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With a sharp knife and a sure hand, anyone can carve up a turkey with ease.
Don't concern yourself with who wants white meat or dark: that's for the missus
to sort out. And don't waste the legs on the kids - they can't even tell the
difference between a wing and a drumstick! In this 1962 clip from CBC-TV, the
jocular yet reassuring Peter Whittall, better known as Mr. Fix-It, helps
householders get a handle on the holiday dinner's main attraction.
• Eating turkey has been a Thanksgiving tradition in North America since the
1600s. By 1916, the American holiday was sometimes referred to as Turkey Day.
According to Statistics Canada in 2002, Canadians consume more than 130 Giants Jerseys For Cheap million
kilograms of turkey each year, with consumption peaks during Thanksgiving and
Christmas.
• According to the Encyclopedia of Christmas, Cheap Giants Jerseys On Sale turkey was a Christmas
dish as early as 1573, not long after the bird (a native of Mexico) was Cheap Authentic Ravens Jerseys On Sale first
introduced in Europe.
• In 1851 the British royal family launched a trend when turkey replaced swan
as Cheap Authentic Ravens Jerseys Sale its fowl of choice at Christmas. (The eating of swan was illegal for everyone
but royalty.) For everyone else, goose was the favoured poultry before turkey
came into vogue.
• A more recent fashion in holiday fowl, mostly in the southern United
States, is the "turducken," a dish for ambitious chefs. It consists of a small
boned chicken stuffed inside a boned duck stuffed inside a partly boned turkey.
A sausage stuffing is also layered between the birds.
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Program: Mr. Fix-It
Broadcast Date: Dec. 19, 1962
Host: Rex Loring, Peter Whittall
Duration: 11:13
Last updated: June 14, 2013
Page consulted on September 16, 2013
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