Mike Connor wrote:
...
No sensible person has a deep fryer of sufficient capacity for any
reasonable turkey,

But of course you knew that anyway, ...

Well of course *I* know that, but some clever redneck somewhere
discovered that deep frying a turkey was the perfect excuse to
stand around in the driveway drinking beer while the womenfolk
did the real work in the kitchen. Naturally this has become very
popular here in the States even though the finished product is
so bland and tasteless that many use syringes and other silly
things to INJECT flavor into the turkey. I swear to god I am NOT
making this up.

All you need to know about deep frying a turkey is that you
cannot buy a turkey fryer from a cooking or culinary catalog but
Cabela's sells a TON of them.

--
Ken Fortenberry