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After handling your uncooked turkey, wash your hands well. There is no need to get all OCD and paranoid about it, but turkey seems more prone to carrying salmonella than chicken nowadays. Easily cured, but unpleasant to experience.

As I understand it, the first Thanksgiving harvest feast in the Plymouth colony in 1621 featured codfish, wild pigeon, grouse, clams, corn or cornmeal pudding, duck, squash or pumpkin, and some venison provided by some Indians. If there was a turkey, it wasn't reported. There might have been one.

Why no Oysters Rockefeller? Who knows? Those Puritan ancestors of mine were half-crazy, you know.

Related, from our pal Gerard: The Mayflower gun

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"Why no Oysters Rockerfeller?"

Maybe they did have 'em, but they wouldn't have called 'em that. American didn't have any of them Rockerfellers until 1723 when the earliest one emigrated from Germany https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rockefeller_Sr..

Now excuse me while I go work on next year's TG menu; I've obviously overlooked some tasty dishes.

#1 Mike Anderson on 2018-11-22 07:18 (Reply)

I was being cute about the oysters.

#1.1 Bird Dog on 2018-11-22 07:26 (Reply)

My wife is nearly phobic about raw poultry residue. Not only does she wash her hands, but she wipes down any surface that comes in contact with raw poultry with a water and bleach solution.

She disinfects with bleach so often that I wonder if there is any microbial activity in our septic tank?

#2 feeblemind on 2018-11-22 08:33 (Reply)

About 20 years ago, on Thanksging, the Boston Globe published a recipe handed down through many generations for cooking a turkey. The original went back to the Mayflower and was done the way the Indians did it. It included stuffing the bird with oysters.

#3 Paul in Boston on 2018-11-22 13:02 (Reply)

Yes, the less-famous Oysters Patuxet.

#3.1 Gene on 2018-11-22 15:26 (Reply)

https://www.washingtonian.com/2015/11/18/the-first-thanksgiving-took-place-in-virginia-not-massachusetts/

#4 Tom H on 2018-11-22 20:35 (Reply)

I had a schoolteacher friend from Williamsburg send this or something like it last year. I remain unconvinced. There are a lot of "ifs" and "maybes" and likelies" in it. All Englishmen were more pious then than we are now, at least visibly, and it would be more like any of them to have days set aside. But that's about as far as it goes.

#4.1 Assistant Village Idiot (Link) on 2018-11-22 21:04 (Reply)

Not only was the first Thanksgiving in the New World not Plymouth (St. Augustine, Fla. has a good claim) but the Pilgrims were communists which is why they starved to death without the aid of the Indians.

#4.2 DRUXURB on 2018-11-23 09:40 (Reply)

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Thursday, November 22. 2018

Wash your hands!