Well it’s November! But you know, when it comes to commercials, it often feels like Thanksgiving gets the short end of the drumstick (pun sadly intended). Once Halloween ends, the stores and brand names are pretty much itching to head into Christmas, leaving Thanksgiving with nothing but the commercial crumbs (again, my apologies, hehe). Still, there’s a handful of memorable nostalgic ads to be found. Today I will pay quick tribute to a particularly amusing one:
Carvel Thanksgiving Ice Cream Cake
Of course the running gag of Thanksgiving is that its cute lovable animal mascot, the Turkey, is something we carve up, throw in an oven and proceed to gorge on! We put adorable stuffed Turkey plushies on our end tables, then lick our lips at delectable stuffed Turkey thighs! It’s not a subject we’re comfortable thinking about to say the least, so we typically cover it up with humor, as this commercial so expertly demonstrates. We hear our narrator taunting a poor turkey with disturbing images of a freakishly boneless bird that’s “easy to carve.” Woooo! But it’s OK, turns out our boneless wonder actually makes its home in the frozen dessert section of the supermarket and is in fact a very scrumptious looking Carvel ice cream cake in the shape of a turkey! Ah! : D
Frankly I think this was a brilliant idea and I wonder why it hasn’t caught on more. I suppose it’s because ice cream is thought of as a sort of low brow dessert not suitable for formal holiday gatherings. But when you think about it, the first Thanksgiving was about being thankful for what they had, not how fancy it was. It’s easy nowadays to lose sight of that. But perhaps this is the year to get back to our roots. If nothing else, for the sake of the turkey. 
