Cold Turkey

Yesterday, I overheard a fellow complaining about the fact that we would be eating Thanksgiving leftovers for the next week or so. He said, "I reckon we're gonna be eating cold turkey until just before Christmas." That got me thinking about when I was a boy and there was an ice cream treat called a Cold Turkey. It was vanilla ice cream on a stick that was dipped in chocolate. Nowadays most people have never heard of that specialty. I reckon when the term cold turkey was adopted for the procedure of getting off cigarettes, alcohol, or drugs in an abrupt cancelation of their use. That ruined it for the ice cream dish. It kind of amazes me how our language changes. Me and Dorothy were watching an old Fred Astaire movie the other night and he was talking about how gay he felt. That means something else today and I wonder if it was confusing to youngsters. Anyway that's not what I was talking about, I was thinking about ice cream, leftovers, etc. Just want to say how thankful I am that we have leftovers. There are people in the world who will finish their meal today and still be hungry. God bless them.

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