Troy Bickham
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first heard Nov 2025
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We're not talking about Santa Claus.
It's Kool-Aid Man, presented by Kraft Foods.
I'm a professor of history and director of the Melbourne Glasscock Center for Humanities Research at Texas A&M University.
No.
So that's the short answer.
The long answer is we don't know, really.
We have two eyewitness accounts describing Thanksgiving, and they were not interested in describing the food.
So the only thing we know for certain that they ate was venison.
So because the Wampanoag brought a number of deer with them.
And that would have been a big deal for them, and it would be worth noting in their diaries, primarily because venison was kind of royal food, or the food of the aristocracy in England.
So to have something like that was a super luxury.
Turkey's cheap is the main reason.
It's a big festival bird.
Pretty much any major feast or festivals, particularly that time of year when they're in abundance, if you're sort of in the forests of Maine, you can see them all over the place.
It would have been something relatively cheap and easy to put on the table.
Every agricultural society has a harvest festival.
It doesn't matter if we're talking about the Inca, the Maya, the ancient Israelites, or whoever.
They all have harvest festivals.
And that harvest festival sort of percolates in different parts of the country.
There are different Thanksgivings on different days as the U.S.
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