Comments on: The $178 Turkey http://www.churbuck.com/wordpress/2009/11/the-178-turkey/ Commentary on media, technology, marketing and clamming strategies Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:36:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jan Devereux http://www.churbuck.com/wordpress/2009/11/the-178-turkey/comment-page-1/#comment-767780 Jan Devereux Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:06:43 +0000 http://www.churbuck.com/wordpress/?p=3099#comment-767780 When we lived in Paris I think we paid about $178 for a turkey (dinde) when we hosted an American Thanksgiving for our circle of ex-pats. That was in 1990 dollars when the exchange rate was about 6 francs (pre-Euro) to the dollar. I remember trying to explain to the French butcher why I wanted a whole turkey and feeling like I'd been taken when he quoted me le prix...I don't remember how our gold-plated turkey tasted because Cecily had been born about 2 weeks before and she cried that horrible newborn cry through the entire meal. The next year we settled for boeuf. Nineteen years later I'm a vegetarian. Bon appetit! When we lived in Paris I think we paid about $178 for a turkey (dinde) when we hosted an American Thanksgiving for our circle of ex-pats. That was in 1990 dollars when the exchange rate was about 6 francs (pre-Euro) to the dollar. I remember trying to explain to the French butcher why I wanted a whole turkey and feeling like I’d been taken when he quoted me le prix…I don’t remember how our gold-plated turkey tasted because Cecily had been born about 2 weeks before and she cried that horrible newborn cry through the entire meal. The next year we settled for boeuf. Nineteen years later I’m a vegetarian. Bon appetit!

]]> By: HOGDICK http://www.churbuck.com/wordpress/2009/11/the-178-turkey/comment-page-1/#comment-767168 HOGDICK Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:50:39 +0000 http://www.churbuck.com/wordpress/?p=3099#comment-767168 They're hand fed, Kobe beef cattle, dung beetles. The beetles are also massaged before they're fed to each turkey. They’re hand fed, Kobe beef cattle, dung beetles. The beetles are also massaged before they’re fed to each turkey.

]]> By: Tom O'Brien http://www.churbuck.com/wordpress/2009/11/the-178-turkey/comment-page-1/#comment-766925 Tom O'Brien Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:09:43 +0000 http://www.churbuck.com/wordpress/?p=3099#comment-766925 David: We get local organic free-range turkeys at the local food co-op up in Viroqua, WI for just a few bucks more than you would pay for a butterball - though you do have to place your order in advance. Here is my (2 year old) blog post about smoking these birds on the grill(s). It is rising in popularity as it does every year just prior to Thanksgiving: http://humanvoice.wordpress.com/2007/11/27/grilled-smoked-turkey/ Give it a try - easy, no clean-up and delicious. TO'B David:

We get local organic free-range turkeys at the local food co-op up in Viroqua, WI for just a few bucks more than you would pay for a butterball – though you do have to place your order in advance.

Here is my (2 year old) blog post about smoking these birds on the grill(s). It is rising in popularity as it does every year just prior to Thanksgiving:

http://humanvoice.wordpress.com/2007/11/27/grilled-smoked-turkey/

Give it a try – easy, no clean-up and delicious.

TO’B

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