Another Thanksgiving Day Dinner That Couldn’t Be Beat….

Yesterday, I roasted a 12-pound turkey for the family. Today we had turkey frame soup. There are still gobs of leftovers. So I cannot imagine how much is left over from this guy's Thanksgiving. He roasted a bit larger turkey.

72 pounds worth, to be precise.

Rich Portnoy roasted his tubby turkey in his 36-inch-wide, chef-caliber oven on Thursday to top the biggest bird his sister had ever cooked by 25 pounds. Andra Portnoy conceded defeat from her Reston, Va., home, but noted that her brother's large oven gave him an edge.

"It actually tastes pretty good!" Rich Portnoy said, gloating a bit after he and two other men pulled the turkey from the oven after 15 hours of roasting……

……This year, Rich Portnoy approached the Minnesota Turkey Growers Association, which helped him find an 85-pound breeding tom that, at 59 weeks old, was near the end of its useful life.

He bought the turkey for $30, loaded the live bird into the back of the family's car and drove it to a processor, where it was made oven-ready at 72 pounds.

I'm a little bit leery about how a monster turkey like that would actually taste. (Portnoy was also a bit cautious, he cooked a backup bird - a midget of only 19 pounds.) Now since this is a family game of one-upsmanship, be on the lookout for his sister Andra in California next year. She'd need a condor to top that thing.