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Offline KKOB

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Re: Duck on the Menu
« Reply #10 on: August 13, 2017, 16:45:58 PM »
Once you've solved this problem I'll be moving on to the advanced level: why don't they eat turkey in Turkey?

But they do !



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Re: Duck on the Menu
« Reply #11 on: August 13, 2017, 17:15:34 PM »
Yes, I have seen them kept in Turkey. I guess they are mostly for special occasions (principally New Year?) like the UK where most people only see them at Christmas. Is that the case, do you know?

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Re: Duck on the Menu
« Reply #12 on: August 13, 2017, 19:52:54 PM »
Most of the 'ham' sold in supermarkets is Hindi Jambon i.e. made from turkey meat.

Yes, they're usually kept for special occasions, mostly by villagers.

In fact we had 31 on our plot in Kaya a few years ago. We were going to raise them and sell them for Christmas. Unfortunately we lost 11 in one night to a polecat attack. Although they were prolific egg layers we couldn't find a market for them so it wouldn't have been financially viable to continue breeding them.

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Re: Duck on the Menu
« Reply #13 on: August 13, 2017, 20:02:30 PM »
It is clearly a confusing creature: in Britain we call it "Turkey"; in Turkey they call it "India"; in India they call it "Peru".
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Re: Duck on the Menu
« Reply #14 on: August 13, 2017, 20:30:48 PM »
It's native to the Americas so it's strange that the Turks should think they came from India. Unless of course they got confused between Indians and Native Americans.  :)

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Re: Duck on the Menu
« Reply #15 on: August 14, 2017, 07:59:45 AM »
I think the confusion comes from Columbus who thought he had discovered the western route to India, which then became the Western Indies, then the West Indies. For a while "The Americas" were known as "The Indies".

It was, of course, a Bristolian, (and not that Columbus fellow), who was the first European explorer since Leif Erikson to cross the Atlantic and land in North America - and sort out the muddle.

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Re: Duck on the Menu
« Reply #16 on: August 14, 2017, 09:10:26 AM »
There is plenty of fresh Turkey on sale at Christmas and New Year in the supermarkets, large ones
also  small frozen turkeys  through out the year, Hinde fume is the turkey ham they sell.

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Re: Duck on the Menu
« Reply #17 on: August 14, 2017, 09:13:58 AM »
Well we seem to have the turkey thing sorted. What about the absent duck?

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Re: Duck on the Menu
« Reply #18 on: August 14, 2017, 14:44:50 PM »
There is Duck is on the menu at Hangout in Ölüdeniz Colwyn 8)

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Re: Duck on the Menu
« Reply #19 on: August 14, 2017, 14:52:53 PM »
Ah, tracked 'em down. Well done Nichola. Odd they are so rare though, don't you think?




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