{"id":1454,"date":"2007-11-22T18:49:48","date_gmt":"2007-11-22T10:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1454"},"modified":"2009-03-16T20:40:37","modified_gmt":"2009-03-16T12:40:37","slug":"1449-of-happy-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1454","title":{"rendered":"[1449] Of Happy Thanksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I ate my turkey at Subway. Sad, huh?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, for fun reading:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At my friend\u2019s house, a mansion with an army of Iraqi cooks, gardeners and security guards, the Iraqi staff gathered in the kitchen to watch the ajanib cook Ali Sheesh. All men, they lounged against the counter, chain-smoking.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dYou will never cook Ali Sheesh in time,\u201d\u009d said the tallest, with amused condescension. \u201dYou must cut him up. Otherwise he will not cook before midnight!\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>His friends nodded, laughing. They offered other instructions: We should saut\u00c3\u00a9 Ali Sheesh first; we should season him with sabaa baharat, seven spices, and layer him in a large pan; we should boil him and add rice. We had no idea what we were doing: we would poison the guests!<\/p>\n<p>Finally my friend had had enough of their mockery. \u201dHow do you know how to cook a turkey?\u201d\u009d she demanded.<\/p>\n<p>The ringleader drew himself up, looking down at us, offended. \u201dI have seen it,\u201d\u009d he said, with finality, \u201don \u201d\u02dcMr. Bean\u2019!\u201d\u009d [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/11\/22\/opinion\/22ciezadlo.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Baghdad Thanksgiving, 2003<\/em><\/a>. NYT. November 22 2007]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ali Sheesh is turkey, in Iraqi Arabic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ate my turkey at Subway. Sad, huh? Anyway, for fun reading: At my friend\u2019s house, a mansion with an army of Iraqi cooks, gardeners and security guards, the Iraqi staff gathered in the kitchen to watch the ajanib cook Ali Sheesh. All men, they lounged against the counter, chain-smoking. \u201dYou will never cook Ali [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11],"tags":[194,382],"class_list":["post-1454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-society","tag-iraq","tag-thanksgiving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1454"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3183,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454\/revisions\/3183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}