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Buriram Province - General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Ahab on November 23, 2012, 07:27:37 AM

Title: Thanksgiving in Thailand?
Post by: Ahab on November 23, 2012, 07:27:37 AM
Does anyone celebrate Thanksgiving in Thailand.  Can you buy a turkey, cranberries, and spices such as sage? My wife says that she has seen Turkeys for sale, but I never have.
Title: Re: Thanksgiving in Thailand?
Post by: urleft on November 23, 2012, 07:53:18 AM
Makro has frozen Turkeys.

But some locals also raise them:  hungry1
Title: Re: Thanksgiving in Thailand?
Post by: Ahab on November 23, 2012, 08:22:30 AM
That is very awesome.  Thank you urleft. I am sitting in my backyard cooking a 20 lb. turkey in my Webber grill.  It will be very good. Hope everyone in Thailand had a good Thanksgiving day (yesterday).
Title: Re: Thanksgiving in Thailand?
Post by: nookiebear on November 23, 2012, 09:37:52 AM
I've supplied 4 of my American Customers with Frozen Turkey Breasts.....280/kilo
Title: Re: Thanksgiving in Thailand?
Post by: urleft on November 24, 2012, 08:45:39 PM
I was in the Buriram Makro today, took a picture for you:

Title: Re: Thanksgiving in Thailand?
Post by: Ahab on November 25, 2012, 12:59:17 AM
I was in the Buriram Makro today, took a picture for you:
Awesome.  Thanks.
Title: Re: Thanksgiving in Thailand?
Post by: nookiebear on November 25, 2012, 05:12:30 AM
I was in the Buriram Makro today, took a picture for you:


Taking photos in Makro's Big C etc etc is strictly forbidden,,,you're lucky not to have been arrested
Title: Re: Thanksgiving in Thailand?
Post by: nookiebear on November 25, 2012, 05:13:54 AM
I was in the Buriram Makro today, took a picture for you:
Awesome.  Thanks.
A frozen Turkey 'awesome'........Come on Ahab you can't be serious.
Title: Re: Thanksgiving in Thailand?
Post by: Ahab on November 25, 2012, 05:32:20 AM
The awesome was for the fact that I could buy a turkey in Buriram. As long as it is not freezer burned frozen turkeys are OK. Hell, we normally cook turkeys that have been frozen even here in Hawaii. The stores here run specials on the turkeys to get people into the store and then gouge you on everything else. We got a 9 kg frozen turkey for 210 baht (not per lb), and bought nothing else except some beer and wine. Cooked it on a webber charcoal grill in my backyard and it was very good.

Isn't much of the expat food that foriegners eat in Thailand frozen?

Cheers,
Title: Re: Thanksgiving in Thailand?
Post by: Ahab on November 25, 2012, 05:36:00 AM
"I am serious, and don't call me surely"

Quote from the movie Airplane. 

Surely, you can't be serious? I am serious, and don't call me surely.
Title: Re: Thanksgiving in Thailand?
Post by: urleft on November 25, 2012, 08:03:23 AM
I was in the Buriram Makro today, took a picture for you:
Awesome.  Thanks.
A frozen Turkey 'awesome'........Come on Ahab you can't be serious.

Of course he can. 

Unless you are butchering the turkey yourself, the frozen turkey can be in effect "fresher".

A frozen turkey is butchered then immediately flash frozen while a fresh turkey is butchered they moved to the store to sell ageing in the process.  Also there should be a date on the frozen turkey.

Through most of my life we normally had at least 2 turkeys a year (Thanksgiving and Christmas), and really had some excellent frozen ones.  For the last 10 years I would cook them in Renyolds turkey bags in the oven, never had a bad one using that method.    hungry1

As far as taking pictures in Makro, I do it all the time, no one from the stores has ever tried to stop me.  I normally use the philosophy "It is better to ask forgiveness than permission."  which drives my TG nuts  as that is not the Thai way.   nono
Title: Re: Thanksgiving in Thailand?
Post by: chudless on November 25, 2012, 09:25:55 AM
 screwy
I was in the Buriram Makro today, took a picture for you:
Awesome.  Thanks.
A frozen Turkey 'awesome'........Come on Ahab you can't be serious.

Of course he can. 

Unless you are butchering the turkey yourself, the frozen turkey can be in effect "fresher".

A frozen turkey is butchered then immediately flash frozen while a fresh turkey is butchered they moved to the store to sell ageing in the process.  Also there should be a date on the frozen turkey.

Through most of my life we normally had at least 2 turkeys a year (Thanksgiving and Christmas), and really had some excellent frozen ones.  For the last 10 years I would cook them in Renyolds turkey bags in the oven, never had a bad one using that method.    hungry1

As far as taking pictures in Makro, I do it all the time, no one from the stores has ever tried to stop me.  I normally use the philosophy "It is better to ask forgiveness than permission."  which drives my TG nuts  as that is not the Thai way.   nono
As far as taking pictures in Makro, I do it all the time,
Really sounds awesome.
Shopping in Makro tomorrow must remember to take me camera. screwy
Title: Re: Thanksgiving in Thailand?
Post by: nookiebear on December 01, 2012, 06:30:26 AM
 

As far as taking pictures in Makro, I do it all the time, no one from the stores has ever tried to stop me.   

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You do indeed lead a somewhat strange life
Title: Re: Thanksgiving in Thailand?
Post by: Starman on December 01, 2012, 07:07:49 AM


As far as taking pictures in Makro, I do it all the time, no one from the stores has ever tried to stop me.   

You do indeed lead a somewhat strange life
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Indeed. I always find Big C more picturesque.