Thanksgiving Turkeys

Preparing Turkeys for Thanksgiving

I'll let you into a secret, Will had to explain to me that the man was blind and that's why the turkeys were tricking him by saying 'Mooo'.  See more thanksgiving turkey pictures.

However, from my Biology days I remembered that those red protuberances on the male Turkeys' beaks are called snoods or wattles.

Oh Dear!

Six Legged Turkey

An industrious turkey farmer was always experimenting with breeding a better turkey.  His family was fond of the leg portion for dinner and there were never enough legs for everyone.  After many frustrating attempts, the farmer was relating the results of his efforts to his friends at the general store get-together.  'Well I finally did it! I bred a turkey that has 6 legs!' They all asked the farmer how it tasted.

'I don't know, 'said the farmer, 'I never could catch it!'

One-eyed man amongst the blind

Joan D. Vinge says: In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death.

Let the Turkey Hang?

Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.  Rita Rudner

Did you know?

Turkeys can have heart attacks. Groups of turkeys, sometimes known as a rafter of turkeys would drop dead when the Air Force was conducting test runs and breaking the sound barrier nearby.

• Apparently turkeys can drown if they look up when it is raining.
• Excessive turkey breeding has caused turkey breasts to grow so enormous that the turkeys sometimes fall over.
• The Pilgrim Fathers would not eat lobster because they thought it was a giant insect.

How were turkeys so named?

It may have come from the noise a wild turkey makes when it become frightened: it sounds like 'turk - turk – turk.'

The original inhabitants of America called the bird a 'firkee.'

Christopher Columbus, the explorer, took some of the wild turkeys of North America back to Europe. People enjoyed eating the meat. It is possible that traders along the Mediterranean casts , known as Turkes, may have brought some of these birds hence they came to be called 'turkey birds.'

In Spain, the turkey was often referred to as Indian fowl, an allusion which is repeated in the French 'dindon' formed with d'Inde which means 'from India'.

Some say Columbus thought the turkey was part of the peacock family. So he decided to call them 'tuka' which is the word for peacock in Tamil, a language spoken in southern India and Sri Lanka.

The wishbone is a tradition of Thanksgiving. Allow the wishbone to dry. Then, two people grasp each end of the wishbone. After making a silent wish, they pull it away. Whoever gets the joint portion, gets their wish. This is the same at Christmas in the UK.

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