Best of: Thanksgiving Dinner

[@jamesvandemark2086]

Delivered by two of our Army cooks with a food trailer pulled by a Jeep to us, along with two bottles of a good German wine! Bavaria, 1975. Delish!

[@meedwards5]

❤

[@VanDaRifleman]

Thanksgiving in Afghanistan: they flew out dozens of turkeys, pies, & all the sides for our little FOB. It was a difficult Thanksgiving in 2005 since four of our Marines lost their lives, but my company was still thankful that we could celebrate it with each other.

[@jeffsmith2022]

Amen, thank you and your soldiers...God Bless...One of my boys was there and Iraq, US Army...

[@raywhitehead730]

Best Thanksgiving dinner. Got a Chiclet, waiting for the ambush, Vietnam. 1970. Its a matter of prospective.

[@TheHistoryGuyChannel]

Thank you for your service.

[@dwhitman3092]

Salute to you, Sir!

[@meedwards5]

❤

[@OGKenG]

Perspective.

[@andycraddock7677]

I too thank you for your service Sir. I hope that the NVA did NOT in fact show up that day to ruin your Thanksgiving. The holiday is what you make of it I suppose. Glad you’re here 54 years later to share your experience with us. Happy Thanksgiving to you and family.

[@moebanshee]

Wishing all a blessed, Happy Thanksgiving

[@fearthehoneybadger]

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.

[@andrewosborn1451]

Thanks for your work. We really appreciate it.

[@dwhitman3092]

Happy Thanksgiving History Guy and buffs. 🦃🍂

[@davidk7324]

The Elixir Sulfanilamide disaster story is heart-rending. A physician wrote a letter about prescribing it to 6 of his patients who suffered horrible deaths shortly thereafter. A mother's letter to President Roosevelt about the death of her daughter is one of the most sadly eloquent writings I've ever read. A brief monograph can be found at the FDA Consumer magazine June 1981 issue.

[@lancerevell5979]

At my state IT department, our building had it's own cafeteria. They put on very nice holiday meals at lunchtime for Thanksgiving and Christmas. We really looked forward to it. 😎👍

[@randelbrooks]

Thank you for putting all these episodes together it was delightful.

[@ronalddevine9587]

Most entertaining and informative. Happy Thanksgiving to all. Gobble, Gobble, and keep switching your forks America 🇺🇸 😊

[@constipatedinsincity4424]

I'm in Holliday Heaven. Said the Jive Turkey Enjoy your feast may you have plenty of things to be Thankful for!

[@margaretbehler4935]

I wish that I had found your channel while my Dad was alive. I bet that we would have watched for hours at a time.

[@rwarren58]

Everyone make sure to make extra stuffing. There’s never enough. 🍗🍗🍗

[@JohnMoses1897]

Don't forget the gravy!

[@OGKenG]

My wife's family doesn't do stuffing. It's Spanish rice.

[@frankdodgee]

My Mom used to make an extra 9x13 pan of stuffing just for me yummy

[@williamj3843]

I really enjoyed the cranberry scare story. I was born Thanksgiving day in 1959 and have a particular love for cranberries so no scare here!

[@1208bug]

I eat my peas with honey, I've done it all my life. It may taste kind of funny but it keeps them on my knife! Thanks Lance.

[@OGKenG]

Mashed potatoes

[@jonmccormick6805]

So that's where my dad got the idea. Neither one of us likes peas anyway.

[@frankdodgee]

😂

[@terrydavis5223]

What the fork!?❤😂 Delightful! Had to watch it twice!

[@richardangelini7296]

Thoroughly enjoyed this episode of THG.

[@robertjensen1438]

I shot my first Thanksgiving turkey this year. Scared the hell out of everyone else in the grocery store. What do sweet potatoes wear to bed? Yammies. I'm not eating leftover Thanksgiving food this year. I'm quitting cold turkey. Happy Thanksgiving.

[@tiffanyganton550]

i wish this didnt make me smile so hard! cheers from San Francisco!

[@frankdodgee]

😂😂😂😂😂❤ much needed levity

[@justme_gb]

Thanks dad!

