Thai Food/Female Substitute For American T-Birds

[SpamInCan]

I have not had a turkey in about 24 years, since B. Clinton was running for office, which was before many of the readers here had even come to Thailand, and many years after I had first arrived here 40 years ago, when they had cheap water buffalo for sale in most restaurants that sold steaks.

I know that some of you continue to have yearnings for your special foods, like Special K cereal (not that drug), for you old frail types, and strange sounding candy bars, or cheese whiz, or pickled knuckles, or something.

I no longer miss anything I left behind, as far as I know, and I even forget what stuffing tastes like, or feels like sometimes when you get a huge gob of it stuck half way down as you struggle to swallow, and while you don't really care too much because you have been drinking the whisky for the fruitcake, all day long.

I don't miss the foods I left behind, or the fat girls, because here we have foods that I very much like better, and girls that you all know look finer in every way, with their hair piled high on top.

So the real question here is:

What would you substitute for a Thanksgiving Bird?
And, what would you substitute for the other things you normally used to eat on that American Holiday?

IF you are not American, and I don't know who is not, secretly in their heart of hearts, then what would you substitute for the dishes that you imagine you might have had if you had been celebrating Thanksgiving in past years?

Probably you guys from over there across the Atlantic or Pacific don't even know anything about it, anyway.

Just please write your answers below, or not if you do not want to.

I would say that you might substitute some big local Thai bird for the Turkey, and stuff it with chili and Pad GraPao. And instead of Mince Meat, you could have Minced Lemons if they had been pickled in a sugar sauce.

I guess you need to be interested in food to be living in Thailand in the first place, so most of you probably cook too, when your GF is pissed at you, or just falling-down-pissed from that cheap Thai white liquor that you made her promise not to drink anymore.

TRY TO BE helpful and give a recipe that you have used or found maybe on the internet.

This post here is not really for me, but for those newcomers to Asia, who have left America, and are probably crying in their beer right now at some pub because they miss their GD families on the holiday. Well, I am not so soft as you. And I left all that jazz behind when I left America 35 years ago.

So what is it to be?

Turkey?

Or, a Thai Tart?

Do Tell!!!

[Camel Toe]

There are some items where sucking, licking and nibbling beat outright eating. Plus no animals get wacked. I vote Thai tart.

[SpamInCan]

Not only do no animals get whacked, but we can help save the environment.

I think for each Turkey grown to maturity ready for eating, it requires 32 swimming pools full of water.

I don't know how much water the Thai Tarts drink in a day, but it can't be much. I think most of the water which they daily consume comes from noodle soup.

[kingwilly]

What retarded shit is this?

[peterpan]

Play the game willy its American, in fact I had turkey last night.
The whole nine yards, stuffing gravy.
With my new American pals, I think I will change from being a Kiwi to American soon, after the turkey I will be fat enough.

[kingwilly]

Deep fried turkey yummy,

[FailSafe]

When I saw 'T-Bird' I had hoped you were referring to this:

[Boon Mee]

Haven't had turkey myself in years and occasionally miss it. Actually don't know where you can buy a Butterball or similar here in LOS?

[peterpan]

BM which rock do you live under? you can buy butter ball every where, we even have it at our local 7/11

[Boon Mee]

BM which rock do you live under? you can buy butter ball every where, we even have it at our local 7/11

Jing, jing, huh? I've actually never seen them. Nor really looked for them either have to admit but 'am sure they are at Villa Markets but my local Seven? I'll check...

[peterpan]

I was kidding you about the local 7, it was a joke, get it? but Macro/ big C Tesco have them.

Even for the country folk, ie your red neck pals, the local farang store, called chern chim buys then at Macro and will sell it to you at twice the price.

[Boon Mee]

I was kidding you about the local 7, it was a joke, get it? m but Macro/ big C Tesco have them.
Even for the country folk,ie your red neck pals, the local farang store, called chern chim buys then at Macro and will sell it to you at twice the price.

I'll look next time I'm in Bangkok but here in the Ban Nok the only possibility is a Tops Market in Meung Suphan. The Makro there is a terrible store - filthy and nobody I know shops at it. Thing is my Changwat has a miniscule population of Farangs which is a good thing in most ways...

[peterpan]

Why don't you email them, complain!
jeeze what Mericans used to good at and now I have to teach them to complain! they wont listen at Makro but it feels good.

[cyrille]

WTF is 'gao meng gawn'?

