Vegetarians? 

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In 1971, 1 percent of U.S. citizens described themselves as vegetarians.^[103] In 2008 Harris Interactive found that 3.2% are vegetarian and 0.5% vegan,^[104] while a 2013 Public Policy Polling survey of 500 respondents found 6% of Americans are vegetarian and 7% are vegan.^[105] U.S. vegetarian food sales (meat replacements such as soy milk and textured vegetable protein) doubled between 1998 and 2003, reaching $1.6 billion in 2003.^[106]

Many American children whose parents follow vegetarian diets follow them because of religious, environmental or other reasons.^[107] In the government's first estimate^[108] of how many children avoid meat, the number is about 1 in 200.^[109][110] The CDC survey included children ages 0 to 17 years.

This is not meant to ignite a pro or contra meat debate, just a thought that companies might not want the hassle to provide alternate food or sit on not wanted turkey. 

We get a bonus just before Christmas annually based on our performance for the year, and Christmas Day and Boxing Day are both Statutory Holidays. If they fall on a weekend you get a weekday off in lieu, so this year, the lieu day for the Sunday, was Tuesday.

Our normal lunch break is 30 min. At Christmas we get an extra 30 minutes and a company paid-for lunch. 

Don't recall ever getting a turkey here ... one store 'Honest Eds' used to have a massive turkey give-away at Christmas every year. People would camp out for that. 

@aditus, oh my! the Vegetarian/Vegan crowd is taking over, soon we'll be stuck with Tofurkey

@Valk and Mikie, sounds like you both got what I had, a company lunch/party. I don't get bonuses due to being Salaried and technically in management (Middle Management sucks and we don't get as many perks as employees or senior management).

So the turkey gift basket is now as defunct as many other holiday classics like Caroling.

I was reading the December 1880 Globe-Democrat newspapers recently, and one department store, by the name of "Famous," gave away turkeys that Christmas to every one its several hundred employees.

Perhaps the tradition was started (or boosted) by the Lincoln family personally shouldering the expensive of 6,000 turkeys in 1863. These were for soldiers and sailors in the United States Armed Services for the first national Thanksgiving Day celebration.

It ended with the quaint old tradition of treating employees like they are human beings and, that they are valued. It simply doesn't go with the corporate culture of screwing everybody out of everything the sociopathic management can think of.