I don't consider Thanksgiving a starving myth because it has coalesced in a ritual that celebrates abundance. There's something about a simple dish made with s

I don't consider Thanksgiving a starving myth because it has coalesced in a ritual that celebrates abundance. There's something about a simple dish made with simple cheap ingredients that makes it require no Wikipedia to pass on memory. You know what it is all about immediately. People starved, came up with clever ways to survive, and made those into culture. Poisonous plants that require arduous processing (like cassava or lupin beans), then make into crops, also carry that memory. > And that's before you get to the Great Depression and Dust Bowl era that gave us The Grapes of Wrath, migrant agricultural workers eating boiled weeds or flour mixed with lard, Hoover Stew, etc. That's more likely. I had never heard of these.