Those of you who are vegitarians can leave this post it is of no concern to you.

Now they have gone let us turn our attention to the vexed question of whether you prefer white or dark turkey meat. The Green Man is more inclined to the dark himself, it seems richer and more succulent but each to his own.

The colour arises because of the different types of muscle fibres present the different parts of the bird. Dark meat comprises so-called slow twitch muscle fibers, which are specialized for extended exertion, whereas white meat is made up of fast twitch fibers that fuel short, intense bursts of energy.

At this stage it is time to turn our attemtion to Blimp-1 and that is not The Green Man following the Christmas season that we are talking about. It is a transcription factor protein that controls muscle development. Philip Ingham of the University of Sheffield, having discovered that all the research into world hunger was already taken, decided to research this protein and believes he has identified the gene that controls it. So no more of that dry white meat for The Green Man. He is ordering his turkey dark, mind you it may be a strange looking bird.

Read more in Scientific American.