turrrkeyyy, turkeeyy?

Okay, so one day the restaurant was basically dead.
One of the waitresses was attempting a crossword puzzle.
Can you even guess how this went? Haha.

The clue was: "Neighbor of Turkey". It was written just like that.
The waitress sat there staring.
I'm like, "what's wrong?"
She said, "I thought it was "chicken" but that's seven letters.
Maybe it's beef!"

Turkey is capitalized. I'm sure it means a country.
Perhaps Iraq.

In the meantime, she called to another waitress, who looked at it and said,
"Oh gee, I don't know.. Chicken has too many letters".