Thank the Spanish for Thanksgiving

[Ravi]

What does REAL mean? Well, she's not talking turkey and cranberry sauce. She's talking a Spanish explorer who landed here on Sept. 8, 1565, and celebrated a feast of thanksgiving with Timucua Indians. They dined on bean soup.

If you do the math, it is 56 years before the Pilgrims sat down and shared a meal with natives at Plymouth Rock.

Florida teacher chips away at Plymouth Rock Thanksgiving myth - USATODAY.com

 

[blastoff]

Does anyone care?

 

[Ravi]

Does anyone care?

Besides you? I doubt it.

 

[Sunni Man]

Let's see..........bean soup vers turkey with all the trimmings?

I am glad the pilgram's tradition won out!!

 

[Valerie]

 

[blastoff]

Does anyone care?

Besides you? I doubt it.

Si.

 

[Ravi]

Feliz Día de Gracias

 

[PredFan]

What does REAL mean? Well, she's not talking turkey and cranberry sauce. She's talking a Spanish explorer who landed here on Sept. 8, 1565, and celebrated a feast of thanksgiving with Timucua Indians. They dined on bean soup.

If you do the math, it is 56 years before the Pilgrims sat down and shared a meal with natives at Plymouth Rock.

Florida teacher chips away at Plymouth Rock Thanksgiving myth - USATODAY.com

So, through sheer coincidence, some hispanic gave thanks 65 years before the Pilgrims did. So what? The Thanksgiving that we celebrate today started with the Pilgrims.

 

[Valerie]

Feliz Día de Gracias

Cheers, Rav... Have a good one! Voy a brindar por su padre!

 

[Ravi]

Feliz Día de Gracias

Cheers, Rav... Have a good one! Voy a brindar por su padre!

Thanks, Val. You have a good one, too.

 

[Valerie]

 

[Valerie]

I'm pretty sure people have been giving thanks for their blessings even long before the Spanish had bean soup, but the Thanksgiving harvest feast of the Pilgrims became our unique national tradition established during the foundation of our early colonies.

In 1621, the Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag Indians shared an autumn harvest feast that is acknowledged today as one of the first Thanksgiving celebrations in the colonies. For more than two centuries, days of thanksgiving were celebrated by individual colonies and states. It wasn't until 1863, in the midst of the Civil War, that President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national Thanksgiving Day to be held each November.

Thanksgiving — History.com Articles, Video, Pictures and Facts

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Does anyone care?

It's an interesting historical fact I didn't know until she posted it. Why so hostile?

 

[longknife]

Hate ta tell ya but you are NOT picturing the wild turkey first eaten by the Puritans!!!
This is a Rio Grande Valley wild turkey as it has brown plumage to meld in with their habitat.
The eastern wild turkey looks like this:

Oh yeah - the one you show is not "wild" but one that was bred for eating by English farmers in the 17th and 18th centuries. Wild turkeys are skinny and somewhat gamey.

Nice try though.

 

[Valerie]

Hate ta tell ya but you are NOT picturing the wild turkey first eaten by the Puritans!!!
This is a Rio Grande Valley wild turkey as it has brown plumage to meld in with their habitat.
The eastern wild turkey looks like this:

Oh yeah - the one you show is not "wild" but one that was bred for eating by English farmers in the 17th and 18th centuries. Wild turkeys are skinny and somewhat gamey.

Nice try though.

Yeah, but those turkeys did not speak Spanish!

 

[hjmick]

The only person to thank for Thanksgiving is Lincoln...