Thanksgiving Day in the USA - was there some Polish on the table?

Thanksgiving Day in the USA - was there some Polish on the table?

there shouldn't be.

But when the Europeans arrived in the US, who knows what kind of food they made?

But why was it turkey, stuffing, sweet potatoes, cranberries, mashed potatoes, and pumpkin pie that we still eat today? According to Andrew F. Smith, author of Eating History: 30 Turning Points in the Making of American Cuisine, because they're cheap. (Well, at least the traditional meal is thoroughly American in that sense. Americans spend less disposable income than any other nation on food, and not just on Thanksgiving.) Smith says, "While many other main dishes had been tried, it was turkey that thrived, mainly because it was less expensive than the alternatives.... The traditional side dishes -- stuffing, gravy, sweet potatoes, succotash, corn bread, cranberries, and pies -- were inexpensive as well, so that Thanksgiving dinner was affordable to all but the poorest Americans."

Probably anything they could get.

Hence the "thanks" to them that the settlers didn't starve. That's the "classic" story anyway. Probably bull$hit like nearly everything else in this life.

As some of you know, she is Filipina but what you don't know is that she loves Polish food (and so do her relatives)!