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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(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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