Foodiggity’s Weekly Wrap-Up, 11/22-11/26

Some food culture leftovers… Foodiggity’s Thanksgiving week wrap-up.

Offering up some art… Mexican Sugar Skull Illustrations

Officially declare yourself a drunk… Altoids Tin Martini Kit

Turducken and Other Thinly Veiled Hate Crimes Against Turkey

C is for Career Change… Cookie Monster Wants to Host SNL

5 Birds in a pig, with bacon… TurBaconEpic Thanksgiving

Give your guests the finger… Hand Turkey Butchery

Hand Turkey Butchery

Hand Turkey Butchery by Alyson Thomas

Foodiggity’s favorite food artist, Alyson Thomas, brings us Hand Turkey Butchery in time for the imminent holiday.

Part of her ongoing Meat Sections series, Alyson proves once again that anything can be made infinitely cooler if broken down butcher-style. Even if it is mostly giblets.

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Turducken and Other Thinly Veiled Hate Crimes Against Turkey

Turkey on Thanksgiving — a more stubborn American tradition you will not find. The problem is that, year after year of our obligation to serve turkey, it has become excruciatingly boring and predictable. And most people seem to have arrived at the same conclusion… That turkey actually sucks. There I said it.

Our secret loathing of turkey is never more evident, than when we attempt to break tradition with variations on a theme. Usually at the hands of adventurous home cooks, big business, or herbivores — these lame attempts at creativity do nothing more than offer insight into our true feelings towards the turkey.

Today, Foodiggity explores some of these efforts that we believe are thinly veiled hate crimes against the turkey, and ill-advised cover-ups for its shortcomings.

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Foodiggity’s Weekly Wrap-Up, 11/8-11/12

Foodiggity’s week that was…