Turkey bowling

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For the term "turkey" in the general sport of bowling, see Strike (bowling) § Consecutive strikes.
Miss Ohio 2006 bowls a turkey in Willowick, Ohio

Turkey bowling is a

frozen turkey serves as the bowling ball and 10 liquid-filled plastic beverage bottles are used for bowling pins. The turkey is bowled down a smooth surface such as ice or a soap-covered sheet of painters plastic.[1] The sport is commonly associated with Thanksgiving.[2]

Turkey bowling is popular in minor league ice hockey in the United States and Canada.[1]

The original variant involves turkey bowling in an aisle of a

Lucky's branch while observing a manager slide a frozen turkey across the floor and accidentally topple a soda bottle.[3]

Derrick became a self-appointed

7-10 split).[3]

Notable occurrences

Turkey bowling was featured in the 1995 novel

You Suck: A Love Story[4] and Bite Me
).

Episode 14 of 10 Items or Less TV series was "Turkey Bowling".[5]
This idea for this episode was given to John Lehr by David Howell, an aspiring comedy writer.

The Guy's Grocery Games episode "Frozen Food Fight" featured a round where two contestants bowled a frozen turkey at nine soda bottles; the combined number knocked down was the number of non-frozen items each was allowed to use in their next dish.

Every

stacked in a pyramid shape, and uses a one-bowl-per-round knockout tournament format. In the 2010 edition, it was hosted by morning features and man-about-town reporter Kenny Crumpton and morning meteorologist Angelica Campos. In WJW-TV's version, people win prizes anything ranging from Giant Eagle Gift Cards to monetary prizes. The contest is broadcast on WJW live and streamed around the world on WJW's Web site, with the contests taking up the full closing segment (around 7 minutes) of each half-hour of WJW's morning newscast. The broadcast began in 1999. From then until 2019, the event was traditionally held at a Giant Eagle somewhere in Cuyahoga County
; the 2021 contest was held in a garage.

Controversy

UK Great Turkey Bowling Champion at Manchester Evening News Arena was protested against by animal rights campaigners; as a result, plastic turkeys were used instead of real frozen turkeys.[1] In 2007 an animal sanctuary rescued a live turkey, which was in a cage, from a turkey bowling event in New York State.[7]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Protestors cry foul at turkey bowling", Manchester Evening News, 3/11/2003
  2. ^ Genovese, Peter (November 23, 2023). "Turkey bowling? N.J. bar keeps wacky Thanksgiving tradition alive". NJ.com.
  3. ^
    People Magazine
    , October 01, 1990 Vol. 34 No. 13
  4. ^ "'You Suck,' 'Fangland' take vampires in new directions", a USA Today book review
  5. IMDb Edit this at Wikidata
  6. ^ a b "Group hopes to stuff turkey bowling". Cjonline.com. 1998-11-18. Retrieved 2009-07-27.
  7. ^ "Norman the turkey will live past Thanksgiving, rescue group says". Dailyfreeman.com. 2007-11-22. Retrieved 2009-07-27.
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