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What was?

1 - Venison
2 - Goose
3 - Duck
4 - All of the above

Turkey was supposed-to-be the national bird had Ben Franklin had his way.

Native Americans considered Wild Turkey a sacred bird and harbinger of good fortune.

Most of them didn't wear black and white, either. They liked color and they wore the brightest clothing they could with the dyes available back then. They didn't have buckles on their shoes or hats as buckles cost money and were a waste. The black and white with buckles was the fashion of the wealthy for a while in England in the late 17th century and artists painted the pilgrims that way. These pics from a reenactment are more accurate. That was the English style for commoners at that time.

Next you gonna say real turkeys didn’t look like a traced kids hand….

The native injuns still offer up a deer to the Governor here in Virginia every year.

5. Chupacabra

If in fact it was the Indians supplying the food...wouldn't it be curry or tandoori?

Common knowledge #4.

"Native Americans" ate anything they could find.

Who cares what they thought?

Lincoln made Thanksgiving into the holiday it is, not the natives.

Weren't the pilgrims actually eating bobcat? We're supposed to eat poozy on Thanksgiving, and really be thankful for it!

I was there….it tasted like chicken.

I don’t know about the eastern tribes but from everything I’ve read about the plains Indians they didn’t eat birds except in emergencies and certainly didn’t expend the time and resources to gather a few pounds of bird. It would take more than a few big birds to feed a hungry tribe.

This reminds me of an old story about market hunting in the 1800's. An Indian was asked why he always had venison to sell but seldom turkey.

His response was "Deer see injun...think injun stump. Turkey see stump...think stump injun."

Jambalaya and a crawfish pie and filé gumbo

You eat dick...

And are glad (overjoyed) of it...

mostly seafood Im sure being they were that close to the ocean

Some still do but most can't afford it in the volumes they drink, so they go with R&R or some other cheap lighter fluidesque Canadian rotgut instead.

Pilgram/Indian ain’t gone starve

Considering they wore turkey feathers I'm sure they ate them.

I’m calling BS…turkeys were plentiful and Benjamin Franklin wasn’t even born. Unless you’re referring to when it was declared a national holiday.
The first thanksgiving was held in 1620 I believe.