10 Quick Thanksgiving Facts Your Aunt Won't Overcook
Some moist well cooked meaty facts for you to ponder at the dinner table.
Published 7 years ago in Wow
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In 1953, a Thanksgiving mix-up inspired the first TV dinners. A Swanson employee accidentally ordered 260 tons of Thanksgiving turkeys. To get rid of them all, salesman Gerry Thomas came up with the idea of filling 5,000 aluminum trays with the turkey along with cornbread dressing, gravy, peas, and sweet potatoes. The 98-cents meals were a hit. Within one year, over 10 million were sold.
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President George H.W. Bush pardoned the first turkey in 1989, and it’s a tradition that persists today. The lucky pardoned bird goes on to do some cool things. In 2005 and 2009, the turkeys were sent to Disneyland and Walt Disney World parks to serve as grand marshal in their annual Thanksgiving parades. And from 2010 to 2013, they vacationed at Washington’s Mount Vernon state.
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In 1939, Thanksgiving was celebrated on the third Thursday in November and not the fourth as it is celebrated nowadays. Roosevelt moved it up a week to add seven more shopping days to the holiday season. Americans hated it so it was officially (and legally) switched back to the fourth Thursday in 1942.
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