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Turkey Day Truths
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Instead of just plain mashed potatoes, many Hispanic families love serving this creamy, mashed-and-fried plantain dish alongside dinner.

What is Mofongo or Mangú?

100

This famous department store hosts the massive annual parade in New York City featuring giant floating balloons and Broadway performances.

What is Macy's?

100

This traditional Puerto Rican holiday drink is made with rum, coconut milk, condensed milk, evaporated milk, and warm spices like cinnamon and nutmeg.

What is Coquito?

100

This term describes the universal, irresistible urge to take a long, heavy nap on the couch right after eating a massive holiday meal.

What is a Food Coma?

100

This is the person who is responsible for making the caldero/pot of rice in our family for every event.

Who is Grandma?

200

This essential aromatic seasoning blend—made with onions, garlic, peppers, and cilantro—gives Latin Thanksgiving dishes their signature flavor base.

What is Sofrito?

200

According to home cooks, this is the exact number of days after Thanksgiving that the family officially gets tired of eating leftovers.

What is 3 days (or by Sunday night)?

200

This traditional roasted bird is the undisputed centerpiece of almost every classic Thanksgiving dinner table.

What is the Turkey?

200

This traditional autumn harvest fruit—often harvested in orchards across the country—is the star of seasonal baking long before winter arrives.

What are Apples?

200

This is the simple gesture of holding hands around the dinner table right before the meal begins to share a moment of collective thanks.

What is a Prayer/Blessing?

300

While turkey is great, many families roast one of these large marinated pork options (often slow-roasted in a caja china) as the star of the feast.

What is Lechón or Pernil?

300

This NFL team has played a home game on Thanksgiving Day almost every single year since 1934? (There are 2, name 1).

Who are the Detroit Lions or Dallas Cowboys?

300

This famous 1960s animated television special features the main character trying to put together an unconventional holiday dinner with toast, popcorn, and pretzel sticks.

What is A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving?

300

As the sun sets earlier on Thanksgiving evening, families love gathering outside around this backyard feature to stay warm.

What is a Fire Pit or Bonfire?

300

This is when each relative brings their famous signature dish to share with everyone.

What is a Potluck?

400

Sweet potatoes often get a marshmallow topping, but this rich, creamy Latin American caramel custard or soaked sponge cake are massive holiday favorites (Name one).

What is Flan or Tres leches?

400

Breaking this fork-shaped bone from the turkey with a family member is said to grant the winner's secret wish.

What is the Wishbone?

400

This iconic family-favorite board game about buying, trading, and bankrupting your relatives is a go-to tradition while hanging out in the living room.

What is Monopoly?

400

This is the colorful, crunchy backyard activity that kids (and kids-at-heart) love doing right before heading inside for Thanksgiving dinner.

What is Raking and Jumping into a pile of leaves?

400

This is the motto you tell yourself when you look at a plate piled high with more food and desserts than you planned on eating?

What is La dieta empieza el lunes or Diet starts tomorrow?

500

In many Caribbean households, these savory, seasoned grated root vegetable or green banana dough pockets wrapped in banana leaves are a holiday staple made together as a family.

What are Pasteles?

500

According to the Guinness Book of World Records, this is the massive milestone weight reached by the heaviest turkey ever raised in history.

What is 86 pounds? (will accept answer within 5 lbs: 81-91)

500

This is the ultimate symbol of Thanksgiving abundance, traditionally filled with plastic fruit, gourds, and autumn vegetables as a table centerpiece.

What is a Cornucopia?

500

This classic autumn outdoor activity involves navigating through a massive, winding maze carved out of a tall field of dried stalks.

What is a Corn Maze?

500

This is the quiet, beautiful realization at the end of a long day that the best part of the holiday isn't the food, the games, or the gifts, but simply...

What is Being together/with family?