{"id":896,"date":"2008-11-26T23:08:43","date_gmt":"2008-11-26T21:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/?p=896"},"modified":"2008-11-26T23:13:30","modified_gmt":"2008-11-26T21:13:30","slug":"the-other-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/26\/the-other-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"The Other Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-897\" src=\"http:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/turkey_animal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/turkey_animal.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/turkey_animal-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #999999;\">photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/voght\/\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Voght<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It&#8217;s Thanksgiving (more or less) and what&#8217;s most commonly associated with Thanksgiving are two things. Naming the things you&#8217;re thankful for and turkeys, because what better way to say thanks than to feast with friends and family on bird corpse! Exactly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;ve been asked how to say &#8220;turkey&#8221; in Turkey. The bird, not the country. I mean, the former being the bird, the latter the country. Why did we ever give these two the same name? Anyway, in Turkey this bird is called &#8220;hindi&#8221;. They didn&#8217;t leave this bird without a country however; India is named Hindistan here.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As for the consumption of dead bird flesh, here are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goveg.com\/f-top10turkeys.asp\" target=\"_blank\">ten reasons not to eat turkey this Thanksgiving<\/a> (the bird, not the country. On second thought, don&#8217;t eat the country either. Not with me in it.). Let&#8217;s let the turkeys have a happy Thanksgiving also! Here are some recipe&#8217;s to try out instead:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vegcooking.com\/recipeshow.asp?RequestID=294\" target=\"_blank\">Cashew Nut Roast<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vegcooking.com\/recipeshow.asp?RequestID=394\" target=\"_blank\">Homemade Tofurky Loaf<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vegcooking.com\/recipeshow.asp?RequestID=304\" target=\"_blank\">Cider-Mashed Sweet Potatoes<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vegcooking.com\/recipeshow.asp?RequestID=528\" target=\"_blank\">Coconut Smashed Yams<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vegcooking.com\/recipeshow.asp?RequestID=690\" target=\"_blank\">Creamy Chive Mashed Potatoes<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vegcooking.com\/recipeshow.asp?RequestID=403\" target=\"_blank\">Green Bean Casserole<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vegcooking.com\/recipeshow.asp?RequestID=765\" target=\"_blank\">Pumpkin Pie<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>In my country the turkey&#8217;s not even called something remotely close to the way we call Turkey. How about in yours? Jeez, what interesting questions can one ask their readers about turkeys and Thanksgiving? I really don&#8217;t care that much about the tradition. \ud83d\ude09<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>photo by Steve Voght It&#8217;s Thanksgiving (more or less) and what&#8217;s most commonly associated with Thanksgiving are two things. Naming the things you&#8217;re thankful for and turkeys, because what better way to say thanks than to feast with friends and family on bird corpse! Exactly. I&#8217;ve been asked how to say &#8220;turkey&#8221; in Turkey. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,18,23],"tags":[773,660,771,772,770,362,414],"class_list":["post-896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-travel","category-world","tag-hindistan","tag-india","tag-meat","tag-poultry","tag-thanksgiving","tag-turkey","tag-vegetarian"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=896"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":899,"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions\/899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basbasbas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}