Thanksgiving Fun Facts 2019
What's your Thanksgiving Day IQ? How much do you know about our Thanksgiving celebration history? Or about how we celebrate Thanksgiving today? Did you know....that the menu for the very first Thanksgiving in 1621 did not include turkey or forks (just spoons and knives) and that the celebration lasted for three days? 398 years later in 2019, Americans will consume some 46 million turkeys on Thanksgiving Day. I suspect that in 2019 many households will finish their Thankgiving holiday the same day and just in time to start early shopping for Black Friday! No more three day celebrations! And I doubt there will be many tables set for Thanksgiving dinner without forks this Thursday!
MORE FACTS ABOUT THANKSGIVING DAY HISTORY:
- Thanksgiving didn't become a national holiday until over 200 years after the first celebration in 1621.
- Benjamin Franklin wanted the turkey to be the national bird, not the eagle.
- Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin's first meal in space after walking on the moon was foil packets with roasted turkey.
- The heaviest turkey on record, according to the Guinness Book of Records, weighed 86 pounds.
- California consumes the most turkeys in the U.S. on Thanksgiving Day.
- The average Thanksgiving Day turkey weighs 15 pounds.
- 88% of turkeys sold throughout the year are sold at Thanksgiving.
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For some unknow reason, National Turkey Lover's Month is celebrated in June and not in November when we consume the most turkeys.
- Campbell's Soup created green bean casserole for an annual cookbook 50 years ago. It now sells $20 million worth of cream of mushroom soup.
- The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade began in 1924 with 400 employees marching from Convent Ave to 145th street in New York City. This first parade featured only live animals from the Central Park Zoo and none of the balloons we see today.
- The first presidential turkey pardon ceremony started with President Truman in 1947.
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