Old, bizarre cartoon where a pilgrim turns into a turkey?

–as opposed to all those normal, run-of-the-mill cartoons where pilgrims turn into turkeys, I guess… Any hoo. I have this vanishingly indistinct recollection of an animated color short in an indistinct 1940’s style, sort of a proto-Warner’s maybe, featuring an Ichabod Crane-looking pilgrim character who (naturally, like all pilgrims everywhere) has an insatiable craving for turkey. However, in Serlingesque fashion, this craving somehow results in him being transformed into a turkey himself, and thus in sudden peril of decapitation and gravy.

Sometimes these long-submerged bubbles of luminous marsh gas percolate up from the boggy depths of my mind, and I have no idea whether they are remnants of memory, hypnagogic hallucination, or what. I seem to recall that the pilgrim guy retained a sort of haystack-looking bowl haircut even as a turkey. My flailing attempts to track this cartoon down online, however, turned up only references to the Tex Avery-directed **Jerky Turkey ** (memorably comical, but not the one I’m thinking of), and also a number of sites quoting Homer Simpson’s wish for a turkey sandwich, but with the caveat that he not be turned into a turkey himself in consequence. So I’m thinking that maybe Homer saw this cartoon too. Anybody else have any recollection of it at all?

For some reason I thought this was in an issue of Cracked Magazine around 1986/7. That’s when I bought it but I’m not sure. I am currently going through issues of the magazine from around then but no luck so far. I’d be very interested to find out what this was.

If it was a cartoon, it sounds like something the Max Fleischer studio would have produced. Either that, or a very early Looney Toon/Merrie Melody.