The personal blog of a girl named Alexa
But if you really need to know how many pounds of turkey you need to buy, here’s what I found on the Internet this morning:
If you need only enough turkey to make it through Thanksgiving dinner: buy between ¾ pound to 1 pound per person.
If you want enough leftovers for the long weekend: buy 1 pound (or slightly more) per person.
The latest craze for Holiday meals is deep fried turkeys. This HAD to have been invented in the South. They fry any and every thing in the South – and it usually tastes damn good, too.
The problem with deep frying turkeys is that you have to use a lot of very hot oil in a big pot that can tip over or spill over very easily. This usually causes someone’s house to burn down because these dumb rednecks don’t understand that hot oil spilled on a wood deck equals big fire. So if you are cooking a turkey in a big tub of hot oil, please use your brain and put it on a surface that cannot catch fire. And cook it outside, far away from your house!