Thanksgiving turkey - who bought theirs already and how big is it? What's the biggest turkey you've seen?

Q: Since my little family is combining our Thanksgiving dinner with a relative's, we'll be eating at their house and having turkey. BUT - we love turkey so much we always make one earlier in November so November is pretty much turkey month for us. This year I bought a turkey on sale at Target, but it's 17lbs! That's the biggest turkey I have ever tried cooking, and I just put it in the oven and ... well it looks like a small child, crouching in the pan. I felt sad putting it in the oven... and scared that it was going to stand up and ask me what I thought I was doing! Lol tell me about your turkey, or your turkey experiences. Whether you love it or hate it I'd love to know! Thanks.

A: I put my turkey in the freezer this afternoon, it's 20 lbs. Although there is no family coming over, I am having some friends who recently lost everything to a fire, over, my roommate is going to visit friends in another state, and I thought it would be nice for my friends, not to have to stay in a hotel, at least for a coulpe days. The biggest turkey i ever seen, was the one my grandfather had raised. He kept it penned up, and fed very well, he only let it walk a little each day. two days before thanksgiving he went out and did what he did. On defeathering and cleaning it, it weighed in at a whopping 39 pounds!!. oemwhere in my picture trunk, there is one of my grandfather holding the turkey next to me. Thank goodness they cooked the right one!!!! The one I remember did not happen around family, but while I was stationed at Camp Lejeune, N.C. in the Marines. I did not go home that thanksgiving. I did volunteer to work in the mess hall though. We cooked over 350 turkeys, plus the trimmings for those who stayed in our battallion. Come serving time, I noticed all the tables were festooned with a cooked bird, and the top of the serving line was arrayed in the ones we cooked? When I looked down the line, the marines were being served processed turkey!!! after after all the clean up was done, the mess sargent brought those who volunteered to the back line, there were large boxes lined up for us, all wrapped like presents. When I got back to my barracks, myone roommate who stayed looked at me like I was dirt. He thought that we (those who volunteered, were served the real turkey). When I opened the box, inside were three turkeys, plus containers filled with all the trimmings, a gallon of eggnog, and a 12 pack of coke. My roomie was estatic, until I told him since he was so rotten to me in thinking we would ever do that, he could suffer..lol. I did share, and it was the best thing to eat, with a comrade in arms.... Happy thanksgiving to you and yours!!!!

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