had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!! The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever! The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned  HOW TO
DEAL WITH IT ALL! And YOU are one of them!  CONGRATULATIONS!

You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good., and while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.

Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!

Does anybody remember sticking playing cards onto the frame of their bikes with clothes pegs so that it "frapped" on the spokes of the wheel when you peddled? Allegedly it was to sound like a motorbike but sounded much more like a manic wheel of fortune. Thing is that you were so busy admiring the contraption attatched to your back wheel you never looked where you were going. I once flew over the handlebars having hit my best mates bike full on (he had done a broady and I was not looking, prize for those who remember broadies and wheelies) flew for about five meters which was OK but then landed and had two stitches in my chin. Oh how we laughed. I was the hero of the day and awarded the title "hard" because I did not cry (not at least until I got home, out of sight and sat on my mums Knee). Instead of a plaster, my stitches (now called "suches?"..perhaps its so children dont Know they are going to get stitches) were sprayed with something that resembled fake snow so I looked like I had been dipping my chin in white candle wax. Do they still use this stuff or has it subsequently been identified as a source of cancer, along with coffee and cling film.

Here's a question and there really is only one way of putting this, did anyone else ever dare go to the loo at school or was it just me that had a fear of being exposed to ridicule from other standing on the loo in the next cubicle and peering over the top whilst you were at your most vulnerable...sorry but we may as well get straight to the nitty gritty (nit nurse, its all coming out, apparently they have stopped this service due to human rights?!! or that could be an urban myth, only the nits will benefit and I dont mean the human rights lawyers....sorry).

Come on guys, you must have some fabulous stories and I would love to hear them all....

[Saint]

Sorry this has now got its own link so if you have any stories pleas go there....

[powerdesal]

Sorry BB, misread your post.

Have checked and can get duck, we believe its French duck. Definitely havent seen goose, but in all fairness you can probably get anything in Dubai but at a price ( oil sheikh I aint ).

Last year Carrefour in Sharjah had all sorts of exotic food in for Christmas but the prices were so far out of sight that very little sold and I doubt they will repeat the exercise.

Just Katie. The venison sounds tempting, not sure about availability here at an affordable price.

Its really coming down to duck or boring old turkey with a possible fall back on the favourite leg of lamb. We could just sod it and have loads of sausages on the barbie - sorry Phil !!!!!![:D]

Still having ham and eggs with champagne for breakfast though - at lunchtime cos its a working day here ( I will sneak off early ) [Www]