by Saul Alvarado
Eel, clams, lobster, goose, duck, crane, swan, partridge, and eagles. Yummy or yuck? If you were in the America during 1621, that's what you would have eaten for Thanksgiving. There were no supermarkets back then so they had to eat what they could catch and these animals were all around back then. Nowadays, we can just go to the store and buy a turkey but if you were not a good hunter back then, you didn't eat. Also, dinner was served without forks. Pilgrims ate with finger and knives. Ouch!
Actually, Indians were having Thanksgiving long before any Pilgrims showed up. Thanksgiving was a harvest festival, where they celebrated the harvest of the crops. This was a time when there was lots of food and the Indians were happy that all the crops grew successfully. It just happened that one year the Pilgrims were around and the Indians invited them. So it really is an American tradition since the Indians are the first Americans.
So no turkey with stuffing and no mashed potatoes. What else was missing? Pies. Bread. Cake. The Pilgrims didn't have any sugar so there were no sweets. They ate mostly fatty foods but they weren't worried about heart attacks. They were more worried about dying from the plague or the pox, deadly diseases that killed many of them. The food was spicy though. They added cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, pepper, and dried fruit. They were glad when the harvest festival was around because they could eat all they wanted and still have food left over. Kind of like us.
But if you were kid back then, you wouldn't be eating first. The adults sat down and the children waited on them!
Today, we have it easier. We don't have to go out and catch eels and eagles. Now we can go buy turkey. Turkey, ham, stuffing, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, soft rolls with butter, corn, pumpkin pie, chocolate cream pie, and sparkling cider. Sorry, I gotta go eat!
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14 comments:
Cool, I love this article. i never knew that people actually ate these things for Thanksgiving! That is kind of similar to things we eat now, but not as much the same as different. EEL is really nasty. SAY NO TO THE EEL!!! SAY NO!
DALLAS LINDSEY
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that article was Turkey-licious! it makes me hungry just reading it. Thnaksgiving is one of my favorite holidays inthe year. the article makes you think about how things have changed over the years. i don't know how thoes indians lived without turkey and mashed potatoes. but i guess that thanksgiving isabout togetherness and family. lol yeah right people just want to pig out! j/k.!!! :)
Leiyona Young
Crane...Eel... I first of all don't like Eel, second of all Cranes are nice birds why kill them, but I would have never knew this if it wasn't for this article... cool... Did you know Benjamin Franklin wanted our countrys national bird to be the Turkey!! We would be eatting our national bird!!
~Whitnee Chavez**
I did not know a lot of the stuff about kids. If I had to wait on my parents I would never eat. I think Thanksgiving would not be what it is now without the sweets. What they ate back then was gross. Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday next to Christmas. Great article. Katherine Rathgeber
That was great! You def. brought history and humor into it! I liked it, i didnt know about that it was even safe to eat an eagle...ew! And about the children, that interesting, I would think that they would be all for being together all as a big family like we do it today. I guess not! very well done though!
-Mariah
u did an awesome job
Great job on the article, Saul. It was interesting and well-written.
Mrs. Paulson
why would someone eat eel for thanksgiving? good job on the article though
That was goood how you listed the kinds of things they ate, and then contrasted it in the second paragraph. I also like you added a little humor into the report, so it wasn't all boring and just a list of what was going on back then.
-Daniel P.-
This is cool but you need more details. To make more details research the day of the first thanksgiving and detail it to where someone can really get hooked up to this story. Nice keep doing great stories
Yuck, eel!!! Thats gross why would anyone eat that? The poor children, I would think that people back in those days especially would eat together as a family. Your article is really neat. I like how you mixed humor and facts! It's awesome!
-Sarah Phillips
That was a really good article. youre better at writting than i thought saul. J/k hope to read more great articles.
Leiyona Young
Nice job on this article. some things that I saw were missing were a couple commas out of place or where they needed to be. But there was alot of factual evidence to suuport your readers opinoin. All i would chang was the ending. You kind of just ended it. Think of your last paragraph as the end of a road map and dont stop writing until you gut to your destination.Good job.
That was GREAT!!! but i dont think i would like to eat eel!!
-Silvina Ochoa
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