The turkey is bowled down a smooth surface such as ice or a soap-covered sheet of painters plastic.
[2] The original variant involves turkey bowling in an aisle of a grocery store.
A Derrick Johnson claims to have invented turkey bowling in 1988 when he worked as a grocery clerk at a Newport Beach Lucky's branch while observing a manager slide a frozen turkey across the floor and accidentally topple a soda bottle.
[3] Derrick became a self-appointed commissioner of the "Poultry Bowlers Association" and codified the rules and terminology, such as "the fowl line" (cf.
turkey (bowling)), "the Butterball" (a gutterball) and "the wishbone" (a 7-10 split).