TURKEY TALK !

OK, SO IT IS THANKSGIVING AGAIN

What do you first think of when you hear Thanksgiving?
Probably pumpkin pie, or getting together with family, or Grandma Young's green jello -OR maybe even one of the 45 million turkeys that are eaten each year at Thanksgiving.

SO how much do you really know about that turkey that lands on your table every year in November? Let's find out !

1. What is the long fleshy skin that hangs over a turkey's beak called ?

2. What color does a wild turkey's naked head and neck area change to when it mating?

3. When turkeys reach maturity they can have up to how many feathers?

4. How fast can a wild turkey run?

5. What is the average weight of a turkey purchased at Thanksgiving?

6. What is the percentage of white meat in an average turkey?

7. Male turkeys gobble. What do female turkeys do?

8. Do turkeys have heart attacks?

9. How big was the heaviest turkey ever raised?

10. Does eating turkey make you feel sleepy after your Thanksgiving dinner?


READY FOR THE ANSWERS ?? OR DO YOU THINK YOU KNOW YOUR BIRD WELL ENOUGH TO NOT NEED THE CHECK THE ANSWERS?

1. Bet I fooled you on this one. I thought it was a waddle? Nope, that hangs below the beak.
The part that hangs over the beak is called a "snood!"

2. This area turns blue.

3. WOW, guess I won't try to pluck my own turkey soon. A mature turkey can have up to 3,500 feathers. (Who do you suppose counted them to find out?) With my luck, I would get to 2,940 or so and then sneeze. GADZOOKES!

4. Wild turkeys can run to to 55 miles per hour! How did the pilgrims ever catch them?

5. The average weight of a turkey eaten at Thanksgiving is 15 pounds. - I would have thought it would be larger than that.

6. A 15 lb turkey usually will have about 70% white meat. It never seems like it when we cut ours up.

7. This was a new one for me. Turkeys gobble, right. Yes the males do but the females make a clicking noise.

8. Turkeys do have heart attacks. Who would have thought! The Air Force was doing test runs and breaking the sound barrier. Nearby turkeys dropped dead with heart attacks.

9. The heaviest turkey was 86 pounds. Can you imagine what he looked like. He was about the size of a large dog.

10. Last but not least - No don't blame the turkey. It is more likely all of those CARBS you are downing than that turkey bird.

I used this as my opener at my Weight Watcher mtg last night and we had a blast with it.
I actually condensed it here. There were 22 facts but I didn't even get all 10 of these answered right when I first took it!

SO enjoy your bird in a different perspective this year. He now has some personality rather than just being a big hunk of meat on your plate. HAPPY THANKSGIVING