感恩节（Thanksgiving Day），西方传统节日，是美国人民独创的一个节日，也是美国人合家欢聚的节日。在风俗习惯上，美国和加拿大基本一致，食俗有：吃烤火鸡、南瓜饼、红莓苔子果酱、甜山芋、玉蜀黍，在远方的人们都会回家与亲人团聚。现在还形成了豁免火鸡、黑色星期五购物等习惯。
Thanksgiving is one of the top holidays in the U. S, known for a trademark feast, full of amazing foods and traditionally headed up by a big turkey.
But when and why did turkeys become the main course on Thanksgiving?
Let's find out on today's episode of Colossal Questions.
There is historical evidence of a feast shared between the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag people in 1621, an event which has come to be known as the first Thanksgiving.
But it wasn't the kind of Thanksgiving feast we might imagine today.
There was no mashed potatoes, stuffing or sweet pies for dessert.
And maybe most shocking of all, there might not have been any turkey, either.
Turkeys were native to the area and a common source of food at the time.
But we know the Wampanoag brought deer and the Pilgrims brought wild fell, which could have been turkey, but may have been duck, goose or swan.
And the poultry options weren't the only thing different about the first Thanksgiving menu.
