Comments on: Thanksgiving Myths

By: MrCokcenfield

MrCokcenfield — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 07:13:11 +0000

...Fact : Lobsters are giant insects. Nothing to be mistaken there.

By: Rocky Rook

Rocky Rook — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 03:07:56 +0000

wow. that was a meatless post.

By: 4 Borders Pundit

4 Borders Pundit — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 23:30:10 +0000

@theduckthief:

Newfoundland? Where is that, in what is today Greenland???

By: Persephone

Persephone — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:00:36 +0000

Lobsters are insects, well, anthropods.

By: Scooter

Scooter — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:40:41 +0000

Eating Venison is good for the environment.. Oh and wild Pigs, they are a menace to everyone. In Missouri you don't have to have a hunting license to shoot a wild pig, the conservation society wants them dead on sight.

By: Lloyd

Lloyd — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 22:09:05 +0000

What? No mention of the failed comunal farming that lead to the policy change that allowed the settlers to keep all of their harvest? This was the reason that the first Plymoth colony was able to survive the harsh new climate, why was this overlooked?

By: Johnny Cat

Johnny Cat — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 19:20:30 +0000

mmmm...boiled pumpkin.

By: Eric Drummond Smith

Eric Drummond Smith — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 17:57:04 +0000

And of course there was the Thanksgiving celebration held in Virginia at Berkley Plantation on December 4th in 1619.

By: anonymous commenter

anonymous commenter — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 07:04:30 +0000

No mention that Thanksgiving in Canada is decades older and still celebrated in October?

By: Peeves

Peeves — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 05:48:34 +0000

Probably the one holiday many people are ok with being ambiguous. My family, American Indians, celebrate it as purely a family bonding experience.

However, during these tough times I'm really not looking forward to the statistics of less turkeys being bought and record numbers of people at soup kitchens. Next time you go to the grocery store, please donate a buck or two to the drive they're surely holding!

By: raina_c

raina_c — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 04:34:32 +0000

Very interesting...one thing we workers can be Thankful for is holiday pay : D

By: theduckthief

theduckthief — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 03:06:26 +0000

Actually the first Thanksgiving took place in 1578 in what is today Newfoundland and was celebrated by Martin Frobischer and crew.

By: 4 Borders Pundit

4 Borders Pundit — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 01:23:15 +0000

Miss Curly beat me to it. Indeed, the first Thanksgiving was held in what is today San Elizario, Texas, in 1598. Thanks were given for their crossing the harsh Chihuahuan Desert to reach the "pass," today known as El Paso del Norte, or El Paso for short, with its water supply.

Take that, New England Johnny-Come-Latelys!

By: Roger Hunter

Roger Hunter — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 01:09:32 +0000

One correction. William Bradford wrote that "besides waterfowl there was great store of wild turkeys, of which they took many, besides venison, etc."

By: Him

Him — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 00:11:23 +0000

Wow, they forgot to mention that Thanksgiving was almost canceled.

By: Miss Curly

Miss Curly — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 00:06:24 +0000

Actually, if you were raised in the Southwest as I was, you would know that when Don Juan de Onate arrived at the Pass of the North in April of 1598, he invited the Indians along the Rio Grande river to share a feast.
They dined on roasted birds, ducks, geese, fish and roots. This is really the first "Thanksgiving" but it has long been ingnored by history.
I went to a high school that was on the Don Juan de Onate trail and we all had to study the bloody bast...I mean, fool.
Not a nice guy, really.

By: Ali S.

Ali S. — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 23:59:15 +0000

Deer? Man, so all this time I could've been having stuffed Bambi for dinner!