It's that kind of day. It was started in Plymouth Colony in 1621 after a winter of great suffering and starvation. The Governor of the time declared the feast and it was attended by the Colonial settlers and the Wampanoag tribe of Indians. My text tells me there were 99 Indians there that day. We Americans are very adaptive, yet revere tradition.
Some traditions die.
But what has come and stayed is a big bird. Here is where our American rights to a food tradition actually have some basis in reality. The turkey is native to North America. It was not only found in the Northeast but in the Plains, the Southwest and down in Mexico. By the time the Spaniards arrived the Indians were cooking them in Mole.