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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wouldn't there have been some kind of squash or gourd? I think that is indigenous to this continent but I don't remember random shit off the top of my head like you do lol
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Yeah, pumpkins Pumpkins are a big symbol of "Americana" because, well, people used to eat them all the time as a staple Weirdly, Halloween taking over pumpkins as this spooky symbol has obscured this fact when it comes to holiday traditions
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I thought people from long ago had better sweet corn because they could get theirs super fresh and we have supersweet varieties now to counter the longer gap from harvest to eating.
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Wait. Wait. So when I eat corn on the cob - which isn’t often, but when I do - I’m eating something that didn’t exist until someone made MUTANT CORN using RADIATION around the time my dad was born??
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Fuck yeah irradiated corn
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