TURKEY TIME
This is the red dangly thing on a turkey’s neck.
What is a wattle?
This classic orange pie is often spiced with cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves.
What is pumpkin pie?
This creamy mashed side dish is a Thanksgiving staple, often topped with gravy.
What is mashed potatoes?
This long-running NYC parade with giant balloons and floats is televised every Thanksgiving morning.
What is the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade?
This “spice” shows up in every latte, cookie, and candle, making people either obsessed or slightly nauseated.
What is pumpkin spice?
These are the names for a female turkey and a male turkey.
What is Hen & Tom.
This Southern favorite pie is made with a mixture of corn syrup, eggs, and sugar.
What is pecan pie?
This green vegetable, often served roasted or in a casserole, belongs to the Brassica family.
What is Brussels sprouts?
This holiday special features Snoopy preparing a Thanksgiving feast for Woodstock and friends.
What is A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving?
This popular Christmas song was originally written as a Thanksgiving song.
What is Jingle Bells?
This U.S. state produces the most turkeys annually.
What is Minnesota?
This tart, seasonal pie uses bright red berries and is sometimes paired with apples for Thanksgiving.
What is cranberry pie?
The recommended internal temperature to safely cook a whole turkey.
What is 165°F?
In the TV show Friends, this character gets a turkey stuck on their head.
Who is Joey? (or Monica, in the second Thanksgiving episode)
This was the first state to officially adopt Thanksgiving.
What is New York?
A wild turkey can fly for this many miles without landing.
What is 1–2 miles?
This traditional British/Colonial pie is made with dried fruits, spices, and sometimes suet.
What is mincemeat pie?
This pie or tart ingredient, often brown, adds sweetness and moisture, and is made by boiling down cane or beet juice.
What is molasses?
In Friends, Rachel accidentally puts this in her English trifle, mixing dessert with savory ingredients.
What is beef?
This country holds the world record for turkey consumption.
What is Israel?
Male turkeys perform this unique behavior involving puffing up, dragging wings, and fanning feathers.
What is strutting?
This pie has a filling made from a mixture of cornstarch, sugar, and eggs, baked in a single crust, often called a “classic Southern custard pie.”
What is chess pie?
This chemical reaction, responsible for browning and flavor development in roasted turkey skin, occurs between amino acids and reducing sugars.
What is the Maillard reaction?
In this 2013 animated film, two turkeys travel back in time to try to remove turkey from the first Thanksgiving menu.
What is Free Birds?
Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade began this year.