A Tale of Two Turkeys
By GAIL COLLINS
NYT
On Wednesday, President Obama pardoned his first Thanksgiving turkey.
There is something wrong with this concept.
Here is how our beloved national tradition works: One lucky turkey gets to live — and fly first class to Disneyland, where he is grand marshal in the Thanksgiving Day parade (I am not making this up). While another nameless bird gets slaughtered in his place.
It’s “A Tale of Two Cities,” except somehow I doubt that the doomed turkey volunteered for the job.
Who mourns the Backup Bird? What fickle finger of fate decided that he should literally get the ax, while the one who was supposed to go next lives happily ever after on the Big Thunder Ranch in Frontierland?
(More here.)
NYT
On Wednesday, President Obama pardoned his first Thanksgiving turkey.
There is something wrong with this concept.
Here is how our beloved national tradition works: One lucky turkey gets to live — and fly first class to Disneyland, where he is grand marshal in the Thanksgiving Day parade (I am not making this up). While another nameless bird gets slaughtered in his place.
It’s “A Tale of Two Cities,” except somehow I doubt that the doomed turkey volunteered for the job.
Who mourns the Backup Bird? What fickle finger of fate decided that he should literally get the ax, while the one who was supposed to go next lives happily ever after on the Big Thunder Ranch in Frontierland?
(More here.)
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