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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So now pumpkin only exists in Thanksgiving in the form of pumpkin pie, which, in terms of flour, sugar, butter, and spices, would be way, way, way too expensive for the Pilgrims to have actually made They would've just eaten the roasted pumpkin
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Compare how the actual character of "Jack O' Lantern" -- the damned soul who wanders the Earth on Samhain because Hell spat him out -- was an *Irish* legend, and he was supposed to have his eerie lantern made out of a *turnip*
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