Interesting facts about Thanksgiving

Июль 24, 2022

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Interesting facts about Thanksgiving

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2. The menu of the first Thanksgiving dinner differed greatly from the modern one. Their meals consisted
3. Watching football is the most popular activity on Thanksgiving. The history of this tradition began in
4. . Once the president Truman chose a turkey on Thanksgiving Day and sent it to the
5. . . The Americans call the day after Thanksgiving “Black Friday”. At first it got such
6. 88% of Americans eat turkey on Thanksgiving. The top five most popular ways to serve Thanksgiving
7. Californians are the largest consumers of turkeys in the United States.
8. Every year people in North America can see the most popular parade which takes place on
9. The different nicknames for Thanksgiving Day: "Turkey Day" "T-Day"
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The menu of the first Thanksgiving dinner differed greatly from the

modern one. Their meals consisted of corn, shellfish and deer meat. At those times there were a lot of wild turkeys but nobody cooked them on that day. Deer meat was the most popular food of the holiday.

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Watching football is the most popular activity on Thanksgiving. The

history of this tradition began in 1934. The reason was a great match between two football teams – the Detroit Lions and the Chicago Bears. The second team was the world champion. That game turned out to be really successful. Since that time matches have been held every year on Thanksgiving Day and became very popular.

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Once the president Truman chose a turkey on Thanksgiving Day

and sent it to the farm. In such way he showed that the turkey was gifted a peaceful life. That happened in 1947. Since that time it has become a tradition. Nowadays the President selects two turkeys and Americans vote for their names. After that people can observe a public pardon of the President

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The Americans call the day after Thanksgiving “Black Friday”.

At first it got such name in 1960 in Philadelphia. At that time there were a lot of stores in the city. Many people visited the city for shopping, it was overcrowded. After that the expression originated.

Some time later the meaning of the phrase was changed concerning the profits of stores, which went from the red to the black. Traditionally “Black Friday” is the beginning of the shopping season during holidays.

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