Turkey Hunting Infographic

While most people buy frozen or refrigerated turkeys at the grocery store, some still opt to hunt the birds themselves. Much like cutting down your own Christmas tree, we’d imagine that hunting your own turkey offers a similar, triumphant DIY feeling. However, given that the average turkey can run up to 25 miles per hour and fly up to 55 miles per hour, you’d have to be a pretty darn good shot! Still, it’s apparently the fastest-growing hunting trend in the United States, so happy hunting.

Thai Cuisine

Maybe Thai food is not the typical choice for a Thanksgiving meal, but sometimes spicier is better. Besides, what are you going to do if the oven breaks or the turkey falls in the trash? Order pizza? Have some class! Sweet and spicy Thai food would be a much more interesting recovery from disaster than boring old pizza. With this infographic, you can learn what regions your favorite Thai dishes come from, and how spicy they are compared to others. Quick suggestion: get the Khao Phat for Grandma Margaret. Her heartburn isn’t pretty.

History of Superfruits

Everyone has a favorite dish at Thanksgiving, and for some people it’s the cranberry sauce. (Yes, really.) But what about mixing it up a little this year? Blackberry sauce? Blueberry-black currant sauce? Cran-black-blue-strawberry-mangosteen sauce? (Whoa–too far; scale it back.) Check out some of these fruits that you didn’t even know were superfruits. It’s not just acai and goji berry; everyday strawberries are in effect a superfruit too! Open your mind and open your mouth for some different side dishes on Thursday.

The Fatty Truth About Fast Food

And if you don’t want to go the superfruit route, you can always go the deep-fried takeout route. Just look at how many of your daily calories are consumed in one fast food meal! Two common establishments might put you OVER that daily caloric limit, depending on what you order. So even if you decide not to cook the whole feast this year, you might want to still cook up those Brussels sprouts–get a couple veggies in, at least. And no, French fries don’t count as a veggie. Ketchup is not a fruit. Those wilted pieces of lettuce, pickles, onion and tomato might be worth half of a serving.

FarmVille vs. Real Farms

Sure, it feels rewarding to harvest an entire field of pumpkins in two minutes on FarmVille. But think about the back-breaking labor an actual farmer has to do to accomplish the same thing. Do you think it takes him two minutes? No way. (And the average farmer is male, while female players own 60% of the farms on FarmVille.) If there were as many farmers in America as there are FarmVille players, we probably wouldn’t have room for all the farmland! Thank a farmer while you’re eating this Thanksgiving, since you can’t eat your yield from a Facebook game.

There you have it. Food for thought!

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This infographic about various types of Thai Cuisine comes to us from the people at Exo Tissimo.

I really like the pictures of different Thai dishes and the fiery ratings for the level of spiciness of the different meals. This infographic keeps it simple and readers know exactly what it is about from the pictures. I also like how it splits the different dishes by geographical region of origin in Thailand.

I give this infographic a C+ overall because it does a pretty good job of balancing graphics and text to tell a story. From a quick glance someone can tell where to go in Thailand to get their favorite Thai meals or to find the hottest dish. One suggestion I have that could make it a little more interesting is to break down the dishes visually to add some more data visualization. As it is there are pictures of the prepared meal, but without the text describing the ingredients it would be hard to tell exactly what they were. Perhaps some little cartoon pictures of the individual ingredients included as part of the meal descriptions could spice this infographic up a little, no pun intended.

Another small suggestion I have that would add a nice touch to this is to add some features to the map of Thailand. These could include geographic features of the different regions, perhaps showing where some of the ingredients used in these dishes come from. Overall this infographic is nice to look at, the colors and graphics work well, and it is easy to understand the information being presented. If I was going to Thailand and searching for the best area to get a certain meal I could definitely use this. With a few minor improvements I would bump this up from a C+ to a B.