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  1. Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking
  2. Subject: Re: Do you all eat turkeys??
  3. Path: sparky!uunet!sci34hub!cdthq!gary
  4. From: gary@cdthq.UUCP (Gary Heston)
  5. Message-ID: <Rw9LuB1w161w@cdthq.UUCP>
  6. References: <By0x7F.6Cr@fc.sde.hp.com>
  7. Date: Sat, 21 Nov 92 19:06:02 CST
  8. Organization: Garys' Home for Obsolete Computers
  9. Lines: 12
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  11. fritz@fc.sde.hp.com (Gary Fritz) writes:
  12.  
  13. > Turkey is definitely the standard on Thanksgiving (its unofficial name
  14. > is "Turkeyday" :-), but not the *only* option.  Some people will do a
  15. > ham or some such.
  16.  
  17. Actually, turkey wasn't associated very strongly with Thanksgiving 
  18. until the late 1800s; around then, a group of poultry farmers 
  19. started a big marketing effort, and established the tradition...
  20.  
  21. Gary Heston, at home....
  22. gary@cdthq.uucp
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