Traditional foods include turkey, stuffing, gravy, sweet potatoes, cornbread, mashed potatoes, and cranberry sauce. Many people serve pie for dessert at the end of the meal.
Popular pie flavors are pumpkin, pecan, sweet potato, and apple. Some families choose to serve vegetarian Thanksgiving dinners instead of a stuffed turkey. They might eat vegetarian turkey, which can be made out of tofu. Others eat squash, salads, or other fruit and vegetable dishes. Some families include breaking the turkey's wishbone as part of their celebration. The wishbone is found attached to the breast meat in the turkey's chest.
After the meat has been removed and the wishbone has had a chance to become dry and brittle, two people each take one end of the bone, make a wish, and pull. Whoever ends up with the larger part of the bone gets their wish! Many families watch the New York City Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, which includes marching bands, floats, songs and performances from Broadway musicals, and giant helium-filled balloons!
People like to watch football games—maybe your family likes to play one outside! Many people trace the origins of the modern Thanksgiving Day to the harvest celebration the Pilgrims held in Plymouth, Massachusetts in However, their first true thanksgiving was in , when they gave thanks for rain that ended a drought.
These early thanksgivings took the form of a special church service, rather than a feast. In the second half of the s, thanksgivings after the harvest became more common and started to become annual events. However, they were celebrated on different days in different communities and in some places there were more than one thanksgiving each year.
George Washington, the first president of the United States, proclaimed the first national Thanksgiving Day in While we diligently research and update our holiday dates, some of the information in the table above may be preliminary. If you find an error, please let us know. It is a busy shopping day and is a holiday in some states.
Most online retailers in the US offer discounted prices on their products and services on Cyber Monday. Robert E. These basic elements can be seen in national holidays in other parts of the world. Some of these holidays are feasts of harvest and thanks completely unrelated to the U. Many are held on or near the fourth Thursday in November, while others are as early as September. Three countries in particular have Thanksgiving celebrations that are nearly identical with the American custom.
Due in part to its proximity, traditions once unique to one country or the other have blended over the centuries. Similarly, because Liberia was founded by freed American slaves, many American traditions, including Thanksgiving, are also celebrated in the West African nation. In the s, an American trader brought the feasting tradition to Norfolk Island, located east of Australia, and the tradition has remained.
The remaining countries on this list have a holiday either celebrating the autumn harvest or a celebration of gratitude, or some combination of the two. In Germany, an autumnal celebration known as Erntedankfest, is intended to celebrate the fruits of the fall harvest.
In China, Japan, South Korea, and Vietnam, the celebration is tied to both giving thanks in some way and celebrating the harvest. The other Thanksgiving Americans are most likely to be familiar with is the Canadian Thanksgiving. Older than the American tradition, the first Canadian Thanksgiving is believed to have been held in The occasion, drawing inspiration from similar European holidays, was a way for early settlers to appreciate the fruits of a successful harvest.
Though the Canadian holiday is older than its American counterpart by more than 40 years, it has actually adopted some traditions from the American holiday. Leading up to and during the Revolutionary War, many American colonists loyal to the British Crown moved to Canada and brought some Thanksgiving traditions with them, including the iconic turkey.
Today, the menu at a Canadian Thanksgiving celebration involves many of the foods Americans are familiar with, including pumpkin pie, stuffing, and sweet potatoes. Unlike in America, however, Canadian Thanksgiving is held on the second Monday in October and is not a public holiday in every province. The Chinese celebrate an annual holiday around the 15th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar.
The celebration, known as the Mid-Autumn Festival, typically falls in late September or early October, when the moon is fullest and brightest. Much like the American Thanksgiving, the festival originated as a holiday to express gratitude for the changing of the seasons and to celebrate the fall harvest. For one, the Chinese holiday is much older. Additionally, rather than Thanksgiving staple pumpkin pie, the favorite Chinese dessert is moon cake, a baked concoction filled with sesame seeds, ground lotus seeds, and duck eggs.
The annual harvest festival in Germany, known as Erntedankfest, is typically held on the first Sunday in October. Not a family oriented holiday, Erntedankfest has less in common with the American tradition than harvest celebrations in may other countries. Celebrations throughout Germany, typically put on by Protestant and Catholic churches alike, are marked by parades, fireworks, music, and dancing. Additionally, while turkey is the favorite fowl among Americans, Germans are more likely to celebrate the harvest with chickens, hens, roosters, or geese.
The origins of Thanksgiving in Grenada, though considerably different from the American holiday's origins, are inextricably tied to the United States. Political turmoil in the island nation of Grenada culminated in a military coup and, ultimately, the execution of popular Prime Minister Maurice Bishop. The ensuing power vacuum left the country in chaos. Concerned about Cuba exerting communist influence on the country and the welfare of some American medical students enrolled at a university on the island, President Ronald Reagan invaded the island on October 25, Though the invasion was met with widespread global criticism, many Grenadians were grateful.
Having learned of the American tradition, Grenadians put together Thanksgiving feasts for American troops across the country. Since the invasion, October 25 has been named Thanksgiving Day on the island. The national holiday of gratitude and remembrance is celebrated primarily in more urban areas across Grenada.
The widely celebrated modern manifestation of the holiday is oriented around giving thanks for workers rights. Labor Thanksgiving Day officially became a holiday in and is celebrated in different ways throughout the country. The city of Nagano hosts an annual labor festival and draws attention to matters relating to human rights and the environment.
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