I just read a frantic article about the evils of washing a turkey before you cook it. Apparently they're all swimming in bacteria. The bugs will be killed during cooking, of course, but while washing it, the bugs will splash all over the counter, infecting the salad, pumpkin pie, and cranberry sauce. The hospitals are putting on extra staff tomorrow to deal with the myriad cases of gut bugs we'll all injest today. We're dead men, guys, and it's all because we washed our turkeys.
