If Santa Clause really existed, his importance would probably be number 20 on the popularity charts. Right behind Tiger Woods' extramarital affair and Lady Gaga's newest and weirdest dress.
Still, if he really had the power to grant Christmas wishes, mine would be to end all the nonsense talked about in the media. Why is so much importance being given to people like Tiger Woods, ex-senator John Edwards and ex-governor Eliot Spitzer - when there are other more important issues in the world. What they do in their personal lives should not over-take our own.
For one whole week now, the top news on every channel is about Tiger Woods' affair. Prompting more women to come forward and claiming they had an affair with him. The popularity of the case is drawing out all the weirdos. The news should be limited to the sports arena only.
Its ridiculous that we are constantly hit with images of what Lady Gaga looks like in public. We all know she's an attention freak that just needs to get over it. If I had children, I would never let them wear anything remotely similar to what she wears. I can dress up Fredric (my cat) in more provocative clothing and he'll still look ten times better than her.
In case people have forgotten, we're still at war. Not just in one, but in two. Yet, most of the younger Americans, including my own nieces and nephews, don't know which countries we're at war with. But if we asked the same kids what the ethnicity is of the most recent kid Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are planning to adopt, they'll answer faster than a fighter plane can fire off a missile.
The mature adults of our country are the only ones who care about health care reform. Everyone else seems to be more curious about who the star of Twilight is dating these days. To say that it's only the fault of people reading up on these things is unfair. The truth is that we are inundated with unimportant information which blinds us to the real issues going on in the world.
Upon browsing the net right now, MSN.com has a lot of information that should not be that important to the average American. At eye level is Bing.com searches which include mostly sports information, celebrity news, recipes, and shopping things. In the bottom right corner is where the real news is. To get there, you have to scroll down.
Santa Clause has his hands full if he's planning to grant my wish. Not only does the internet need to be cleaned up of its celebrity clutter, but so does television, radio and print media like magazines.
I think I need to change my wish to wanting a new printer instead. It would be a lot easier.
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Turkey is so Yuck!
This year we did not celebrate Thanksgiving due to a death in the family. However, I did help my niece roast some chickens for lunch on that day. We made all the trimmings, had a quiet little lunch and went back to our own homes. The whole process took about two hours.
As we were finishing up, I started thinking about past Thanksgivings and how my sister (who's now out of the country on vacation) labored over the fat bird that is well known as the main dish on this holiday. She always makes rice, potatoes, gravy, veggies and bread with the turkey. Throughout the years, I've tried eating turkey that has been prepared in many different ways. From tandoori style to being stuffed with various nuts and garlic, turkey never disappoints at being completely tasteless.
This is probably the only bird in the entire world that refuses to get infused with any of the flavors that you put in it. Even if you put the most flavorful spices in it like cloves, it's still pretty tasteless. You have to dress it with a gazillion things to make it even the least bit appetizing. I can never seem to understand how people can eat it!
There are a few different reasons why turkey can never taste as great as let's say chicken. The first one is because its such a fat bird. There's no way possible to marinate it with anything that will go deep enough into the white meat to actually stay. Then you have those funny television programs that suggest you stuff it with a duck! Why would anyone want to put a different species of bird into a turkey is beyond me. Sounds and looks ridiculous.
The other reason why turkey doesn't absorb flavor is because unlike chicken, its meat is pretty dense. Have you ever seen turkey salami versus regular salami? It has no holes in it - no place for the spices to sit and marinate. It's just smooth, round, tasteless meat.
My final reason for why you can't flavor a turkey well has to do with the mind of the turkey. It's simply a stubborn bird. Come around Thanksgiving, it probably laughs at us thinking "Ha! You think I look fat and juicy, wait until you carve me up! I WILL have my revenge!"
Perhaps I haven't tried every method of cooking turkey out there. To be honest, after the many years of tasteless turkey, I don't know if I want to try it anymore. Even the original pilgrims did not eat turkey. They roasted geese and shared with their Native American neighbors. It's the later colonists that got lazy and decided to settle for the tasteless turkey which was probably easier to catch than geese.
Happy Thanksgiving Day anyways, hope you filled up with the trimmings at least.
As we were finishing up, I started thinking about past Thanksgivings and how my sister (who's now out of the country on vacation) labored over the fat bird that is well known as the main dish on this holiday. She always makes rice, potatoes, gravy, veggies and bread with the turkey. Throughout the years, I've tried eating turkey that has been prepared in many different ways. From tandoori style to being stuffed with various nuts and garlic, turkey never disappoints at being completely tasteless.
This is probably the only bird in the entire world that refuses to get infused with any of the flavors that you put in it. Even if you put the most flavorful spices in it like cloves, it's still pretty tasteless. You have to dress it with a gazillion things to make it even the least bit appetizing. I can never seem to understand how people can eat it!
There are a few different reasons why turkey can never taste as great as let's say chicken. The first one is because its such a fat bird. There's no way possible to marinate it with anything that will go deep enough into the white meat to actually stay. Then you have those funny television programs that suggest you stuff it with a duck! Why would anyone want to put a different species of bird into a turkey is beyond me. Sounds and looks ridiculous.
The other reason why turkey doesn't absorb flavor is because unlike chicken, its meat is pretty dense. Have you ever seen turkey salami versus regular salami? It has no holes in it - no place for the spices to sit and marinate. It's just smooth, round, tasteless meat.
My final reason for why you can't flavor a turkey well has to do with the mind of the turkey. It's simply a stubborn bird. Come around Thanksgiving, it probably laughs at us thinking "Ha! You think I look fat and juicy, wait until you carve me up! I WILL have my revenge!"
Perhaps I haven't tried every method of cooking turkey out there. To be honest, after the many years of tasteless turkey, I don't know if I want to try it anymore. Even the original pilgrims did not eat turkey. They roasted geese and shared with their Native American neighbors. It's the later colonists that got lazy and decided to settle for the tasteless turkey which was probably easier to catch than geese.
Happy Thanksgiving Day anyways, hope you filled up with the trimmings at least.
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