Any book you have written, Conrad, I'm sure would be very amusing. But I'm afraid I DO know the history of Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot quite well.

I'm quite sure they do have turkeys in England, perhaps in the same way that they have potatoes in Ireland, but both came from the Western Hemisphere and did not exist in the British Isles until they were imported from the Americas.

As to roast turkey being a traditional English celebratory meal, I have serious doubts, but I will leave the verification or refutation of that to our English confreres who would most certainly know.

Don Firth

P. S. How long to roast a turkey? Simple way to tell. Stuff if with unpopped popcorn. When it's ass explodes, it's done!