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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The historical "first Thanksgiving" was held by desperately poor settlers on the New England coast Yes, the recorded celebration involved them going out and hunting a bunch of wild turkeys (and deer) Still no way they didn't supplement that with a fuckton of mussels and clams
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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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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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