Re: Turkey Question

> katy <katysails@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The country of Turkey refers to our turkeys as "the American
> bird"...turkeys are indigenous to North America...

The other day I was watching a fascinating documentary on
Turkey.... the Country.

It dealt with the real rural parts and spent a lot of time showing
farming, food gathering, food preperation and rural living at
its most rural.

I got hungry just watching.

During part of the program they showed some turkeys and explained that
these birds had been brought to Turkey from Mexico in the 16 century.

I thought that was a very interesting bit of trivial historical info.

Can you imagine what it must have been like in that day and age coming
back from the new World with marvels to show like turkeys and how a new
food source would have been obtained as a result.

We send day old chicks and poults by Fed Ex or special mail but in
those days, to travel just across the ocean would have been an
arduous journey that could have taken up to two months or longer
depending on the wind and weather.
.

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