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Testing the Turkeys
By now you've probably purchased that 20-pound leviathan of poultry known as the Thanksgiving turkey and may have even begun the complex process of defrosting this meaty-icy object in time for an early afternoon consumption time on Thursday. But for next year, here's a comparison of various types of turkeys you can get, just in case you want to get away from the usual store-bought bird and try something more exotic or, perhaps, that had a better standard of living than your average industrial turkey, whose life is indeed fairly grim (but which makes arguably for a tasty bird, so you've got that whole carnivore/gourmand conflict there). The author is a professional cook and her taste testers work with her at the same restaurants, so their taste buds are sufficiently critical for the task. And yes, there are some surprising conclusions. Also, vegetarians, they sample a soy-and-wheat-gluten "UnTurkey" as well. But I don't imagine you'll like the results of that.
All I know is I plan to fill up on pie. Mmmmmm... pie.
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