Butterball Turkey

Butterball is a brand of turkey that is sold in the United States. Butterball turkeys are sold fresh or frozen, and according to the Food Network, can be deep fried, roasted, smoked, grilled, rotisserie and marinated.http://www.foodnetwork.com/thanksgiving-turkey/package/index.html Turkey products sold under the Butterball name include whole turkeys, turkey cold cuts, turkey sausage and turkey bacon. Butterball also produces marinated bone-in, boneless and whole chickens, rotisserie chickens, frozen chicken, stuffing, decoratively formed butter and gravy mixes.

Butterball produces 20 percent of the turkey in the United States.http://www.worldnewsinsight.com/where%E2%80%99s-my-butterball-turkey/673/ The Butterball Turkey Talk Line receives more than 100,000 callers during the Thanksgiving holidays.http://www.butterball.com/media_release/the-butterball-turkey-talk-line-experts-offer-a-thanksgiving-cheat-sheet Butterball has a 675,000 square foot plant in Mt Olive, North Carolina, making it the world's largest turkey plant.http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/food/2010-09-10-butterball-smithfield_N.htm Butterball employs 5,500 people in their seven plants and offices.http://www.butterballcorp.com/content.aspx?pin=c5e9f96c-c32e-48b5-8745-573240337a02

Butterball Company Timeline

June 1940: Trademark given to Ada Walker
February 1951: Sold to Leo Peters for Swift and Co.
June 1987: Swift and Co. acquired by ConAgra
October 2006: ConAgra sells Butterball to Carolina Turkeys, renamed as Butterball LLC
October 2008: Butterball LLC sells Longmont portion of business to Sigma Alimentos http://www.thepoultrysite.com/poultrynews/16335/butterball-sells-longmont-brand

Where's the Butter?

When Leo Peters sold the Butterball name to Swift and Co after having purchased it from Ada Walker of Wyoming, Ohio in 1940, he retained his rights to use the name. The name is still used today in his primary business, Butterball Farms, where the main item distributed is butter.http://nancyfriedman.typepad.com/away_with_words/2009/11/how-butterball-got-its-name.html

Butterball Talk Line

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The Butterball Turkey Talk Line

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Bill Bailey with the Food Channel calls the Butterball Talk Line to get tips on how to prepare a Butterball turkey. He talks with Carol Miller. She states she gets some odd questions from many of the callers, from "Do I take the feathers off the turkey before putting it in the oven?" to "I have company coming for dinner tomorrow and my turkey is frozen hard as a rock, what do I do?" Carol talks about how both ends of the turkey can be stuffed if there are two types of stuffing on hand. She also states that the turkey can be cooked with the giblet package inside. Many other questions are answered on topics like how to brine a turkey and how to cook a turkey so the white and dark meat is tender and juicy. The hotline phone number is 1-800-BUTTERBALL.

Butterball Introduces Indoor Electric Turkey Fryer XL

Butterball and Masterbuilt now offers a Butterball Indoor Electric Turkey Fryer XL, a larger version of the original Butterball Indoor Electric Turkey Fryer. It can fry a 20-pound turkey which will feed 14 people. They also have a Butterball Turkey Seasoning Kit and Marinade available which includes Buttery Creole Marinade, Butterball Cajun Dry Rub Seasoning, and a 1oz Butterball Injecting Syringe.http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/masterbuilt-introduces-next-generation-butterball,1203908.shtml