Supersize That Thanksgiving Dinner Please!

Ol Soup Hound just ran into this Wired magazine article about the breeding changes that have drastically modified the  traditional Thanksgiving food.  The topic is past due.  But, it's pretty amazing!  You should read this article anyway.  Here's some tidbits...

• Americans eat a pound of sugar every two-and-a-half days. The average amount of sugar consumed by an Englishman in the 1700s was about a pound a year.
• Between 1929 and 2007, turkeys more than doubled in size in that time from an average of 13 pounds to an average of 29 pounds, (see picture), at a lower cost to consumers.
  
• Sweet corn is the result of a mutation that replaces some of the corn's starchiness with sugar. It spread from the Iroquois to European settlers in the late 1770s. 
  

OK!  I'm done howling at the Thanksgiving moon.  Read the article.

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/11/turkeytech.html