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| | This turkey has what some are calling a proud heritage. Indeed, gourmet cooks are flocking (so to speak) to poultry farm this Thanksgiving to buy one of the birds. Rick and Mary Pitman said on the phone from the farm in the Fresno area that their phone hardly has stopped ringing since the summertime. People want to know if there is still time to reserve a heritage turkey for a Thanksgiving meal. These heritage turkeys take eight months to develop while a typical commercial turkey has a life span of approximately three months.
One more tradition is grand ceremony of pardoning the turkeys. More than fifty years ago, the tradition was started by Harry Truman. According to this tradition, at least one turkey should be present on the feast table. In the form of half-joking - half serious recognition of role of turkey and also role of mercy, on the eve of holiday, the American president declares pardoning of specific turkey, which is shown on TV along with President in the lawns of Whitehouse. President reads out the proclamation and carefully pats the alarmed bird. Later on, the turkey lives rest of the life in a zoo park.
Parades are organized on Thanksgiving Day. The first parade took place in 1924 along West Side of Central Park and since then, the parade is held annually every Thanksgiving Day from the upper West Side of Manhattan to Macy’s flagship store in Herald Sqaure and the parade is sponsored by trading giant “Macy”. Generally the Christmas shopping season in the USA traditionally begins the day after Thanksgiving, known as “Black Friday”, and the shopkeepers hang red placards “SALE” and shopping becomes febrile.
A procession is taken out on autumn streets, large hot air-blown balloons of Snoopy dog, Garfield cat, Piggy and other famous personalities of American history decorate the sky above procession against the European carnivals with toys of medieval personalities. Once, huge Cat In the Hat escaped from the hands of leaders due to winds, hit a lamppost and the falling debris struck the head on one parade-goer out of two million participants. Ill-fate lady Catlin Corona lodged a complaint against the city, on the manufacturers of lamppost, Macy and Cat and demanded a compensation of $ 395 million. |
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