Thursday 11/28/24
Happy Thanksgiving!
Celebrate:
Family Health History Day
It's Letter Writing Day
Make Your Own Head Day
National Day of Mourning
National French Toast Day
Red Planet Day
Unthanksgiving Day
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In theaters
It's the second weekend for Wicked that should rack up huge numbers, but the question is who will be #1 as new movie
Moana 2 - reunites Moana and Maui three years later for an expansive new voyage alongside a crew of unlikely seafarers.
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The reason why a grilled cheese and tomato soup go so well together is because it's basically pizza split into two foods.
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A new poll asked people for their favorite Thanksgiving pie . . . and not surprisingly, pumpkin pie was #1 with 29% of the vote.
Apple was second with 20%, followed by pecan (14%), sweet potato (9%), chocolate (9%), and cherry (5%).
Pumpkin was most popular with women . . . and in the West and Midwest. And it's much more popular with older adults, than Gen Z'ers and Millennials.
The difference is so stark that apple pie could be the most popular Thanksgiving pie in the future.
Gen Z'ers and Millennials also don't dig pecan pie. Apple pie is their favorite . . . but they're also more likely to prefer chocolate pie and sweet potato pie.
In a related story Online-Casinos.com looked at favorite sides and pies across the country by state.
For sides, Mashed Potatoes rule in 14 states
Stuffing or dressing in 12
Mac-and Cheese in eight especially in the south, and New York (I've never had mac and cheese for t-giving dinner)
in fourth place is Green bean casserole - PA that's you along with five others.
When it comes to pie..37 states are for Pumpkin Pie.
In the south, there's a sweet tooth as Pecan Pie is #1 in Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Alabama, and Georgia.
Apple reigns in 7, Nebraska, Indiana, Tenessee, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Maine.
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The American Farm Bureau says your Thanksgiving dinner should cost a little less than it did in 2023.
They crunch the numbers each year and look at around a dozen Thanksgiving staples, like turkey, stuffing, and pumpkin pie. They've been doing it for almost 40 years now.
According to the report, a basic Thanksgiving meal for 10 people will cost an average of $58.08, or $5.81 per person. That's down 5% from a year ago.
It's still 19% more than the same meal cost pre-pandemic. But they say if you adjust for inflation, it's actually the second CHEAPEST it's been since they started tracking prices in the mid-1980s. Back then, it cost $2.87 cents a person, but people earned a lot less.
Turkey is the most expensive item on their shopping list again. They say a 16-pounder will cost an average of $25.67 this year.
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White meat or dark? 54% of us prefer white, 31% said dark, and 15% like both equally.
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How much gravy do you use? A poll found 15% of us don't use any . . . 17% drown our food in it . . . and everyone else is somewhere in the middle.
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"The New York Post" has a list of the top Thanksgiving foods that will give you gas. They claim the top four are mac-and-cheese, Brussels sprouts, broccoli casserole, and candied yams.
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This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. The first one, in 1924, happened when store employees marched to Macy's Herald Square dressed in vibrant costumes.
There WERE floats, professional bands, and live animals borrowed from the Central Park Zoo . . . but it was originally Christmas-themed . . . and it was meant to celebrate the expansion of Macy's flagship Manhattan store.
The character balloons debuted three years later, in 1927. The first was . . . Felix the Cat.
This years could be wet, but it's wind that could ground the balloons. It's happened only twice. 1971 and 2019.
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - Even though the first Thanksgiving feast was in 1621 and all 13 colonies celebrated it in 1777, it wasn't made an official national holiday until 1863.
There IS a lesser-known "first Thanksgiving" that happened two years earlier in 1619, by English settlers who'd just landed in Virginia aboard the ship "Margaret."
The settlers documented a day of "thanksgiving" to celebrate their arrival, and vowed to recognize that thanksgiving annually. But a few years later, they were wiped out by Native Americans in the "Indian Massacre of 1622."
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