Holiday Traditions - Turkey And Thanksgiving Tradition
Turkey and Thanksgiving holiday traditions have close connections. Turkey is the most important item on the menu of the Thanksgiving family dinner party. However, an interesting fact here is that in the history of such celebrations, turkey was not used as main cuisine on the Thanksgiving dinner table.
The Earlier Celebrations Without Turkey
Very few people know that it was the Wampanoag and Plymouth colonists Indians who started celebrating the Thanksgiving Day in the year 1621. The method of celebration was all the same as people celebrate it now, but the only difference was that turkey was absent from the Thanksgiving dinner table. Historians are not very sure but they assume that food items like cod, eel, seal, duck, goose, lobster etc. made the menu for the Thanksgiving dinner party then. However, historians are very much sure for at least two food items that were in the menu - wild fowl and deer meat. What is more, historians are also sure that turkey played no role in the Thanksgiving holiday traditions then.
The Legend Behind The Inclusion Of Turkey In Thanksgiving Celebrations
There are many legends that tell us how turkey became the main mascot of modern-day Thanksgiving celebrations. As per the most popular and allegedly authentic story, in the sixteenth century once Queen Elizabeth of the Great Britain was eating a roasted goose on the harvest festival. You should note here that the harvest festivals or the autumn festivals are the earlier forms of Thanksgiving celebrations. Well, while she was eating the roasted goose on the special family dinner table, she got the news that a Spanish Armada was coming to invade England, but the ship sank in the ocean before it could reach its destination. The queen was very happy at this news and, she ordered for another roasted goose. This way, roasted goose soon became a part of the Thanksgiving holiday traditions. In the long run, when the Pilgrims from England reached the United States of America, they replaced the roasted goose with turkey as the main cuisine for the Thanksgiving celebration because geese were not very easy to find in America. On the other hand, turkey was easily available.
Thus, there is no holy reason behind the use of turkey as the main mascot of modern-day Thanksgiving holiday traditions, but just because they are easily available and people love to eat them, they have made a permanent place in the menu of the Thanksgiving dinner.
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