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It wasn’t like all the stories made it out to be. Here’s a couple of facts about the real thing;
They didn’t have furniture so there was no sitting around tables.
Forks didn’t exist so they probably ate with their hands using their knives.
Turkeys were thin and gamy but waterfowl were plentiful. So were eels. Lots and lots of eels.
No yams as they hadn’t made their way from Peru yet. Same with potatoes and tomatoes. Lots of turnips and cabbage.
Oh yeah, corn. But not like the kind we know today.
And don’t forget the ones that thought they didn’t have to lift a hand as everything would be given to them.
It’s a long article but tells you lots of things you probably never knew.
And so that’s another thing, I suppose, when we’re imagining them sitting on the ground eating with their hands, let’s imagine them wearing orange and red and yellow, not black. They weren’t wearing buckles because they actually disliked any kind of adornment like that.
The women didn’t wear jewelry of any kind and so forth. So they wouldn’t have had that, but lots of bright colors. In fact, the will for William Bradford, the inventory of his estate shows that he had a red vest and a purple cape, among other things. So these folks would’ve been pretty striking, I think, in their fashion sense if nothing else.
Very much more @ https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/11/22/the-surprising-story-of-the-first-thanksgiving/
