<Li> 2013: Popcorn, a 38 - pound (17 kg) turkey from Badger, Minnesota . Popcorn won an online contest over its identically sized stablemate Caramel, which was also spared . Popcorn died of heatstroke in summer 2014 . Caramel survived much longer; it outlived one of the next year's turkeys and did not die until October 2015, spending most of its two years of life at Morven Park as the companion of a brown heritage turkey named Franklin . </Li> <Li> 2014: Cheese and alternate bird Mac, both of which were 48 - pound (22 kg) turkeys from Fort Recovery, Ohio . Mac died of suspected heatstroke in July 2015; Cheese remains alive as of November 2015, with the surviving Franklin as its companion . Cheese was implied dead some time before June 2017, as the Morven Park Web site mentioned only housing the 2015 turkeys by that time . </Li> <Li> 2015: Abe, a 43 - pound (20 kg) turkey again presented by Foster Farms . The alternate was 42 - pound (19 kg) Honest . Morven Park reported that both were still alive as of November 2016 and were still listed as alive on Morven Park's Web site in November 2017 . </Li> <Li> 2016: Tater and Tot, 40 - pound and 391⁄2 - pound (18 kg respectively) turkeys from Storm Lake, Iowa . Both were reported as still alive and healthy but showing signs of old age as of November 2017 . </Li>

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