Macy's Parade
The balloons in one Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade use about 400,000 cubic feet of this gas
helium
After a plea from his son, Abe Lincoln was the first to give a presidential pardon to one of these birds
turkey
When Swanson sold its first of these in the early 1950s, the meal consisted of turkey, dressing, peas & sweet potatoes
a TV dinner
Yagli gures, one of the most popular sports in Turkey, is a variety of this one, but with the grapplers covered in oil
wrestling
Made with Thanksgiving leftovers, the Moist Maker was on the episode of this show called "The One with Ross' Sandwich"
FRIENDS
The 1st time this group of toe-tapping women lined up & high kicked in a Macy's Parade was in 1958
Rockettes
A side dish at the first Thanksgiving, today it's sold in buckets at the movies
popcorn
For a moist turkey on Thanksgiving, some swear by doing this, making a salt water solution & submerging the bird in it for 24 hours
Brining
From Turkish for "turning", it's the Middle Eastern version of a gyro or doner, meat shaved from a rotating spit & wrapped in a pita
shawarma
One of the 2 NFL teams that traditionally hold games on Thanksgiving Day
the Detroit Lions or the Dallas Cowboys
The Macy's parade did not take place for three years during this decade--since rubber was in short supply, the balloons were donated to the war effort
1940s
2013 brought the very rare coincidence of Thanksgiving & this religious holiday
Hanukkah
"Joy of Cooking" says a rule of thumb is 1/2 cup of this for every pound of turkey
stuffing
This Turkish city's airport claims the world's biggest terminal building, sprawling over 15.5 million square feet
Istanbul
On Noy. 23, 1939 NBC ushered in Thanksgiving with the first TV broadcast of this
the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
Macy's parade floats must fold up to be just eight feet wide and twelve and a half feet high to fit through this tunnel for the trip from New Jersey to Manhattan
Lincoln Tunnel
The 2021 sale of his painting "Home for Thanksgiving" for the Saturday Evening Post raised funds for a branch of the American Legion ($4.3 million!)
Norman Rockwell
At Thanksgiving dinner, pass the gravy made with these turkey innards including the heart & gizzard
giblets
After defeating Pontus, a kingdom in what's now Turkey, Julius Caesar is said to have uttered "Veni, vidi, vici", meaning this
I came, I saw, I conquered
Steve Martin & John Candy use these title modes of transportation to try to get home for Thanksgiving
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
While Macy's sponsors a parade in N.Y., this now-defunct rival store used to put one on in Philadelphia
Gimbel's
World Book says that the Pilgrims served this snakelike fish at the first Thanksgiving; I'll stick to turkey
eel
This brand known for its holiday feasts bills itself as "America's leading turkey alternative since 1995"
Tofurkey (tofu turkey)
Let's talk Turkey... also known as the Church of the Divine Wisdom, this Istanbul structure dates back to the 6th century
Hagia Sophia
Holly Hunter spent Thanksgiving with her quirky family in this [RomCom] film directed by Jodie Foster
Home for the Holidays