Traditional Thanksgiving meal includes seasonal dishes such as roast turkey with stuffing, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, gravy, corn and pumpkin pie.
The holiday feast dates back to November 1621, when the newly arrived Pilgrims and the Wampanoag Indians gathered at Plymouth for an autumn harvest celebration, an event regarded as America’s “first Thanksgiving.” But what was really on the menu at the famous banquet, and which of today’s time-honored favorites didn’t earn a place at the table until later in the holiday’s 400-year history. Source
Thanksgiving Day has been an annual holiday in the United States since 1863. Thanksgiving Day parades are held in some cities and towns on or around Thanksgiving Day. The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade has been marching since 1924. Source
Some parades or festivities also mark the opening of the Christmas shopping season. Some people have a four-day weekend so it is a popular time for trips and to visit family and friends. Source
Start your Thanksgiving morning with a sweet roll from Pillsbury. Even big kids gobble them up.
Cinnamon Roll Turkeys
Serves 5
1 can (17.5 oz) Pillsbury™ Grands!™ refrigerated cinnamon rolls with icing
10 slices maple-flavor bacon
5 candy corns
5 red mini candy-coated chocolate candies
10 candy eyeballs
15 mini pretzel sticks, cut in half
Line cookie sheet with cooking parchment paper. Set icing aside. Separate dough into 5 rolls; place about 3 inches apart on cookie sheet. Unroll each roll about 1 inch; tuck dough into roll to create neck of turkey.
Bake at 350 degrees for 20 minutes or until light golden brown. Remove from cookie sheet to cooling rack; cool 5 minutes.
Meanwhile, cook bacon until crisp; drain on paper towel-lined plate. Cut bacon slices in half. Tuck 4 halves of bacon into back of each cinnamon roll so they stick up and look like tail feathers.
Drizzle tops of rolls with icing. Decorate turkeys with candy eyeballs, candy corn and candy-coated chocolate candies. Before serving, place halved pretzel sticks underneath each turkey to resemble turkey’s feet.
* Source: Pillsbury
Traditionally, when we tell the story of “Colonial America,” we are talking about the English colonies along the Eastern seaboard. By the time Englishmen had begun to establish colonies in earnest, there were plenty of French, Spanish, Dutch and even Russian colonial outposts on the American continent.
The story of those 13 colonies (New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia) is an important one. It was those colonies that came together to form the United States. Source
The University of Detroit Stadium hosted the first broadcasted Thanksgiving Day football game in 1934, pitting the Detroit Lions against the Chicago Bears and sparking a new tradition. Source