re: #988 The Ghost of a Benghazi Flea

Wikipedia:

400-someodd years can still been seen as “recent” given the timescale involved. It’s amazing how food was transformed by borrowing from New World staples. Imagine European (or for that matter Asian) gastronomy without chiles, potatoes, tomatoes, vanilla, and a fistful of other things we take for granted.

Nowadays goose is very uncommon and fairly pricey…at least in the US; I dunno about the UK.

“showing a turkey cock as the family crest”

That does not mean what I think it means… right?