{"id":38396,"date":"2024-11-27T12:00:39","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T18:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/?p=38396"},"modified":"2024-11-27T12:00:39","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T18:00:39","slug":"do-you-eat-turkey-on-thanksgiving-so-do-millions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/lifestyle\/family\/do-you-eat-turkey-on-thanksgiving-so-do-millions-20241127","title":{"rendered":"Do You Eat Turkey On Thanksgiving? So Do Millions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Thanksgiving a day away, we take a moment to look at the statistics surrounding this holiday. Whether you are traveling and thinking about the weather or planning a meal, most Americans participate in the holiday.<\/p>\n<h3>Meal<\/h3>\n<p>Over 80% of Americans eat turkey on Thanksgiving. The next choice of meat is ham. But what are the dishes that accompany turkey? In a recent Indiana poll, stuffing was the favorite side dish to turkey. Whether you add celery and onions or use a packaged mix does not matter. Just seeing the stuffing with the bird makes the meal.<\/p>\n<p>After stuffing, the family favorites are mashed potatoes with gravy and green bean casserole. Following those were candied yams and cranberry sauce.<\/p>\n<h3>Pies<\/h3>\n<p>After the meal, one anticipates the desserts. As much promotion is done on<a href=\"https:\/\/grubamericana.com\/2022\/12\/20\/pumpkin-pie-americas-favorite-holiday-pie\/\"> pumpkin pie<\/a>, it is the number one dessert choice. After that, families choose apple and pecan pies\u2014fall harvest favorites. Some go for the more summertime cream pies. Others choose cranberry streusel pie. Add a dollop of whipped cream to any pie, and you are ready to relax from a seasonal movie and think happy family thoughts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether you are traveling and thinking about the weather or planning a meal, most Americans participate in the holiday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[191],"tags":[243,250,220,258,203,205],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38396"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38396"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38398,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38396\/revisions\/38398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}