Served on New Year's Eve or to replace the Thanksgiving turkey or Christmas goose, luscious chops cut from the crown never fail to wow.
This year marks the 65th anniversary of the National Thanksgiving Turkey presentation, and the first time the American people cast their vote via the White House Facebook page to decide which of two turkeys would receive the honor.
Today, President Obama pardoned Cobbler, the National Thanksgiving Turkey, in a ceremony at the White House.
Kennedy became the first U.S. President to "pardon" a turkey at the White House -- a tradition that's grown to be known as the National Thanksgiving Turkey Presentation.
On Wednesday, President Obama will pardon the 2012 National Thanksgiving Turkey and this year, for the first time ever, the American public will get its say.
Which of two turkeys will be named the 2012 National Thanksgiving Turkey?
C. and the American living-room screens to spare the national turkey at Thanksgiving.
Although Cobbler was selected for the title of National Thanksgiving Turkey, both he and his alternate, Gobbler, received a pardon.
Dams, agricultural chemicals, overfishing and other ills have led to a catastrophic drop in numbers, particularly in North America (where the first European settlers probably ate eel, not turkey, at the first Thanksgiving).
Although the bird thrived in pre-colonial America, the organization claims that turkey did not become a Thanksgiving staple until the 1800s.
Store associates will have to eat their Thanksgiving turkey in the store since I am sure that openings will be advanced again.
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Butterball sells nearly a billion pounds of turkey each year and is a bestselling turkey brand during the Thanksgiving holiday.
According to the National Wild Turkey Federation, the widely held belief that Native Americans and Pilgrims (pre-colonial settlers from England) ate turkey at the first Thanksgiving meal in 1621 may not be true.
After the Vikings in Lambeau on Monday, they have tough stuff left, including a division game at Detroit on Thanksgiving the most meaningful Lions Turkey Day showdown in ages a road date versus the New York Giants and a home game against the reenergized Chicago Bears.
Imagine my surprise when Thanksgiving morning, I pulled out the frozen turkey and realized it should already it be de-thawed(ph).
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Forget foie gras. (Something evil about it.) Substitute a big old goose for the dry, overcooked slabs of fibrous white meat that you get from your Thanksgiving "Butterball" turkey, with its injection of "basting material, " which the Butterball people hasten to assure the fat-phobic public has nothing, but nothing, to do with butter.
The turkey is the centrepiece of the US Thanksgiving tradition, though the specimens we eat today are a far cry from their hunted wild relatives, reminiscent of the birds early settlers would have found and Native Americans hunted.
His nine brothers and sisters nicknamed Sanchez "Turkey" because his birthday falls around the Thanksgiving holiday.
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It also was behind the Butterball Turkey Talk-Line, which consumers can call for last-minute Thanksgiving roasting dilemmas.
His death, on the fourth Thursday of November, coincided with US Thanksgiving, often referred to as "Turkey Day".
Stuff ourselves full of turkey, dressing and pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving then gorge our way through the rest of holiday season.
With McCarthyism still in the air, the country's preferred self-portrait resembled Norman Rockwell's covers for the Saturday Evening Post: rosy-cheeked families sitting down to a big, glistening Thanksgiving turkey.
Instagram had its busiest day ever on Thanksgiving, with 10 million photos shared mentioning turkey day-related words, the company said.
She roasted a big turkey at Thanksgiving and bought pumpkins for us at Halloween, because those were the sort of things she thought normal families did.
The first one was definitely just a photo op when he paraded around with a fake turkey on Thanksgiving with some troops.
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