You were eating the WHAT?!?! 😅 #THANKSGIVING

20 Nov 2023 · 1 min

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In this informal, first‑person monologue, the speaker recounts a hectic Thanksgiving season in which they prepared and catered dozens of turkeys. Limited oven capacity forced them to split service among take‑away orders, a few restaurant seatings, and a large family gathering. They name several relatives—Uncle Bernie, stepdad Jerry, and their mother—who helped shape the occasion. A humorous anecdote centers on the term "pupik," which the speaker’s father once claimed was the turkey’s belly button, but the speaker later discovers it actually refers to the turkey’s tail (the butt). The story blends logistical details, family dynamics, and light‑hearted confusion about turkey anatomy, conveying a nostalgic and comedic tone about past Thanksgiving experiences.

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stuff. We would cater for a few people because I had limited amount of ovens, you know. So we'd have a few people, I would do like their whole Thanksgiving, they would come and pick everything up and take it to their house. Then I would have one or two Thanksgiving settings in the restaurant, and then the last one was my whole family. Dude, used to be really funny. So back in those days, like, my Uncle Bernie was still around my stepdad Jerry was alive, there would be— my mom would invite some of her friends. So these guys would come in the kitchen, you know, and I would have cooked, let's say, 20 or maybe 20 or so turkeys that day, right? They'd come in the kitchen, they'd just be like, oh, where's the pupik? Where's the pupik? And my dad told me when I was a kid that that was the belly button of the turkey, but that wasn't what it was. It was the butt. Huh?