Putting the Hindi back into Christmas

In an odd linguistic twist the Turkish word for "turkey" (the bird) is "hindi" which means Indian. And while turkeys are not available in Turkey in November they are available for New Year's celebration or in our case, Christmas. As one of Ladan's friends noted you can't really expect folks to eat a bird with the same name as their country so somewhere down the line it must have been changed to spare the awkward expat confusion. OK probably not but it's fun to think about it and to say, "Please pass the indian" followed by "and don't forget the pilgrim".