Thanksgiving Traditions
How do both Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and America’s Thanksgiving Parade conclude?
With the arrival of Santa Claus
This type of meat was brought to the first Thanksgiving by Native Americans.
Deer (venison)
In a 2015 Harris Poll, it was found that more Americans prefer this to the actual Thanksgiving meal.
Thanksgiving leftovers
In America, this is an alternative celebration to Thanksgiving with family and is normally celebrated with friends instead.
Friendsgiving
A staple pie featured in Thanksgiving dinners.
Pumpkin pie
The first Thanksgiving lasted this many days.
3
This food was present at the first Thanksgiving but it is rarely eaten at Thanksgiving now.
Seafood
The wobbly red piece of flesh on top of the beak of a turkey is called this.
The Chuseok Harvest Festival, celebrated on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month, emphasizes respect and commemoration of elders and ancestral roots in this country.
Korea
This brand sells jellied cranberry sauce.
Ocean Spray
This year was when the first Thanksgiving celebration was held.
1621
This president was the first to give a turkey a presidential pardon.
Ronald Reagan
In 1924, the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade didn't feature any balloons, but it did feature something even crazier.
Animals from the Central Park Zoo
Homowo, or Festival of the Yams, is an African festival dedicated to the hopefulness that the crops will be plentiful for the coming year and no one will experience famine in this country.
Ghana
This well-known Thanksgiving treat has the most calories out of every other Thanksgiving food.
Pecan pie
Americans eat this many turkeys each Thanksgiving.
46 million
The decade where the green bean casserole, a Thanksgiving staple in many households, was first created.
1950s
This United States President refused to declare Thanksgiving a holiday because he believed so firmly in the separation of church and state.
Thomas Jefferson
A time for giving thanks to nature, known as Pongal, is a four-day long celebration held in mid-January in this country.
(Southern) India
The average amount of calories a person consumes at Thanksgiving.
3,000
Americans eat an estimate of this many pumpkin pies on Thanksgiving.
50 million
This is the century where the first pumpkin pies as we know them were made.
The 17th century (1600s)
The number of people who begin Black Friday shopping on Thanksgiving.
32 million
The Kadazan Festival, celebrated in Malaysia, worships this as an extension of the Creator, and thus, the source of thriving life and existence on Earth.
Rice
The largest serving of macaroni and cheese weighed this many pounds.
2,469 pounds