Thanksgiving is a holiday celebrated mostly only in America and Canada. America celebrates Thanksgiving on every fourth Thursday of November and Canada celebrates Thanksgiving every second Monday in October. Thanksgiving is a holiday celebrated by all as almost every work place will be shut down and in America and it is possible that some people will even get Thursday off and the follow Friday, Saturday and Sunday for an extended long weekend. Thanksgiving is also the start of what is called the holidays in which people will start getting prepared for Christmas.
Thanksgiving was brought about to celebrate the pilgrims who landed in Provincetown on the mayflower and then eventually settle in at Plymouth, Massachusetts for a new life. A year after long struggles of starvation and death from not having the proper resources things were starting to get better. The pilgrims have made a bond with the Native Americans who thought them a lot about how to live off the land.Due to the friendship that was bonded and the food that has been harvest and hunted the pilgrims and the Native Americans sat down to a big feast that would soon become known as the holiday that we have been celebrating for over 300 years, Thanksgiving.
The pilgrims enjoyed many different foods and in an amount of food that was usually not available to them through the first very hard months of their finding of their new home. But through the warm months of the summer the pilgrims managed to stock pile enough food to get them through the winter that they decided to have the big Thanksgiving feast. When the Native Americans came together they combined their foods and had a feast that included at least five deer, bass, cod, turkey, water fowl, harvest that consisted of wheat, corn, barely, some peas and probably more. With plenty of food left over the men could now use their energy in strengthen their homes into better shelters to make it to the next winter.
The first Thanksgiving was really a celebration of knowing that the pilgrims were going to make it through the winter and many more. This was surely the stepping stone to the organization of the government the Mayflower compact and the stepping stone to organization in the colony. Soon after as the colony grew they would be able to start sending food back to England and start trading goods for other resources that the colony would need.
To America and Canada Thanksgiving means a day of feast to remember when and how are countries were founded. On Thanksgiving the traditional food that is served is of course Turkey, usually followed up with mash potatoes, corn, stuffing, and many other side dishes. For dessert; there are many different deserts that people will severe but the most famous desert for thanksgiving is probably pumpkin pie. Usually earlier in the day there will be a parade that will show Santa Clause off for the first time to get kids excited for Christmas and later in the day after all the food is eaten their will usually be some traditional football games on for the guys to watch.
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