{"id":425476,"date":"2024-11-28T15:30:26","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T15:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=425476"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"Don-t-brine-your-turkey-in-the-lake-park-tells-Americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/Don-t-brine-your-turkey-in-the-lake-park-tells-Americans\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t brine your turkey in the lake, park tells Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"

As hundreds of millions of Americans get ready to celebrate Thanksgiving with a huge feast, park managers are warning budding chefs not to brine their turkey in Great Salt Lake.<\/p>\n

The admonition came after workers in the Utah park found someone’s bird that had floated off, apparently while they were trying to tenderize it ahead of Thursday’s festivities.<\/p>\n

“Just your annual reminder not to use Great Salt Lake to brine your turkey,” Great Salt Lake state park wrote on its social media feed this week.<\/p>\n

“Not only is the salinity too high for a proper brine, the waves can be very strong and there’s a good chance you could lose the entire turkey as this person did.”<\/p>\n

The post was accompanied by a photo of a bird’s carcass — still bafflingly wrapped in its store-bought packaging — and covered with bits of grass and muck.<\/p>\n

Great Salt Lake is one of the largest landlocked bodies of salt water in the world.<\/p>\n

Human activity is putting an enormous stress on the lake, which is a vital tourist draw for the region.<\/p>\n

In 2022, water levels in Great Salt Lake plummeted to their lowest on record due to a combination of overconsumption by the farming and mining sectors, and a two-decade drought.<\/p>\n

The water became so salty that brine shrimp, a major source of income for the local economy, began to die.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Great Salt Lake in Utah is one of the largest bodies of landlocked salt water in the world, but park managers say it is not a good place to brine a turkey<\/p>\n

-Frederic J. BROWN
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