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public relations. It also provides
Skip Fitz the chance to talk turkey
to the audience he loves best
youngsters.
“It’s at a lime of the year—two
weeks before Thanksgiving
when we’re getting pretty busy.
But, I get such enjoyment from
watching the expressions on the
kids faces, and answering their
questions, that I’d never give that
week up,” Fitz grins.
About 1,000 children tour the
farm during that week, arriving at
20-30 minute intervals. They see
the large houses filled with thou
sands of clucking, curious tuikeys,
and the feed and watering systems
in the production areas. A favorite
part of the tour for both kids and
host is the hands-on “touching”
opportunity to stroke a live tuikey.
Fitz points out the unusual body
characteristics of tuikeys, such as
the beard, the caruncles, and the
snood.
To reinforce what they’ve
learned, children visiting this year
received a coloring page of a turk
ey, with names of parts to identify.
As an extra special gift to their vis
itors, Fitz and his children made
1200 quill pens, devised from turk-
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ey feathers and a pen ball-point
insertion, then decorated with
spray paint. A letter to parents goes
along home with each child,
explaining the visit, and including
sales and order information, plus a
cash-off discount on a large
turkey.
Pricing estimates begin in late
summer, with Fitz closely watch
ing national supply and marketing
data. He predicts turkey prices to
be down 15 to 20 cents per pound
this year from 1986 levels, as the
industry recovers from two years
of tight supplies which followed
flock losses due to the Avian flu
epidemic.
In addition to fresh and quick
frozen birds, Fitz retails smoked
turkeys and turkey breasts, and
turkey steaks. A no-waste meat,
turkey steaks are made from fresh
turkey breast meat, cut into chunks
and run through a tenderizer. Each
cutlet-like steak weighs about a
quarter-pound, cooks quickly and
can be prepared in a variety of
ways.
While the next few weeks at
Meadow Brook Farms will reach
the proverbial “madhouse” level of
activity. Skip Fitz has no inten
tions of taking short cuts to serve a
loyal following of turkey lovers.
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After a several-week period of
physical and mental recuperation
following the holiday crunch, and
catch-up sessions with the office
work, plans will be underway for
the first batch of day-old turkey
chicks to arrive in early summer.
In spite of his food service
schooling and experience, Fitz is
pretty much a purist when it comes
to cooking his favorite fowl. Tradi
tional roasting, then slicing leftov
ers cold for sandwiches is his pre
ferred method.
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eys be roasted breast down. In that
manner, juices in the meat become
more concentrated in the white
meat area, rather than drain away
as they would during breast-up
preparation.
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Fitz and family will likely just skip
the traditional bird for dinner,
while being thankful that so many
customers are enjoying a Meadow
brook turkey.
They’ll also be thankful for a
very few brief days of rest before
the next big holiday dinner season
rolls into high gear.
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