Roast Goose

[doowdniw]

For Christmas dinner - it's a tradition in some (non-Haitian) households. "Christmas is coming. The goose is getting fat..."

Trump is just mad because he's named after a duck. If he were named after a goose, he'd be Baby Huey.

 

[RobDownSouth]

For Christmas dinner - it's a tradition in some (non-Haitian) households. "Christmas is coming. The goose is getting fat..."

Trump is just mad because he's named after a duck. If he were named after a goose, he'd be Baby Huey.

Not to be argumentative, but Duck a l'orange has existed for far longer than Trump has been waddling upon this Earth.

 

[Saint_Ann]

Dumb thread.

 

[Pad_Foot]

Tea Tax was a tariff
Taxation without representation if imposed by ‘rump as well! Importer pays the tariff
We pay it !

We need America Rocks “Who pays tariffs!”

 

[Politruk]

Tea Tax was a tariff
Taxation without representation if imposed by ‘rump as well! Importer pays the tariff
We pay it !

We need America Rocks “Who pays tariffs!”

The Boston Tea Party was provoked by a tax cut.

The British Crown cut the duties on tea legally imported by the East India Company -- which made it possible for the Company to undersell American tea smugglers. And smuggling was big business, in colonial Boston.

 

[Politruk]

Why does nobody eat goose in the U.S.?

I guess hunters do eat the geese they shoot. But you never see geese in supermarkets -- or on restaurant menus. You see chicken, turkey, even duck, but never goose.

 

[Politruk]

If he were named after a goose, he'd be Baby Huey.

Baby Huey is a duck, not a goose.

If you want a cartoon goose, see Gandy Goose.

 

[Bray123]

Technically, the Revolution was sparked by the Stamp Act, a tax on official (and unofficial) documents including pamphlets and news relating to the Boston Tea Party.

That's what the guide at Fort Sumpter told me anyway.

 

[Pad_Foot]

The Boston Tea Party was provoked by a tax cut.

The British Crown cut the duties on tea legally imported by the East India Company -- which made it possible for the Company to undersell American tea smugglers. And smuggling was big business, in colonial Boston.

Yeah .., but it was a TARIFF to support American “Business”… well… crime according to you.

I’m not looking it up again.

 

[Politruk]

Has anyone here ever eaten goose?

 

[Rotadom]

A turducken but with geese. Geeseducken? Gooseducken?

 

[Bray123]

Has anyone here ever eaten goose?

I have, many years ago.
There was a lot of fat, not much meat and the whole thing disappeared in a family meal for four. A turkey would have lasted days.

 

[butters]

Has anyone here ever eaten goose?

not often but yes; absolutely delicious

has to be cooked right, though, to render out most of the grease. It has so much more flavour than chicken and turkey. A large goose does have a lot of meat on it, but since it has the same kind of bodily cavity as a duck it doesn't carry so much as a turkey of similar size which will weigh more.

 

[Politruk]

I recall in "A Christmas Carol," the Cratchits have a goose for Christmas dinner.

Apparently because they can't afford a turkey -- at the end, Scrooge buys them one.

Another notable thing about that story: Brits of that period celebrate Christmas by having a big dinner. They do not exchange gifts -- apparently, that was still a strictly continental custom at the time.

 

[butters]

I recall in "A Christmas Carol," the Cratchits have a goose for Christmas dinner.

Apparently because they can't afford a turkey -- at the end, Scrooge buys them one.

Another notable thing about that story: Brits of that period celebrate Christmas by having a big dinner. They do not exchange gifts -- apparently, that was still a strictly continental custom at the time.

turkeys were a far rarer sighting than geese, which were commonly kept my plenty of rural and poorer people.

well, not exactly, but the type of gifts and the quantities/values of them ranged widely between 'classes',; Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol in 'the hungry forties', a time of great unemployment and poor health, even starvation amongst the lowest classes. SO any gifts that were given in those days in poor families would tend to be few and far between, handmade and functional... and the meal became the focus of the family gathering as something to be shared.

The actual practice of gift-giving at Yuletide has been going on for centuries:

https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/inspire-me/why-do-we-give-gifts-at-christmas/

 

[Politruk]

Haitians don't eat geese either.