Pilgrims Should Have Tried McNuggets

I am thankful Benjamin Franklin did not prevail in his attempt to name the turkey, instead of the bald eagle, the national bird. If turkeys were the national bird we would not be eating them at Thanksgiving. Instead we would be poring over our recipe books trying to figure out the best way to prepare bald eagle for dinner. Turkeys are bad enough. I guess we do it because of the pilgrim aspect, but why couldn’t they have chosen something a little more palatable, like chicken nuggets to celebrate surviving in the New World? What’s more American than that? There aren’t many cooks who can fix a turkey dinner without the bird turning out so dry it triggers a gag reflex. That’s why they invented gravy. Turkeys are just hard birds to cook/ Kathy Hedberg , Lewiston Tribune. More here.