Ever think about how the clearest sign that Thanksgiving is a manufactured holiday is that the post-Abe Lincoln "Thanksgiving feast" is this carefully generalized version of American cuisine that *contains no seafood* Even though the original one happened in *Massachusetts*
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(On the flipside, most of the "traditional Thanksgiving foods" that involve carbs could not have existed at the "first Thanksgiving" They didn't have the resources to grow wheat for flour, their staple crop was starchy "Indian corn", that's the whole point of the story)
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(Also no cattle for any dairy products No sweet potatoes/yams nor white potatoes, those are a South American crop that hadn't been imported to North America yet Sweet corn is a rare mutation of maize Europeans didn't encounter until the Iroquois sold it to them in the 1770s)
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(And corn as sweet as we're used to today -- what we typically eat as corn on the cob -- is a further mutation, "supersweet corn", that was created using radiation in the 1950s But that's a whole other story)
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and lobsters! lobsters were apparently incredibly plentiful at the time, and considered by the Europeans to be the food of hardship, since they're basically sea bugs
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