LOL... Fuckyeah. Now that's Christmas. Let's just hope that Turkey didn't destroy a small town when it achieved reentry velocity. XD Kinetic impact of a 32 megaton nuke!

hehe, I remember when you first posted this elsewhere, still oneof my favorite holiday images.

unopened cold beer and then tried to deep fry it in one of those outdoor turkey fryers.

Sounds like something we need to ask the Mythbusters :)

- Shado

Now if they get the timing right, re-entry will cook the bird to perfection

"then tried to deep fry it in one of those outdoor turkey fryers"

?!?!?!?!!!

Who in the name of sanity would try to deep-fry a TURKEY?!?

I completely agree with you on the sanity of deep frying a turkey.
You can bake, BBQ, smoke, boil (hospital) and rotisserie a turkey but Deep frying a turkey is asking for trouble.

Not necessarily. Go to http://8legged.com/DeepFriedLive/DFL01_04.html for a (pretty f****d-up) how-to Flash cartoon on how to do it "right."

Gotta love Tako the octopus chef... and the cooking instructions, recipes and science behind it are dead on (aside from too much nutmeg IMNSHO).

Hey, I grew up working in a restaurant when I wasn't in school... so sue me.

Okay, you don't BREAD it.

I've had several fried turkeys. They're fantastic. I DO suggest that you don't try it without someone who';s doen it around, this is the sort of thing that has some unexpected pitfalls...

3 of the biggest:

1> Make sure the turkey is THAWED before cooking,
2> No stuffing in the bird.
3> put the turkey in the pot with WATER. when immersed, then lower the level to permit proper boiling. remove turkey, marke the proper level, THEN replace water with oil. You do NOT want that oil to overflow/boil over onto an open flame while the turkey's in there... that would be BAD, in a near-Ghostbusters kinda way.

I've done a roast BBQ turkey for Christmas a couple of years now... still getting the hang of it, as it tends to dry out a bit.
Will be doing a conventional roast turkey this year... with the windows open to cool the house (as it's summer down here).

Apparently in the southeastern United States it's considered a delicacy...

but then again down there they deep-fry Snickers bars.

And I thought the Scots were mad for doing deep-fried Mars bars and pizza... <shakes head>

We got our fiddling traditions from the Scots, I wouldn't be surprised if they came up with that idea first. Right along with Haggis.

I've seen examples of plenty of things stuck in a deep fryer; the results may have been delicious, but they LOOKED just plain disgusting!

This reminds me of the famous line spoken by Gordon Jump as Mr. Carlson on that Thanksgiving episode of the TV sitcom "WKRP In Cincinnati." As a Thanksgiving promotional gimick for the radio station, he ordered live turkeys to be dropped from a helicopter. Afterwards, when all of the turkeys fell to the ground causing much damage and chaos, he said:

"God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly."

In this case, this turkey DID fly!

Mr. Carlson would be PROUD!!!

Nicely done!

Found this classic TV monent on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FXSnoy71Q4

I happen to be the proud owner of WKRP season 1 DVD which not only has the turkey episode, but the commentary to go with it. According to the show's producer, the incident really did happen at a Texas radio station and he wrote the episode based on the incident. Another case where truth is stranger than fiction.

While that is a good episode, and it's interesting to hear that it was based on a true story, I think it's already been proven that truth is not stranger than fiction. ^_^

Fiction can be as strange as you want it, but it usually has to make sense, as we understand the idea of sensibility.

Now reality, on the other hand...

Wow, amazing

This remains one of my holiday favorites!

Reminds me of the time I was in the kitchen when the turkey exploded...