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Nov 18, 2011 · For many Americans, the Thanksgiving meal includes seasonal dishes such as roast turkey with stuffing, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes and pumpkin pie. The holiday dates back to November 1621 ...
- Turkey. There’s a good chance the Pilgrims and Wampanoag did in fact eat turkey as part of that very first Thanksgiving. Wild turkey was a common food source for people who settled Plymouth.
- Mashed Potatoes. Keep dreaming. At the time the Pilgrims celebrated their first Thanksgiving, most Europeans had never even seen a potato, let alone learned to mash them and drown them in gravy.
- Cranberry Sauce. By fall 1621, the Pilgrims were essentially out of sugar. Translation—no cranberry sauce. Even with sugar, the Pilgrims still wouldn’t have used it to sauce cranberries.
- Corn. It’s very, very likely the Pilgrims and Wampanoag ate corn for the first Thanksgiving—but not the frozen kind that you heat up in the microwave (obviously).
Oct 5, 2020 · Only 5 percent of this food was served at the first Thanksgiving. There are only two surviving documents that reference the original Thanksgiving harvest meal. They describe a feast of freshly killed deer, assorted wildfowl, a bounty of cod and bass, and flint, a native variety of corn harvested by the Native Americans, which was eaten as corn ...
Nov 22, 2016 · Here are five things we know about the first Thanksgiving: 1. More than 100 people attended. The Wampanoag Indians who attended the first Thanksgiving had occupied the land for thousands of years ...
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Nov 19, 2013 · Seafood Thanksgiving Feast. What we do know for sure is that shellfish played a way bigger role in the first Thanksgiving than turkey. Pilgrims relied heavily on fish, thanks to the teachings of Squanto. We know they had cod, bass, and other fish. They may also have had mussels and lobster.
- Shelly Barclay
Nov 23, 2021 · November 23, 2021 5:35 PM EST. I t’s been 400 years since the meal known as the first Thanksgiving took place in Patuxet, the area now known as Plymouth, Massachusetts. Two prominent figures in ...
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Nov 16, 2018 · Did Florida Host the First Thanksgiving? More than 50 years before the Pilgrims landed in Plymouth, Spanish colonists in Florida feasted with Native Americans in what some call the first Thanksgiving.
