I love my mom but sometimes she’s not the brightest. She’s asked me before how we know there aren’t more planets hidden "behind the sun" and I forgive people for simply not having the knowledge for stuff like this. But this one truly baffles me. I’m 22, she’s 63. After we ate I said something about how the turkey wasn’t as good this year, and she said my dad probably didn’t get a butterball like usual. I said I wonder how they raise butterballs differently than other turkeys. And she was just confused. I KNOW she knows turkeys are an animal because that’s just obvious. She loves animals. But she thought they just made the meat in the shape? I asked what she thought they came from because I was genuinely cracking up, but I guess I was too loud because everyone went quiet and stared which made my face get red and my heart was beating so fast I couldn’t think anymore. I think my other family members thought I was making fun of her and maybe I was? Should I have stayed quiet? I don’t know I’m just still upset and don’t really know what to think anymore. This is gonna be on my mind constantly
Show her the youtube videos where people pull out cooked ducks from inside of a cooked Turkey.
Nearly always someone on there thinks it’s a baby turkey.
Edit : If anyone hasnt seen it [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afTUM\_LWz0k](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afTUM_LWz0k)
NTA. You’re overthinking it, it’s funny.
NTA. I would roast the shit out of my mom for this 😂
Did she actually indicate that she didn’t believe turkeys were animals? All you said is, “she was confused” by your question about not butterball turkeys might be raised differently. Is there any chance she was confused about the idea that how turkeys are raised may affect their meat?
It just doesn’t seem explicit that OP’s conclusion is borne out by the narrative.
Yeah, that was my thought. Especially since apparently the reason a butterball turkey tastes different is because of the way it’s… processed? Treated? after death, so it may not have anything to do with how they’re raised.
NTA. But that made me remember this from WKRP in Cincinnati:
“As God as my witness, i thought turkeys could fly.”
They can fly?
Some commercial strains have had that bred out of them, but turkeys and chickens can and do fly.
Wild turkeys can fly short distances, but domestically turkeys were bred so top heavy, they can’t.
You never saw this show, I take it?
Is this chicken what I have or is it fish? I know its tuna but it says chicken of the sea….
To be fair, if there was another planet, orbiting in Earth’s orbit, 180º out of phase with us, it would have been quite difficult to discover. We would never be able to observe it directly.
Its gravitational influence would however influence other celestial bodies that we can see, so we would eventually deduce its existence.
Neptune, for example, was discovered by its gravitational influence on the other planets, so we didn’t know it existed until 1846.
NTA. Honestly, if somebody made it 63 years eating turkey and didn’t figure out it was also the bird turkey, then they deserve to be laughed at. That is ridiculous. I’ll forgive a lot of missed information because we all have our moments, but after 63 years, that is absolutely absurd and is fully fair to laugh at.
NTA. Sometimes you do need to make fun of people like that. It’s like when my nephew, 19 at the time, asked how the sardines in the tin cans can survive that long with just a little water in the can. I looked at him, looked at his mom and then said, “How the fuck do you remember to breathe?”
NTA. Your mom reminds me of my mom. When I was 7, we were driving, and we passed a field. My mom, who is certified genius, documented IQ of 165, wonders out loud if the field is a pasta field. 7 year old me was confused, and said, pasta doesn’t grow in fields. She said, “of coarse it does. Where else would it come from?” I said I think it’s flour and water? Maybe an egg is involved. She told me I was wrong. It’s a plant, and they grow it in fields. I then asked, “What about the pasta with the Simpson characters. You think pasta that looks like Bart Simpson grows in a field?” She just went quiet for a long time. She went to work the next day (she managed a library) and found herself a book on pasta.
She also joined a cult when she was 16. Her first day, the handed her a bag of potatoes, and told her to make mashed potatoes. She looked everywhere for the box of mashed potatoes, but couldn’t find them. She had no idea you could make mashed potatoes from potatoes. She had only ever had the kind from a box that you just add water.
INFO: How do you know she didn’t know turkeys were alive? Nothing in your posts indicates that aside from the title.