And such small portions! Farm Bureau will I want you to know that turkey represents a declining portion of the cost of Thanksgiving dinner because the cost of side dishes is rising faster. This year, a 16-pound frozen turkey makes up just 39 percent of the cost of a Thanksgiving dinner for 10 people, the lowest share since 2000, according to the Farm Bureau. Considering that families are increasingly choosing pork or beef for Thanksgiving dinner, many tables have… No A 16-pound frozen turkey—that percentage is even lower.
Personally, I love turkey year-round, usually on a sandwich with Swiss cheese and, if possible, some chopped liver. I'll be making one this Thanksgiving and I better finish it because I need a dry brine.
Before I go, however, please know that serious historians do not believe the Pilgrims ate turkey on the first Thanksgiving. The menu was venison, waterfowl and most likely eelsThe purpose of the meal was not to affirm multicultural brotherhood, but to the European colonists to cement a military alliance with the Wampanoag tribe against the Wampanoag's traditional enemy, the Naragansett Tribe. In the end the pilgrims started breaking promises to the Wampanoag (big surprise), and the Wampanoag and Naragansett joined forces against them. King Philip, son of Massasoit, the Wampanoag chief who had joined the pilgrims at that first feast, led the combined forces in what became known as King Philip's War. It lasted three years and was extremely bloody. In the end, the Europeans won and King Philip's head was cut off and placed on a pike at Plymouth Plantation. But it's not a good story to tell in the middle of a big dinner.
