Why do we eat turkey for Thanksgiving?
Although juicy and tender butterball turkeys are the main cuisine of today's Thanksgiving celebrations, these birds were NOT the most popular centerpieces on the first Thanksgiving tables.
In 1621 when the Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag Indians celebrated the first Thanksgiving, they were gobbling up many more foods than just turkey. Since lobster, goose, duck, seal, eel, and cod were plentiful during this time, these foods were most likely the main courses of this first feast. Deer meat and wild fowl are the only two items that historians know for sure were menu of this autumn celebration.
So how did the turkey become the main mascot of modern-day Thanksgiving if we don't know for certain that turkeys were at this first feast?
One story tells of how Queen Elizabeth of 16th century England was chowing down on roast goose during a harvest festival. When news was delivered to her that the Spanish Armada had sunk on it way to attack her beloved England, the queen was so pleased that she order a second goose to celebrate the great news. Thus, the goose became the favorite bird at harvest time in England. When the Pilgrims arrived in America from England, roasted turkey replaced roasted goose as the main cuisine because wild turkeys were more abundant and easier to find than geese.
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because you eat turkey on thanks giving
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they eat turkey and mushed potates
Simple. A Turkey Costume. Gobble-Gobble!
Stuffing Turkeys are usually full of stuffing
yes because the pilgrams and native Americans meet on thanks giving and decided that turkey they willl serve
Abraham Lincoln, he also pardoned the first turkey that he named Jack
all they do is give god thanks and eat turkey
It was the day the pilgrims went to a country and they were nice so they celebreted and eat turkey and we remember that day as peace and thanks.
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Nothing, Thanks giving is an American holiday and not celebrated in Africa