Talking Turkey

I had a turkeyless Thanksgiving, our host was vegan and made a delicious array of dishes, and was proud we saved a turkey :)  I have always wondered why the big bird we eat on Thanksgiving is called a Turkey, and the country Turkey, and then phrases like "talk turkey," and "cold turkey."

Let's explore.

I just ran across a very interesting article about how it became to be known in America as turkey,
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/11/why-americans-call-turkey-turkey/383225/?single_page=true.

Turkey the country, when I googled it, these were my choices,

Turkey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey

Wikipedia

Turkey officially the Republic of Turkey is a contiguous transcontinental parliamentary republic, with its smaller part in Southeastern Europe and its larger part in ...

Turkey (bird) Domesticated turkey - Wild turkey - Guineafowl - Phasianidae - ...	Ankara Ankara is the capital of Turkey and the country's second largest city ...
Turkish people Alp Arslan - Sertab Erener - Elif Şafak - Turkish diaspora - ...	Islam in Turkey Islam is the main religion of the Turkish people in Turkey, where ...
Turkish language Turkish alphabet - Ottoman Turkish alphabet - Ottoman Turkish - ...	History of Turkey The history of Turkey encompasses the history of the ...

My baby just stopped wearing diapers, and many people ask me if he still wears diapers at night. There are two things that don't make sense to me:

1. teaching boys to pee sitting down
2. wearing diapers at night

I am all about "COLD TURKEY," abruptly stopping something.  Here is a definition, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_turkey, but more specifically a phrase from this link,

• Some believe the derivation is from the comparison of a cold turkey carcass and the state of a withdrawing addict — most notably, the cold sweats, goose bumps.^[10]

"TALKING TURKEY?" This phrase goes way back to the beginnings of Thanksgiving,
http://www.theindychannel.com/decodedc/where-did-the-phrase-talking-turkey-come-from.

Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving,

I had a fantastic time and so did my kids,

Now the partying commences,
with my husband's birthday weekend,

Plenty of surprises in store,

Shabbat Shalom,

Coach Yulia