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Spanish brought them over to Europe but surely by Americanisms you meant copying thanks giving and Christmas traditions not just the fact that the Turkey comes from the americas?
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Yeah, but they were first brought over in like the 1500s. Even by the Georgian era the turkey was rivalling the goose as the Christmas centrepiece.
Unless by Americanisms you just meant “brought over from the American continents”, but that’s pretty meaningless and it would be equivalent to say “ah yes, the Asian influence” when discussing the shooting and eating of pheasants. It would be more accurate to say “colonialism”.
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Surely geese are domestic to Europe whereas Turkeys are from the Americas?