Thanksgiving Food
This orange vegetable becomes a sweet pie.
A pumpkin
The huge shopping day that takes place a day after Thanksgiving
Black Friday
The first Thanksgiving was a celebration of this:
Harvest
A word meaning “a big meal with lots of dishes together.”
A feast
This US city hosts the most famous Thanksgiving parade.
New York
Americans often eat this big bird
A turkey
The traditional sport that is watched after the meal
American Football
The people who already lived in America and helped the settlers.
Native Americans
A verb meaning “to cook something slowly in an oven.”
To roast
This state produces the most cranberries
Massachusetts
These sweet red berries are cooked into a sauce
Cranberries
What people do at the beginning of the meal to show gratitude
Hold hands and give thanks
The group of settlers who celebrated the first Thanksgiving.
The Pilgrims
A name for “the food you prepare to go with the main dish.”
Side dishes
Which unusual item was once part of Thanksgiving airline meals in the 1960s?
a) A tiny can of cranberry juice
b) A slice of cold turkey wrapped in jelly
c) A mini pumpkin pie in a tin
b) A slice of cold turkey wrapped in jelly
A bread-based dish cooked inside or outside the meat
Stuffing
Many families watch this big parade in New York
The Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade
The first Thanksgiving happened in this century
The 17th century
A verb meaning “to cut a cooked turkey into pieces for serving.”
To carve
Thanksgiving was once moved earlier in the month by a US president just to help shops sell more Christmas gifts.
True.
Franklin D. Roosevelt shifted Thanksgiving in 1939 to lengthen the holiday shopping season.
Some regions of the US serve this sweet potato dish topped with toasted marshmallows.
Candied yams
What is the turkey pardon?
The President “saves” a turkey each year in this ceremony.
The big ship that brought the Pilgrims to America
The Mayflower
A verb meaning “to spoon or pour melted butter or cooking juices over a turkey while it roasts, to keep it moist.”
To baste
What traditional Thanksgiving food did astronauts famously describe as “floating away like escape pods” during a zero-gravity meal on the ISS?
Cranberry sauce
(In microgravity it forms little ruby-red blobs that drift off if you do not catch them fast — so astronauts joked they were “tiny escape pods” abandoning the meal.)