what did they use the animals food for the first thanksgiving feast?
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I was listening to NPR the other day on this subject.  they said that they probably would have had fish and duck, squash, some kind of stew, but no turkey.
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We find a pond or a lake and feed the ducks. I know it is strange, but after all that turkey, we need to stretch our legs and to feed something other than ourselves.  \n\nWe started this tradition in Tacoma, Washington, my husband and I.  Now we live in North Idaho where we can be found on a late Thanksgiving Day, feeding ducks, geese and the occassional sea gull.
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The Pilgrims left Plymouth, England, on September 6, 1620. Their destination? The New World. Although filled with uncertainty and peril, it offered both civil and religious liberty.\n\nFor over two months, the 102 passengers braved the harsh elements of a vast storm-tossed sea. Finally, with firm purpose and a reliance on Divine Providence, the cry of "Land!" was heard. \nArriving in Massachusetts in late November, the Pilgrims sought a suitable landing place. On December 11, just before disembarking at Plymouth Rock, they signed the "Mayflower Compact" - America's first document of civil government and the first to introduce self-government.\n\n After a prayer service, the Pilgrims began building hasty shelters. However, unprepared for the starvation and sickness of a harsh New England winter, nearly half died before spring. Yet, persevering in prayer, and assisted by helpful Indians, they reaped a bountiful harvest the following summer.\n\nThe grateful Pilgrims then declared a three-day feast, starting on December 13, 1621, to thank God and to celebrate with their Indian friends. While this was not the first Thanksgiving in America (thanksgiving services were held in Virginia as early as 1607), it was America's first Thanksgiving Festival.\n\n Pilgrim Edward Winslow described the Pilgrims' Thanksgiving in these words:\n"Our harvest being gotten in, our Governor sent four men on fowling [bird hunting] so that we might, after a special manner, rejoice together after we had gathered the fruit of our labors. They four in one day killed as much fowl as... served the company almost a week... Many of the Indians [came] amongst us and... their greatest King, Massasoit, with some ninety men, whom for three days we entertained and feasted; and they went out and killed five deer, which they brought... And although it be not always so plentiful as it was at this time with us, yet BY THE GOODNESS OF GOD WE ARE... FAR FROM WANT."\n\n In 1789, following a proclamation issued by President George Washington, America celebrated its first Day of Thanksgiving to God under its new constitution. That same year, the Protestant Episcopal Church, of which President Washington was a member, announced that the first Thursday in November would become its regular day for giving thanks, "unless another day be appointed by the civil authorities." Yet, despite these early national proclamations, official Thanksgiving observances usually occurred only at the State level. \nMuch of the credit for the adoption of a later ANNUAL national Thanksgiving Day may be attributed to Mrs. Sarah Joseph Hale, the editor of Godey's Lady's Book. For thirty years, she promoted the idea of a national Thanksgiving Day, contacting President after President until President Abraham Lincoln responded in 1863 by setting aside the last Thursday of November as a national Day of Thanksgiving. Over the next seventy-five years, Presidents followed Lincoln's precedent, annually declaring a national Thanksgiving Day. Then, in 1941, Congress permanently established the fourth Thursday of each November as a national holiday.\n\n Lincoln's original 1863 Thanksgiving Proclamation came - spiritually speaking - at a pivotal point in his life. During the first week of July of that year, the Battle of Gettysburg occurred, resulting in the loss of some 60,000 American lives. Four months later in November, Lincoln delivered his famous "Gettsysburg Address." It was while Lincoln was walking among the thousands of graves there at Gettysburg that he committed his life to Christ. As he explained to a friend:\n\n\nWhen I left Springfield [to assume the Presidency] I asked the people to pray for me. I was not a Christian. When I buried my son, the severest trial of my life, I was not a Christian. But when I went to Gettysburg and saw the graves of thousands of our soldiers, I then and there consecrated myself to Christ.\n\nAs
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Read here\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving
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Turkey and stuffing, potatoes, gravy, cranberries, bread, green beans, yams, pie.  Also, my mom serves it with champagne!!
