[한국일보] 퍽퍽한 칠면조가 추수감사절 식탁에 오르는 까닭 2021.12.01....1621년의 추수감사절 만찬에 대한 문헌은 단 두 건이 남아 있는데, 이들에 의하면 사슴과 야생 조류, 대구와 농어, 그리고 미대륙 원주민이 경작한 옥수수(죽이나 빵으로), 호두나 밤 등이 식탁에 올랐다고 한다. 야생 조류 가운데 칠면조가 포함되었을 수도 있지만 그보다 오리나 거위, 백조나 나그네비둘기를 먹었을 가능성이 높다.
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Krulwich, Robert (27 November 2008). "Why A Turkey Is Called A Turkey". NPR. Archived...... in the 1500s when the American bird first arrived in Great Britain, it was shipped in by merchants in the East, mostly from Constantinople (who'd brought the bird over from America). Since it wholesaled out of Turkey, the British referred to it as a "Turkey coq." In fact, the British weren't particularly precise about products arriving from the East. Persian carpets were called "Turkey rugs." Indian flour was called "Turkey flour." Hungarian carpet bags were called "Turkey bags." If a product came to London from the far side of the Danube, Londoners labeled it "Turkey" and that's what happened to the American bird. Thus, an American bird got the name Turkey-coq, which was then shortened to "Turkey."
