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it's friday november 18th, 2022. I'm Jackson Bird today. What's the deal with those giant turkey legs that they serve at Renaissance fairs and Disney World? Plus, Cor's Light has just launched a color-changing nail polish that lets you know when your beer is cold enough

to drink. And Cambridge Dictionary's perplexing choice of a word of the year that most Brits

have never heard of. Here's some cool stuff for your ride home. Here in the U.S., Thanksgiving is less than a week away.

Depending on the size of turkey that you bought, you should already be moving it from the freezer to the fridge to thaw.

And Thanksgiving is the big day for turkeys to shine in America, but if you want to gorge yourself on a supersized serving of

turkey any other day of the year, there are two places you can go. Disney World or a Renaissance

Fair. Both have popularized the indulgent practice of chomping on a huge turkey leg while

walking around their parks as if it were as ordinary

or as moderately sized as a corn dog or a popsicle.

Personally, a turkey leg is my favorite part of a Renaissance fair, and there's a lot that I love

about Renfares, so that's a pretty high bar, but I can't go to one without getting a turkey

leg. But why did Renfares and

Disney World start selling these, as the New York Times described them in 2013, quote,

bulbous, chewy, piping hot drumsticks the size of Fred Flintstone's forearm? So the first

Renaissance fair was held in 1963, organized by Phyllis and Ron Patterson

as a fundraiser for their local public radio station in Laurel Canyon, California.

Thousands of people attended that first fair, so the Patterson's did it again next time moving

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