Cold Turkey

Well, it's not a "famous American bird in an ice-block"

or a film

And it's not only a Edinburgh based environmentally-friendly, GM-free 5-piece band who perform an eclectic envelope of covers; basically good well known songs that are slightly off the beaten track.

Yahoo gives some answers to your question
"What is the origin of the phrase "cold turkey"?"


I'm not talking turkey, but I admire evreyone, who stays clean after having gone through a cold turkey!

BTW: our "own"
Online Etymology Dictionary says:

when i was in college and low in funds it was Cold Duck...

And when somebody says, "you turkey," they mean you have a small brain. c.i.

Cold Duck - OMG - is that stuff still sold?

college was a long long time ago

A listener's question about the expression cold turkey inspired us to head straight for our slang files. Here's what we dug up about the term that means "an abrupt complete cessation of the use of an addictive drug; the symptoms experienced by a person undergoing withdrawal from a drug; or, without a period of gradual adjustment, adaptation, or withdrawal."

One theory speculates that "cold turkey may derive from the cold, clammy feel of the skin during withdrawal, like a turkey that has been refrigerated." Columnist Herb Caen dished up this tasty morsel on cold turkey: "It derives from the hideous combination of goosepimples and what William Burroughs calls 'the cold burn' that addicts suffer as they kick the habit."

These explanations may sound plausible, but our commitment to the truth forces us to dispose of these theories cold turkey. Why? Because the phrase cold turkey did not originate in the drug culture. When cold turkey was first found in print in 1910, it was synonymous with outright, as in, "I'd lost five thousand dollars cold turkey." The first use of the expression in connection with drug withdrawal was not recorded until 1921.

So when did the idea of cold turkey first get cooked up? No one knows for sure, but since folks have been talking turkey -- that is, speaking frankly and without reserve -- since at least the early 1900s, etymologists speculate that the "all at once" sense of cold turkey developed sometime after that, before being borrowed into the drug culture.

Jones

Outside of the small town I grew up in there was a place known as Duck Lake Yacht Club, which was really more of a private bar. They always had Cold Duck on hand. Too funny.

Cold Duck, Bali Hai, Boones Farm, Double Barrel, we used to use that cheap wine and ice cream and acid to make Trippy-High milkshakes, then as we started to get off, we would go out and have egg tosses.

It will probably be no surprise to you that the group I hung with were much more the Kesey Prankster types than the Leary contemplative trippers.

You're either on the bus or off the bus.......... :wink:

Don't any of you remember Ripple? It was the cheapest and the best of the worst!

Reach out your hand if your cup be empty,
If your cup is full may it be again,
Let it be known there is a fountain,
That was not made by the hands of men.

Ripple in still water,
When there is no pebble tossed,
Nor wind to blow.

Ripple....poor man's Bali Hai....tasted the same on the way back pretty much...

Mad Dog 20/20

Schlitz Malt Liquor

Southern Comfort

Not just for breakfast any more.

I almost died laughing when I saw a Ripple bottle go at an antique auction for about $40... The same bottle was available, full, for about $4!

back in high school the guys used to call md 20/20 mad dog quinney/quinney.

I was honored of course.

Thankyou all for the enlightening responses.

Happy to assist Hebba. How's Denmark. I used to pass through it on my way to Sweden. I have family in Sweden and Finland.

Hey there, furniture-lookin'-gennelman . . .

Long time, no scie . . . (a little joke for the froggy talkers)

Denmark is still gorgeous bob.Hot too these days-ahhhh.
Setanta,you´re a new dog every time I log in!