After everyone eats, you’ll have enough leftovers to feed a small army for a week. Here’s the surprising math: a 20-pound turkey yields about 10 pounds of meat after bones and skin. That’s like having a second Thanksgiving dinner every day for the next six days. You will invent new ways to eat turkey. Turkey salad. Turkey enchiladas. Turkey breakfast tacos. You’ll finally run out of ideas and just eat the cold bird straight from the Tupperware at 2 a.m.
And yet, you will still have turkey left over. You will find a Ziploc bag of it in the back of your fridge three weeks later. It will have grown a beard. You will throw it away while whispering a eulogy. But hey, you conquered the Turkey for 20 People Size. You are a culinary warrior. Now go eat a nap.