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What planet have you been living on?? Everybody knows that the traditional Thanksgiving meal is corned beef and cabbage.\n\nI am sorry, it really is not corned beef and cabbage that is the usual Christmas meal.  For Thanksgiving you cook:\n\nTurkey\nStuffing\nMashed Potatos\nCornbread\nGreen beans\nCranberry sauce\nPumpkin Pie\nMince Pie\n\nEnjoy your meal
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that around early 1600s, in the fall, the pilgrims and natives had the thanksgiving.\n\ntheir menus were :\nWild Deer\nTurkey\nDuck Goose\nRabbit\nClams\nLobster\nSquash\nOnions\nBaked Pumpkin\nDried Berries\nCornbread\nCheese\nPudding (Pumpkin or Cornmeal)\n\nmay that help.-
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Go to the library and take out a children's book on "The First Thanksgiving" between the indians and the pilgrims.\n\nIt's the way they first made friends!!!!   The indians invited the english to their bountiful "harvest".
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They eat tofurky...it's turkey made out of tofu. Seriously. And fruits, vegetables and all that stuff.
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It's about the Pilgrims and Indians celebrating the first harvest.\n\n"According to historical sources, the Pilgrims never held an autumnal Thanksgiving feast. The Pilgrims did have a feast in 1621 near Plymouth, Massachusetts, after their first harvest. This is the feast people often refer to as "The First Thanksgiving." This feast was never repeated, so it can't be called the start of a tradition, nor did the colonists or Pilgrims call it a Thanksgiving Feast. In fact, to these devoutly religious people, a day of thanksgiving was a day of prayer and fasting. \n\nNevertheless, the 1621 feast has become a model for the Thanksgiving celebration in the United States. More than likely, this first harvest feast was eaten outside, based on the fact that the colonists didn't have a building large enough to accommodate all the people who came. Native Americans definitely were among the invited guests, and it's possible, even probable, that turkey (roasted but not stuffed) and pumpkin in some form found their way to the table."
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chicken\nBecause God put them on the ark first.
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I assume you mean a mediaeval chef, not a middle-aged one!  I assume also you mean "food" by "material".  Thick slices of bread were used as plates, called "trenchers".  Honey was used for sweetening, and many spices, which were expensive at the time, were used to flavour food - particularly in the case of meat that had gone off due to no refridgeration.  The rich would eat all types of meat and fish, many of which we would not consider today, like swan or peacock; the poor were left with vegetables.  There are many books you can read to discover the way people cooked and ate in mediaeval times.
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HENS, they first have animals, then came eggs.
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Food in, food out.\n\nI mean, I HOPE that's what they figured out.\n\nUnless they thought it was a "gift from the gods" (some gift, huh?) LOL
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The egg.  Dinosaurs were laying eggs far before chickens had evolved, so the egg had to've come first.  :)
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The first Thanksgiving was the colonists sharing the bounty of their first successful harvest with the native people who helped them to initially survive.\nThe idea now is to be thankful for the good things we enjoy in our lives like family and friends.
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well niether did... the ancient potatoe people came first and decided that they whanted to be a side dish. well they tried being a side dish with pork and fish and beef and watermelon (dont ask) and they decided that they would go so much better with some form of white meat. Well the potatoe people, or p.p. as i like to call them, got all of their most brilliant scientists together to geneticaly enginer a new species. Well they tried all sorts of things and finaly they came up with the idea of a chicken. they named it a chicken because on of the scientists, Who was afriad of almost every thing, first name was chicken. (he wasnt a scaredy cat because the purple water buffalos hadn't roamed acrost the moors of africa long enogh to find the giant mice and create the first cat like creature<he wore a hat> to battle the rodant vermine>) well anyways they didn't know weather to make the chicken first or the egg first. they argued over this for a long time when finaly this man named the colinal who wore this white suit all the time got fed up with the p.p's bickering and made both the chicken and the egg at the same time. Them he rounded up all of the potatoe people and slaugtered them, then he beat them and added butter to their remains. the colianal then became famous with his resteraunt= KFC