Hopefully not too late to save your Thanksgiving dinner, here is a sampling of turkey technology over the years:

U.S. Patent No. 2,128,952, issued September 6, 1938, on Seasoning Poultry that provides “a novel method and apparatus for seasoning a fowl when it is dressed so that the meat of the fowl will be permeated substantially throughout with the seasoning”:

U.S. Patent No. 2,310,690, issued February 9, 1943, on Cooking Food by Electric Conductance by passing electric current through the food”:

U.S. Patent No. 2,633,601 issued April 7, 1953, on a Method of Preparing Fowl involving “skinning the fowl and later using the original skin as a covering for the flesh after the boning operation has been completed”:

U.S. Patent No. 2,708,769 issued May 24, 1955, on a Stuffing Shield for Roasting Fowls to help retain the stuffing inside, while still allowing it to brown:

U.S. Patent No. 3,131,448, issued May 5, 1964, on a Poultry Clip Device to “retain stuffing or the like therein”:

U.S. Patent No. 3,708,312 issued January 2, 1973, issued on a Poultry Product and Method which the “posterior opening of an eviscerated fowl is held open by a tubular device comprising a pair of telescoped members, through which stuffing may be introduced, and in which giblets or other items may be carried”:

Best wishes for a Happy Thanksgiving (and a delicious turkey)!