Happy Thanksgiving!

[Karlos]

bjjones37 wrote:
So have a great Thanksgiving day!

Same right back at you :-)

[Karlos]

So, what's the typical Thanksgiving menu? I mean aside from Turkey, of course...

Please tell me it's a sprout free affair. The thought of a nation of some 250 million people eating sprouts in unison is deeply worrying ;-)

[Karlos]

Something just occured. Why is the Turkey so called anyway? Isn't it native to America?

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One explanation here

So it's some sort of onomatepaic (sp?) word from the sound they make?

From the link

The wild turkey is the largest of all our game birds. The hens have a querulous, chirping call which sounds like "turk, turk, turk". The cocks, known as "gobblers" because of their peculiar "gobble, gobble" call, attain a length of four feet and weigh from 20 to 30 pounds or more.

It must be the recent plague of purile humour but it was only after I stopped rolling on the floor at that particular wording I considered a 30lb Turkey.

How big is the largest XMas turkey you can get in the UK? I'm sure it isn't 30lbs! Is it?