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.
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.”
(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.
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.
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.
“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.
(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.
“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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
(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.
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 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.
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.
(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.
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.
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!)
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.”
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.
