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	Podcast:		Local Features by WXPR
	Episode:		The Christmas Goose
	Category:		Government & Organizations
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	Publish Date:		2017-12-21 07:55:56
	Description:		Is goose on your menu this holiday season? In this episode of Wildlife Matters , the Masked Biologist takes a look at the tradition of the Christmas goose and the status of our native migratory geese. A few years back, I was doing some research on what a traditional German Christmas feast contained. I learned that, while hogs were usually butchered in fall and eaten in winter, it was a real treat to harvest and eat wild geese. In fact, the goose was not just a preferred German holiday feast; many European stories and songs reference the Christmas goose. It wasn’t until Charles Dickens’ book A Christmas Carol was published in the mid-1800s that the idea of serving a turkey for Christmas meals caught on. Geese were delicious, affordable, and readily available in the fall. Turkeys, by comparison, were an exotic bird, not native to Europe, which is why in the story the butcher had a prize turkey that still hung unsold in his display window on Christmas Day. Scrooge sent a small boy to
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