Thanksgiving Trivia - Part 2

​Thanksgiving Trivia Part 2 - The Meal
3. How many people attended the first Thanksgiving?
            53            90            105            143
 
4. Which food was NOT on the menu?
 Turkey          Mashed Potatoes          Lobster

​And the answers are . . . ​

3. There were 143 people at the first Thanksgiving.

There were 105 pilgrims on the Mayflower, but only 53 of them made it through that first year – 4 women, 22 men, and 25 children/teenagers. It was a terrible year!

They wouldn’t have made it to that first harvest  without the help of Chief Massasoit. They invited him and 90 Wampanoag Indians to their big feast.
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​ 4. Mashed potatoes weren’t on the menu. Potatoes came from South America. The Spanish conquistadors brought them back to Spain, but they weren’t popular enough in England to have made it back to the colonies.

Wild turkeys were definitely on the menu. So were ducks, geese, and swans.

Can you believe lobsters made it to the feast? The bay was full of them! The Pilgrims also caught mussels, bass, clams, and oysters.

Cranberries were also on the table, the whole berry. But without sugar, there was no sauce.

Their stuffing was a mixture of herbs, onions or nuts. There was no flour to make bread or pie crust.
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They might have made pumpkin custard. Early settlers mixed pumpkin, milk, honey, and spices into an empty pumpkin. They would have roasted it in hot ashes. No ovens yet either!
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Source: 1. History.com | Date Updated: November 25, 2019 - great resource for Thanksgiving food.

2.https://www.traveltrivia.com/answer-where-was-the-first-american-thanksgiving-celebrated/

3. History of the First Thanksgiving (historyofmassachusetts.org) - Great place to find out who was there!

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