Posted on 11/04/2021 6:25:22 AM PDT by mylife
Yes, mostly, but the statement was “the first thanksgiving”!
And, no one celebrated that regularly, so it really doesn’t count. Lincoln started up what we think of as TG, and apparently tying it to the MA Pilgrims.
But, the story of the US is not all wrapped up in New England.
Yes, this is a bogus misleading map.
Some seem too tired and boring, but then you wonder why not everything is stuffing or mashed potatoes.
Others seem so radical we’ve never heard of it even, at all. Even some of the “natives”.
I guess our family was (emphasis, WAS) unusual. Yes we had a great turkey and great stuffing, but ours always (all holidays, actually) had sauerkraut and sausage meatballs, and “German noodles” (nothing but egg noodles with sauteed bread crumbs). And corn pudding. My mother did great corn pudding too.
How many have tried horseradish deviled eggs? Good stuff, though I do realize that horseradish is not just everybody’s favorite.
I like horseradish just fine. I’ve had deviled eggs with paprika, not horseradish. I could see that more like bar/hors d’oeuvre food rather than Thanksgiving food.
Sounds delicious. I would guess that most families probably cook the traditional turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, etc., and then add some family favorites.
Sometimes when you look at history and the culture, you realize some are getting all the credit for things that aren’t really so.
Such is the impression given that Pilgrims were the first whites here, or the first English settlement.
This goes also for the wrong impressions about slavery in the “north” vs. “south”, and that rebels in the Revolution all were taking potshots from trees in guerilla fashion.
It just ain’t so, but it’s been promulgated falsely. As a student and as a regular citizen seeing TV and movies, that’s the impression. Just as we accuse media giving some wrong impression to try to convince people that their commie side is ok and right.
Indeed a bogus basis for favorites.
What they should do is get the data from the grocery stores. What stuff disappears from shelves (sans COVID) within the month of November?
NJ stuffed mushrooms????
Our house... Chestnut stuffing,
I think most of us know that St. Augustine and Jamestown and Williamsburg came before the Pilgrims, but the Pilgrims are an important part. Maybe I got more Pilgrim coverage growing up in New England, but the House of Burgesses had as much coverage as the Mayflower Compact.
It is garbage. Fake news
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