The Story Behind This Year’s Pardoned Turkey

posted 11/25/2009
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Every year, the president officially pardons a turkey for Thanksgiving, to save the animal from being butchered and served to a starving homeless family on America’s favorite food-oriented holiday. We decided to do a little digging this year and look into exactly how they choose which turkey to pardon. Take a look at the wrap sheet for this year’s pardoned Turkey:

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3 Responses to "The Story Behind This Year’s Pardoned Turkey"

aPlateOfGrapes says:

November 25, 2009 at 6:39 pm

HT you’re getting lazy…

It’s 2009, not 2007
This year’s turkey is 40lbs and is named Courage.
aninnymouse says:

November 25, 2009 at 8:14 pm

yeahhh this year’s turkey came from North Carolina… a guy i go to school with raised it… better research jackasses
lunchboy says:

November 26, 2009 at 10:34 am

i love turkeys…pardoned or not! yay!!! turkey for dinner and left over turkey sammiches….whoo hooo….i am sooo freaking excited. carry on kids!

The Story Behind This Year’s Pardoned Turkey

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