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Thanksgiving etiquette: Who takes home the turkey?
Nov 23, 2015, 7:09 PM | Updated: Nov 25, 2015, 4:19 pm
After the meal is done, who takes the turkey home? The guests? Or the person who prepared it? (AP)
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Once the meal has been eaten, and then another…and maybe even one more after that, a Thanksgiving conundrum arises across America each year.
And it’s a question that KIRO Radio’s Don O’Neill is asking already.
“I want to present the turkey and then bring most of the turkey home with me, after we’re done eating,” Don said.
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“I want my turkey back. How do I get my turkey back?” he said. “Can you take a turkey to someone’s house and leave with the carcass?”
Don is smoking a 20-pound, free-range turkey that he is then bringing over to a friend’s house for Thanksgiving dinner. But after putting all that work into smoking and preparing the bird, Don doesn’t want to just leave it.
KIRO Radio staff weighed in.
“Cut it in half. Then take half over,” Ron suggested.
But Don rejected the half idea. After all, a turkey with so much work deserves to be admired in its entirety.
“This isn’t Norman Rockwell,” Ron scoffed.
Show producer Nick Jarin thought there could be some middle ground.
“That’s a big bird,” Jarin said. “You can take some of it…you got to leave them some to make sandwiches the next day.”
But it was audio engineer Sean DeTore that said it best.
“Not the entire thing,” he said. “It’s called Thanksgiving, not Thanks-taking.”
Can Don take all of it home? Some of it? Should he just bring half?
