Talk:Thanksgiving dinner

message: The footnotes need a cite to "-- Plymouth Colony leader Edward Winslow, 1621", or at least a mention of this letter as the source of many of the features of the traditional celebration. (Since it does cite Bradford, who is quoted on only one item.)
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Is this the discussion section? customary to bring gifts or other form of reciprocity?
Pueywei 03:11, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That varies greatly from place to place and culture to culture. --Carnildo 10:19, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Notes

message: Is this the discussion section? customary to bring gifts or other form of reciprocity?
Pueywei 03:11, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That varies greatly from place to place and culture to culture. --Carnildo 10:19, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: ====

message: *Merge this with the main Thanksgiving article. Neither is particularly long and it seems absurd to treat the dinner separately from the holiday itself. 
*Citations. I removed a few things that were just incorrect in my experience, like alcoholic beverages not being a traditional part of Thanksgiving. Also, if you're going to assert that it is almost universally frowned upon for those under twenty one to drink at Thanksgiving in the US, you need to find some statistic to back it up. In my experience Thanksgiving is one of the few days of the year where families that normally discourage such things are generally okay with their older teenagers drinking beer or wine.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.20.24.121 (talk) 16:33, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Things to do.  

message: I've noticed an edit storm of adding and removing ham. What's the issue?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Safety Cap (talk • contribs) 21:45, 24 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ham wars 

message: I removed a poorly-sourced paragraph discussing what was served at the first thanksgiving.  In reality, there is considerable debate and competing claims about when and where the celebration was first held - see the citations at Thanksgiving. Notably, most of the well-attested claims predate the 1621 one used here (which is actually one of the most weakly-attested, made worse by the fact that there are clear references to the holiday that predate it.) Possibly the paragraph could be replaced, but it would have to basically be written from scratch given how dubious the previous one was. --Aquillion (talk) 13:17, 26 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  First Thanksgiving 

message: The article has been completely reviewed and citations added throughout.  The early section on the Pilgrims and what could be described as the "myth" of the Pilgrims' first Thanksgiving dinner is limited intentionally to a discussion of Thanksgiving food, not to when or where a "first Thanksgiving" occurred. Further improvement is welcome; the article could use good-quality photographs of mashed potatoes, southern cornbread dressing, yam or sweet potato dishes, and regional specialties.  The sections on vegan and vegetarian options could be expanded.   iMary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 21:54, 19 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Complete rewrite and sourcing done