In 1863, during the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln officially made Thanksgiving a national holiday. Celebrants could be thankful for their food, family and the fact that they hadn’t been killed by gangrene or mortar shells, yet. Lincoln wouldn’t let the Confederacy have Thanksgiving until they stopped being thankful for slaves and, to a lesser degree, corn pone…
The pilgrims were originally going to fast for thanksgiving to show their appreciation to God that a few of them hadn’t starved yet. Irony was still unknown in the colonies at that time…
The first Thanksgiving did not feature turkey meat. Instead there were ducks, geese, eels, pumpkins and corn. Indians brought the food. The pilgrims brought the small pox.
Americans eat nearly fifty million turkeys on Thanksgiving; this turkey is usually washed down with a heated political discussion at the table followed by someone having a stroke.
Eight out of ten people prefer Thanksgiving leftovers to the fresh product, implying that Thanksgiving should be celebrated a day later than it should be celebrated.
In 1939, Franklin Roosevelt moved Thanksgiving Day to the third Thursday in November so the Nazis wouldn’t be able to find it and blow it up.
The first TV dinners were turkey dinners created to try to sell 260 tons of excess turkey. People loved meals and Swanson learned that a meal doesn’t have to taste good to be popular.
Most turkeys that have been pardoned by presidents have ended up right back in prison. Thanks, liberal judges!
Canadians celebrate their Thanksgiving a month and a half before the United States does; so, Canadians can feast together before winter hits and their country becomes completely uninhabitable.
Potatoes and the Promise of More Potatoes 
It’s not really thanksgiving for the turkeys though … except carrots and peas 🦃🦃🦃🦃
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The turkeys are thankful that they didn’t get caught last year…
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That is really pushing the logic up a steep incline 🏔
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It’s what I do, Deb!
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Happy Thanksgiving!! Well not for the turkeys 😊
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It’s okay for the nihilistic turkeys… they were kind of expecting it…
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Oh… and Happy Thanksgiving!
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Haha…”Irony was still unknown in the colonies at that time…”
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Have a happy Thanksgiving, Robyn… to you and your family.
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Thank you so much! I hope you and yours have a happy Thanksgiving as well!
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Irony was still unknown 😀 and then it was lost on the turkeys
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If they cannot take a joke, screw those turkeys!
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Before the roast? or after..
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Maybe during…?
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Here in Sweden we do not celebrate thanksgiving, but we eat turkey. We celebrate Christmas on Christmas Eve with Christmas presents and much Christmas food, with big ham, meatballs and much more. On Christmas day we usually eat turkey.
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Is it mass produced like it is here, John?
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Not so many. We do not eat turkey so much here.
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At first I mis-read “corn pone” as “porn cone,” bit then I realized there’s no such thing….or, if there is, my education is sadly incomplete.
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I’d imagine a porn cone is how a long needle porn tree spreads its seeds…
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Delicious food!
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And, plenty of it!
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