Fried turkey recommendations for Thanksgiving?

Anyone know any establishment that sell fried turkey's for Thanksgiving? Never tried one and don't have the proper equipment to do so. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated!

This came up on another board I frequent...apparently Popeye's Fried Chicken fries turkeys for Thanksgiving. No idea how good they are.

Bubba's Fried Turkey
1711 East 87th street, Chicago 60617
(At S East End Ave)
Subway Directions
Phone: (312) 498-8716

fried turkeys approx 50$

Flavor Restaurant has a Cajun Fried Turkey

Flavor Restaurant
3315 Vollmer Rd
Flossmoor, IL 60422
(708) 798-3220

Tur-Duc-Hen at Meijer's ($59.99)

arthur wrote:Bubba's Fried Turkey
1711 East 87th street, Chicago 60617
(At S East End Ave)
Subway Directions
Phone: (312) 498-8716

fried turkeys approx 50$

How fresh is your turkey info? Bubba's is closed and appears it's been that way for quite some time. It seems there's been at least one other business (itself apparently closed) at that location since Bubba's demise. You can just make out "IT'S TURKEY TIME!" on the awning but it looks as if it was painted over long ago.

I found this listing on craigslist,

http://chicago.craigslist.org/chc/for/1469332106.html

Cajun deep fried and Smokedfried turkey's - $30 (city of chicago)
Date: 2009-11-16, 8:05PM CST
Reply to: sale-zjapx-1469332106@craigslist.org [Errors when replying to ads?]

Home of Kenny Burt's cajun deep fried and smokedfried turkey's


marinade injected overnight with italian dressing garlic herbs and butter and smoked over cherry wood and fried to perfection.


Also have flavors such as:

Regular (Old Bay or Lawry's or Lemon pepper and Salt &Pepper)Lightly Seasoned

Cajun-(Tony Cachere's seasoning) Marinade

Carribean Jerk (Mild or Spicy) Marinade

Garlic Lemon Pepper Butter Honey Glaze

Chinese Orange Chicken Glaze -Panda Express Style

BBQ Glaze-Famous Dave's Sweet and Zesty.

Creole Butter-Marinade injected


$8.00"Ultimate" Smokedfried Dinner plate:succulent smofried turkey,cornbread dressing,green beans,southern style mac&cheese,potaote salad,dinner roll,slice of caramel cake and bottle water.

Call or Email and place Orders in Advance in Time for Thanksgiving @ kenburt75@yahoo.com or call 773 759 9847 or 773 731 5205.

Wt.10-12lbs prior to cooking(serves 8-10 ) $30 for reg.fried and 40.00 reg smokedfried add 5.00 for flavored.

Also special orders for events/tailgating/Fund raisers etc. 2 or more prices vary. (weekends only )friday-sunday. also Xmas and New Years. Discount for Referrals.

Ask about special fried turkey wraps and sandwich platters and Famous Dave's sweet and zesty BBQ Glazed SmokedFried Baby Back Ribs for weekend events.sporting,card games, or whatever.

* Location: city of chicago
* it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests

And here is another deep fried turkey lead I found off yelp.

Bleu r. says:

Hi,

It's a guy on the South SIde that is the deep frying king!!! His wife is a baker so every order comes with a dozen of ole school butter cookies. His name is Billy 773-565-8707

One more fried turkey lead...

http://www.turkeyontheqt.com/

The business is called "Turkey on the QT." Phones are 312 699 3145 cell or 312 225 2081. She also does all sorts of other catering, for groups from 2 to 5000 she says. I didn't try anything else, but instead took advantage of the fact that she's just around the corner from (presumably not the same)* HYPERLINK "http://www.lthforum.com/bb/viewtopic.php?p=17761" \l "17761" \t "_blank" * Pearl's Place* for other treats.

I decided to go with Turkey on the QT, since it was recommended here on LTH. The craigslist posting was a bit suspect for only 30.00 total, although the guy I talked to was very nice and sincere. Same for Billy above, who was recommended on Yelp, seemed very nice and experienced in turkey frying.

Kenny from the Craigslist ad is only charging 30.00 for a fried turkey, and Billy from the yelp ad is charging 25 if you bring your own turkey, 45 without. Turkey on the Qt is charging me 60 for a deep fried turkey, and I decided to go with them since it was recommended on here and I like the fact that they have a retail storefront, didnt want to take a risk of anything going wrong thanksgiving day as I have many hungry guests. Hope this above information helps anyone out who is considering buying a fried turkey this thanksgiving.

One last link, I found this from chowhound

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Yes There is a place that sells them and it's call The Turkey King. They fry turkeys and spareribs and make all the Cajun cooking, from Gumbos to jamblayas. You can reach Vince Hubbard (Owner) at 773-213-2370 order your Christmas Turkey by Dec 16th

Looking to buy a deep fried turkey for Thanksgiving meal.
Any sources or restaurants?

Wally Wade

Hi - Big Guys Sausage has it available. Info on their Facebook page