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BigmanPigman

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Wed Nov 21, 2018, 06:34 PM Nov 2018

Lobster, not pumpkin pie, was at the real first Thanksgiving dinner. [View all]

YUM! Forget bread stuffing, cranberries and potatoes, game birds. Venison and meat pies were the norm as well as clams and mussels, etc.


https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-was-on-the-menu-at-the-first-thanksgiving-511554/

I always taught my First Graders about the real first Thanksgiving and we voted (we voted on everything...partly civics/partly they loved doing it) for our favorite foods. The seafood entree was always a winner. No fruit pies for dessert...not so much.

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