Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!onodera-news!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.gamma.ru!Gamma.RU!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!news-FFM2.ecrc.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!202.215.53.66!not-for-mail From: Declan Murphy Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Jpn Govt. Pays Out for the Lives of Its Citizens - Was: I've finally figured this puppy out Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 11:52:03 +0900 Lines: 32 Message-ID: <3FCEA153.3040707@hotmail.com> References: <3FC625A5.7040707@yahoo.komm> <3FCB656E.1665FBDA@yahoo.co.jp> <3FCC6D3E.3000600@hotmail.com> <3FCD7288.7040706@hotmail.com> <3FCD9CFB.7090308@hotmail.com> Reply-To: declan_murphy@hotmail.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 202.215.53.66 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1070506145 71099912 202.215.53.66 ([139419]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020510 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:8741 Kevin Wayne Williams wrote: > They are used as loss leaders. Enterprising people will eat leftover > turkey for all of December because they can buy two twelve-kilo turkeys > for $10.00 the day before Thanksgiving. Crikey. I don't think I could eat the same crap for a month. > Outside of the holiday season, maybe 2 or 3 dollars a kilo. sankyuuuu. > Once you get out of the southeastern states, it is very rare. Even in > the southeast, it's unusual, and done more for the novelty and > excitement than anything else. Typically, the things are roasted. > Because of the size, they are roasted at a fairly low temperature, and > usually wrapped in a plastic roasting bag to keep the outside from > drying out while the interior remains raw. Ahh, thats what I figured. There is no way on earth that a sepponian Turkey is going to fit into my little microwave/oven thingee. -- "Beyond the Euphrates began for us the land of mirage and danger, the sands where one helplessly sank, and the roads which ended in nothing. The slightest reversal would have resulted in a jolt to our prestige giving rise to all kinds of catastrophe; the problem was not only to conquer but to conquer again and again, perpetually; our forces would be drained off in the attempt." - Emperor Hadrian AD 117-138