Why eat turkey at Thanksgiving? The origin of eating turkey at Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is coming in 2018. Thanksgiving is a traditional festival in the United States. Now many young people in China will also celebrate the 'foreign festival'. Thanksgiving in the United States is a festival for family reunion in the United States. We eat Thanksgiving dinner together, and Turkey is essential. Do you know why we eat Turkey on Thanksgiving? Let's have a look.
Why eat turkey for Thanksgiving
In the early years, a group of Puritans in Britain became independent Protestants, so they were persecuted and discriminated by the rulers, so they sailed across the ocean and were ready to go into exile in the United States. After drifting in the sea for 65 days, the ship finally reached the east coast of the United States and landed at proveston port, Rhode Island.
At that time, it was a cold winter and Rhode Island had not been developed. Only turkeys and some other wild animals. Under the harsh environment of lack of food and clothing, the local Indians gave them relief and helped them establish their own new homes. In order to thank the Indians who helped and supported them in times of crisis, and also thank God for his' gift 'to them, on the fourth Thursday of November the next year, the fugitive British Puritans made the captured Turkey into delicious food and warmly entertained the Indians for three days.
Since then, this tradition has gradually been followed down. Today, Thanksgiving has evolved into the meaning of "having a grateful heart for everything around us". On this day, people will focus on expressing their gratitude to relatives and friends, lovers and God. Turkey has become a traditional Thanksgiving dish.
Thanksgiving Day is an original American holiday. Its original meaning is to thank God for the good harvest and the help of Indians. In the United States, Thanksgiving has been on the fourth Thursday in November every year since 1941, and there will be two days off from this day.
Thanksgiving dinner, Turkey is the main meal. Others include pumpkin pie, apple pie, mashed potatoes, etc
Thanksgiving turkey story
Although the delicious, juicy, soft and delicious turkey is the main course of today's Thanksgiving celebrations, Turkey is not the most popular representative dish on the first Thanksgiving table of American ancestors in the new world.
At a harvest festival in the 16th century, Queen Elizabeth of England was eating roast goose. Then came the news that the Spanish Armada sank on its way to attack her beloved Britain. The queen was so happy that she asked for another goose to celebrate the success. Therefore, geese have become the favorite birds of the British harvest season. When the pilgrims came to the United States from Britain, roast turkey became the main dish instead of roast goose, because Turkey in North America was more abundant and easier to find than goose.