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Behold The Majesty Of The Turkey

Learn about all those turkey parts ... the ones you wouldn't dare eat.
Ethan Fedida
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Senior Editorial Partnerships Manager, The Huffington Post

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Behold: the famed turkey head.

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Filled with wonderment and curious parts.

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Like the snood -- the dangly, fleshy caruncle protruding from the turkey's forehead.

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Sometimes the snood hangs to the right.

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Dangling delicately to the side.

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Or it drops down to the left.

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Lean to the left and crank dat thing, now OOLULULU.

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Gobble gobble, Mr. Turkey.

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Like the rooster, turkeys have a wattle or dewlap -- the ornamental fleshy flap hanging down from the neck.

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Wattle baby, wattle baby, wattle baby, wattle (yeah).

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But everyone's favorite are the bulbous caruncles hanging low on the neck.

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Gently resting on the turkey's breast.

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Take 'em in, in all their orbed glory.

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Luscious and wrinkly.

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But the thing about turkeys.

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Is that you never know what they are thinking.

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You never know.

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Is he happy or sad? Engaged or absent?

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Never.

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But they are always watching.

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And have seen some shit.

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Staring back at you with those judgey eyes.

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They know what you did.
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