Let’s Talk Turkey!

Food, Humor 3 Minutes

From Williamsonsource.com website:

Cooking a turkey for the Thanksgiving meal can be overwhelming. Butterball Turkey hotline has been assisting home chefs for over 30 years. And in that time, you can imagine that they have had some pretty interesting questions.  Here is a list of the most interesting questions they have been asked over the years.  If you need that hotline, it’s open on Thanksgiving, call 1-800-288-8372 from 7am-7pm and normal hours are from 9am-7pm daily. This year, Butterball has also added the option of texting.  Now through Thanksgiving, you can text the Butterball Turkey Talk-Line experts 24/7 at 844-877-3456.

1. So I’m looking at a turkey from 1969 sitting here in my father’s freezer … any tips on the best way to cook a 30-year-old bird?
A man found a turkey in his dad’s freezer from 1969. The Talk-Line suggested the man throw out the old turkey and purchase a new one. Then, the Talk-Line suggested to cook the turkey in the open roasting pan method.

2. How do I roast my turkey so it gets golden brown tan lines — in the shape of a turkey bikini?
A strange request in deed, but the Talk-Line can help in any turkey situation! The experts helped to create a “bikini look” by using aluminum foil in certain places on the turkey.

3. How to carve a turkey when all of its bones have been broken?
A proud gentleman called to tell the staff how he wrapped his turkey in a towel and stomped on it several times, breaking the bones so it would fit in his pan. The experts wouldn’t recommend this approach — if you have several folks coming to your holiday meal but a small pan, the Talk-Line would recommend trying a different method, maybe deep frying the turkey. Or, buy two smaller turkeys in place of a large one.

4. I carved my turkey with a chainsaw … is the chain grease going to adversely affect my turkey?
A gentleman called to tell the operator he cut his turkey in half with a chain saw and wanted to know if the oil from the chain would adversely affect the turkey. The Talk-Line wouldn’t recommend serving a turkey with chainsaw grease! Instead, let your turkey rest at least 20 mins after cooking to make carving easier. Then, using a carving knife you would find in your kitchen.

5. Why does my turkey have no breast meat?
A disappointed woman called wondering why her turkey had no breast meat. After a conversation with a Talk-Line operator, it became apparent that the woman’s turkey was lying on the table upside down. The Talk-Line experts recommend cooking your turkey breast side up in the open roasting pan method. This will give you a flavorful turkey and make it easier when transferring your turkey to a plate so you don’t have to flip it over.

6. It’s my first Thanksgiving and I have a tiny apartment-sized oven … how much will my turkey expand when cooking?
A new bride cooking Thanksgiving dinner for the first time in a small, apartment-sized oven, wanted to make sure her turkey wouldn’t expand during cooking (as baked goods do) and get stuck in the oven. Rest assured, your turkey will not expand in the oven. But be sure to use a pan with at least 2″ sides so your turkey juices don’t spill over during the cooking process … you want to save the juices for turkey gravy.

7. How do I get my turkey to stop sudsing? Is a soapy turkey recoverable?
A first-time Thanksgiving chef called after she had washed her turkey with dish soap. You don’t have to clean your turkey, simply pat the extra juices dry with paper towels before stuffing or roasting the turkey – quite a bit easier than washing with soap!

8. For the sake of delicious smells, can I cook my turkey over the course of four days?
The Talk-Line doesn’t recommend slow-cooking your turkey over the course of multiple days. You are able to use a slow cooker if needed, but experts would recommend 6-8 hours in the slow cooker. If cooking in the oven, it should only take a few hours to cook

9. How do I baste a pre-basted turkey?
Some folks love to baste the turkey while it’s cooking. If you’re one of them, the Talk-Line suggests basting only a few times during the cooking process so you don’t continuously let out the heat of the oven.

10. My turkey thawed on my lap … can I eat it?
A gentleman won a turkey at the casino, and brought it home on the bus where it had thawed. The safest way to thaw your turkey is in the refrigerator — it takes one day for every four pounds of turkey. The Talk-Line experts wouldn’t recommend eating a turkey that has been thawed in warmer temperatures.

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  1. Morning All!

    the temps says it’s above 30* but it’s still too dark to see what today will be like.

    I love all the questions people call the turkey hotline with. Imagine the questions a sex hotline would get…LOLOLOL

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    1. Morning, Pat! 40 here this morning – Wheezer was sleeping on the chair. Hmmm…never had to resort to the turkey hotline myself…..

