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Turkeys and airports don't mix

deep fried turkeyFor some reason I'm reminded of that episode of WKRP in Cincinnati, where Mr. Carlson unleashes a bunch of turkeys for a Thanksgiving Day promotion and discovers that turkeys can't fly.

This isn't about them flying, but it is turkeys in the airport. Deep-fried turkeys, to be exact. Seems many people at Dulles International Airport weren't too happy when they found out that someone had served a deep fried turkey at a holiday party at the airport last week. In a letter to management, a spokesman for the air traffic controller's union said he couldn't believe someone would deep fry a turkey (always a tricky thing to do even in the safest of circumstances) in an area where it is "surrounded by carpet, linoleum, an airport, aircraft, a control tower, thousands if not millions of gallons of jet fuel and thousands of passengers and employees."

A fire marshal on the scene made them turn the cooker off, but the FAA says they did nothing wrong.

Filed Under: Trends, Fall Flavors, Spirit of Christmas, Ingredients
Tags: christmas party, deep fried turkey, DeepFriedTurkey, dulles, fall flavors, holiday party, merry christmas, poultry

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Kate

12-22-2006 @1:22PM Kate said... "Ohhh, the humanity." -- Les Nessman, WKRP News (borrowing from a more famous broadcast...)

Thanks for the early morning laugh at the memory of a really charming show.
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Adam

12-22-2006 @1:56PM Adam said... That turkey does not look good.
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