. . . from Neil Steinberg. My favorite:
1. So turkey the bird, Turkey the country. Mere coincidence?
Not at all. Europeans somehow got the notion that turkeys came from the East. The French thought India and called them poulets d’Inde (the Germans, fantasizing even more specifically, placed turkeys in Calcutta, calling them Kalekuttisch). The English — and you saw this coming, didn’t you? — imagined the birds came from Turkey.
2. OK, so where DO turkeys come from?
Scholarly opinion seems to settle on Mexico, where the Aztecs first domesticated the birds. So, in a sense, the traditional Thanksgiving dinner is, at its heart, a Mexican feast. Ole!
Maybe this is why the RWNJ’s don’t mind the big-box stores opening on Thanksgiving—the whole allegedly American feast is centered around an undocumented alien bird for the love of God! Obama pardoned one! This is amnesty, rewarding fowl lawbreakers! Go buy stuff now, that’s the Murcan way!
Now, off to the couch, with the beer and the food and the football. America, Fuck Yeah!