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16 MONTANA SENIOR NEWS • OCTOBER | NOVEMBER 2022

A Cornucopia of

Thanksgiving Traditions

coming of the harvest and follows tradition
BY KEN LEVY the same way—or even on the same date.
WHEN TURKEY ISN’T FOOD
Stuff your turkey and your face until Some folks don’t even cook their tur-
your eyes and stomach bulge. Watch football keys. They use them for bowling balls.
or play games with the family. Bounce the Turkey Bowling legend says the sport’s
grandbabies on your knee, and give thanks founders slid wrapped Butterball turkeys
for the bounties of life on America’s most down a grocery-store aisle, using two-liter
traditional home-spun holiday. soda bottles as pins. Originators of the fowl
Thanksgiving comes November 24th this sport reportedly favored Butterball turkeys
year and always falls on the last Thursday of because of the “turkey lift” handle.
that month. But not everyone celebrates the Regular bowling rules apply, and three
strikes in a row are called—you guessed
Capital We Are it—a Turkey. The sport even has its own
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For a hotter turkey experience, some com-
Some folks opt to include frog eye salad—known as pete in the flaming turkey toss. Originating
fish-eye salad in Idaho—as a side dish or dessert for in Indianapolis, the sport—reportedly cre-
Thanksgiving. It combines marshmallow and cream,
pasta, coconut and Mandarin oranges with a pine- ated by high-school athletes—involves
apple dressing. Photo from chelseasmessyapron.com. dressing turkeys in baby onesies, lighting
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