[steeljack]

word of advice ...........never ever buy a 'fresh' Christmas goose from a recent Cambodian immigrant, even if he is an employee who brings into work great chicken curries (that you later find out are made from the carcasses of his losing fighting cocks) , not unless you want the police knocking at the door asking about missing ornamental wildfowl from a city center park.
From now on if it aint frozen, vacuum wrapped and hasn't got a plastic pop-up thing I aint buying it