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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(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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So really, Ham as the secondary meat for when the family gatherings too big for one meat should be replaced with venison. Actually, I like that. Deer's tasty.
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The primary contribution of the Wampanoag to the "first Thanksgiving" was bringing a bunch of deer they'd hunted
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Yeah, time to add back in the seafood, the venison, and the waterfowl. Ducks and geese, please!
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