Turkeys Turning The Table

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Turkeys Turning the Tables For hundreds of years, humans have eaten turkey to celebrate holidays such as Thanksgiving and Christmas. History tells us how eating turnkey during Thanksgiving started, and has stayed as a tradition. Why Turkey? Why not chicken, goose, or pork? Thanksgiving is a time to bring families and relatives together, alike most families there is usually a gathering home, usually grandma’s house. Some relatives travel long distances and must stay the night and travel back home the day after Thanksgiving. Usually the centerpiece of Thanskgiving is the turkey, which is complimented by cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, mince, apple and pumpkin pie, stuffing usually includes nuts and celery and other vegetables. All of these side dishes as to compliment the turkey. Just like in the story, there’s usually the father or head of the family who carves the turkey, for the most father’s enjoy this yearly tradition of carving the turkey, while the family sits at the family table eagerly awaiting a piece of meat with all the trimmings. This story is not much different than real life in almost every family in America, usually small children must ask the elder relatives for second serving such as dumplings and frosted cake. Most holidays, there’s more food than people, to make sure there is enough for second and third servings. There’s a lot of preparation that goes into these holiday feasts, usually the older women in the family prepare all the food, starting out by shopping for the turkey. Size is very important, everyone wants a big turkey usually fifteen to twenty pounds it’s almost as if the bigger the bird the better. If these were the ghost of turkeys telling the story, I suppose it makes it interesting to see things in a different perspective. Turkeys may not have souls as humans but to some extent they must know what is happening as

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