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Let's Talk Turkey!
Long before the arrival of European settlers, wild turkeys populated the United States, Mexico and Central America, where the Aztecs were busily domesticating them.
The conquistadors took some of these domesticated birds back to Spain, and before long Europeans were breeding them into a much plumper version. Interestingly enough, European settlers brought some of these domesticated birds back to the New World in the 1600s and eventually began crossing them with America's wild turkeys.
Most U.S. turkeys raised today are from the White Holland variety, which has been bred to produce a maximum of white meat (a U.S. favorite).
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