Over the last several years it became a contest to see who could make the most flavorful or juicy turkey on Thanksgiving, or get creative with whatever choice of meat any of us were preparing. Sure there was a lot of meat leftovers but there was also that four day limit everyone could carry out to take home and get creative with. My one son got into smoking meat. Let me tell you, there was some doozies until he got good at it. He'd bring whatever pride and joy he was trying to make early on into the house and the smell was just awful. We couldn't wait anymore longer to want to wait for him to exit the kitchen, swing shut the swinging door, spit out the meat, open the door and all the windows as he could wanting us to give it a pre-sample taste run. Those early couple of experimental years praising him for that which we couldn't wait to spit out paid off though as he got much more skilled at it.