Pregnant Turkey

"Pregnant Turkey"

One year at Thanksgiving my mom went
to my sister's house for the traditional feast.

Knowing how gullible my sister is, my mom
decided to play a trick. She told my sister
that she needed something from the store.

When my sister left, my mom took the turkey
out of the oven, removed the stuffing, stuffed
a Cornish hen, and inserted it into the turkey,
and re-stuffed the turkey. She then placed
the bird(s) back in the oven.

When it was time for dinner, my sister pulled
the turkey out of the oven and proceeded to
remove the stuffing. When her serving spoon
hit something, she reached in and pulled
out the little bird.

With a look of total shock on her face, my
mother exclaimed, "Patricia, you've cooked
a pregnant bird!"

At the reality of this horrifying news, my sister
started to cry. It took the family two hours to
convince her that turkeys lay eggs!

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"Roast Ghost"

KAY MARTIN, a secretary to a New Zealand MP, got the
fright of her life a few weeks ago. According to the Auckland
Sunday Star, she and a friend were chatting over a drink
when they heard a chicken squawking. The bird sounded
in some distress, so they went outside to investigate,
thinking perhaps that it had escaped from one of the
neighbors. But there were no chickens anywhere.

Then Martin realized with horror that the sound was
coming from her own kitchen--coming, in fact, from the
oven, where she had put a chicken in to roast half an
hour earlier. "It was as if it was shrieking at me from
its grave," she says. "It was so bizarre I just froze."

As they approached the oven, the squawking reached
a crescendo. They took the tray out, and as the chicken
began to cool, the squawking died away. Martin
chopped the neck off and threw it in the sink. She
noticed that the vocal chords were intact.

"Steam was coming up the neck from the stuffing,"
says Martin, and this had caused the dead bird to
squawk.

She has not cooked chicken since.
Received on Thu Nov 23 07:51:23 2006