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Awesome Thanksgiving

Why Do We Eat Turkey on Thanksgiving?

Why Do We Eat Turkey on Thanksgiving?

Turkey is so closely associated with Thanksgiving that many call it “Turkey Day.” Weird History Food explores the origins of this traditional holiday meal. Historians don’t know if the pilgrims ate turkey during their celebratory feast, but that’s what we ended up with as the nation broke away from England and wanted to dine on a bird that’s more distinctly American.

Mighty Carver Chainsaw Knife

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Family stressing you out at holiday gatherings? Command the attention you deserve when you whip out a chainsaw to carve the turkey. While an actual chainsaw would be entertaining, we’d suggest the Mighty Carver, an electric carving knife which won’t end up destroying the bird or your dining table.

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Saucony Ride 14 Pick-a-Side Running Shoes

Saucony Ride 14 Pick-a-Side Running Shoes
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Let your kicks kickstart the Thanksgiving table talk. Pick a side: which tasty Saucony Ride 14 running shoes do you prefer? The bright Green Bean Casserole or orange Sweet Potato Both feature a casserole pattern on the sock liner and interior plus the punny left/right message “THAT’S HOW I CASSEROLE.”

Laser Cut Turkey

Laser Cut Turkey

Whether you roast or fry, there are lots of different ways to prepare your Thanksgiving bird. The guys at BOSSlaser like to make their turkey from wood. It’s not as tender or tasty that way, but we’re sure it’s got lots of fiber. Have access to a laser cutter? Grab the design file from MAKE CNC.

Making a Tofurkey from Scratch

Making a Tofurkey from Scratch

(PG-13: Language) How to Make Everything gets a lot of rude and hateful comments from vegans whenever he kills an animal for his projects. So for this year’s Thanksgiving, he decided to make a tofu dish instead of shooting and cooking a turkey.

The Poop in My Pants

The Poop in My Pants

For Thanksgiving, Rick and Morty shares with us a simple and positive tale. Who else could it be for but the Smith family’s nicest friend, Mr. Poopybutthole. Learn about his youth, trials and tribulations in this silent short film.

Facehugger Roasted Chicken

Facehugger Roasted Chicken

Hellen Die of The Necro-Nom-Nom-Nomicon shares her recipe for a Halloween-meets-Thanksgiving treat. Hellen’s Facehugger Feast Roasted Chicken adds sausage casing and some crab legs to complete the Alien look.

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Colbert’s Thanksgiving Turkey Tips

Colbert’s Thanksgiving Turkey Tips

“188º? Get out of there! It’s gonna blow!” Stephen Colbert dropped by the Butterball offices to help out home chefs as they attempt to properly cook their Thanksgiving turkeys. If the late night thing doesn’t work out, he’s got career potential as a customer service rep.

Talkin Turkey Talks Thanksgiving

Talkin Turkey Talks Thanksgiving

(PG-13: Language) You might become a vegetarian after watching AOK’s animated expose on the horrific existence of mass-production turkeys engineered strictly for the pleasure of humans. Maybe that gummy turkey wasn’t such a bad idea. Or not.

Kids Try Thanksgiving Sides

Kids Try Thanksgiving Sides

“It’s bad and good at the same time.” While we’re good with yams and cranberries, some of the turkey day side dishes of the past seem a little bizarre, like oyster shooters and pickled walnuts. Bon Appétit asked kids to try some sides from the past 100 years.

Gummy Thanksgiving

Gummy Thanksgiving

To celebrate Thanksgiving, novelty company Vat19 created a feast for serious sugar fiends, highlighted by a 20-pound, 25,000+ calorie gummy turkey, stuffed with cookies and caramel, and sides of cereal marshmallow topped yams, and gummy cranberry sauce.

How to Carve a Turkey

How to Carve a Turkey

This helpful video shows you how to slice up your turkey this Thanksgiving. It turns out that the secret to perfectly sliced bird is a waterjet cutter, pushing out 30,000 psi of water. We bet it’s super-moist this way too.

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How to Make a Thanksgiving Dinner

How to Make a Thanksgiving Dinner

How to Make Everything made a simple Thanksgiving dinner, though not 100% from scratch. Still, the process involved planting herbs and mushrooms, harvesting beets and cranberries and yes, shooting a wild turkey. Watch every step here.

One Word: Thanksgiving

One Word: Thanksgiving

While most of us think of Thanksgiving as a time for celebration, it has a very different meaning for Native Americans. In this clip from Cut Videos, we hear from a number of our nation’s true forefathers and the mixed feelings the holiday stirs in their hearts and minds.

Backwards Thanksgiving

Backwards Thanksgiving

(PG-13: Language) “We kill our humans in a turkane way.” Animation Domination tries to ruin Thanksgiving by imagining what it would be like for us if the turkeys were our overlords, and we were the ones farmed for meat.

Thanksgiving Food Facts

Thanksgiving Food Facts

Your stomach’s probably bursting from your Thanksgiving feast, but leave some room for Mental Floss’ generous serving of trivia, from the ubiquity of corn to the average American’s above average turkey consumption.

A Tiny Hamster Thanksgiving

A Tiny Hamster Thanksgiving

A hamster cannot live on hot dogs alone. To celebrate Thanksgiving, the whole gang drops by for a tiny feast fit for a tiny king. It’s also a not so subtle reminder to think about portion control ourselves.

Breaking Bad Thanksgiving

Breaking Bad Thanksgiving

Walter White and Jesse Pinkman take time off from their misadventures to present Breaking Bread, where they’ll show us how to bake rum-spiced pumpkin pie. It’s like 96.7% pure pie. Yo.

Thanksgiving Care Package

Thanksgiving Care Package

(NSFW: Language) Epic Meal Time hooks up with gastropub chef Zadi, Kassem G., Feast of Fiction and Hanna Hart to serve their insane foodstuffs to needy recipients at Someone Cares Soup Kitchen.

Thermite Turkey

Thermite Turkey

If you haven’t thawed the turkey yet, you’re probably screwed. That is, unless, you’ve got some thermite lying around. Not only will this stuff thaw your bird, it’ll cook it in under 30 seconds.

TurBaconEpic Thanksgiving

TurBaconEpic Thanksgiving

That turkey might be not be fully cooked just yet, so until it’s ready please enjoy these epicurean delights from Epic Meal Time. Bonus: looking at this may help you avoid overeating. (Thanks Ugo!)

Thanksgiving Turkey Cake

Thanksgiving Turkey Cake

Want to get your entire Thanksgiving meal over with in a single course? Look no further than chow’s turkey cake, layered with sausage stuffing, cranberries, mashed and sweet potato “frosting.”

Funny: The Farting Turkey

Funny: The Farting Turkey

Happy Thanksgiving, readers! Prankster Jack Vale takes to the streets with a flatulent fowl that’s been stuffed too early in The Farting Turkey; sounds are courtesy of The Pooter.

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