Comments on: Hey, Ya Wanna Smoke a Turkey?

By: dan

dan — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 12:24:56 +0000

Gotta have a lid. How else am I going to smoke things?!

By: asadoarg

asadoarg — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 15:45:17 +0000

>turkey

Your’s has a lid. Try it with the lid open and no oven

We cooked one too but I decided to do it in the oven instead of chopping it up for the parrilla. And yes the breast meat came out like sawdust. Didn’t have a chance nor room to brine it and also the thing was almost touching all sides of the oven. About 16 pounds or so. Someone raises them here on the island and it was super fresh but too bad it didn’t come out better. Really need to get a larger oven.

>Solo Empanadas

One was just down the block from us. Got a little bit old after a while with them dancing about once a month right below you.

>fireckrackers

HEHE I miss that. Too much of a fire risk down here in TDF so they have them banned. The city does do shows though on New Years and a few other local holidays. I don’t, however, miss drugging one of our dogs during those events. The first time, which was three months after we got her, we didn’t drug her and she spent the whole night hiding in a corner shaking like crazy. You just can’t find a quiet place to hide heh

By: kaos.geo

kaos.geo — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 13:37:32 +0000

http://youtube.com/watch?v=dU6gUD7Wto8

Here I found a link.

Spooooooky!!! No eyeeeeeees!

By: dan

dan — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 11:37:30 +0000

I was wondering myself about the dancing empanadas… I gather I’ve missed some cultural event during my time here. A quick google search on them, however, reveals that they’ve been seen (and some folks have posted photos). It’s apparently an ad campaign for a local empanada chain called Solo Empanadas, they send six dancing empanadas out into the streets to entertain folks and spread the word… I’ll keep my eyes peeled for them!

By: ksternberg

ksternberg — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 04:17:28 +0000

Now really. I simply can’t understand why hours of high volume fireworks would bother you, Dan. Dancing empanadas?

By: dan

dan — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 02:59:18 +0000

New Year’s Eve I expect it - Christmas Eve I didn’t!

By: kaos.geo

kaos.geo — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 00:54:55 +0000

Hehehehe, get some earplugs for new year’s eve then!
On the 1990’s with a lot more bang for our bucks (pun intended) we Argentine freaks used to buy fireckrackers in almost obscene quantities.
The crisis really calmed us down.

Anyway, try to spot, if you can, a freakish invention … some sort of chinese baloon/lantern that people light and then let adrift.

Call me paranoid, but I always have visions of an unattended and open-windowed apartment burning up because of this.

This kind of observations on our culture is what I enjoy from foreigners writing blogs.. I laughed my a** off one time reading the impressions of a tourist on the dancing empanadas (you know the spooky ones, with hollow black eyes).
It read like a stephen king short story.

Have fun!
PiT

By: dan

dan — Mon, 25 Dec 2006 15:09:27 +0000

Took a moment to look at the major online local papers…

According to La Nacion, 88 people were injured here in town by fireworks and 5 by champagne corks (oh, that dangerous bubbly…). Fifty of them were minors, including one 13 year old who is hospitalized in the burn center with probable permanent loss of vision in both eyes. This is a more than 50% increase over last year’s reported injuries - 60 people.

According to Clarin, 44 people are/were being treated at the burn center, 30 of them minors, and another 26 at the Santa Lucia Eye Hospital.