Thousands Gather For Stuffing Of Giant Rockefeller Center Turkey

[meegbear]

In what has become a Thanksgiving tradition, more than 10,000 locals and tourists alike braved the cold Monday to watch the annual stuffing of the Rockefeller Center Turkey.

The nationally televised event, which has rung in the holiday season for nearly 80 years, began at 5 p.m., when workers propped open the skin flaps of the 55-foot-tall bird, and pushed an 11-ton mixture of bread crumbs, onions, and other fixings into its massive trunk.

"This year's stuffing is shaping up to be the best one yet," said Mayor Mike Bloomberg, addressing the crowd from a podium next to the giant avian carcass. "Look at that beautiful glistening turkey!"

"Let Thanksgiving begin," Bloomberg added as he ceremoniously picked up a handful of salted butter and coagulated grease from the pile and threw it into the cheering crowd.

Moments after a 150-foot-tall crane stuffed the raw turkey to overflowing, ground crews fastened the bird's gargantuan legs together with nearly 200 yards of kitchen string. According to organizers, the Rockefeller Center Turkey will be basted hourly with 30,000 gallons of natural juices, pumped from industrial hoses, to prevent it from drying out.



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[Sanity Claws]

1. You can't fool me

It's dark at 5 PM in NY at this time of year. That photo shows daylight.
;)

[meegbear]

2. Damn you sanity ...

you're too smart for us naughty persons.

[dipsydoodle]

3. Well it fooled me

at first anyway. I was sitting here thinking to have got that at a turkey shoot they'd have needed to use an anti tank weapon. :)

[Dogmudgeon]

4. That photo was taken around 1 PM

I know. I took some of the photographs with my new Lensless Camera.

--p!

[demnan]

5. It's a chicken, not a turkey

Here's a turkey: