Bruce’s Blog: Fun Facts about Thanksgiving
Nov 16, 2015
You probably didn’t know this but in addition to yanking on anything that resembles a string and sleeping 90 percent of the time, cats love trivia.
Take Thanksgiving, for instance. The first official Thanksgiving dinner was hosted by the Pilgrims and included 90 Native Americans as guests. And you thought hosting your eight cousins from Modesto was a big chore!
Another thing I dug up that I can share—you really don’t need to see what we cats dig up sometimes—is that the first Thanksgiving dinner in 1621 with the Wampanoag Indians probably didn’t include turkey! According to a bunch of websites I look at when the humans here go home at night, the people ate birds and deer and even veggies—but no turkeys, not even butterballs or the pressed kind.
Here’s another oddity: After dinner, the guys didn’t stroll into the TV room to watch football and leave the women to do the dishes. How do I know that? (1) There were no TV rooms, much less TVs. (2) Football hadn’t been invented. (3) There probably weren’t any dishes.
I’m guessing they all ate off palm fronds or something. Except there probably weren’t any palm trees, either. I’m just full of surprises, aren’t I? Here are some other ones, from the kids here at Graphics and More, to make your T-Day great:
Well, I wish you a great Thanksgiving. Invite over a few fronds!
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