Actually Thanksgiving is not all just turkey and pumpkin pie.
In 1492 Columbus fled the communist state of England with hold full of slaves and turkeys on the Mayflower. They were a sea for many moons and in 1620 crashed and burned on Plymouth's rock where they grew tobacco, cotton, and killed Indians for sport.
They had a bad winter and the Indians and the pilgrims had a war with Canada, many turkeys were killed in the war so as not to let them go to waste they saved them all up and ate them on the 4th Thursday in November, or 11 moons as the natives called it.
Pumpkin pie was a mistake, when Dolly Madison left a pumpkin on the wood stove too long it got soft and fell into a pan with some bread rising. Old Dolly was not one to let things go to waste, she told her old man to shut his drunken pie hole and fucking eat it or she would murder him in his sleep.
Turns out that it was rather tasty. How ever that thieving twat Betty Crocker gets all the credit for inventing the pumpkin pie.