Unlike fine wines, turkeys do not get better with age.

That's the obvious truth according to Carol Miller, Turkey Talk-Line supervisor for Butterball.

The turkey producer turns 50 this year, and Miller says while a 50-year-old frozen turkey would be safe to eat because harmful bacteria doesn't grow in the cold, it wouldn't be very tasty.

In fact, the carcass would be freeze-dried and tasteless and no amount of basting would help it.

Miller says Butterball did not save its first frozen turkey and preserve it under glass, but she did take a call a few years ago from a father and son who cleaned out their deep freezer and found a turkey from 1969.

Miller says the dad wanted to cook it, but she told them it wouldn't be worth eating.

You can call the turkey hotline at 1-800-Butterball from now until Dec. 25.