Dr. Harini Bhat (PharmD) | Science Storyteller on Instagram: "The origin of the word “turkey” is a really fun & bizarre result of a super long game of global telephone. Turkey the country, despite being named Turkey, has no native turkeys. On top of that, the Turks don’t call a turkey, a turkey…they call it a “Hindi”, meaning Indian because they believed the bird to come from India. They weren’t alone in their thinking. France called the bird “poulet d’inde” or chicken from India. In Polish and