THANKSGIVING TURKEY LEVY

Thanksgiving in the US and Christmas in the UK have one thing in common; they each end up with a partly stripped turkey carcass sitting in the refrigerator, in skeletal admonishment of our excesses. Since today is the 27^th November, or rather Thanksgiving Day, I felt prompted to address an issue that has troubled me for some time.

Our American cousins consume their turkeys on the fourth Thursday in November and have done so, give or take a few days, every year since 1621, when the Pilgrim Fathers celebrated and gave thanks for their first harvest.