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cshenk · **Thanksgiving Dinner 12/23/17**

jmcquown wrote in rec.food.cooking:

> On 11/24/2017 12:27 PM, wrote:
> > On Fri, 24 Nov 2017 08:07:47 -0500, jmcquown >
> > wrote:
> >
> > > On 11/23/2017 9:09 PM, Sqwertz wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 23 Nov 2017 18:59:05 -0500, jmcquown wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > I neglected to mention the duck was delicious! Nice crispy
> > > > > skin yet very tender moist meat.
> > > >
> > > > You neglected to mention it was duck rather than chicken! But
> > > > I kinda suspected it the way the leg meat and tendons had
> > > > bunched up. Ether that or a really overcooked chicken quarter.
> > > >
> > > > -sw
> > > >
> > > I mentioned I was having duck in another thread. That was half
> > > of a half a duck on the plate.
> > >
> > > Jill
> >
> >
> > In resto lingo a quarter duck.
>
> Resto lingo? This isn't a restaurant. Sorry you didn't find the way
> I wrote it amusing (which was my intention).
>
> > Yup, a duck feeds four children's portions,
>
> Here we go again. I don't have a large appetite so I surely would
> not eat a half a duck at one meal. Okay, I would if it was the only
> thing on the plate and I was starving.
>
> Jill

Don't worry Jill, that's just Sheldon supersizing everything. If he
actually at the way he talks, he'd be 600lbs.

Real people will make at a minimum, 6 servings from a whole duck and
most will make 8-10. Here with us being low-meat eaters, we probably
get 12 or more per duck. It's high fat so eating less works really
well.

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