[Sca-cooks] This will make your stomach cringe

[Micheal]

 Shucks you just wrecked a bad family tradition. Dang nabbit they can`t 
blame the cook this time can they.
 Da
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Fisher" <liamfisher at gmail.com>
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 10:03 AM
Subject: [Sca-cooks] This will make your stomach cringe


>I was at my sister's place here in the Atlanta area Saturday for
> Christmas dinner.
>
> I attendance were her inlaws, her sister in law and her fiance, my
> brother in law and my neices.
>
> They stewed the turkey breast meat down in the pan.  I say stewed
> because it fell apart.  Not bad, I don't eat the breast meat. The dark
> meat was roasted and tasty.  I'm a leg and thigh man, what can I say?
>
> When it came time to make the gravy, my sister's mother in law said
> "Hey, where is the turkey juice?" to which my sister replied "turkey 
> juice?"
>
> Here they had dumped out all the liquids from the bag the turkey came in
> into a pan and had set it on the back of the stove without heat when they
> put the turkey in the oven.
>
> Gah.  Bleah. Ew.
>
> My sister had found this lukewarm bacterial colony and had given it
> a burial in the sink drain after about the 5th hour sitting in the
> nice blood warm
> stove back (she said it had started to ferment and stink).
>
> They tore into my sister for throwing away the "best part of the gravy."
>
> I said "you mean the botulism?  sounds great to me.  I just love spending
> the day after christmas clutching my stomach.  I bet this explains why you
> folks catch the "flu" each year at this time"  Each year they find the 
> relative
> to blame for getting people sick at Christmas dinner....
>
> My brother in law's sister is a nurse and thanked me for standing up to 
> them
> over the issue.  She  never eats the gravy and was able to eat it this 
> year.
>
> Some people just amaze me.
>
>
> Cadoc
>
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