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Cacia's Bakery continues tradition of cooking turkeys in brick oven

The pandemic was not enough to stop the family-owned Cacia's Bakery from cooking over 70 turkeys in their massive ovens for customers this year on Thanksgiving day, Nov. 26, 2020. People lined up in the early hours of the morning before returning at noon to pick up their cooked birds. Thanksgiving is one of the busiest days of the year for the bakery, followed by Christmas Eve and New Years eve.

Sam Cacia, owner and operator of Cacia’s Bakery, grabs his long peel he uses to pull turkeys from the back of the brick oven of his bakery in South Philadelphia on Thanksgiving day, Nov. 26, 2020. Despite the pandemic, the family-owned bakery continued the tradition of cooking turkeys that customers dropped off early in the morning to roast in their massive brick oven.
Sam Cacia, owner and operator of Cacia’s Bakery, grabs his long peel he uses to pull turkeys from the back of the brick oven of his bakery in South Philadelphia on Thanksgiving day, Nov. 26, 2020. Despite the pandemic, the family-owned bakery continued the tradition of cooking turkeys that customers dropped off early in the morning to roast in their massive brick oven.Read moreHEATHER KHALIFA / Staff Photographer
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