What does each food or ingredient of thanksgiving dinner mean???

Question

I mean, the cranberry sauce with turkey mix sounds like.. weird to me.. What each ingredient comes for..?

Answer 1

There is no religious symbolism but there is a kind of cultural symbolism - cranberries are grown in Massachusetts - where the Pilgrims landed. Pumpkin is part of the fall harvest in New England. At the first thanksgiving, fowls were served (probably not only turkeys)....so there are a lot of ties today to that first community meal with the Indians and Pilgrims in the 17th century....

see

http://pilgrims.net/plymouth/thanksgiving.htm

Answer 2

Food and food combinations are mostly a matter of taste. At Thanksgiving it is also a matter of traditions for many.
Kind of like fruit cake at Christmas - lots of us pass on that one, but it is always there.
Not sure what turkey mix is, but cranberries are awesome and can add moisture if you dry things out too.

Answer 3

why would it mean anything? turkey is what the indians brought, pumpkins and sweet potatoes , corn, and so on were the things the indians taught the pilgrims to grow, and cranberries grow in new england where all this started, they would create dam walls and flood the cranberry bogs and the berries would float on top of the water, they collected them in baskets so the water would drain away. they are simple type foods that were available to the pilgrims who had just moved to this world away from england.

Answer 4

There is utterly no significance (beyond possible tradition) to any food served at the typical Thanksgiving dinner. People like turkey because it is tasty, but some prefer ham. It is quite different from the Jewish Seder dinner, where significance abounds.

Answer 5

Cranberries are abundant and taste good on turkey. Gravy goes good on mashed potatoes. You can never have too much stuffing. Corn and all the vegetables are good for you. Simple as that.

Answer 6

nothing, its just a tradition, and you've obviously never had cranberries