by Morgan Sanders
Thanksgiving is a time when families come together with the one thing everyone can agree on, food. Every year, Thanksgiving falls on the fourth Thursday of November.
People surround themselves with their loved ones, families and friends. Everyone joins together to finish the food.
The most popular foods now are turkey, mashed potatoes, turkey gravy, stuffing, corn, rolls, cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie, apple pie and pecan pie.
The first Thanksgiving was thought to have lobster, rabbit, chicken, fish, squash, beans, chestnuts, hickory nuts, onions, leeks, dried fruits, maple syrup and honey, radishes, cabbage, carrots, eggs and goat cheese.
Of course, there are those weird foods. Some not so traditional Thanksgiving foods are frog legs, grits, giblet gravy, duck instead of turkey and fried quail.
Americans eat 535 million pounds of turkey each Thanksgiving and 91 percent of people eat turkey that day. The average American eats 4,500 calories on Thanksgiving; that’s more than double the recommended daily! Forty million green bean casseroles are made for this holiday and 50 million pumpkin pies are consumed. Over a year, Americans eat an average of 16 to 18 pounds of turkey.
How much did you eat this Thanksgiving?
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