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 pumpkin lantern was just adapting the legend to the local flora of North America, and then took over the iconography Somehow in the Old World no one thought the legend made turnips this general symbol of the macabre and unsettling
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when I was younger I used to think pumpkin and watermelon were related (not sure why I thought this, maybe cuz they look similar growing) and I found out it came from Africa w/slavery and the light bulb went off for the origins of the racial stereotype
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