An annual tradition as old as stuffing – Josh chats with the turkey experts from the Butterball Talkline! Are you already defrosting your big centerpiece? It might be a little too early for that actually. But if you want the official PANTS of Thanksgiving then you need to give this a listen!

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**Transcription**

Josh: It’s the Life Songs Morning Show. Hey, I’m Josh and I’m very excited to have a professional that we all need to know and love. Michael Maddox, the Turkey Talk line expert from Butterball is with us this morning. Michael, welcome to Life Songs.

Michael Maddox: Good morning, Josh. Thank you for having me, and I’m, I’m very happy to be here and talking about Butterball Turkey.

What, what a wonderful.

Josh: Now down here in southeast Louisiana, Michael, when we prepare a Turkey, it is, it is 50 50 between smoking it and deep frying at a lot of Cajun deep fried turkeys. But are there any new Turkey trends this year that we should know about?

Michael Maddox: We see a lot of, you know, a lot of different techniques and things and you know, for us we say the open pan method is the recommended method, but.

My father likes to deep fry his as well, and we see cooking in the bag. So we do, we actually have Butterball University that we have our 50 experts that we do every year like that. And just kinda looking at new trends, but also looking at people who have those electric roasters and kind of looking at different ways just to try to accommodate everyone who was kind of cook the cookie different ways.

Josh: So we should not shove a whole frozen butterball Turkey into the air fryer and expect it to be ready in half an hour.

Michael Maddox: Correct? Yeah. That would be, that’s called not having butterball Turkey for lunch that day because it’s, yeah, not a, not a good idea.

Josh: Awesome. Michael. Um, what is the deal? I sound like Seinfeld there.

What’s the deal with Thanksgiving hosting pants? This is popping up all over the internet right now. Where did this idea come from and how do I get me some.

Michael Maddox: Yeah, great question. Yeah, this year we’re helping holiday hosts get a leg up, uh, by partnering with Hedley and Bennett to create Thanksgiving hosting pants.

And these are just fun pants and giving confidence to the seasoned veterans, but also to the new host, right, because they’re getting kind of nervous about hosting. And so, you know, we dress for success and confidence and those kind of things. And so if you visit thanksgiving hosting pants.com. And they’re gonna be available the first three Mondays of November while supplies last.

And you can get these wonderful hosting pants by Butterball and a Headley and Bennett, and they’re blue and yellow. Let our Butterball colors, and it was kind of fun. They have a place for a thermometer, a place to hold your towel, a place from other gadgets, even has a bottle of openers. Hydration’s important this time of year.

And then also a um, 1-800-BUTTERBALL little sticker on there, a emblem on there in case you need to sneak into the closet and give us a call and help you out.

Josh: I hope they have some stretch to them, right, because if I’m eating Turkey, I’m gonna correct. Yeah. All right. Michael. Social media presents a lot of creative ways to rere prepare Thanksgiving leftovers.

I’ve seen stuffing waffles, which looks cool, wraps and all kinds of stuff. Do you have a favorite way of eating leftover?

Michael Maddox: You know what’s kind of funny and it, it’s, it’s, it’s kind of a unique one is, is making a, like a Thanksgiving day sandwich, but you put everything on it, right? You have a nice baguette or a nice, uh, like a submarine bowl, uh, bread like that.

Josh: And we call it a Poe Boy down here.

Michael Maddox: Oh yeah. Po Yeah. I, I love New Orleans. I’ve been there quite a few times and, and myself, I brush it with some garlic oil, and then you put the cranberries, like the cranberry chutney on there. You put the stuffing on there, the Turkey on there. I’m a spicy person. I like a little bit of like jalapeno, uh, cheddar cheese or jack cheese on that, and it’s just wonderful way to have that sandwich and kinda all the best of all worlds and an easy hand ready bite.

Josh: Yeah, Michael has won me over to the leftover sandwich. That sounds like a phenomenal recipe. So Michael, what are the ways that the Life science family can get in touch with Butterball? If we need some help, if we need some tips, if we need some recipes, where do we go? Who do we call? What do we do?

Michael Maddox: Sure.

Great question. butterball.com would be their website and it has great recipes on there. It has some how to videos. It has a product locator, so in case you’re trying to get a certain one. If you’re trying to figure out how much you need per person or how big a Turkey to get, that’s on there as well. You can also do text and chat.

You can also call 1-800-BUTTERBALL and we are here available to help you from 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM uh, central standard time. And on Thanksgiving we have extended hours because we start early in the morning and we go into the evening like that, trying to help, uh, help the host with their butterball turkeys.

And also we can help with side dishes and sauces and all those kind of things too, which is fun.

Josh: Yeah, can we just give a round of applause to the Butterball team members that literally take their Thanksgiving and give in an active service to care for all of us? Trying desperately to impress our in-laws like that is a ton of work, a lot of stressed out people, and we are grateful for all that you guys do at Butterball.

Michael Maddox: Well, thank you so much. ’cause it’s our 44th year of the Butterball Turkey talk line. And what’s fun is we have over 50 culinary experts, so chefs, teachers, food sciences, registered dieticians. So for us it’s, it’s a good, great group of people together. And we, we have a wonderful time because we’re passing the love on and having fun talking and texting and chatting with, uh, the hosts.

Josh: Well, just because the Thanksgiving meal is mostly beige doesn’t mean it can’t be packed full of flavor. Thank you so much, Michael for. Spending some time talking with us and um, we’ll have all the links and stuff up for butterball on life songs.com and I’ve gotta go order those pants now, those Thanksgiving hosting pants.

Michael Maddox: Thank you Joshua, my pleasure to be with you and your listeners today.