[Boon Mee]

Why don't you email them, complain!
jeeze what Mericans used to good at and now I have to teach them to complain! they wont listen at Makro but it feels good.

Complain to a Thai? You must be joking!

Anyhow, I made do with a nice bowl of Jok for breakfast and a big plate of Kway Teeow Lat Nat for lunch so that's me sorted for Thanksgiving. Stomach felt better than this guy's!

[SpamInCan]

When I saw 'T-Bird' I had hoped you were referring to this:

I am just trying to kill two birds with one stone on this blessed topic.

You should thank me for it.

Please feel free to post as many photos of old T-Birds as you wish.
One of the most blessed of cars.

[SpamInCan]

WTF is 'gao meng gawn'?

Very sexy red fruit that drips all over everything and turns your lips bright red.

It looks ten times better than it tastes.
Because it looks to me like what I wish the female form will look like when I get to heaven.

[SpamInCan]

You really can't beat Jok in the morning, or late in the night.

Every Asian culture has it and it is good for young babies.

In China it is called XiFan, and is almost the same.

This is what people eat after a very hard night's drinking just before crashing.

[Neverna]

WTF is 'gao meng gawn'?

แก้วมังกร gaew-mang-gorn = dragon fruit

[SpamInCan]

WTF is 'gao meng gawn'?

แก้วมังกร gaew-mang-gorn = dragon fruit

This is not the one I'm talking about.
I was talking about the red, and this is obviously the white.

[Rural Surin]

Haven't had turkey myself in years and occasionally miss it. Actually don't know where you can buy a Butterball or similar here in LOS?

Oh dear...
Much better off hunting your own.

Nothing compares to wild bird.
Certainly not if comparing the hybrid, tasteless, hormone-enriched commerical turkeys!

PLUUUEASSE.

[SpamInCan]

When I saw 'T-Bird' I had hoped you were referring to this:

The car is nice, I must admit.

But I have also been looking at the background, the neighborhood, and it does remind me of the States. (Saharad).

I have not been back there since 1991, and the streets without the curbing is distinctly American, or at least seems that way.

[Notnow]

Haven't had turkey myself in years and occasionally miss it. Actually don't know where you can buy a Butterball or similar here in LOS?

One night in Ubonratchathani in about 1967, I was stumbling down a dark street heading for the single bulb illuminating the next intersection. I was full of Scotch, with some good weed and opium after. Many homes had no electric in those days.
A few kids approached on the other side of the street, driving a flock of @#WHAT! turkeys. Really. No one (American Military) believed me the next day, until this RTAF Lt. said a guy in town raised them. I was very glad to hear that. I got to the intersection, and soon got a samlor. Taxis were very rare. Never saw the turkeys again.
Trivia- Turkeys originated in Mexico, like cacao and chilis. Various forms of peppercorns were used in Thai cooking before chilis. I bet most Thais think the chili came from Siam.

[SpamInCan]

Haven't had turkey myself in years and occasionally miss it. Actually don't know where you can buy a Butterball or similar here in LOS?

One night in Ubonratchathani in about 1967, I was stumbling down a dark street heading for the single bulb illuminating the next intersection. I was full of Scotch, with some good weed and opium after. Many homes had no electric in those days.
A few kids approached on the other side of the street, driving a flock of @#WHAT! turkeys. Really. No one (American Military) believed me the next day, until this RTAF Lt. said a guy in town raised them. I was very glad to hear that. I got to the intersection, and soon got a samlor. Taxis were very rare. Never saw the turkeys again.
Trivia- Turkeys originated in Mexico, like cacao and chilis. Various forms of peppercorns were used in Thai cooking before chilis. I bet most Thais think the chili came from Siam.

I really enjoy reading posts like this. I was first here in 1971, and I wish I had stayed and never left.
Also, it is interesting to hear about Thai cooking before chilis.
Most Thai that I know do not think Chili came from here, but they know that it came from South America originally. That was many years before you were born.
Probably the Chili first came to Thailand through, perhaps, Chinese traders, would be my guess if I had to bet money. Because I do not know how Chilis came to Thailand. I just know that Thai food must have been built around chili pepper hundreds of years ago.

Why does someone not research this and tell us where they come from?

I think I misread your post the first time, I thought you were saying that you saw Thai food being cooked in 1967 using peppercorn before the Chili arrived from South America. That would have been an even better story.