Turkey

I thought you would like this.

We visited our newly married daughter, who was preparing her first
Thanksgiving dinner. I noticed the turkey thawing in the kitchen sink
with a dish drainer inverted over the bird. I asked why a drainer
covered the turkey.
Our daughter turned to my wife and said, "Mom, you always did it that
way."
"Yes," my wife replied, "but you don't have a cat!"


---MIKE---
In the white mountains of New Hampshire
44°15' North Elevation 1580 feet

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I thought you would like this.

We visited our newly married daughter, who was preparing her first
Thanksgiving dinner. I noticed the turkey thawing in the kitchen sink
with a dish drainer inverted over the bird. I asked why a drainer
covered the turkey.
Our daughter turned to my wife and said, "Mom, you always did it that
way."
"Yes," my wife replied, "but you don't have a cat!"


---MIKE---
In the white mountains of New Hampshire
44°15' North Elevation 1580 feet

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LOL! That reminds me of a similar story. In this case, the daughter cut
the legs off the turkey before putting it in the roasting pan. The mother
asked the same question and got the same response as above. The mother
replied, "That was because my roaster was too small for the whole turkey.
Yours is large enough."

Joy

Joy wrote:

"---MIKE--- -" wrote in message

We visited our newly married daughter, who was preparing her first
Thanksgiving dinner. I noticed the turkey thawing in the kitchen sink
with a dish drainer inverted over the bird. I asked why a drainer
covered the turkey.
Our daughter turned to my wife and said, "Mom, you always did it that
way."
"Yes," my wife replied, "but you don't have a cat!"

LOL! That reminds me of a similar story. In this case, the daughter cut
the legs off the turkey before putting it in the roasting pan. The mother
asked the same question and got the same response as above. The mother
replied, "That was because my roaster was too small for the whole turkey.
Yours is large enough."

Both stories point out the folly of "I do it this way because that's the
way we've always done it in our family."

Joyce

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Joy wrote:

"---MIKE--- -" wrote in message

We visited our newly married daughter, who was preparing her first
Thanksgiving dinner. I noticed the turkey thawing in the kitchen sink
with a dish drainer inverted over the bird. I asked why a drainer
covered the turkey.
Our daughter turned to my wife and said, "Mom, you always did it that
way."
"Yes," my wife replied, "but you don't have a cat!"

LOL! That reminds me of a similar story. In this case, the daughter
cut
the legs off the turkey before putting it in the roasting pan. The
mother
asked the same question and got the same response as above. The mother
replied, "That was because my roaster was too small for the whole
turkey.
Yours is large enough."

Both stories point out the folly of "I do it this way because that's the
way we've always done it in our family."

Joyce

Yup. One could even leave off the last three words. ;-)

Joy

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Joy wrote:

"---MIKE--- -" wrote in message

We visited our newly married daughter, who was preparing her first
Thanksgiving dinner. I noticed the turkey thawing in the kitchen sink
with a dish drainer inverted over the bird. I asked why a drainer
covered the turkey.
Our daughter turned to my wife and said, "Mom, you always did it that
way."
"Yes," my wife replied, "but you don't have a cat!"

LOL! That reminds me of a similar story. In this case, the daughter
cut
the legs off the turkey before putting it in the roasting pan. The
mother
asked the same question and got the same response as above. The mother
replied, "That was because my roaster was too small for the whole
turkey.
Yours is large enough."

Both stories point out the folly of "I do it this way because that's the
way we've always done it in our family."

Joyce

I like coming up with new and creative ways to counteract the "way we've
always done it" habit. Obviously sometimes there is a method to the madness
This reminds me... I wonder whatever happened to my mother's old
speckled (grannyware) turkey roasting pan? Hmmmm.

Jill