[@narveenaryaputri9759]

What a delightful, informative report you have here, Lance. And you have the knack of making the past alive vibrantly. I can see the scenes play out in my imagination ! So delightful. The Hindi connection was of peculiar interest for me. I was born and brought up in India.. and speak 'Hindi' fluently .. AND... this is the first time I heard about the intriguing Turkey being called Hindi in Turkey.. It makes total sense, since they had coined the word during their invasion of Bharat, a minor detail stemming from the people who live ' that side' of the Sindh river ! Persians do not have the 's' sound like the ones who speak Devnagari, the language of Bharat. And here is a laugh for you: I tried to make a 'Tandoori' Turkey because the meat is so bland. A total failure. the spices do not match the Turkey meat! Then, tried to form a 'Vegetarian" Turkey, as offensive as that sounds. It was a bigger flop.. looked like a dumpling that flattened out in the oven! But it was such fun and still memorable ! Some things one does only once in one's life ! A Turkey being called Hindi in Turkey ! a Limerick or Haiku waiting to be born. Thank you again for another deliciously delightful mini-documentary. Happy Thanksgiving.

[@TheHistoryGuyChannel]

Happy Thanksgiving!

[@WillBerger-u8i]

Love the way you switch hats places

[@micheledeetlefs6041]

The Mandela effect is easy to explain. People are confusing Stephen Biko - in particular, a movie made about him that was popular in the '80s - with Nelson Mandela.

[@WesleyCooke-ou6hz]

Daffy Duck snitched out Bugs Bunny to Elmer Fudd on Thanksgiving.." It was the YAMS that did it! THE YAMS!"

[@4362mont]

May the Fork be with you.

[@darwindemartelaere3195]

Happy Thanksgiving

[@JamesKubajak-c1i]

I don't celebrate thanksgiving, (I'm thankful for everyday of the year) but I understand the importance of cranberries. I like drinking Ocean Spray's Cranberry Cocktails: like Cran-apple, Cran-grape, Cran-pineapple, etc, etc.😋

[@guineapigzed]

Isn’t a law that you have to participate?

[@JamesKubajak-c1i]

No, there is no law that says I have to participate. But if it does happens, I'm willing to to jail for my beliefs!

[@constipatedinsincity4424]

21:34 Is guess that's why Yankee Doodle called it Macaroni

[@RussMoore-u4z]

I have been watching and listening to you for quite a few years now and I have told you that my former father in law, he has passed but he was also my history teacher and he was the one that really turned me on to history, the day in 1973 that I walked into his class in rural Kentucky he told us to throw the books away, he was going to teach us history. After I married his daughter we would sit around on Sundays and he and I would talk history all day. You have just always reminded me of him so much. I know I'm probably older than you but man, I love your shows or videos or whatever they're called now. This whole comment started because I also watch vintage car shows and it is either your voice or something that sounds like you but no mention of History Guy anywhere. Please let me know what's up with that. Keep it up man, I love your teaching

[@georgeosborn3223]

"There are 7 kinds of forks" then lists 8

[@jonmccormick6805]

He included the Ice Cream Fork, but omitted the very important (at least for a good friend) Carving Fork. Now, if I could find an ice cream fork, I would need to obtain some ice cream.

[@chainweaver3361]

@31:33 the soldier on the left is giving the camera the, (ahem) bird. 🤣 Happy Thanksgiving THG and everyone. Stay safe.

[@DaveDaDeerslayer]

That's a Sailor. We are known to do things like that. CPO USN retired

[@Ray-tu4rw]

A fork is the only thing I'm ambidextrous with.

[@vlmellody51]

I was born in 1959, and every year on Thanksgiving and Christmas, my parents discussed the cranberry scare.

[@JohnMoses1897]

The history of disposable tableware, knives, forks, spoons, plates, bowls, platters, napkins, and accesories, e.g. "tinfoil" plastic wrap, etc. Holidays, picnics, sporting events.

[@steadyashegoes7763]

Hey Lance. Love your content! Could you do a global history of the railroad technologies? That would be awesome.

[@-.Steven]

Happy Thanksgiving to THG and Crew! 🦃 🇺🇸

[@ronstill3868]

We still have them in Florida.

