Sorry to interrupt this levity with something a little more serious. I have a bad habit of doing that.

It seems the turkey has been in England longer than I thought.

According to this site, the turkey was brought to England by merchants trading in the Eastern Mediterranean about 1530. The bird was called a turkey because its immediate source was the Ottoman Empire, though it was thought to have arrived there from N. America about 10 years earlier.

Its popularity increased rapidly - probably because though it was about the same size as a goose, it had more meat on it. By the mid 1550s it was already being associated with Christmas, though it doesn't seem to have fully replaced the goose until the 20th century.

However it has never been traditionally associated with Guy Fawkes.