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  10. “Restoring Our Moral Compass”

    Newsletter | November 20, 2025

    “Common sense, a strong moral compass, and truth are not only the foundations of the Republic — they’re also what American parents teach their children. What happens when our representatives don’t represent our core values?

    Article I of the Constitution establishes the Legislative Branch, comprising two chambers: the House of Representatives and the Senate. It’s called “Article I” because the framers of the Constitution, our Founding Fathers, intended the legislative branch to be the most powerful part of the new government because they directly represent us, We The People. Does that mean that corrupt legislators also represent our corruption? By no means.

    No American votes for candidates to use taxpayer funds to enrich themselves. But that’s exactly what Democratic congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick was charged with this week. According to the Justice Department, the Florida lawmaker stole and laundered $5 million in FEMA relief funds, funneled it through a family business, and used the money for self-enrichment and her congressional campaign.

    But that’s only the top story from Capitol Hill corruption. Documents released this week by the House Oversight Committee show that Virgin Islands Delegate Stacey Plaskett, another Democrat, was texting with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein during a 2019 congressional hearing. According to the documents, Epstein was feeding her questions to ask Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former attorney.

    Plaskett’s text exchange with Epstein gives more clear evidence that the financier was no friend of Trump’s. When Republican lawmakers moved to censure Plaskett, several GOP House members voted against it or present. Why?

    To protect Republican lawmaker Cory Mills, whom the Democrats wanted to censure because of allegations ranging from domestic abuse and revenge porn to improper business dealings to claims of stolen military valor. That is, the House worked out a bipartisan deal to protect corruption and wrongdoing on both sides of the aisle.

    The lack of ethics and the mudslinging on the Hill have reached new levels of recklessness all around. They’ve lost their moral compass and common sense.

    Certainly, it’s OK for Democrats and Republicans to oppose each other — it’s part of the checks and balances of our constitutional system. One side says tax more, the other wants to tax less. Let’s spend more on guns, according to one side — no, says the other, let’s spend that on butter. That’s the substance of legislative work. Debates will eventually work themselves out, for better and more often, for the worse. What we can’t have are the people who are supposed to represent our best interests instead turn into the worst versions of themselves.

    As James Madison famously wrote in Federalist 51, “If men were angels, no government would be necessary.” We the People know that we aren’t angels — but we’re not maniacally corrupt devils either. And we don’t expect the people we elected to our government to enrich themselves and indulge their vanity at our expense.

    It’s high time for our representatives to look in the mirror because what they’re supposed to see in it are not their own ambitions but the interests of the constituents they’re sworn to represent. Integrity starts at the ballot box. Elections have consequences. Holding Congress accountable will help restore our nation’s moral compass.”

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    1. it all sounds good, but in reality? congress and the judiciary couldn’t care less about we the people. they shield their wrong doings away from us–make us pay for their sins and thumb their noses at us to enrich themselves.

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  11. “8 Official Admissions Contradicting the ‘Settled Science’ Narrative on the Vaccine-Autism Link”

    Sharyl Attkisson, Nov 20, 2025

    The HHS website update on vaccines and autism under Secretary Kennedy did not invent new science. It simply stopped censoring the existing science — much of it generated or conceded by the government itself.

    EXCERPT: “For more than two decades, a portion of public-health officials, medical trade organizations, and mainstream media have repeated a consistent narrative with religious fervor:

    “The science is settled. Vaccines do not cause autism. Anyone who says otherwise is anti-vaccine and anti-science.”

    The debate has been revived anew under Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. HHS has quietly updated its website to state that numerous peer-reviewed studies have found associations between vaccines and autism, and that these studies have been largely ignored or dismissed by federal health agencies for decades.

    The reaction was immediate, ferocious, and predictable. Fact-checkers, medical societies, and television doctors accused HHS of spreading “dangerous misinformation.” One among countless examples is the misleading NBC headline:

    Yet what HHS posted is not fringe conspiracy theory — it’s a simple acknowledgment of evidence that has existed, in many cases, inside the government’s own files for years.

    What follows is not a re-litigation of every study (hundreds exist). Instead, it lists eight key, official admissions — from government agencies, vaccine-court concessions, federal health leaders, and vaccine manufacturers themselves — that directly contradict the claim that a vaccine-autism link has been soundly “debunked” and put to rest.