[@lancerevell5979]

Dad and I hunted a turkey for the holiday meal once here in North Florida, in my teens. A few times, we'd hear a turkey flying from a tree behind us as we passed beneath. Finally I heard one take off and spun, putting two shots of my 16 ga. into him. He hit the ground and began to run. Dad put two 12ga. shots into him. We still had to dispatch him with a quick neck twist! Got him home and cleaned him for cooking. Oh, that was a poor scrawny and tough bird! Like eating wang leather, no meat on him. 😮 It seems the mast - natural food that turkeys eat in the forest - had been sparse that year. The poor old Tom was literally starving. We ended up having to cook our backup store-bought turkey, a "Butter Ball". These days, being old and disabled, not up to doing major cooking, I just buy smoked precooked "front drumsticks", the wings! Plenty good enough for me. 😊

[@navret1707]

Cranberry, NJ is the self professed cranberry capital of the U.S.

[@mattblom3990]

I'm a Canadian with my family from Ontario. Cranberries are everywhere and loved. I was legitimately drinking cranberry juice as a coincidence when KZbin suggested your video.

[@JeremiahsFiles]

I remember reading about how the Cratchit family had goose for Christmas dinner & Scrooge brought turkey for them in the end of A Christmas Carol. Back in the 1840s, poor families had goose for Christmas, while wealthy families had turkey. Happy Thanksgiving!

[@Jesiahjesiah]

History Guy did a whole episode on the fork and had us wait until the last minute for that pun.

[@1ACL]

It's nice to pardon the turkey. A small act of kindness is never wasted.

[@JanetGregory-fj1pm]

Good morning 😊❤

[@marklynch8781]

I noticed our local Walmart didn't have the pallet of cranberry sauce this year. I love the stuff.

[@mccallosone4903]

good video, thanks

[@Jim-o1g2j]

Thank you again for all you provide us. Hope for a grand feast, and visit with friends and family.

[@mariebelladonna437]

We still have wild turkeys in Indiana. I live in Southern Indiana, about 30-45 minutes from Louisville, KY, and I sometimes see them by the woods, at the side of the interstate.

[@shawnharrington9548]

You mentioned gravy, how about a history of that?

[@davidcox3076]

That would be a good topic.

[@ricksaint2000]

Thank you History Guy

[@frankdodgee]

Very interesting episode. There was sure a lot of history in this one ☝️

[@brucealanwilson4121]

I read that the Hebrew word for peacock is "tukki", and Columbus' language expert was a "converso"--a Jewish convert. In Castillan Spanish, the word for turkey is "pavo", which is the Latin word for "peacock", which in Castillan is a "favorite reale"---a "royal turkey."

[@HM2SGT]

*Happy HallowThanksMas!* 👻🎃🍗🦃🎅🎄

[@jamesmiddleton8128]

I got baby back ribs and a spiral cut honey ham. Turkey is too much for my little family😮

[@TamagoHead]

Dang It! We were going to skip cranberry this year tomorrow.

[@lilibetp]

I'm allergic to mammalian meat, so I eat a lot more turkey than most people. Ground turkey is a really good replacement for beef for things like tacos, spaghetti sauce, and meatloaf.

[@wetcanoedogs]

my in laws told me that in the 30's-40's the gas pressure in st paul was so used by people cooking the turkey that you had to start early in the morning.the oven flame was so low it took all day to cook.

[@rickde0602]

BUMPOUS HOUNDS! THERE WAS LIKE A MILLION OF 'EM!

[@winterbabydoo9752]

Hey just wanted to let you know after years of watching your channel I did a family tree and found out that William Bradford is my great grandfather, we share the same last name and I followed my family through the US and found out a lot of history... Thanks for the motivation to get interested...

[@dr.jackbright963]

Wisconsin produces 53% of the worlds cranberries

[@marianbrittain4153]

Hahahahaha.. "stolen bynthe Bumpas's dogs." Ode to Jean Shepherd .

[@Saltshaker2016]

To be fair, I’m no bird hunter, but it seems to me that it would have been a lot easier for pilgrims to “catch/kill” turkey than it would have been to “shoot” geese or ducks as turkeys are after all “land chickens.” ? Also, rest assured that wild turkeys in Maine are no currently extinct, in fact, they border on being and all out nuisance. Causing auto accidents and destroying crops and some saw adding in the spread of ticks.

[@1ACL]

I think they eat ticks though? That's what I heard anyway.

[@brucealanwilson4121]

Anent forks., I am left handed & so was my mother. She taught me to use my knife & fork in the Europian manner. When I'm abroad, I'm mistaken for Britis or German.

