Tomorrow is a day for celebrating family, friends + community. And to get you in the spirit (and help you be the most in-the-know person at the dinner table), we gathered some facts about this holiday we bet you don’t know.
🦃46 million turkeys are eaten in the U.S. each year on Thanksgiving (and 22 million Christmas).
🎃50 million pumpkin pies are eaten on Thanksgiving.
🔈Female turkeys don’t gobble, but chirp instead.
🎩200 years went by after the first Thanksgiving before it was declared a national holiday by Abraham Lincoln.
🇨🇦Canada also celebrates their own Thanksgiving in October, which was first in 1578 when Martin Frobisher (an explorer from England), found the Northwest Passage to North America.
💰We have Thanksgiving to thank for TV dinners. In 1954, an order mix-up at Swanson caused them to sell 10 million turkey dinners in aluminum trays, complete with cornbread dressing, gravy, peas + sweet potatoes for 98 cents each.
🥔N.C. produces the most sweet potatoes in the U.S. Here’s to local sweet potatoes casseroles.
🇺🇸Thanksgiving is on the fourth Thursday every year. But, in 1939 it was celebrated early because businesses during the Depression Era hoped a longer shopping season would help the economy.
📞Need help cooking tomorrow? Butterball has a Turkey Talk-Line which can help you while cooking. It’s available on the phone, text + Alexa.
If you’re not planning to spend the day in the kitchen, click the button below for the local spots that can take care of everything for you – from savory sides and delicious desserts to the whole dang turkey.
