You drank what!

Instead of devouring a 15 pound bird to get your holiday meal fix this Thanksgiving Day, why not down a bottle of turkey and gravy flavored soda? Or how about a nice pea-flavored soda, followed by one that tastes like sweet potatoes?

That’s right, thanks to the Jones Soda Company in Seattle, you can now drink your Thanksgiving dinner — well, that is, if you can stomach it.

Peter van Stolk, chief executive of Jones Soda, admits that not even he can stand the taste of his company’s unique holiday beverages; still, the mishmash drinks have become a cult phenomenon since their introduction in 2002, even without the approval of the CEO’s taste buds.

This years offerings include green pea, along with other unusual sodas such as turkey and gravy, dinner roll, sweet potato and antacid flavor. The gift sets will be part of the company’s $10 to $15 “holiday pack” of bottled drinks available nationwide.

I’ve always wanted to try one of these sodas, but I never felt right about shelling out $15 for something I’m pretty sure would make me want to throw up. I saw several of the gift packs recently at Target in Little Rock and came close to snatching one up, if for no other reason than to say I tried it.

The sodas come in all different types of flavors and are packaged in nice glass bottles with unique labels. In past years, the sodas have caused bidding wars on online auction sites like Ebay, as holiday shoppers scrambled to try the hip new drinks.

This year, though, they seem to be selling a little less briskly.

Other holiday oddities include the Turducken. If you don’t know exactly what a Turducken is, you’ve probably at least heard the name. It’s a de-boned turkey stuffed with a de-boned duck, which itself is stuffed with a small de-boned chicken. The cavity of the chicken and the rest of the gaps are filled with highly seasoned bread crumbs or sausage meat.

The Turducken is a uniquely American dish and is believed to be Cajun in origin, although it may have originated in eastern Texas or northern Louisiana. Lake Charles, La., claims that Turduckens were invented there.

Like the famous Jones sodas, the Turducken is also something foreign to my palate, but I’d be more than willing to try it. If you ask me, all you need to have yourself a great Thanksgiving feast this holiday season is a bottle of green pea soda and a Turducken. Just don’t forget the antacid...soda. Enjoy.