Have a great Thanksgiving!


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• The first Thanksgiving celebration lasted three days • The Pilgrim leader, Governor William Bradford, had organized the first Thanksgiving feast in 1621. He invited the neighboring Wampanoag Indians to the feast • Mashed potatoes, pumpkin pies, popcorn, milk, corn on the cob, and cranberries were not foods present on the first Thanksgiving's feast table • Lobster, rabbit, chicken, fish, squashes, beans, chestnuts, hickory nuts, onions, leeks, dried fruits, maple syrup and honey, radishes, cabbage, carrots, eggs, and goat cheese are thought to have made up the first Thanksgiving feast • Sarah Josepha Hale, an American magazine editor, persuaded Abraham Lincoln to declare Thanksgiving a national holiday. She is also the author of the popular nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb" • The annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade tradition began in the 1920's • In 1939, President Roosevelt proclaimed that Thanksgiving would take place on November 23rd, not November 30th, as a way to spur economic growth and extend the Christmas shopping season • In the US, about 280 million turkeys are sold for the Thanksgiving celebrations • Each year, the average American eats somewhere between 16 - 18 pounds of turkey • Although, Thanksgiving is widely considered an American holiday, it is also celebrated on the second Monday in October in Canada • The heaviest turkey ever raised was 86 pounds, about the size of a large dog • Turkey has more protein than chicken or beef • Turkeys will have 3,500 feathers at maturity • Male turkeys gobble. Hens do not. They make a clucking noise • Commercially raised turkeys cannot fly • Turkeys have heart attacks. The United States Air Force was doing test runs and breaking the sound barrier. Nearby turkeys dropped dead with heart attacks • A 16-week-old turkey is called a fryer. A five to seven month old turkey is called a young roaster

Have a great Thanksgiving!

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