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Seafood: Cod, Eel, Clams, Lobster
Wild Fowl: Wild Turkey, Goose, Duck, Crane, Swan, Partridge, Eagles
Meat: Venison, Seal
Grain: Wheat Flour, Indian Corn
Vegetables: Pumpkin, Peas, Beans, Onions, Lettuce, Radishes, Carrots
Fruit: Plums, Grapes
Nuts: Walnuts, Chestnuts, Acorns
Herbs and Seasonings: Olive Oil, Liverwort, Leeks, Dried Currants, Parsnips

question What Was Actually on the Menu?

What foods topped the table at the first harvest feast? Historians aren't completely certain about the full bounty, but it's safe to say the pilgrims weren't gobbling up pumpkin pie or playing with their mashed potatoes. Following is a list of the foods that were available to the colonists at the time of the 1621 feast.

The only two items that historians know for sure were on the menu are venison and wild fowl, which are mentioned in primary sources. The most detailed description of the "First Thanksgiving" comes from Edward Winslow from A Journal of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, in 1621:

"Our harvest being gotten in, our governor sent four men on fowling, that so we might after a special manner rejoice together after we had gathered the fruit of our labors. They four in one day killed as much fowl as, with a little help beside, served the company almost a week. At which time, among other recreations, we exercised our arms, many of the Indians coming amongst us, and among the rest their greatest king Massasoit, with some ninety men, whom for three days we entertained and feasted, and they went out and killed five deer, which they brought to the plantation and bestowed upon our governor, and upon the captain, and others. And although it be not always so plentiful as it was at this time with us, yet by the goodness of God, we are so far from want that we often wish you partakersof our plenty."

question What do you call it when you drop a turkey from a helicopter? Dead weight.

question What do you call the age of a pilgrim?
Pilgrimage.

question What kind of cars would pilgrims drive today?
Plymouth.

question What kind of tan did pilgrims get at the beach?
Puritan.

question What kind of face does a pilgrim make when he's in pain?
Pil-grimace.

question What's the smallest unit of measurement in the pilgrim cookbook? Pilgram.

question What's a pilgrim's mother called?
Pilgranny.

question In what country is Thanksgiving ironically not celebrated?
Turkey.

question What do you call a pilgrims vocabulary?
Pilgrammar.

question What do Thanksgiving and Halloween have in common?
One has gobblers, the other goblins.

question If you call a large turkey a gobbler what do you call a small one? Goblet.

question What was the turkey suspected of?
Fowl play.

question Hear about the turkey that evaded the Indian?
It had an arrow escape.

question What is Thanksgiving for selfish people called?
Thankstaking.

question What do you call the evil being that comes to get pilgrims?
PilGrim Reaper.

Thanks for sharing this to us, Mommi. 3nodding
I like the joke part. hehehehe...

Here's one of my picks:

What was the turkey suspected of?
Fowl play. rofl

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I don't know. redface I saw that buttermilk pie for $8 at a church bake sale last Sunday. That was the only one and I got it because I've never heard of a buttermilk pie.

It looked delicious. And I was right. It was very delicious. Btw, I googled it and saw Emeril's recipe. It looks exactly like it. So, I guess whoever baked that pie got the recipe from Emeril. blaugh

I love pies but still I'm not interested in baking one. So, to this date, I have never baked a pie. And oh, I learned one lesson, too. I should have watched my mom when she was cooking & baking!! sweatdrop

It's not to late to have Mom give you a pie-baking lesson. She would love it! wink

my turkey day was okay.. dissapoint actually not i was able to enjoy compnay of my family... only my uncle,aunt, sister, brother in law an my only brother... yea its very sad.. but still had fun.