Just in time for Thanksgiving, Eat a Cranberry Day is celebrated this date each year. It was created in order to promote the health benefits of cranberries. (I have no idea why.)
Cranberries are ingredients in more than 1,000 food and beverage products. One of those beverages is the Cosmopolitan. Enough said.
Remember, it’s about 20 minutes per pound for a frozen turkey and 15 minute for a fresh one.
While you’re sitting around the table with your family this Thanksgiving, opine this – Americans sometimes eat as much as 5,100 today! The average person eats enough each Thanksgiving to gain 1.3 pounds. That would breaks down approximately as:
2 turkey legs (with the skin on)
6 oz. turkey breast (with the skin on)
2 cups mashed potatoes (made with butter and whole milk) plus 1 cup turkey gravy
½ cup cornbread stuffing
2 slices canned cranberry sauce
1 cup candied sweet potatoes with marshmallow
1 cup Brussels sprouts with walnuts
1 cup green bean casserole
2 crescent rolls
1 piece pumpkin pie with 1 cup vanilla ice cream
2 pieces pecan pie each with 2 Tbsp whipped cream
and 1 slice apple pie
Should you run out of safe Thanksgiving dinner conversation: Big Bird from Seasame Street is, of course, covered in feathers. Those feathers are from real life turkey feathers. Each feather is dyed yellow and carefully glued onto the suit.
The American Plume & Fancy Feather company is responsible for making Big Bird’s suit which includes 4,000 turkey feathers. Bonus talking point – Big Bird is 8 feet 2 inches tall.
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