THE BRONZES VS. THE HERITAGAGES' -- for Just A Minute Radio -- Friday 111125

We have come to the end of our rope…. Er… week. (L) Sorry ‘bout that.

These holiday weekends are the ‘week that wuz’ every time. Sometimes computers make up their own *minds* -- at least that’s the way it appears.

This week we had a file that is supposed to ‘cut and paste’ with no problem. It would cut … but for the life of me I could not get it to paste on cue. There was just no *there* -- there… so we had to make up a new bridge or something. Thankfully there are people laboring around who don’t resent it.

Up to now I did not know there were any birds for sale in the frozen for T-Day bin that were anything other than turkey-burgers on the lamb. (Ie – lookin’ for a nice place to siddown.)

Anyway… we found out a LOT about Turkey history. They can’t quite fit them into the Mayflower history… but maybe that’s just because they just don’t want to think about alternatives. I often think about chickens and turkeys etc. living a pretty miserable life… the only benefit is it’s short! However, we seldom think about it that way.

Well, it’s been a long walk on a short pier… we’ve got some store browsing to do today before it gets dark. So have a good weekend… see you next week DV.

Cordially, IN HIM

Jack & Barbara

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“JUST A MINUTE”

THE BRONZES VS. THE HERITAGES’

Just a Minute: This originates from the Wall St. Journal Wednesday edition about yesterday’s Turkey-Day main dish. It’s the differences between, Bronzes, Narragansetts and Heritages -- turkeys which occupied your main-dish platters yesterday. Mishel Fisher, who sells turkeys having their roots in the 19^th century, -- they are called “heritage” birds.

She says it’s a great conversation piece … when we tell people the turkey’s lineage goes back 150 years… Those sell “back to the time before gobblers were bred for modern taste and mass production.” It costs about three times what she would have paid for an organic supermarket breed, but it’s her fourth year cooking one of these birds “as nature intended them to be.”

Another line is sold by a poultry farm run by four generations of Mr. Frank Reece Jr’s family, tracing back to about 1890 when the Bird Brothers of Meyersdale, Pa., began selling their prizewinning Bronzes known for the coppery sheen of their feathers.

You possibly didn’t know about your turkey’s history… Never can tell what you’ll learn on JUST A MINUTE.

<> I’m Jack Buttram. (END)

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