Judge — November 22, 1913 — page 16: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This is a comic strip by George Carlson satirizing Thanksgiving excess through the character Zekial (likely a rustic or immigrant figure, given the dialect spelling). The narrative follows him hunting a turkey, capturing it, and then facing an absurd succession of turkey-based dishes: turkey soup, hash, stew, croquettes, and variations—culminating in a commentary on overindulgence. The satire targets American Thanksgiving culture's gluttony and repetitiveness. By showing the same ingredient endlessly reprocessed into different forms, Carlson mocks both the holiday's excess and the era's limited culinary imagination. The subtitle—"Too Much of a Good Thing Is Plenty"—makes the moral explicit. The bottom notation confirms Judge magazine's editorial review standards of the period. This reflects early 20th-century satirical humor about immigrant or working-class characters and their relationship to American holiday traditions.