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By CARL COON ,, * ■PP«n*nnock Newt Contributing Writer , , Behold the turkey. In his wild state he fed a few hundred pilgrims/' Domesticated, he now feeds hundreds of millions of people.
Indeed, now that we are all sup. posed to be worried about our cholesterol, we are not only eating the turkey in his own configuration, but
turkey ham, turkey sausage, and even turkey pastrami. The turkey has not only found his own niche in the world of American gastronomy, ,.he is moving into the pig’s. . .. You might think this to be a .rather remarkable success story, . but if so you wouldn’t be approaching the subject from the per. spective of the turkey.
From the latter’s point of view this whole evolution has been an unmitiaged disaster. He used to be a proud, clever, feral beastie capable of sensing a Pilgrim a half a mile . away and leading him a merry chase through the New England forests. He knew his environment, had keen senses of smell and hearing, and ably used his capacities both to run on the • ground and to fly above it to avoid exterminiation by pilgrims and other predators.
I am no expert on the subject, but I presume his social and sex lives were reasonably complex, as were those of most of the other forest creatures. Anyway, I understand Benjamin Franklin once prosed that the turkey be designated our national bird.
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