Thanksgiving geekery
Nov. 25th, 2020 04:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
petrea_mitchell1. Dork Tower examines the tradeoffs of Thanksgiving meals this year. I was looking to support a local restaurant, but couldn't find one offering a take-home turkey meal that didn't include a green bean casserole.
2. FiveThirtyEight on regional variations in Thanksgiving dinners. The Thanksgiving dinners of my childhood were definitely shaped by the previous two generations of my family all being from New England. My mom loves squash, my dad always made apple pies, and the cranberry sauce was always homemade.
3. Bloomberg on where the major Thanksgiving ingredients are grown. Oregon is not an intensively farmed state, so I was surprised to see it come up so much.
2. FiveThirtyEight on regional variations in Thanksgiving dinners. The Thanksgiving dinners of my childhood were definitely shaped by the previous two generations of my family all being from New England. My mom loves squash, my dad always made apple pies, and the cranberry sauce was always homemade.
3. Bloomberg on where the major Thanksgiving ingredients are grown. Oregon is not an intensively farmed state, so I was surprised to see it come up so much.
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Date: 2020-11-27 03:03 am (UTC)The only thing listed in the 2nd link that I had this year was salad and pecan pie. I'm surprised mashed potatoes weren't mentioned. Actually, now I've checked their data file, and mashed potatoes was one of the most popular items. Maybe it wasn't listed due to it not being more popular in any particular region.
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Date: 2020-11-27 04:23 am (UTC)