a one meal bird... ya gotta have turkey sammiches, turkey soup and turkey casserole or it's not ThxGiving
Posted on 11/17/2018 9:33:38 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
Small birds are having a big moment.
Tiny turkeys will increasingly grace Thanksgiving tables next week, thanks to the millennial generation’s ongoing campaign to remake American gastronomy.
The holiday depicted by Norman Rockwell—Grandma showing off a cooked bird so plump it weighs down a banquet plate—is still common. But smaller families, growing guilt over wasteful leftovers and a preference for free-range fowl have all played roles in the emergence of petite poultry as a holiday dinner centerpiece.
“People are starting to understand it’s not natural to grow turkeys up to 30 pounds,” said Ariane Daguin, co-founder and owner of D’Artagnan LLC, a wholesale and e-commerce food company in Union, New Jersey. “In general, that means they were penned up with no room to move around, and that’s why they’re fat like that.”
There are signs that wee birds are in greater demand. Inventories of whole hens, which are smaller than males, are down 8.3 percent from a year ago, the latest U.S. Department of Agriculture data show. Whole toms, the males, are up 6.9 percent.
Don’t call them capons. They’re not castrated chickens. Nor are they chicks. They’re not babies. They’re just turkeys that weigh in the neighborhood of six pounds. Bell & Evans is working with a breeder to make tiny turkeys that consumers will eat all year.
Owner Scott Sechler said the new breed, which isn’t yet sold publicly, “fills out nicely,” unlike other undersized birds, which can be bony.
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(More than likely still LIVING with Mom!)
Haven’t they done ENOUGH damage to our culture with their Man Buns, Hipster Beards and obsession with craft beer? ;)
smaller turkeys have a lot less calories than the big artificially plumped birds.
Yea, I think I'll get a chicken and tell folks it's an environmentally sensitive turkey.
Global warming causes smaller chickens.
No they are not “fat like that” because they are penned up.. they are bred to be that rediculously large. Selective breeding has produced turkeys so rediculously large breasted they can’t even reproduce naturally...
While you are free to criticize the industrial farming of chickens, they aren’t fat like that because they are penned. They are fat like that because they are genetic freaks bred to be that way.
It’s a long climb up from the basement.
Get a personal Cornish hen instead then.
Sorry turkeys. Not chickens.
“[G]rowing guilt over wasteful leftovers,” Ha! The leftovers are usually the best part of the whole weekend. So many good things can be made from them. Even though single, I still prefer a 12 - 14 lb. bird because of the great leftovers.
Leftovers, especially turkey sandwiches with cranberry sauce mayo and stuffing, and making Turkey Soup from the carcass are what it’s all about in MY family. :)
To heck with turkey. Bone in shank ham is what I am serving. I love the leftovers a lot more - split pea soup, scalloped ham and potatoes, etc. No tiny turkey for us!
hen, chicken .... something’s missing here!
I’ll avoid the obvious WKRP joke.
a one meal bird... ya gotta have turkey sammiches, turkey soup and turkey casserole or it's not ThxGiving
Who’s complaining? The fatter the better!
Raising my own Tom Turkey is on my Bucket List. :)
Millenials are also “Disrupting” language with ridiculous use of the word “Disruption”.
How many people on my LinkedIn are “Influencers” ?
Everyone. I need to invent a buzzword.
Ping to Post #11! :)
Wasteful leftovers?! Bah!
Cold turkey sandwich with a half gallon of mayo is the best thing the day after Thanksgiving....
Fried turkeys have to weigh ten pounds.
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