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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather overthink Christmas food traditions of today and of days past, straddle the poultry/boeuf divide (which is to say, the Thanksgiving/Christmas divide), eat seasonally, or at least insufferably, and take a peculiar lesson from Bruce Lee: Be like whiskey, my friend.


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<h2>Further Reading</h2>
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<li><a href="https://www.overthinkingit.com/2017/11/27/otip491/">&#8220;Episode 491: Tarving the Curkey&#8221;</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.thoughtco.com/the-marshmallow-test-4707284">The Marshmallow Test</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.butterball.com/how-to/cook-a-turkey/spatchcock">&#8220;How to Spatchcock a Turkey&#8221;</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.honeybaked.com/stores">Honeybaked Ham Stores</a></li>
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