Turkey.                                                                                                                                                          We already know the turkey in Europe from the year 1520 and straight away it was a big succes. Unlike other immigrants as the potato and the tomato the turkey very fast became a popular consumption. Before the 16th century finished there where already cooking books with over twenty recepies for turkey. Maybe because the imported animal and bred animal where as big as the symbolic important peacock, that was mostly served at the tables of bigwigs and royal families, with the advantage that turkey is much more eatable. If you think that turkey is dry you should try to eat a peacock one time!                                                                          

                                                                      
When the turkey arived in Europe nobody knew where he came from. In the lowlands (Holland and Belgium), they heard something about India so they called it kalikoets or kalkoetshoen revering to Calicut the west coast of India, kalkoetshoen became kalkoen. The French also thought of India and so they called it poule d'Inde (indian chicken) which became dinde. The English thought of Turkey and they simply called it turkey (in this time almost everything that arived in London came from Constantinopol present day Istanbul and they named everything turkish).
This makes you question how the Turkish called the turkey they also thought of India and called it Hindi. And Indians, they knew that they where not from India so how they called it? They got them from the Portuguese trhough Goa and they called them just like the Portuguese, again a other place of origin, Peru! And in Peru? There they ar called pavo as in all other Spanish speaking countrys. Before 1520 pavo ofcourse meant peacock. Peacocks ar now called pavo rea in Spanish. Italians simply (or not) gave the turkey three names tacchino, pollin or dindo. Germans called it truthuhn wich means threathening grouse because a big turkey can be pritty scary (so they basicly have the best name). Where the turkey realy comes from is Mexico and there its called guajolote, as the aztecs would call them.