Thanksgiving: 7 Things You Don’t Know About the Meal

26 Nov Thanksgiving: 7 Things You Don’t Know About the Meal

Halloween Pumpkin, from Huff Post Healthy Living

I am a fairly regular reader of the Huffington Post and all its babies, such as Huff Post Healthy Living. This article about the (upcoming) traditional Thanksgiving food orgy caught my eye. It was not about the rudeness that often gets served up with the cranberries and yams. But it does talk about cranberries. And yams.

Did you know blueberries are cranberries closest relative? And that both fruits are loaded with flavonoids and vitamin C? Or that a yam is not a yam. It’s a, well, read the article, which begins…

When it comes to Thanksgiving, every year is delightfully repetitive: Turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce and pecan pie. Your uncle will make the same insane political assertions; your young cousins will sulk. There will be lipstick all over your cheeks. You’ll vow to do a better job with the gravy — and then it will taste familiarly paste-like, despite your best efforts. We hate to interrupt this idyll of sameness, but we think there are a few things you might not know about your Thanksgiving meal. And we’re here to tell you.