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Thursday, April 25, 2024

Gotta start fattening them up early for Christmas Dinner

The wild goose (or in this case geese) chase has ended. North Texas officials have found the two geese reportedly stolen from a park in Allen last weekend. The City of Allen Parks and Recreation Department posted on Facebook on Monday, April 15 that the birds were located and will be returned.
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  1. WiscoDaveApril 25, 2024 at 5:08 AM

    "An old world vocation grew to a great industry in Dodge and Jefferson counties, with the hub of the industry in Watertown. The peak of the industry in Watertown was around 1917. "Watertown Stuffed Goose" appeared on the menus of America's famous gourmet restaurants in the east. It was listed in the dining cars of the Twentieth Century Limited and other cross country passenger trains, and on the elaborate menu cards of ocean liners, which before the jet age carried large numbers of passengers to and from Europe, often in luxurious surroundings."
    "According to the late Fred L. Holmes, historian and author of "Old World Wisconsin" and other historical books, the method of forced feeding, stuffing or "noodling" of geese, as the method was known, had its origin in Alsace in Europe over 200 years ago. He learned this from Jefferson and Dodge county farmers who were in the ethnic groups who came from Germany in the late 1800's. They brought knowledge of the noodling of geese with them."
    http://www.watertownhistory.org/articles/Goslings.htm
    http://www.watertownhistory.org/articles/StuffedGeese.htm

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  2. waitingForTheStormApril 25, 2024 at 5:35 AM

    Some years ago in Sugarland, TX, a Vietnamese co-worker had brought their elderly parents from Vietnam to their home. Returning home from work, they were greeted with a fine duck dinner. On the back porch, were two ducks tied to a stake. The parents had, reportedly, gone down to the community lake and were amazed by the bounty of fine meat, available to just anybody who happened along and had the wherewithal to capture these fine beasts. I was told that they were educated out of their mistaken belief.

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  3. AnonymousApril 25, 2024 at 8:07 AM

    "Wild Goose Chase Gets Happy Ending"?
    Well fuck a duck!
    -lg

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  4. rickn8orApril 25, 2024 at 9:49 AM

    That's just top-notch detective work, right there.

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