Why do we eat Turkey at Thanksgiving?
Channel: Alliterative
Date: 2015-10-06

The #etymology & origin of the #Turkey, and what its history tells us about #Thanksgiving, colonialism, globalization, and guinea pigs!

A correction:  "kalkoen" is associated with the trading city Calicut, in Kerala rather than Calcutta.

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