Don't panic: You have two days to learn the Thompson Turkey

Each year about this time, the late P-I columnist Emmett Watson urged us all to try the Thompson Turkey [http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/food/246686_ask02.html]. I never did, but you gotta love his last paragraph: "The meat beneath will be wet, juice will spurt from it in tiny fountains high as the ha

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                <h1>Don't panic: You have two days to learn the Thompson Turkey</h1>
                <h2><p>Each year about this time, the late P-I columnist Emmett Watson urged us all to try the Thompson Turkey [http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/food/246686_ask02.html]. I never did, but you gotta love his last paragraph: "The meat beneath will be wet, juice will spurt from it in tiny fountains high as the ha</p></h2>
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            <p>Each year about this time, the late P-I columnist Emmett Watson urged us all to try <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/food/246686_ask02.html?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">the Thompson Turkey</a>.</p><p>I never did, but you gotta love his last paragraph:</p><p>"The meat beneath will be wet, juice will spurt from it in tiny fountains high as the handle of the fork plunged into it. You do not have to be a carver to eat this turkey. Speak harshly to it and it will fall apart."</p><p>Each year about this time, the late P-I columnist Emmett Watson urged us all to try <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/food/246686_ask02.html?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">the Thompson Turkey</a>.     I never did, but you gotta love his last paragraph:      "The meat beneath will be wet, juice will spurt from it in tiny fountains high as the handle of the fork plunged into it. You do not have to be a carver to eat this turkey. Speak harshly to it and it will fall apart."      <a href="http://historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=3274&ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">Probably the best journalist in Seattle history</a>, Watson died in 2001.     One-on-one, he was a delightful conversationalist. In crowded parties, his bad hearing gave him trouble so you'd often see him wander into a kitchen to read cook books.</p>
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Each year about this time, the late P-I columnist Emmett Watson urged us all to try the Thompson Turkey.

I never did, but you gotta love his last paragraph:

"The meat beneath will be wet, juice will spurt from it in tiny fountains high as the handle of the fork plunged into it. You do not have to be a carver to eat this turkey. Speak harshly to it and it will fall apart."

Each year about this time, the late P-I columnist Emmett Watson urged us all to try the Thompson Turkey. I never did, but you gotta love his last paragraph: "The meat beneath will be wet, juice will spurt from it in tiny fountains high as the handle of the fork plunged into it. You do not have to be a carver to eat this turkey. Speak harshly to it and it will fall apart." Probably the best journalist in Seattle history, Watson died in 2001. One-on-one, he was a delightful conversationalist. In crowded parties, his bad hearing gave him trouble so you'd often see him wander into a kitchen to read cook books.

By O. Casey Corr

O. Casey Corr is a Seattle native,&nbsp;a writer and marketing communications consultant, author of two books on business leadership&nbsp;and former communications director for the Seattle may