Troy Bickham

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Today, Explained · Talk turkey to me · 23 Nov 2025 podcast

So you could read a newspaper, say you're in Charleston in 1870, and you have this holiday, Thanksgiving, you're not familiar with it.

So you read in the newspaper and it's sort of, you know, what do I do?

And so there's packed full of recipes from people from New England saying this is how you make stuffing.

And so people start reading about these other kind of common experiences.

The same thing with the Fourth of July, Christmas, everything else.

It's about nationalism.

And it times itself really well because it's also about the same time that we start seeing the industrialization of food production.

And so once that's in, it's kind of over because the companies take over very quickly, the idea of promoting turkeys.

And side dishes really took off during the Great Depression because meat was more expensive, right?

So what do you do?

Well, you know, let's all have pumpkin pie, let's get out potatoes, all the different kinds of casseroles.

All the stuffing becomes, beforehand there was stuffing.

It wasn't unusual to have stuffing.

But it really takes off during the Great Depression because bread's cheap.

And you kind of want to stretch it out as much as possible.

Libby's wants to sell its condensed milk.

And so in the early 20th century, it starts promoting pumpkin pie recipes.

Then it buys a pumpkin pie canning company and then it promotes the pumpkin.

Absolutely.

And then Macy's jumps in with its Thanksgiving Day parade because it's trying to kick off shopping.

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