Talking Turkey
Female turkeys are called hens, and males are called toms in the US or stags in Europe. This is the name for a turkey chick.
What are pults or turkeylings?
During Chuseok, the Korean Thanksgiving/harvest festival, they traditionally enjoy this stuffed food steamed over pine needles.
What are rice cakes (songpyeon)?
This term is used in place of stuffing in many Southern states.
What is dressing?
This president refused to recognize the holiday, because he believed so firmly in the separation of church and state.
Who is Thomas Jefferson? Since Thanksgiving involved prayer and reflection, he thought designating it a national holiday would violate the First Amendment.
According to The American Pie Council, more Americans prefer this pie overall.
What is apple pie? Pumpkin pie comes in second place.
Only this gender of turkey says "gobble, gobble." The others cackle instead.
What are male turkeys
While American Thanksgiving pays homage to a feast between the pilgrims and the Native Americans, the Canadian celebration commemorates this event on the second Monday of October every year.
What is a feast between English explorer Martin Frobisher and his crew after their successful sail from England to the Canadian territory in 1578?
Frito-Lay suggest adding these to your stuffing, according to a recipe on the company's website
What are tortilla chips? (Gluten free)
Presidents originally had to declare Thanksgiving a holiday every year, until this president made it a national holiday during his tenure.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
In A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, Charlie Brown serves this to his friends for dessert, after a dinner of buttered toast, pretzel sticks, popcorn, and jelly beans.
What is an ice cream sundae (vanilla ice cream with whipped cream and a cherry)?
This is where wild turkeys like to sleep at night
What is in a tree? They fly up to roost at dusk, and fly down at dawn to begin their daily rituals.
This city’s Thanksgiving Day Parade ends with Santa Claus getting a key to the city.
What is Detroit?
This kind of bread is most common in Southern stuffing recipes
What is cornbread?
He was the first president on record for unofficially sparing a Turkey in 1963.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
What is eating an entire pie by themselves.
The wobbly red piece of flesh on top of the beak of a turkey
What is a snood?
This "spice island" celebrates the anniversary of the US-led invasion that began on Thanksgiving day in 1983.
What is Grenada?
The Pennsylvania Dutch mix this ingredient with bread crumbs and call it "filling" on their Thanksgiving table.
What are mashed potatoes?
The first turkey to receive an official pardon during this president's term was put into a petting zoo in 1987.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
This pie wins the heavyweight championship, with an 8-inch pie clocking in at 4,000 calories.
What is pecan pie?
In 1953, a Swanson salesman accidentally ordered 260 tons of Thanksgiving turkeys, and this culinary tradition was born.
This Thanksgiving custom was inherited from the British, who got it from the Romans, who adopted it from the Etruscans who believed that birds had oracle powers.
What is saving the wishbone?
Martha Stewart recommends this ingredient for topping off her stuffing recipe that includes prunes, apricots, raisins, cashews and walnuts.
What is bourbon?
The lucky turkeys pardoned in 2005 and 2009 ended up here as grand marshals in their annual Thanksgiving parades.
Where is Disneyworld and/or Disneyland?
Many Puerto Ricans typically finish off their Thanksgiving meal with tembleque, a cinnamon-coated custard made with this tropical fruit.