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[email protected] · **Thanksgiving Dinner 12/23/17**

On Sun, 26 Nov 2017 16:14:53 -0400, wrote:

>On Sun, 26 Nov 2017 12:24:24 -0600, "cshenk" > wrote:
>
>>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.
>
>I'm not a big eater but a duck feeds four.

Exactly.