So if you go to Costco, the smallest turkey you can find is just under 18 pounds. It cost 13 dollars, which was five cheaper than your standard issue turkey at the grocery store. And some people still wonder where this "Obesity Epidemic" is coming from.
But despite the three of us only being able to finish about an eighth of the food - and three quarters of the wine - that we'd bought, this was a good thanksgiving. I am thankful for the usual stuff, as always. Thankful for steroids in my turkeys. Thankful that I won at disc golf yesterday for the first time ever. Thankful I'm still with Sarah even though she's 2,600 miles away.
It takes a true American to show your humility and reverence for all that God has given you by eating until you feel sick, and then eating some more. But maybe the important thing is that we are thankful, if for just one day a year, if only for abundance of food, even if we forget the reason we gave thanks in the first place - once for stealing the Indian's land, once again for surviving the Civil War - yes, we are thankful, for friends, family, and health, and I hope that is what really matters.
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