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Earlier Thankgiving lore:
"Early Americans settlers were indifferent farmers...they were fairly lazy in their efforts at both animal husbandry & agriculture, with the grain fields, the meadows, the forests, cattle, etc, treated with equal carelessness" https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/06/how-americans-used-to-eat/371895/
"Early Americans settlers were indifferent farmers...they were fairly lazy in their efforts at both animal husbandry & agriculture, with the grain fields, the meadows, the forests, cattle, etc, treated with equal carelessness" https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/06/how-americans-used-to-eat/371895/
"Experts agree that this early availability data are not adequate for serious use, yet they cite the numbers anyway, because no other data are available. And for the years before 1900, there are no scientific data at all"
"Settlers recorded extraordinary abundance of turkeys, ducks, grouse, pheasant, and more. Migrating birds would darken the skies for days. The tasty Eskimo curlew was apparently so fat that it would burst upon falling to the earth, covering the ground with a... fatty meat paste"
"...a European traveler describing his visit to a Southern plantation noted that the food included beef, veal, mutton, venison, turkeys, and geese, but he does not mention a single vegetable"
"In the woods, there were bears (prized for their fat), raccoons, bobolinks, opossums, hares, and virtual thickets of deer—so much that the colonists didn’t even bother hunting elk, moose, or bison, since hauling and conserving so much meat was considered too great an effort"
"Infants were fed beef even before their teeth had grown in. The English novelist Anthony Trollope reported, during a trip to the United States in 1861, that Americans ate twice as much beef as did Englishmen"
