Fun Facts About Thanksgiving
Fun Facts About Thanksgiving
With Thanksgiving Day less than one week away, here are some
fun fact
about the Thanksgiving holiday you might want to bring up
at the dinner table and impress family and friends!
Did you know....for example,
that the menu for the very first Thanksgiving in 1621 did not include
turkey and no forks(just spoons and knives)
and that the celebration lasted for three days? Yet 400 years later
in 2021,
Americans will consume some 46 million turkeys on Thanksgiving Day.
And I suspect that in 2021 many households will finish their
Thanksgiving holiday the same day and
just in time to start early shopping for Black Friday! No more three day
celebrations!
And I doubt there will be many tables set for Thanksgiving dinner
without forks this coming week!
Meantime, here are a few more fun facts about our Thanksgiving Day holiday :
- Thanksgiving didn't become a national holiday until over 200 years
- after the first celebration in 1621.
- Benjamin Franklin wanted the turkey to be the national bird, not
- the eagle.
- Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin's first meal in space after walking on the
- moon was foil packets with roasted turkey.
- The heaviest turkey on record, according to the Guinness Book of
- Records, weighed 86 pounds.
- California consumes the most turkeys in the U.S. on
- Thanksgiving Day.
- The average Thanksgiving Day turkey weighs 15 pounds.
- Campbell's Soup created green bean casserole for an annual
- cookbook 50
- years ago. It now sells $20 million worth of cream of mushroom soup.
- The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade began in 1924 with 400
- employees
- marching from Convent Ave to 145th street in New York City.
- This first parade
- featured only live animals from the Central Park Zoo and none
- of the balloons we see today.
- The first presidential turkey pardon ceremony started with
- President Truman in 1947.
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