Where can I order me one? My grandmother had a heritage turkey for Thanksgiving a couple years ago and it was delicious. I want me some real dark meat this year

I've heard you can get them from Whole Foods but I'd like to support a local farmer first.

10/27/2011 9:00:46 AM

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"I want me some real dark meat this year"

10/27/2011 9:04:08 AM

^Giggidy.

You may want to check the farmer's market for anyone selling produce and just ask them. I live in a small town surrounded by rural-nothingness and we had someone at our farmer's market with a turkey in a cage that was explaining that he could slaughter a fresh turkey, clean it, and deliver it a day or two before Thanksgiving so that it never has to be frozen. Apparently it tastes better.

I'm *just* enough of an animal lover to have a hard time staring the turkey in the face that this man wants to slaughter for me. I'll take my butterball turkeys for now.

10/27/2011 9:09:02 AM

Well, hell if you're really an animal lover you'd want nothing to do with the way companies like Cargill and Butterball have their farmers raise their turkeys But that's a debate for another day.

I'd have no problem slaughtering the bird myself if I had the resources but alas I think my HOA would frown upon that.

10/27/2011 9:11:04 AM

Hey, I have NOTHING wrong with the animal dying, being stuffed, and sitting on my dining room table. I just feel weird about this guy having me admire a bird sitting right there beside him, then offering to leave the corpse on my doorstep the next day. I'm the first to admit that I could never work anywhere near a slaughter house, but don't jump to any conclusions.

If for no other reason, I support people in that line of work because it gives me an excuse to slather A1 sauce on it. 'Yeah... it's that important.'

10/27/2011 9:23:26 AM

Who puts A1 on turkey?

10/27/2011 11:35:13 AM

Found a farm based out of Alamance County. Now to decide if I really want to spend that much money on a turkey. I guess it's only once a year I bother to cook one in the first place

http://www.canecreekfarm.us/

10/27/2011 1:26:47 PM

^^The A1 line was more about slaughtering meat in general, not specifically about Turkey.

10/27/2011 2:14:29 PM

^^$7.50/lb? That better be some good turkey if the bird is going to cost you in the neighborhood of $100.

That being said, it is a neat idea to get a heritage breed and do it locally.

10/27/2011 4:21:58 PM

Luckily this year it's just us so we only need a wee turkey. Otherwise no way I could afford it.

10/27/2011 5:01:58 PM

If you don't mind paying between $60 and $120, you can try http://www.tendergrassfarm.com.



$6/pound

[Edited on October 27, 2011 at 6:05 PM. Reason : monies]

10/27/2011 6:01:33 PM