BUTTERBALL TURKEY THANKSGIVING DINNER 1956

[reneecalling]

Just make sure your medical insurance premiums are paid up because you're gonna need it after the paramedics wheel you into the emergency room and the doctors try to jump start your heart for the nth time. And why won't it start? It's because of all that basted BUTTER you've ingested that's now settled into your coronary arteries. Oh oh......CLEAR! 400 watts sec.! zzzzzzz. lol! Sorry, I couldn't resist that one.

[joycloud]

This may be the funniest thing I have ever seen. 

[Skyntalor]

Forget the turkey, ham, stuffing, and mash potatoes. I'm just having butter this Thanksgiving.

[gerry3x]

My cholesterol level just went up.

[zdenney209]

oh the good old days! now that'll kill you if you eat it like that

[bankerguy66]

Martha Stewart has a similar recipe but you add white wine to the butter dip the cheese cloth in it and baste every 1/2 hour....When done it looks like a magazine turkey!

SO GOOD! 

[willieneal57]

This must be where Paula got her recipe.

[milovela1983]

with real cholesterol....

[MiHiVidz]

@milovela1983 Cholesterol means flavor.

[TunerToTheStars]

BUTTER IS BETTER  Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[keystrucker]

margarine was developed back in the 30's to fatten turkeys..it killed them..then they found out it didn't hurt humans and started marketing it. Margarine is only one molecule away from plastic and no living thing other than humans will consume it. Just leave a stick of margarine open in your garage and watch it for a week....nothing happens

[sr71ablackbird]

@keystrucker now, they're saying that the butter is better, they can't make up their minds. I'm glad that I stuck with original butter.

[someonenow1]

I liked the part where they used butter.

[joycloud]

@someonenow1 This comment made me laugh myself to tears. LOOOOOL

[GypsyFairy85]

That turkey is gigantic!

And bursting with butter flavor.

[davidls11]

I can't believe it's not...oh, it is.

[fritzvonerik]

The password is butter... *ding*

[mattybock]

from the 1950s until her passing my grandma baked her turkey in an air tight (or close to it) metal pan with some water in it. it steamed and cooked the turkey. fell off the bone. people used butter in modesty back then- it's just a commercial folks.

[soschadao]

if you cook whole turkey only once a year its not going to kill you!

[Airking11]

eating 2 much butter makes me feel fat.

[coreyakabob1]

O_O thats a lot of butter......

[Sheri451]

You know now they would never get away with using real butter on anything, thanks to all the butt holes that claim that it would kill them. I would rather eat real butter than chemical spreads, That crap they have out now does'nt eve melt. Looks more like baby spit up.

[qwertasdcfghjklmo24z]

@Sheri451 my feelings exactly; I use real butter all the time and I am a healthy weight.

[Dangoxs]

it's not kosher...

[JoshuaTaylor]

Then after the turkey is done, serve it with buckets of butter.... lol

Actually, the cheesecloth is a good idea. Drenched in butter, of course.... ;-)

[jongreek]

More buttah please!!

[jenzeppelin]

i made my Thanksgiving turkey dinner last week, just like that, with butter. yummy! (in Canada we have Thanksgiving earlier.)

[1959AverellHarriman]

I sure could have used this "tip" in 2004. The directions from the "complete turkey dinner in a box" from the market never said "baste" anything, and boy...that was the worst Thanksgiving ever. The next year, it sort of dawned on me that I recalled seeing Donna Reed prepare her Turkey during the Thanksgiving episode and it made me think: "Hmmmm...that's what I was supposed to do?" Now, no worries. :-)

[fromthesidelines]

This was actually a commercial from the "American Dairy Association" [usually seen on "DISNEYLAND", as they were one of the series' rotating sponsors at the time], reminding you to use REAL BUTTER when basting that Thanskgiving turkey in 1956...

[gwengoad]

try vertical roasting a chicken or turkey and it is the juiciest you will have

[themaltesebippy]

Man I love butter!!

The real way to get a juicy turkey is to roast it upside down and flip it over during the last hour. Basting is useless, it doesn't go through the skin.