Corrected , was "The First Vegetarian Thanksgiving"
On 9/30/2013 1:06 PM, Beans-- wrote:
> Jay stevens,aka dr. jai etc. is so uninformed on real history as to be
> taken by this nonsense:
>
> "The legend that one hundred odd English men and women who
> landed at Plymouth Harbor feasted on turkey and all the
> trimmings is a myth. When they first arrived, on November
> 11 1620, the settlers had so little food that they raised
> the houses of the Native American inhabitants and made
> off with stores of beans and corn. There was simply no
> animal flesh to be had. It is likely that the first
> Thanksgiving would have had to have been a vegan one,"
>
> Now let us consult what we really know from documents of the time:
>
> 'What Was on the Menu at the First Thanksgiving',
>
> an article in the Smithsonian magazine:
>
> Today, the traditional Thanksgiving dinner includes any number of
> dishes: turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, candied yams, cranberry
> sauce and pumpkin pie. But if one were to create a historically
> accurate feast, consisting of only those foods that historians are
> certain were served at the so-called "first Thanksgiving," there would
> be slimmer pickings. "Wildfowl was there. Corn, in grain form for bread
> or for porridge, was there. Venison was there," says Kathleen Wall.
> "These are absolutes."
>
> Two primary sources--the only surviving documents that reference the
> meal--confirm that these staples were part of the harvest celebration
> shared by the Pilgrims and Wampanoag at Plymouth Colony in 1621. Edward
> Winslow, an English leader who attended, wrote home to a friend:
>
> "Our harvest being gotten in, our governor sent four men on fowling,
> that so 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, with a little help beside, served the company almost a week.
> At which time, amongst other recreations, we exercised our arms, many
> of the Indians coming amongst us, and among the rest 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 to the plantation and bestowed on our governor, and upon
> the captain and others."
Exactly. Jay Stevens, the jyotishithead, is full of shit.
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