A reporter asked about the lack of turkey dinner in the official NASA menu, but mission commander Charles Hobaugh replied "shockingly, yes, I think it will be" as they flashed some bags with the goodies inside. Hobaugh didn't care a lot:

Thanksgiving to me has not always been about the food you eat, but the company you keep, and I'm keeping some outstanding company here. I can't wait to get home and share a late Thanksgiving meal with my family but, in the meantime, I've got a great group of friends and I'm really thankful for that.

A NASA spokesman was surprised and didn't have any explanation except that some of the ISS crew may have sneaked turkey—smoked and irradiated—candied yam, freeze-dried cornbread stuffing, and green beans packages into the station.

Meanwhile, this Gizmodo editor is surprised that he didn't vomit while writing this article, after eating between five and three hundred pounds of turkey today. [AP]

It includes:

• A pair of MK4 Torg Class Laser cannons
• A MK5 Oasis Class Hyperdiscombobulator
• A Flare launcher
• A Scorpion Missile Pod, with 9 missiles

Thank God, you don't have to fear this unless you are actually a turkey-eating minifig. [Brickfrenzy via Brothers Brick]

Turkey Hunt: I may be soaking my turkey in duck fat pre-roast, but still, I don't want to play no Duck Hunt on this great day. Thankfully, there's Turkey Hunt, reminding us that for us to enjoy the delicious bird on the table, a turkey's life, somewhere, came to a violent and abrupt end.

Turkeynizer: A friend of mine has already started making Elf Yourself messages. They're fun the whole year 'round, but I'm going to show her the Turkeynizer. Make this turkey dance and I'll pay a couple bucks—for stills, free is good!

Convert Aid: This may be a 100% American holiday, and I may be 100% American, but at heart, I often find myself yearning for the metric system. Cups? Ounces? Tablespoons? Drams? What? Now when you're throwing together the feast, there's Convert Aid: solving the English system's mysteries one retardedly illogical measure at a time. $1

Last Call: If your Grandma's house isn't the place for one big sloppy sleepover (too bad!), make sure you don't spend Black Friday in the drunk tank by keeping a close, er, approximation of your consumption before hitting the road. Because "officer, it's not my fault that a great meal needs a great wine!" is just not going to work. It's free.

LED Football: Hate the Lions as much as Henry Paulson does? Then instead of watching John Madden dole out drumsticks, it's probably time to retire to the den with the can of Reddi Whip, sufficiently elasticized pants and some LED football, just like old times. It's a buck.

Some of this week's App news on Giz:

• iPhone App Dev Pays $$ for ***** and Sullies Santa's Name

• Dealzmodo Review: The $300 Sonos Rig

• Zagat To Go '09 Hits iPhone App Store

• Apple's Approval of BdEmailer Proves App Approval Process is a Crapshoot

• 3D Power Is Highly Varied Across iPhone/iPod Touch Iterations

• Simple Hack Enables Roughly One Gazillion Japanese Emoticons On Any iPhone

• iPod Touch Hack Gives Disgruntled Firmware 2.2 Upgraders Google Street View

• DuiPhone Breathalyzer Hack for the iPhone Tells You What You Already Knew

• iPhone Firmware 2.2 Jailbroken, QuickPwn 2.2 Released

Have a fantastic Thanksgiving everyone! For even more apps: see our previous weekly roundups here, Gizmodo's 20 Essential apps, and our original iPhone App Review Marathon.

Instructions:

Turkey parts can be cooked in a dish with a lid, or cover the dish with plastic wrap and vent the top. Timing can vary because of wattage differences, so follow the recommendations in the owner's manual.A 12- to 14- pound turkey is the maximum size most microwaves can accommodate...Allow 3 inches oven clearance on top and 2 to 3 inches of space around the bird. The time for cooking a turkey in the microwave is 9 to 10 minutes per pound on medium (50%) power. Rotate the bird during cooking to ensure even cooking.

Warnings:

Microwaves sometimes cook a whole turkey unevenly, so microwaving it in an oven cooking bag aids in even heat distribution. Microwaving a stuffed turkey is not recommended.

To those who are taking this post too seriously, remember: Just because something is edible doesn't mean that you'll necessarily want to eat it. Though if you do partake in a microwaved turkey this Thanksgiving, be sure to send us a photo...and maybe try stuffing the bird with Pop Secret after cooking. [USDA]

The surreal mistake happened because Ramazan's sent a message and Emine's cellphone didn't have an specific character from the Turkish alphabet: the letter "ı" or closed i. While "i" is available in all phones in Turkey—where this happened—the closed i apparently doesn't exist in most of the terminals in that country.

The use of "i" resulted in an SMS with a completely twisted meaning: instead of writing the word "sıkısınca" it looked like he wrote "sikisince." Ramazan wanted to write "You change the topic every time you run out of arguments" (sounds familiar enough) but what Emine read was, "You change the topic every time they are fucking you" (sounds familiar too.)

Emine then showed the message to her father, who—enraged—called Ramazan, accusing him of treating his daughter as a prostitute. Ramazan went to the family's home to apologize, only to be greeted by the father, Emine, two sisters and a lot of very sharp knives.

Injured and bleeding, with a knife on his chest, Ramazan tried to escape. Emine was still trying to finish him on the door, but he managed to take the knife out of his chest and attacked back, wounding her. Ramazan finally escaped, and was caught by the police, but Emine bleed to dead as the family waited for an ambulance to cross Ankara's hellish traffic to reach their home.

Confused by all the events, he later killed himself in jail.

Apparently it's not the first incident of this kind caused by the damned dot on top of the letter i. The local press has pointed out that the faulty localization of cellphones in Turkey is causing "serious problems" when it comes to certain "delicate words" in Turkish, and they are calling to enhance localization of technology to avoid these mistakes.

Alternatively, the press could ask for banning knives from the homes of demonstrably stupid people. [Hurriyet—in Turkish—thanks to our Turkish-speaking readers for the corrections]

From the fine testers at YumSugar:

Fast forward several hours and I was cutting into a succulent and juicy turkey. The skin was a little on the salty side, but the flavor was classic and not overpowering....I also found that gravy made from the drippings was too salty with a hint of artificial flavor to it. You also can't make any stuffing in it, and it does not come with the giblets/innards pack like most turkeys...know quite a few people who don't love cooking and just want to have a nice bird on Thanksgiving. If you're one of those folks, then I would recommend you give it a try.

For those who've never tried brining, it's super simple. All that means is you essentially marinate the turkey. And you'll add so much moisture to the meat that it's extremely difficult to screw up from there.

But if Jennie-O ever releases a true freeze-dried turkey, maybe we'll reassess the plan. [yumsugar via bbgadgets]

The picture was taken by Neil at iGadget Life, we want it back while he was holidaying it up in Turkey, Marmaris. Doing what any of us would have done, he took hundreds of shots of the retail establishment and bought both, his new summer and winter wardrobe collections from there, spending far too much money in the process. So, we made the last bit up, but it is an educated guess no less.

The Google style house moves a long way from our past encounters of Google in the fashion world, namely the similarly unofficial Goggle cologne, which could have got you women if you were able to find any. Well guess what? If the Google store in Turkey does not have any you can slap us sideways, laugh at our hair and call us every Tuesday to say, "The Google store does not stock Google cologne." Jokes aside, we echo Neil's sentiments; it is unlikely the big G's legal team will have much of a laugh with this one. [iGadget Life via The Raw Feed]