[@shibolinemress8913]

I remember learning to eat the European way in a high school German class in Ohio. At the time I it felt so weird to eat even fried chicken and pizza with a knife and fork. Nowadays, I've become so used to it that I rarely ever touch my food while eating. "American style" seems to be gaining popularity here in Germany, but I don't care. I'll keep eating the way I now feel most comfortable. I wonder what 14-year-old me from Ohio would think of 61-year-old me now. 😊

[@hbhkennel918]

No corny dad jokes yet? Can someone please yelp me with that?

[@brentgilbert6613]

Why did the chicken cross the road? To show the possum it could be done.

[@robertjensen1438]

Sorry, I was running late feeding the cows.

[@EdwardandJessicaMiller]

The government allows massive amounts of High Fructose Corn Syrup in our food supply, and goes so far to pay corn farmers subsidies to produce it, and then wonders why we have an obesity crisis and is now considering adding Ozempic to Medicaid and Medicare. That’s a corny joke if there ever was.

[@jonmccormick6805]

44:34 ---

[@hambonethegreat9547]

We want a history of the Turducken please 🙏

[@shadowflame2247]

No cranberry sauce? No thanksgivin! Bah! I love cranberry sauce too much to go without it

[@keithweiss7899]

Remember the famous line “As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly” after Arthur Carlson had a bunch of Turkeys dropped from a helicopter. Carlson was technically correct. Wild Turkeys can fly quite well. I run into them in the woods of Licking, Missouri and they fly away. But domestic turkeys are bred for large breast meat and they lost the ability to fly. Domesticated turkeys such as I own are quite mean. They especially enjoy chasing little kids around. Which is one reason why domestic ones are castrated. I’ll let you figure out where a male turkey keeps his testicles. It makes castration interesting!😊

[@debbralehrman5957]

Thanks👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 🍂🍁🍂🦃🍂🍁🍂

[@gmgrammer9851]

🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃

[@thecitizen49]

"Tis the season of enforced cheer and mandatory consumption. I hope you are happy.

[@JacobGrippenMusic]

Neither is true.

[@meedwards5]

I love to try to make others happy. I have secretly given gifts to people I don't know for decades (elderly, singles, people who I know are struggling). It's so rewarding to help lift others up. When I met my husband he was anti-holidays. Then he started joining me in sneakily spreading cheer. Our kids joined in from about the age of 4. We will continue to give to others as much as we can until our final days. Finding your own cheer might just come from sharing joy with others. Perhaps volunteer somewhere meaningful to you❤

[@jonmccormick6805]

My house is infested with critters that neither keep time nor sing. Could they be humbugs?

[@dennisud]

So, the Turkey that we eat at Thanksgiving came from Mexico? I wonder if they will be sent back to Mexico after the 26th of January! 😉

[@robertjensen1438]

No, they come here legally.

[@Ulysses_DM_]

If they were born here, they stay here.

[@theagrome4592]

Sulfanilamide is a safe drug. But that one formulation which used ethylene glycol (antifreeze) wasn’t.

[@johngregg5735]

As Yogi Berra once said, "If you come to a fork in the road, take it." And when he sang to honor the importance of silverware in eating pasta, didn't Bob Dylan remark, "The tines, they are a-changing".?

[@1ACL]

Once I saw a fox kill 3 baby turkeys in 2 seconds flat. It was shockingly fast. Mother turkey was stunned.😢

[@lilibetp]

I've eaten Continental style for years.

[@usg1862]

I have a preserved newspaper from 1937 about a claimed largest Thanksgiving meal served to over 22,000 in Cincinnati. Would you have any desire to have it as a reference to make a video?

[@andylyon3867]

Today the numbers of wild turkeys are very high due to the millions of dollars used to improve habitat for all wild life paid for by hunters who since 1890 have gone out of their way to save dozens of species from extinction. Today in fact with whitetail deer elk and alligator many people today live on wild game as their primary animal protein. Many of these people get the meat from food banks that hunters donate the meat too. If huntering stopped for 2 years all agricultural crops would fail due to game eating them. 60 % of deer need too be harvest each year to maintain a stable population. One turkey can hatch 20 offspring a year.

[@devandestudios128]

Here's a thought, just eat whatever you want, because it literally doesn't matter, we are all going to die of one thing or another.

