But that oyster stuffing, now, that is really good. The gourds, the squashes, all of the harvest autumnal kinds of things. And, of course, the turkey. The turkey is not only a New World national bird but can be stuffed just as the goose or the duck or the pig in England. The idea of the Thanksgiving feast is to eat more than you can possibly eat.
All seasonal feasts involve eating and drinking too much.
You have to eat until you are groaning. The whole thing is about stuffing, overeating, abundance, cornucopia. You are sharing this physical state of overeating. That is the common physical experience which brings everybody together on that day. From the Native Americans' point of view, this holiday falls at the end of the corn season.