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Left over from yesterday - Let’s Talk Turkey

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Added: Fri. Nov 28, 2008 11:51am
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When I worked for an ad agency years ago, I would meander up the street to Beefy King. Beefy King is a fast food restaurant in Orlando that's been a big hit with locals since 1968. They make real roast beef, too, not the pieces & parts stuff of corporate giants. Black Friday is always one of their busiest days. I used to go there to help out. Strangely, one of the most popular sandwiches on Black Friday is turkey breast. For the life of us, the owner and I could never figure out why turkey would be such a big seller the day after Thanksgiving. You’d think people would be almost sick of it after eating so much the day before, or they would have enough leftovers that they wouldn’t want it from a restaurant. Nope, they ordered it big time.

Roland and I went back and forth, over and over, year after year, trying to understand why people would want to eat turkey on this particular day. Store bought deli style turkey. Finally, it dawned on us. We figured these were people who had to work on Thanksgiving Day. The ones who took your gas money at convenience stores. The wait people at restaurants who served dinners that day. Bartenders. Ticket takers and ushers at movie houses. I'm sure some of the car dealerships remained open. These folks were shortchanged on Thanksgiving Day and today they are just fulfilling their cravings for what they did not get to eat. Maybe, some people ate ham instead, yet they still missed the traditional meal. They need that turkey fix!

That’s the only reason we could think of. Yesterday, someone suggested that it might be people who didn't get to take home any leftovers and today they feel "turkeyless." If you can think of any more reasons, please let me know.


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    Dave Knechel
    Posted 12:04pm December 2nd, 2008
    Thank you, Jackie. You think it would sell, huh? I've got other ideas, too. For example, why doesn't McDonald's offer Turkey McNuggets with a cranberry dipping sauce? They could sell them "in season" from Halloween through New Year's Day. Why not? I think they'd be a big hit, sort of like the McRib Sandwich.

    I might try to whip up a bread recipe in the meantime, but it could be tough keeping onions and celery fresh.



  • Jackie
    Jackie Carlin
    GB Staff
    Posted 9:14am December 2nd, 2008
    Stuffing flavored bread??? Genius! You're definitely on to something there Dave! We need to figure out a way to make and market that.  A million dollar idea!


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    Dave Knechel
    Posted 4:58pm December 1st, 2008
    Sorry I'm late getting back to you, Jackie. I had a lot of turkey feathers to take to the pillow factory today.

    I guess you're right about being left out in the leftover department, but I still think people who were deprived of turkey on Thanksgiving Day felt shortchanged, too. As far as it being addictive, I know it's just about my favorite deli meat, at least when it comes to volume. Over a period of time, I buy a lot more of it than roast beef and ham, but I think it's strictly because of the flavor and the mere suggestion in the mind of happy times, like around the holidays. Now, if bakers would only come up with a stuffing flavored bread to go along with that deli turkey, we could be contented year round. Of course, turkey gravy au jus would be nice to dip it in...



  • Jackie
    Jackie Carlin
    GB Staff
    Posted 11:39am December 1st, 2008
    I think the theory about no leftovers must be it.  I sent as many people as I could home with leftovers, but my cousins stopped over this weekend (who were not here on T Day) and they were complaining the place they ate dinner did not send them home with leftovers.  They were here to sniff me out for some, but ours were all gone!

    I think we wait all year for that dinner and then it's over before you know it.  But I also like the theory floated that there is an addictive ingredient in turkey.  If we can get addicted to coffee, who's to say juicy turkeys aren't also a must-have food?

    All this talk is making me miss turkey already!



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    Dave Knechel
    Posted 11:10am December 1st, 2008
    WOW! Thank you. I am honored to be featured on the GB homepage. It proves that even a turkey can be a ham sometimes.


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    Growing Bolder
    Growing Bolder
    Posted 9:52am December 1st, 2008
    We love the conversation, guys ... Dave, thanks for posting this blog! You're featured on the homepage this morning.

    GB



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    Dave Knechel
    Posted 7:50pm November 28th, 2008
    I would think the bathroom is the most peaceful room in the house. I mean, who wants to bother you there? Pick a fight? Ask what's for dinner?

    I guess there might be a lot of reasons why turkey sales soar on Black Friday, but we never did see ham sales go up after Easter. There must be something to it.



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    Simply Deb
    Posted 4:26pm November 28th, 2008
    My Thanksgiving day began with the sound of a woodpecker.  It seemed very important to bring him into my story.  I actually have a video I took of the woodpecker in a tree about a week ago through my bathroom window.  Gee, I must spend a LOT of time in the bathroom.  It really is the most peaceful room in the whole house.

    Maybe the Beefy King customers had dry turkey on Thanksgiving and wanted to give the holiday one more try.
    Maybe the customers were hungry, but they didn't care for the beef at Beefy King.
    Maybe they were still carrying on a Catholic tradition of not eating meat on Friday.
    Maybe they were trying to recapture that great holiday joyfulness of the day before/
    Maybe turkey farms inject their turkeys with a secret ingredient that is addictive to humans.
    Maybe while they were out shopping, they were exposed to subliminal messages not only to spend, spend, spend; but to "finish the turkey before it goes bad" =)



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    Dave Knechel
    Posted 3:53pm November 28th, 2008
    According to the history books, there is no proof the settlers and Indians even ate turkey. There's no proof they didn't, either, since "turkey" was the word they used for all fowl back then.


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    Ina
    Posted 3:34pm November 28th, 2008
    Woodpeckers were probably also on the menu  of them pilgrims originally,  he, they didnot have a supermarket, so...


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    Dave Knechel
    Posted 3:03pm November 28th, 2008
    Could be. I've never smelled a "fowl" odor like that before. I thought she was going to say her husband went out and captured the woodpecker to roast for Thanksgiving dinner.


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    Ina
    Posted 2:44pm November 28th, 2008
    Perhaps they had a disaster in the kitchen, like Debbie had


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