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Thursday, November 20, 2014
It’s that time of year! Wyanet Locker’s Jill Carrington is ready and waiting for Thanksgiving customers to come buy their holiday turkeys. Grocery stores, markets and the like are gearing up for Thanksgiving dinner sales, including the traditional turkey and all the fixings. The average American consumes more than 15 pounds of turkey every year, and on Thanksgiving Day, Americans eat more than 675 million pounds of turkey. The turkey industry grosses more than $1 billion a year. A traditionally-baked Thanksgiving turkey is lower in cholesterol than many other meats, however, the dark meet of the bird has more cholesterol than the white meat. Raising turkeys has been traced back as long ago at 1000 A.D., when Native Americans raised turkeys for food, Aztec Indians in Mexico were thought to be raising them as early as 200 B.C. The first U.S. Presidential pardon for a turkey was ceremoniously given in 1947. Always sleepy after a turkey dinner? Perhaps that’s because turkey contains an amino acid called Tryptophane, which sets off a chemical chain reaction that calms you down and makes you sleepy. Bon appetit! IV Scene photo/Terri Simon
Vol. 9 No. 18