Thanksgiving Foods
Thanksgiving's most popular dessert
What is pumpkin pie?
In 1620, it took 66 days for this ship to sail across the Atlantic
What is the Mayflower?
Gratitude or blessings given before eating a meal
What is grace/prayers?
The name for a male turkey
What is a tom?
Thanksgiving occurs on this day, week and month every year
What is the fourth Thursday of November?
The name of the red fruit that is often served at Thanksgiving dinner
What are cranberries?
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, this weighed in at 86 lbs.
What is the heaviest turkey on record?
Over 50 million people tune in to watch this Thanksgiving tradition
What is the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade?
Only these types of turkeys can fly
What is a wild turkey?
Meats that were served at the first Thanksgiving celebration in 1621
What is venison, swan, duck or goose?
Cooking a bird within a bird within a bird
What is the turducken?
The first President to unofficially pardon a turkey
Who is John F. Kennedy?
You dry this out and break it with another person
What is the wishbone?
The name for a female turkey
What is a jenny?
Black Friday is the biggest day of the year for this trade profession
What is a plumber?
Dinner rolls that are simply heated in the oven
What are Brown and Serve rolls?
The origins of the Turducken go back to this century.
What is the 18th century?
(Featured in The 1774 book The Art of Cookery)
The two NFL teams that nearly always play on Thanksgiving
Who are the Detroit Lions and the Dallas Cowboys?
This amino acid is commonly blamed for causing sluggishness after Thanksgiving dinner
What is tryptophan?
This 18-minute monologue is performed on many rock and classic rock stations every Thanksgiving
What is Arlo Guthrie’s “Alice’s Restaurant”?
This was created by a Campbell's Soup employee
What is green bean casserole?
The Native American who helped the Pilgrims
Who was Squanto?
This word was officially added to the Merriam-Webster dictionary in 2020 to label a new tradition that happens close to Thanksgiving day.
What is friendsgiving?
The loose skin under a turkey's neck
What is a snood?
The average calories consumed, per person, at Thanksgiving dinner
What is 4,500 calories?