Western turkeys, like domestic chickens that we usually eat on holidays, are all animals under the order of Birds and Chickens. The difference is that turkeys are very big. Common domestic chickens generally weigh two or three catties, and four or five catties is quite large. The reason why turkeys get cold in China is that turkey meat is not delicious. The meat yield of turkey is high, but the muscle fiber is thick, which leads to the taste of turkey meat is firewood and dry. In addition, the cooking methods are basically cooked at high temperature, and the water in the meat is boiled dry, which makes it chewy and tasteless.

There are so many cooking methods in China, but basically none of them can "healthy" turkey. Turkey has a special fishy smell, so it can't be used to cook soup like domestic chicken. Although other cooking methods can remove the taste, the meat quality and taste are reduced a lot. In contrast, boiled chicken and alms chicken are all delicious.

The history of turkey

Turkey was first domesticated as poultry in Oaxaca, Mexico, about the same time as the Neolithic Age in Europe (about 5000 BC in the Neolithic Age in Europe). Turkey was imported to Europe at the end of 15th century, and it was introduced to China even later. Turkey is also wild in the south of North America.

Wild turkey is a highland land bird native to North America. It is one of the two existing turkeys and the heaviest member of the Chicken Order. It is the ancestor of domestic turkey, originally from the wild turkey subspecies in southern Mexico (not the related monocular turkey). Although turkey is native to North America, its name may come from domesticated varieties, which were imported to Britain by ships from the Levant in Spain.

Therefore, at that time, the British associated wild turkey with the Turkish country, and the name prevailed. Another theory holds that another kind of bird, a guinea fowl native to Madagascar, was introduced to Britain by Turkish businessmen as the original source, and the term was later transferred to the New World birds by British colonists who knew the previous species.