Thanksgiving is celebrated in November in the U.S. and in October in Canada. Thanksgiving was celebrated in the U.S. on the last Thursday in November until in 1929 with urging from the National Retail Dry Goods Association, President Franklin Roosevelt extended the Christmas shopping season by one week and moved Thanksgiving to the fourth Thursday of November. Here are some fun facts about the holiday and some color inspiration to help get you in the turkeyloving mood.
The modern day holiday is celebrated as an occasion to give thanks for the things we have and the people we share life with. Well, Thanksgiving at the COLOURlovers house was a little smaller last year and I want to take this moment to say that I am thankful to all 38,000 of you who have become members of our growing community. Have a wonderfully color loving holiday.
Scholastic has some great information about the History of the Thanksgiving Feast and how the history has evolved since the 1621 feast the Pilgrims shared with the Wampanoag to celebrate the colony’s first successful harvest.
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The black-feathered (and thin) Wild Turkeys are not same as the white-feathered (very overweight) ones that we serve at Thanksgiving and other holidays. |
 by Liz |
45 million Turkeys are eaten each Thanksgiving. A 15lb. Turkey consists of 70% white meat and 30% dark meat. Turkeys can drown if they look up when it is raining. |
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Instant mashed potatoes were invented by research scientist Edward Asselbergs in 1962… but nothing beats homemade, garlic-butter mashed potatoes… yummm. |
 by Half Chinese |
Twenty percent of cranberries eaten are eaten on Thanksgiving. The cranberry got its name because the pale pink blossoms on the plant resembled a crane’s head and neck. The name craneberry stuck, eventually becoming cranberry. |
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Fifty percent of Americans put the stuffing inside the Turkey. |
 by Esther17 |
There was no milk, cheese, bread, butter or pumpkin pie at the original Thanksgiving Day feast |
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457 million pounds is the record held by Illinois for total U.S. pumpkin production — followed by California, Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania and New York which produced at least 70 million pounds worth. |
And for those of you who just can’t handle a day with the entire family without having a nice cold beer… or two…
Finally, what Thanksgiving would be complete without a little Adam Sandler…
