gobble gobble jobble! December 11, 2007
Posted by dnl5book in Wonder.trackback
Guess where my dad has a job? A ball of butter? No, that’s not right. Butterball, that’s it! And guess what they do. I bet you can guess by the front of it- they freeze turkeys. You should see a road leading away from my dad’s work. You can follow the turkey feathers all the way out to an interstate. That’s really silly. It’s hard to imagine millions of turkeys coming down that road every single day.
And did you know, that right now Butterball is the turkey brand of choice. You go anywhere and you won’t see very many Butterball turkeys right now. That’s because so many people are buying them! But if you go to Butterball, sometimes you will hear a little oinking and grunting. Because they also process a little pig every once in a while. But Butterball is definitely NOT the pork of choice. They’re much better at turkeys than they are at pigs.
Once I saw a person coming out of my dad’s work wearing a t-shirt that said, “Gobble Gobble I’m a Turkey.” I literally laughed my head off. But he doesn’t exactly work at the place where the feathers are all over the place. (And it’s very stinky when the wind is the wrong direction.) Luckily for him, he works at a tiny office doing the computerized stuff for the company.
We’ve also found a rental house. It’s very cute, but the thing I like the most about it is the grass it has at it: nice, young, and fresh. But very sandy too. It has a big storage building, and I just plain like it.
I hope you like this article!
I think it was Benjamin Franklin who wanted the turkey to be the national bird. He said that the turkey is, after all, a native bird. It’s not noted for intelligence, but in the wild it’s really pretty smart. Eagles, on the other hand represent power, and are present in many other countries. I say, “Let’s hear it for the noble TURKEY!”
I copied this from the encyclopaedia about WILD turkeys: “Turkeys are surprisingly agile fliers and very cunning, unlike their domestic counterparts. In flight they can reach a speed of 50 miles per hour (80 kilometers per hour). They usually fly close to the ground for no more than a quarter mile (400 meters). Turkeys have many vocalizations: “gobbles,” “clucks,” “putts,” “purrs,” “yelps,” “cutts,” “cackles,” and “kee-kees.”
The birds you see at Butterball are not at all like the wild turkey that the first settlers found. I’ve read that, in addition to great eyesight, they actually post “sentinels” to watch for predators (like us) from tree tops. True or not, it makes a good story, don’t you think?
Good writing Donal! Why do you keep telling me that you can’t write.
Dad