Show thanksgiving turkey may have different Diere tit taste this year it all depends on what day you choose to be thankful NEW JEW YORK american families may taste a slight difference in inear their thanksgiving dinners this year due to president moving the holiday a week ahead but it all depends on the weather turkey meat usually varies in ift texture and flavor with th the weather eweather in cold weather according to howard C pierce head of the poultry division of the great atlantic pacific tea company and one of the nations largest buyers of the thanksgiving birds turkey has a special tang warm weather produces a loose knit bird he said if the period immediately preceding the new thanksgiving date november 23 is warm pierce explained turkey will have a more pronouns pronounced unc ed flavor in any event there will be plenty of turkey for everybody the poultry expert commented tor for production this year will be almost 50 per z k J f cent above and one ot of the largest in history almost three quarters of the turkeys in the united states are sold during thanksgiving christmas and new years holl holi days and are raised to be prime at that time six to eight months after they are hatched americas turkey consumption has increased enormously since 1936 when retailers staged an intensive campaign to help farmers move a bumper crop pierce said through vigorous advertising and sales efforts chains boosted consumption 46 per cent pierce said and help from other distributors raised sales a total of per cent ceni tor for the nation the threat of surplus was removed he added ade ed the housewife selecting a bird at her neighborhood butcher shop should remember that older birds never have pin feathers mr pierce pointed out The irskin is ii thick and the fat beneath tho the skin Is dark young turkeys are distinguished by a thin translucent skin with bright cream colored fatty tissue beneath |