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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 27 Nov 2020

      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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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 27 Nov 2020

      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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    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 27 Nov 2020

      (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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    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 27 Nov 2020

      (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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    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 27 Nov 2020

      (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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    6. Yermin Mercedes Stan Account‏ @SowaTheArrogant 27 Nov 2020
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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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    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 27 Nov 2020
      Replying to @SowaTheArrogant

      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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    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 27 Nov 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @SowaTheArrogant

      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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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 27 Nov 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @SowaTheArrogant

      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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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 27 Nov 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @SowaTheArrogant

          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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        3. Yermin Mercedes Stan Account‏ @SowaTheArrogant 27 Nov 2020
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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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