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Unexpected Chicken Sausage
My wife just hit me with some pretty heavy surrealism, suddenly handing me a foot-long yellow can of spicy Turkish chicken sausage. Her mother is visiting with us. The other day, this lady had an appointment with her acupuncturist...
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Posted on: January 6, 2007 2:19 PM, by Martin R
My wife just hit me with some pretty heavy surrealism, suddenly handing me a foot-long yellow can of spicy Turkish chicken sausage.
Her mother is visiting with us. The other day, this lady had an appointment with her acupuncturist (no, of course I don't, don't blame me). And apart from the treatment, she was given sausage. Dawkins knows what she's expected to do with it.
It's made in Haderslev, Denmark from halal chicken meat. I think I'm gonna eat it.
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Comments
Just be glad she hadn't seen a Freudian homeopath.
Posted by: MartinC | January 6, 2007 3:00 PM
As Freud himself put it, "sometimes a can of spicy Turkish chicken sausage is just a can of spicy Turkish chicken sausage".
Posted by: Martin Rundkvist | January 6, 2007 3:05 PM
No one expects the foot-long yellow can of spicy Turkish chicken sausage.
Posted by: Mustafa Mond, FCD | January 6, 2007 3:44 PM
I have been given the task of opening the longest can of spicy Turkish chicken sausage in the forest -- with a herring!
Posted by: Martin Rundkvist | January 6, 2007 3:47 PM
That's some Dagwood sandwich in the background!
Posted by: mugabe | January 6, 2007 6:28 PM
Food for thought, my dear boy. I wonder if I could convince my wife to get a Blondie hair do.
Posted by: Martin Rundkvist | January 7, 2007 3:15 AM
Hmm, I might destroy your reputation by remindig you that it was you who told me to go to an acupuncturist about 10 years ago. And it helped, I got rid of my migraine. But maybe you wouldn´t say the same today?
Posted by: amber | January 7, 2007 7:21 AM
Today I'd say you were lucky and that the reason acupuncture works for you is placebo. But ten years ago, the scientific picture of acupuncture was less clear, and I personally knew far less. Like most alternative medicine, acupuncture won't hurt you, only your wallet.
Maybe you might try skipping every second appointment with your acupuncturist?
Posted by: Martin Rundkvist | January 7, 2007 7:29 AM
Don't eat it.
Trust me. I know how they make it.
And yes, it is halal and yes, it might just contain traces of real chicken. Might not.
Never trust a can of spicy unexpected danish Turkish chicken sausage!
Posted by: Henrik | January 7, 2007 2:51 PM
It's supposed to hold 80% chicken meat. But there is this note on the can that sounds kind of scary. "Mechanically deboned". Do they shoot dead poultry through a grille so the meat flies through and the bones get stuck?
Posted by: Martin Rundkvist | January 7, 2007 2:57 PM
This just sounds so...wrong...
Posted by: Karen | January 7, 2007 4:48 PM
Yes, but sausages are all basically wrong and should be kept out of sight. I've always said, "Hide the sausage!".
Posted by: Martin R | January 7, 2007 4:55 PM
As the old saw goes: "The wurst is yet to come!"
Posted by: Thinker | January 8, 2007 5:24 AM