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2. Thanksgiving day
Thanksgiving is a national holiday celebrated on various dates in the United
States, Canada, Grenada, Saint Lucia, and Liberia. For many Americans,
the Thanksgiving meal includes seasonal dishes such as roast turkey with
stuffing, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes and pumpkin pie. The holiday
feast dates to November 1621, when the newly arrived Pilgrims and the
Wampanoag Indians gathered at Plymouth for an autumn harvest
celebration, an event regarded as America’s “first Thanksgiving.”

3. First Meal on Thanksgiving
• Turkey or no turkey, the first Thanksgiving’s attendees almost certainly
got their fill of meat. Winslow wrote that the Wampanoag guests
arrived with an offering of five deer. Culinary historians speculate that
the deer was roasted on a spit over a smoldering fire and that the
colonists might have used some of the venison to whip up a hearty
stew. Fruits indigenous to the region included blueberries, plums,
grapes, gooseberries, raspberries and, of course cranberries, which
Native Americans ate and used as a natural dye. Culinary historians
believe that much of the Thanksgiving meal consisted of seafood,
which is often absent from today’s menus.

4. First Meal on Thanksgiving
• Both the Pilgrims and members of the Wampanoag tribe ate
pumpkins and other squashes indigenous to New England—possibly
even during the harvest festival—but the fledgling colony lacked the
butter and wheat flour necessary for making pie crust. Moreover,
settlers hadn’t yet constructed an oven for baking. According to some
accounts, early English settlers in North America improvised by
hollowing out pumpkins, filling the shells with milk, honey and spices
to make a custard, then roasting the gourds whole in hot ashes.

5. Thanksgiving today
• Thanksgiving is also about food. Thanksgiving dinner
traditionally includes roast turkey, mashed potatoes, cranberry
sauce and, for dessert, apple, pumpkin or pecan pies. Every
family has its own recipes, sometimes secret recipes handed
down through generations. Turkey, a bird native to North
America, is the unofficial mascot of Thanksgiving, with roast
turkey on the menu and turkey decorations on the wall. In the
United States, a tradition of gifting turkeys to the President has
more recently evolved into a humorous turkey ‘pardoning’. At
this light-hearted ceremony, the President issues an official
pardon for one or two turkeys, saving them from being cooked for
supper.

7. FOOTBALL, PARADES AND TRAFFIC JAMS
• Beyond food and gratitude, there are some unexpected sides to the
American and Canadian holiday. One of these is football. This popular sport
is an important part of the holiday, when families gather around to cheer on
local or national teams. American football and Canadian football are both
similar to rugby, played primarily not with the feet but with the hands.
Parades are another common part of the festivities. In the United States, the
Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade takes place in New York City on the
morning of Thanksgiving. It’s one of the world’s largest parades and is
broadcast nationwide. A similar Thanksgiving parade happens in Canada as
part of the Kitchener–Waterloo Oktoberfest, a multi-day autumn festival.
Unfortunately, heavy traffic is also common at Thanksgiving. In both
countries, the week of Thanksgiving is one of the most popular travel times
of the year, as everyone heads home to visit their extended family.

8. 10 Thanksgiving Fun Facts
1.The first Thanksgiving took place in 1621.
2.Every Thanksgiving, the current U.S. president pardons a turkey.
3.Macy's has put on a parade every Thanksgiving since 1924.
4.Thanksgiving is the biggest travel day of the year.
5.The foods eaten for Thanksgiving dinner haven't changed much since 1621.
6.Americans eat over 280 million turkeys every Thanksgiving.
7.Cranberries are native to North America.
8.There is an official Thanksgiving postage stamp.
9.The wishbone tradition is much older than Thanksgiving.
10.Watching football is an integral part of most Thanksgiving celebrations.