Thanksgiving isn’t everyone’s favorite holiday but it is definitely one of my top three, just because of all the food. Thanksgiving has been celebrated ever since 1621 over a three day harvest festival. It is believed that the first Thanksgiving featured duck instead of turkey. Turkey wasn’t a staple on the menu until the early nineteenth century. The early Pilgrims didn’t eat like we do in today’s time, so they would find animals around them and have that for their thanksgiving dinner and bring them to the feast. The Pilgrims brought fowl, perhaps duck or geese, and the Wampanoag Native Americans brought deer. Americans eat 704 million pounds of turkey just for one day a year.

Thanksgiving is a day some people don’t eat for days so they can stuff themselves. It is the one day you can eat and eat and eat and no one can judge you on it since that’s what half of the day is about. On Thanksgiving day alone the average number of calories eaten is 3,000 to 4,500 per person. I always have to take some home with me and warm it up the next day just to have some more to enjoy it again later. 

Thanksgiving is also one of the couple times a year that family gathers around and shares what they’re thankful for then have a big feast together. Most families don’t live very close to each other and everyone has things to do, so when certain holidays come around like thanksgiving, it is a time to spend together and catch up with your family you don’t see a whole lot and enjoy all the food together.

Thanksgiving is one day a year that one family member gets to have a party at their house and invite everyone over for a get together. They have to cook for hours straight and hope other people bring food so they won’t have to cook as much. One downfall about having it at your house is all the cleaning you have to do and putting everything away for the things people don’t take. 

Some of the best things during thanksgiving to eat is definitely a warm and sweet juicy honey ham with a brown sugar glaze drizzled on top of it, with mac and cheese, mashed potatoes and, a glass of sparkling cider, and for dessert a slice of pumpkin pie with whip cream on top.

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!