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Thanksgiving Dinner Planning – Tips for a stress-free Thanksgiving
By ChristiIt is already time to start planning for Thanksgiving. Send out your Thanksgiving Day invitations then start thinking about all things turkey, potatoes, pie, family, friends and football. There can be a lot of details to manage. To help limit potential stress, we've put together a time line to help you organize what you'll need ahead of time. Two Weeks Before Thanksgiving: Getting started. Make a guest list and send out invites. Check out our creative Thanksgiving invitations. You can customize them and make them just right for your event. You can even print them at home! Be sure to let your guests know if you would like them to contribute anything to the meal. If you ...
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Thanksgiving Fun Facts
- The first American Thanksgiving was celebrated in 1621, to commemorate the harvest reaped by the Plymouth Colony after a harsh winter. In that year Governor William Bradford proclaimed a day of thanksgiving. The colonists celebrated it as a traditional English harvest feast, to which they invited the local Wampanoag Indians.
- 272 million: The preliminary estimate of turkeys raised in the United States in 2007.
- At one time, the turkey and the bald eagle were each considered as the national symbol of America. Benjamin Franklin was one of those who argued passionately on behalf of the turkey. Franklin felt the turkey, although "vain and silly", was a better choice than the bald eagle, whom he felt was "a coward".
- Age of a turkey is a determining factor in taste. Old, large males are preferable to young toms (males) as tom meat is stringy. The opposite is true for females: old hens are tougher birds.
- Turkeys sometimes spend the night in trees.
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