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Thanksgiving Initiative: First Bird of 2025

Thanksgiving Initiative: First Bird of 2025

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Michael Felder
Feb 20, 2025
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You don’t like turkey because you’re bad at it.

That’s sort of a you problem, but also a massive cultural problem, let me explain…

You only cook and have turkey cooked on Thanksgiving or maybe Christmas.

Think of anything you’re good at, how often do you do it?

-Run a marathon, you run almost everyday and train
-Parent a child, a non-stop job
-Your actual job, another non-stop job
-You and your partner, a relationship, a non-stop job
-Other cooking, recipes you work on constantly to dial in like “Pizza Wednesday” or “Fried Chicken Thursday” or “Taco Tuesday” or a steakhouse caesar salad with grilled chicken or whatever the hell ever you cook routinely

Turkey is and should be the same.

For starters, lose all of this:

None of this will help you at all

Keep this. Maybe you have a mom who loves necks or you want to make stocks. This is what you need. The necks and the giblets.

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