    These are not bloggers or activists. Some of the very institutions and individuals privately or legally admitting a link, or possible link, between vaccines and autism were simultaneously telling the public “there is no link.”

    Read on for details.…..”

    https://sharylattkisson.substack.com/p/8-official-admissions-contradicting

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  12. EXCERPT: “Pennsylvania will lose $75 million in federal roads funds unless it gets into compliance with U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) licensing requirements for non-domiciled commercial learner’s permits (CLP) and non-domiciled commercial driver’s licenses (CDL). That is according to an alarming letter DOT sent Wednesday to Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) Secretary Mike Carroll and Gov. Josh Shapiro.

    The threatened loss of funding comes on the heels of the recent Kansas arrest of an illegal alien wanted in Uzbekistan for belonging to a terrorist organization, according to ICE. As The Federalist previously reported, the alleged terrorist Akhror Bozorov was issued a non-domiciled CDL in Pennsylvania.

    Non-domiciled licenses are issued to drivers who are in the United States legally, and they are supposed to expire when the license holder’s time in the U.S. expires. PennDOT issued Bozorov a Real ID non-domiciled CDL expiring in 2029, but he should not have had one at all.

    The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has found that “PennDOT issued non-domiciled CDLs that extend beyond the expiration of drivers’ lawful presence in the U.S, issued non-domiciled CDLs without requiring the non-domiciled driver to comply with the standards for providing proof of lawful presence, and issued non-domiciled CDLs to lawful permanent residents who were eligible for a regular CDL,” the letter reads.

    “This letter constitutes FMCSA’s preliminary determination that Pennsylvania has failed to meet the requirement for substantial compliance with the standards for issuing non-domiciled CLPs and CDLs. Pennsylvania must take immediate corrective action … to address the deficiencies identified in this letter. The State’s failure to do so may result in FMCSA initiating the withholding of certain Federal-aid highway funds and decertifying the State’s CDL program.”

    The FMCSA discovered the state is out of compliance as part of its Annual Program Review, which started in September. States are required to be in “substantial compliance” with certain federal regulations, and the FMCSA’s annual review “evaluates all aspects of a State’s CDL program.”……..

    https://thefederalist.com/2025/11/20/duffy-threatens-to-pull-75-million-in-road-funds-after-pa-gave-an-alleged-terrorist-a-cdl/

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    1. pull the funding. the roads won’t suffer because they’re ALWAYS under construction! route 80? has been under construction seemingly forever. and you gotta show these dang states WHO’S BOSS!

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  13. “The Bannon Betrayals: A Study in Mendacity and Moral Decay — I have publicly challenged Steve Bannon to a boxing match, a fair contest of fisticuffs, a test of courage and stamina in which I am confident I will win.”

    Roger Stone, Nov 21, 2025

    EXCERPT: “Before we descend into the cavern of Steve Bannon’s duplicity, let us begin where Bannon least expects it. I have publicly challenged Steve Bannon to a boxing match, a fair contest of fisticuffs, a test of courage and stamina in which I am confident I will win. The media has already taken note, including Raw Story which covered my challenge in detail. I will not retreat from this bout. I will not back down. I know precisely what will happen in that ring and it will not be Bannon’s hand raised in victory.

    Now to the matter at hand…The recent revelations concerning Steve Bannon’s furtive communications with Jeffrey Epstein have struck the public square like a thunderbolt hurled from Olympus. The magnitude of this moral collapse cannot be overstated. What has been exposed is not mere contradiction. It is not a momentary lapse of judgment. It is a portrait of a man whose interior architecture has been eroded by ambition, self fascination, and a peculiar spiritual rot that afflicts those who pretend to be prophets while trafficking in deceit. Bannon is the modern counterfeit oracle, wrapped in theatrical populism, driven by ego, and cursed with a craving for relevance that leads him into the darkest alcoves of corruption.

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    Two weeks before Epstein’s death, the infamous pedophile texted Bannon: “Now you can understand why Trump wakes up in the middle of the night sweating when he hears you and I are friends.”
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    In a 2018 text exchange, Epstein offered Bannon use of his pedophile Island and Palm Beach home anytime he’d like. Bannon responded “Thanks brother.”
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    In a 2018 email exchange, Epstein writes “All good. Bannon with me”

    The public is finally discovering what I have long known. Beneath that theatrical scowl and contrived mystique lurks a man disordered in spirit. A man addicted to manipulation. A man who swims toward power with the frantic determination of a drowning creature, oblivious to the moral abyss into which he plunges. His recent implosion is not surprising. It is inevitable.