[@th60of]

9:15 I'm almost sure this is redcurrant.

[@lisapop5219]

Turkey trots were a real thing. It was like a cattle round. Look it up.

[@pamelabennett9057]

Regarding the American use of forks, I had also heard that when they came into widespread use int the 1700s, the "American" way was also done in rebellion to the British way of using forks. Is there any truth to that??

[@aetheldread]

The first Thanksgiving took place in 1619 on the James River in Virginia. Not sure whether or not turkey was served.

[@guineapigzed]

Sporks?

[@christhompson2006]

They make bad forks and bad spoons.

[@dougwalker4944]

the four tine fork can also be used a grooming tool, picture a mustache/\

[@WiliiamNoTell]

Thankful we have a new President!! Thanks, history guy for all your hard work. I hope you and your family have a blessed Thanksgiving. Same to all watching this video!

[@robertjensen1438]

It's definitely something to be thankful for.

[@user-vm5ud4xw6n]

Turkeys aren’t going to get any help from me for increasing their consumption popularity. Not a turkey fan here. I’ll eat ham or chicken if it’s available over turkey. What I miss is that wonderful cranberry/orange zest cherry jello dish. You can’t buy the cranberry orange stuff anymore and I’m still trying to come up with a substitute

[@1ACL]

It's pretty easy to make from scratch...

[@VincentDonovan-qn5wi]

Rather not be the prospective

[@TTTzzzz]

Bad luck they only had a turkey to eat.

[@bobbun9630]

Pardons for turkeys? I always knew GHW Bush was soft on crime!

[@bartsimpson6767]

🦃💨

[@merlinwizard1000]

26th, 27 November 2024

[@rocketamadeus3730]

This is just people using silverware wrong.

[@orbyfan]

As a Canadian, I didn't know there was an "American style" of eating with a fork. Instead of "American" vs. "European" style, I think of it as "American" vs. "correct" or "civilized" style.

[@1ACL]

Do you feel better now?

[@v.e.7236]

Knife in right hand, fork in left and never changing hands. Waste of time switching hands. The military tried changing my eating style, but I only switched when in public view, while in the military. Today I want to eat my food, not fondle my food.

[@Ulysses_DM_]

That's the way to do it, but I observe that the Europeans hold the fork with tines down and push food on to the backside of the tines. This seems unusual and impractical to me, tines up and food scooped in the same way as a spoon is more efficient, am I wrong?

[@v.e.7236]

Dead on! Efficiency is the key word -- no complicated cut 'n' switch BS. lol

[@Saltshaker2016]

To be fair, I’m no bird hunter, but it seems to me that it would have been a lot easier for pilgrims to “catch/kill” turkey than it would have been to “shoot” geese or ducks as turkeys are after all “land chickens.” ?

[@OGKenG]

Regarding the American use of forks, THG mentions that Americans switch the fork from the left hand (after cutting) to the right (to eat) then back to the left to cut again. My mother taught us to cut all of our food at the beginning, then put the knife down. You don't need to switch hands during the rest of the meal.

[@lancerevell5979]

Yep, that's the way my family always did it. 😎👍

[@tomhalla426]

While my very strict grandfather considered cutting more than a few bites at once only proper for very small children.

[@jst7714]

@@tomhalla426cutting more than a few bites is wildly seen as against normal table manners in most cultures, including the USA. I certainly wouldn’t do it.

[@christhompson2006]

Great for little kids. Pointless as an adult.

[@OGKenG]

@@christhompson2006 Why sit there with a knife the whole meal? Get the cutting done all at once and move on with eating.

[@lisapop5219]

Wasn't the first scare due to the Upton Sinclair book?

[@alanef4127]

Silverware- I was always taught the 'cut and switch' method is proper in the US. My father told us that this was to signify that we were NOT English and this custom was adopted after the Revolution as a part of our Independence.

[@janeanf123]

FDA is a great protection. Our lives shall drastically change thanks to this on coming agent of horror. Gawd help us and protect our families! We must remain diligent.

[@dwhitman3092]

Amen!

[@dwhitman3092]

Amen!

[@ftroop52]

well, the Democrats erased much of history, put those statues back for starts, and where did my syrup go?

[@jasonadams1632]

Misinformation, disinformation, ignorance and distrust; nothing has changed.