History Unplugged Podcast

History Unplugged Podcast

Scott Rank

Rebroadcast: Turkey is Both a Bird and a Country. Which Came First?

November 25, 2021   ●   21 min

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It's no coincidence that the bird we eat for Thanksgiving and a Middle Eastern country are both called Turkey. One was named after the other, and it all has to do with a 500-year-old story of emerging global trade, mistaken identity, foreign language confusion, and how the turkey took Europe by storm as a must-have status symbol for the ultra-wealthy.

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