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Turkeys Are Twice as Big as They Were in 1960 (theatlantic.com)
Alexis Madrigal, writing for The Atlantic: A turkey today is not the turkey of yesteryear. For decades, animal breeders have been transforming the genomes of turkeys to make them grow larger. Since 1960, the weight of turkeys has gone up about a quarter of a pound each year. The average weight of a turkey has gone from 15.1 pounds in 1960 to 31.1 pounds in 2017. And most of that change has been genetic. In one study of a representative strain of turkeys, poultry researchers fed the same diet to turkeys from 2003 and to a control group of turkeys that were representative of that strain's genetic pool from 1966. On average, the 2003 females grew to 33 pounds. Their 1966 cousins only got to 16.3 pounds.
I've noticed over the years that only small minds talk about food a lot.
/. and I'm very disappointed that a poster with such a low ID number would think at a level no higher than a paramecium.
It's only slightly more sophisticated than talking about the weather.
See, it allows the speaker to project an air of discerning taste as though food were a complex subject or as though anyone cared about the speaker's diet. This faux sophistication is generally permitted because interrupting someone who is wasting your time is, for some reason, considered rude and also because letting a fool blather on about food is safer than getting into topics of any interest, weight, or controversy.
That's why it annoys me: talking about food for any other purpose than "What do you want to do for lunch?" is just straight up pretentious and weakly manipulative.
No, I don't respect you because you like good tasting food.
No, I don't care what you ate for dinner last night nor do I care about your opinion on what you ate.
Stop trying to impress me, you're not Hannibal Lector and I am not impressed by culinary bling.
I really expected better out of