Fellow Tappers, how time flies! Turkeys do not fly. Like chickens and ostriches they are flightless birds. And they will be slaughtered, engorged with bread and spices, overcooked, and consumed en masse this Thursday, as Americans celebrate “Thanksgiving,” which when you think about it doesn’t make sense as a word. Before we continue, I feel compelled to announce that Steerpike – whoever that guy is – might take advantage of the slow week to make …
Though at this point Tap – a multi-national organization – has fewer active American writers than it does those from far-flung realms, we’d nonetheless like to take a moment and wish all our readers a very happy Thanksgiving Thursday. For the majority of the world, it is just a normal day. But it’s the day Americans congregate with relatives they largely despise, consume poorly-prepared turkey with a slurry of bread and spices shoved up its …
Tap’s American readers are doubtless checking the site today out of a sense of duty and responsibility (thank you), in between the brining and basting of turkey for our annual celebration of giving smallpox to the Native Americans Thanksgiving. The big day is tomorrow, and it is on that day that that around 70 homes will catch fire, and many dozens of people will be seriously injured in misguided attempts to deep-fry their turkeys, a …