    I have my own particular beef with Bannon, he perjured himself at my trial in an attempt to help Robert Mueller send me to prison for 7 to 9 years. As reported in The New York Post and referenced by me, I know better than most that Bannon has always been willing to betray others for convenience. Because Bannon did not merely lie in private. He lied about me under oath.

    It is here that the scandal intersects with my own history with Steve Bannon. As stated by Jonathan Turley in President Trump’s impeachment proceedings, “There does appear a glaring and irreconcilable conflict in what Bannon stated in testimony before Congress and the court. What is striking is that this was not a peripheral point but one of the main areas of inquiry…He has two diametrically opposite sworn statements in a high-profile controversy with dozens of attorneys in attendance”.

    The scandal currently unfolding would be troubling enough if it revealed only hypocrisy. But the documented record demonstrates something far more sinister. It reveals calculation. It reveals voluntary association. It reveals a man who courted a convicted sexual predator for strategic gain. These are not the instincts of a patriot. They are the instincts of a man whose moral compass has not merely malfunctioned but disintegrated.

    Extensive media reporting has now laid bare the astonishing breadth of Bannon’s relationship with Epstein. Their connection was not incidental. It was cultivated between 2017 and 2018 with care and forethought. Epstein needed rehabilitation. Bannon needed access to the underworld of elite influence and intelligence. Their meetings were not chance encounters. They were curated exchanges between two men who believed themselves to be participants in a clandestine theater of global intrigue.

    In 2018 Bannon spent more than 15 hours filming Epstein in mock interview sessions for a potential public redemption campaign. Michael Wolff revealed in his 2021 book Too Famous that Bannon served as Epstein’s media trainer. Bannon instructed the disgraced financier to cling obsessively to a manicured mantra that he was not a pedophile. Major outlets such as the Guardian and the New York Times confirmed that these sessions occurred long after Epstein’s crimes were universally known.

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    Rolling Stone reported that Bannon was enthralled by the possibility that Epstein possessed ties to intelligence services. Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse became a revolving door through which Bannon passed repeatedly, eager to absorb whatever he believed Epstein had gleaned from the labyrinths of espionage. Bannon later claimed he was researching a documentary, yet no such documentary has ever been produced. The footage remains under lock and key, guarded by Bannon with an intensity that reeks of panic…..”

    https://www.stonecoldtruth.com/p/the-bannon-betrayals-a-study-in-mendacity

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  14. “Friday Funnies: BBC’s Agonal breaths — Final death throes, excepting the compulsory fees”

    Dr. Robert W. Malone, Nov 21, 2025

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  15. “The bill releasing the Epstein files was not about protecting victims or predators; it was written to protect the intelligence “community.”

    Honeypots are not used to trap criminals by the intelligence community.
    They use it for blackmail to keep politicians, whistleblowers, and other who know things they shouldn’t – silent. Honeypots are also used to gather intelligence. The intelligence “community” uses honeypots to compromise people, not prosecute.

    Congress needs to pass a bill making the use of honeypots in any way, shape, or form, by our government or other governments on our soil, illegal. No exceptions.”

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  17. “These three are some of my favorite Congress people – it pains me that these are also the three pitted against my president…MAGA needs to come together – otherwise the midterm elections will be lost. We have more important issues to deal with at the moment.”

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  26. “There ya go – there’s the two attention whores I mentioned just this morning. The Post has a great – and by great I mean very demeaning of her – article today that shows what a complete bag of cold air this broad is. Honest to God It’s hard to even live on the same planet as jerkoffs like these two self-important cunts. Juss’ sayin.

    As it says in the article, ‘Across the pond, Prince William and King Charles are working to pare the monarchy to make it more relatable in 21st-century society.

    But here in the United States, Meghan Markle – who spent less than two years as a working royal – seems to be reveling in pomp and stuffy formalities.’ 

    The article is here if you need a good sneer.”

