Realise that Thanksgiving as we have mythologized it today is entirely synthetic. There are only one or two sentences about it on the Pilgrim history, and those

Realise that Thanksgiving as we have mythologized it today is entirely synthetic. There are only one or two sentences about it on the Pilgrim history, and those are sparse on facts. The traditional menu is one that happened to be served one year at Harvard. For some reason lost to history, it became the de facto traditional menu.