Thanksgiving Food
The four ingredients that are used to make a pie crust
This president refused to celebrate Thanksgiving as a national holiday.
Thomas Jefferson
For Jefferson, supporting Thanksgiving meant supporting state-sponsored religion, and it was his aversion to mixing church and state that earned him a reputation as America's only anti-Thanksgiving president.
This city is home to the oldest Thanksgiving parade.
Philadelphia
The percentage of Americans that actually eat turkey on Thanksgiving.
88%
This state consumes the most turkey every Thanksgiving.
California
The amount of calories in a typical holiday dinner.
Approximately 3,000
President Calvin Coolidge received this animal as a Thanksgiving present.
A raccoon
This city's Thanksgiving Day parade ends with Santa getting a key to the city.
Detroit
The average amount of seeds a pumpkin has.
5,000
This sport uses the term "turkey"
Bowling
This Thanksgiving vegetable was grown in space.
The Potato.
This type of food from the first Thanksgiving is now hardly eaten on Thanksgiving.
Seafood
The first cartoon character to be made into a balloon for the parade.
Felix the Cat
The price of the world's most expensive Thanksgiving dinner.
$181,000
Served at Old Homestead Steakhouse in Manhattan. Designed to serve 12 people, the dinner included two 20-lb. free-range turkeys covered in $2,000 edible gold flakes and seasoned with imported spices from the Middle East that came with a gravy infused with a $3,650 bottle of Louis XIII cognac. The meal also included seafood bread stuffing — made with imported bread and champagne, Alaskan King crab, lobster, Otoro tuna and golden caviar from the Caspian Sea — along with candied sweet potatoes made with imported cinnamon from Sri Lanka and butternut squash with Indian-imported spices and Wagyu beef along with cranberry sauce, veggies and more. And of course, dessert included pumpkin, apple, coconut custard and pecan pies along with a choice of Cristal or Dom Perignon champagne or wine.
This is the average number of questions the Butterball Turkey Talk-Line take from callers during the holiday season.
100,000
The type of pie that most Americans prefer.
Apple Pie
The number of days the first Thanksgiving was held.
3
The job of of the individuals holding and directing the balloons.
Balloon Pilot
Macy's offers training 3 times a year.
The weight of the heaviest turkey, according to the Guinness Book of World Records.
86 pounds
Sold for about $6692 at a charity auction in London. The turkey was named Tyson.
This popular meal trend was inspired by a Thanksgiving Turkey mix-up.
Frozen TV dinners.
In 1953, a Swanson employee accidentally ordered a colossal shipment of Thanksgiving turkeys (260 tons, to be exact). To deal with the excess, salesman Gerry Thomas took inspiration from the prepared foods served on airplanes. He came up with the idea of filling 5,000 aluminum trays with the turkey – along with cornbread dressing, gravy, peas and sweet potatoes to complete the offering. The 98-cent meals were a hit, especially with kids and increasingly busy households. Within a single year, over 10 million were sold and a whole industry was born.
The least favorite side dish for most Americans.
Green Bean Casserole
The location and year of the first Turkey Trot
Buffalo, NY 1896
The character that has appeared the most compared to any other in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
Snoopy
The internal temperature a turkey should be cooked for safe eating.
165 F
Sarah Joseph Hale, who campaigned for Thanksgiving to be a national holiday, also wrote this famous song.
"Mary Had a Little Lamb"