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  27.  “Superman comic found in an attic in California sells for $9.12m to become most expensive ever sold…”

    “Do you need any more proof that some people just have entirely too much money? A comic book that sold for ten cents when it came out – which actually was a lot of money back then – is bought by some ‘unnamed buyer’ for enough money to feed 20 million people. Everything needs to be put in to perspective, I guess.

    Anyway, The pristine copy of Superman No 1, the character’s first solo title from 1939, was discovered in an attic in California last year. The copy that sold on Thursday was found in 2024 under a stack of old newspapers in a cardboard box by three unnamed brothers in northern California while they were going through their late mother’s attic.

    Their mother had bought the comic when she was nine years old and living in San Francisco, the brothers, who have asked not to be named, said. Over the years, she told her sons that she had “rare comics somewhere”, but they never found them.

    Despite where the 86-year-old comic was kept, it was in pristine condition and became the highest-ever-graded copy of Superman No 1 with a score of 9.0 on the 10-point scale used in the industry to grade the condition of comic books. It is one of only seven known copies with a grade of 6.0 or higher.”

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  38. “Hungary: Major opposition news portal funded by US agencies USAID, NED as well as via Soros foundation to spread disinformation — The foundation used to funnel U.S. money to Telex reportedly demands that portals it funds frame narratives that go against its interests as disinformation”

    ReMix News Staff, November 21, 2025

    EXCERPT: “Hungary’s Office for the Protection of Sovereignty has revealed new details regarding the Telex news portal and the funding it has received from the United States, including USAID. Telex has claimed that it does not depend on foreign funding, but year after year, according to an analysis by the Office, it has received money from foreign governments, including the U.S., and Brussels, reports the Mandiner news portal.

    Of note is that Telex received $10,000 through the Internews EPIC applications implemented within the framework of USAID’s activities in Hungary. USAID and its activities have since been terminated by the Trump administration. 

    According to the office, headed by Tamás Lanczi, the president of the Office for the Protection of Sovereignty, Telex received the money from the machine controlled as a political weapon by the democratic American government through the “Independent Media Center.”

    The Office for Sovereignty Protection has already identified the Internews Foundation in previous reports as a key player in the media manipulation machine that the American deep state has been operating for more than four decades. 

    NED, Mandiner notes, played a major role in the illegal foreign campaign financing of the opposition coalition in the 2022 parliamentary elections.

    Internews provides media outlets not only with money, but also with technology and content suitable for spreading narratives, which must represent given values ​​and messages and produce activity on designated topics….”

    https://rmx.news/article/hungary-major-opposition-news-portal-funded-by-us-agencies-usaid-ned-as-well-as-via-soros-foundation-to-spread-disinformation/

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  39. EXCERPT: “Germany’s cities are on the verge of a massive financial crisis, with the mayor of Essen warning that the data shows that almost every single city in the country is nearly bankrupt. Currently, the total deficit for all German cities in 2025 is €30 billion, which jumped from last year’s deficit of €24 billion.

    Essen’s Mayor Thomas Kufen (CDU), who is also a member of the CDU federal executive board, is sounding the alarm: “Almost every German city is now on the verge of bankruptcy.”

    In North Rhine-Westphalia alone, only 10 out of 396 cities and municipalities can present a balanced budget, and these alarming figures from Germany’s largest federal state can be applied to the “entire country,” he said.

    Mayor Kufen stressed that the crisis is universal, affecting municipalities regardless of their location: “What’s new is that all cities have their backs against the wall,” he told Bild newspaper. He warned that “budget freezes would now have to be imposed everywhere,” including in many cities previously considered wealthy.

    Kufen emphasized the need for a national discussion on affordability: “We have to talk about what we can do so that our welfare state itself does not become a social case. This means: What do we want to afford and what else can we afford?” However, he noted that cities cannot make these crucial decisions themselves; only the federal government can

    Kufen illustrated the crisis with figures from his own city, Essen, which has a population of nearly 600,000. The city had planned a balanced budget for 2025. “But instead of a slight increase of €1.7 million, we currently have a deficit of €123 million,” he calculated.

    Once again, refugee accommodation and integration are near the top of the list for reasons why the city is seeing a budget shortfall. Far from being a solution to Germany’s budget and pension crisis, they have become a massive financial burden for the country, costing at least €50 billion a year in social integration, housing, and benefits……”

    https://rmx.news/article/almost-every-german-city-is-now-on-the-verge-of-bankruptcy/

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