On Thursday you will join millions of families and gather around a heavily-laden table to celebrate Thanksgiving. The centerpiece of that table, in most cases, will be a large, golden-roasted turkey. Although it takes the skills of a gifted surgeon to dissect most of the big bird, there is one easily accessible portion (and the one that is often grabbed up first): the leg.

Those big, juicy, easy-to-pull-off turkey legs are especially tantalizing to kids. After all, the leg comes with its own handle. The leg doesn't require a knife and fork. And the leg leftovers fit in just one zip-lock bag ready to go for a snack later.

No wonder so many Thanksgiving diners are leg grabbers.

But turkey legs aren't the only legs that attract little children. At our six year old's last soccer game, one o…