Thanksgiving in the US

We eat and watch

100

The main Thanksgiving dish.

Turkey

200

This is often made of pumpkin, apple or sweet potato for Thanksgiving.

Pie

300

Everyone in the States watches this sport on TV on Thanksgiving.

Football (American)

400

This sauce is added to your Thanksgiving meat.

Cranberry sauce

500

Everyone watches televised broadcast of this event from New York.

Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade

TRADITIONS

100

This is the main event of the Thanksgiving Day.

(Family) dinner

200

Originally, Thanksgiving represented coming together of these two groups of people.

The pilgrims and the Native Americans

300

This is what you do at Thanksgiving in order to try and make your wish come true.

A tradition of splitting a wishbone.

400

This is the main feature of a very famous parade that takes place at Thanksgiving every year.

Giant balloons

500

US President does this to two turkeys every Thanksgiving.

He pardons them.

STATS

100

This is the weekday Thanksgiving usually falls onto.

Thursday

200

This is the second most popular side dish in the US.

Mashed potatoes

300

According to most Americans this is the primary meaning of Thanksgiving.

To be thankful

400

This is the estimated amount of turkeys killed each year for the holiday.

46 million

500

37% Americans expect to have more than this number of participants at their Thanksgiving dinner.

More than 10