Hey, you say. Why aren't y'all having fried turkey?

The kit is going to Lyman's sister's house, so her son can earn his rite of passage to manhood in Louisiana. He is about 25, I think. It's past time.

By the way, how would you phrase that?
earn his manhood?
undergo rite of passage?

A lesser-known delicacy particularly good for small groups is fried cornish game hen, prepared just as you would turkey but cooked a shorter time. You can cook a few of these for, say, a threesome or foursome.