Daily Show: November 26, 2012
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Just after Thanksgiving, and you probably still have some turkey left over in your fridge. Today, we’re discussing turkey as a food, and a few ideas that might just make you loose your appetite.
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And now for Everything You Never Wanted To Know About Turkeys Because You Were Afraid to Ask.
Turkeys have also been the subject of an urban legend based off their supposed stupidity. The legened goes that during a rainstorm, they will be fascinated by the rain, look up with thier mouths open and drown themselves. The name comes from the fact that Europeans, unpon first encountering them in America, incorrectly identified the bird as a guineafowl, which was also known at a turkey fowl, so called because they had been imported to Central Europe through Turkey.
Turkey is alos good for making healthier bacon. I use it instead of regular bacon myself.
I always found turkey bacon to taste like smoked cardboard.
I’ve owned turkeys and a few weird facts about them is that they seem smarter than chickens. Normal, non-butcher variety turkeys will not drown themselves by looking up in a rainstorm. (I doubt even the stupidest breeds would do that. I guess the rumor could have gotten started by young birds getting hypothermia if they didn’t go inside during cold rains.)
Another interesting thing about our tame turkeys: When one got a broken leg, (my fault) the rest of the flock didn’t range as far as they did when she could travel. They seemed to stick close because they didn’t want to “leave a hen behind.” When the wild turkeys came, I spotted the tame and wild ones fighting and I think they may have been fighting to protect the injured turkey.
The injured turkey eventually recovered and they all left with the wild flock.
The reason people eat turkeys is they taste good. I prefer wild ones to store-bought ones. When it comes to them eating each other, that’s generally because they’re confined. Here’s a little fact: Next time you’re enjoying your chicken or eggs, remember that chickens will eat pretty much the same type of stuff as turkeys. My chickens even eat mice once in a while. (The factory ones are in such crowded conditions they don’t have the opportunity to eat things they naturally eat.)