Happy Thanksgiving. Your menu vs. the original Pilgrim menu right here

I want deer steak :(

Why can't we buy deer at the grocery store?

We had goose one Thanksgiving. The bird shrank down from 20 lbs to about 12. Those honkers are greasy.

Thanksgiving...originally giving thanx for the harvest of the summer...I am native indian and do not celebrate as most folks. I celebrate by giving thanx to mother earth for a bountiful summer harvest and giving us what we need to go thru the winter, father Sun, and our teachers from the sky.

I've got 2 dinners to cook for and attend. One is more traditional - turkey, yams, cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie and chocolate pecan pie etc.

The other is Hawaiian and on the beach - pork lau lau, poi, plus turkey and stuffing. I'm making coconut haupia on macadamia nut shortbread for that one.

Good question

They sell it commercially in Hawaii. Maui has a deer problem so they 'harvest' them for sale. The restaurant I work for is going to have venison on the menu soon.

We knew this old man who use to duck and goose hunt. He always soaked them overnight in Mogan David red wine. It was actually good and he said the wine took some of the game and greasy taste out.

No pumpkin pie? .....

You can buy deer steaks, but you won't find them in a grocery store. Drop by your nearest local slaughtering, butcher shop during and after deer season and ask if there is any deer for sale. I have often paid the shop a quater of the deer for them to finish cutting and packaging it for me. I will even let them keep the hide cause I already have several, don't need more right now. That is where I will go to buy a half a steer all cut up and packaged. It is a hell of a lot cheaper, and as long as you fully cook the meat, no danger.

Gee thanks Native Americans!

(Proceeds to slaughter all tribes and takes land for self)

A Deer farm would be perfect to breed them and then let people either hunt them for free and the farm keeps the meat, or the hunter pays for his kill and takes it home.

Did they watch football afterwards?

no they went on a black friday land raid.

You need to move to Maui Brief

"In its mission of zero waste, MADHC plans to use every part of the animal. Hides can be tanned and sold, entrails donated to farmers for use as compost, bone ground into bone meal and used as a soil amendment, antlers can become jewelry and the waste meat can be made into dog food. MADHC invites entrepreneurs interested in being associative members to contact them about any of these eco-friendly donations and/or business opportunities.

Some meat will go home with the hunters, some can be shared with the landowner, and at other times MADHC will invite a USDA/FSIS ante-mortem inspector and transport the deer to a recognized USDA registered slaughterhouse where it will be inspected post mortem to assure its safety for human consumption. Inspected meat will also be offered to the public by the cooperative at farmers markets and at a few interested Maui island restaurants and stores."

[link to mauinow.com]