How Do Pop-Up Turkey Timers Work?

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🗓️ 28 November 2024

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You can buy all kinds of fancy meat thermometers, but many turkeys are packaged with a simple pop-up timer that tells you when the bird is done. Learn how they work (and why Americans eat turkey on Thanksgiving in the first place) in this episode of BrainStuff, based on this article: https://home.howstuffworks.com/pop-up-timer.htm

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0:00.0	Hey, what's up? This is Ramses Job. And I go by the name, Q Ward. And we'd like you to join us each week for our show Civic Cipher. That's right. We discuss social issues, especially those that affect black and brown people, but in a way that informs and empowers all people. We discuss everything from prejudice to politics to police violence, and we try to give you the tools to create positive change in your home, workplace, and social circle.
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0:37.8	Lauren Vogelbaum here.
0:40.6	American Thanksgiving is the kind of family feast that everyone has slightly different
0:45.7	traditions around, from what desserts are must-haves to whether football is really the main
0:50.7	event, to exactly what kind of potatoes are being served.
0:55.1	Boil them, mash them, stick them in the stew.
0:57.8	But one thing that's near ubiquitous on Americans' Thanksgiving tables is Turkey.
1:03.7	As of 2023, 89.7% of people surveyed said that Turkey was part of their main course plans for the day.
1:13.1	The tradition is a slightly strange one. The turkeys are native to North and Central America.
1:19.3	Whether or not they were part of the first Thanksgiving feast among pilgrim colonists and
1:23.1	Native Americans in the 1600s is a complicated question because there are several candidate dates
1:29.1	and locations and peoples who might have been involved in the first Thanksgiving, and there's
1:34.7	no really solid documentation of any of these feasts. We basically got the idea that Turkey is
1:41.5	necessary from a woman in the 1800s by the name of Sarah
1:45.3	Josepha Hale, who thought the myth of the first Thanksgiving was a really nice idea,
1:50.8	and that it might bring people together surrounding the contentious times leading up to the Civil
1:55.1	War. A lot of our concepts of Thanksgiving come from her and the recipes of her time, including, yes, roasted turkey, but also stuffing or dressing, mashed potatoes and gravy, cranberry sauce, and pumpkin pie.
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