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- The 1621 harvest celebration had a menu of venison, corn, shellfish, cornmeal, beans, nuts, dried berries, pumpkin—and, yes, turkey.
www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/how-the-traditional-thanksgiving-feast-has-evolved-over-centuriesHow the traditional Thanksgiving feast has evolved over centuries
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).
Nov 22, 2016 · Here's what we really know about the first Thanksgiving, which took place in Plymouth in 1621 among the Pilgrims and Native Americans. Turkey wasn't the star of the meal Sign Up for Our Ideas...
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Oct 5, 2020 · 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 bread and porridge.
Nov 20, 2023 · By 1789, when George Washington declared a day of national thanksgiving—a one-off, not a recurring holiday—Americans were eating quite a bit of turkey.
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Nov 21, 2011 · Turkey was not the centerpiece of the meal, as it is today, explains Wall. Though it is possible the colonists and American Indians cooked wild turkey, she suspects that goose or duck was the...
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Since the historic meal in 1621, Thanksgiving traditions have changed and evolved with American culture. From turkey and stuffing to potatoes and pies, we know what dishes to expect at our holiday tables today, but you might be surprised to learn what foods the Pilgrims and Wampanoag brought to the table and what didn’t make the cut.
