Everyone hunts for the best recipes, though many stay with the classics that have been passed down generationally.
(We won’t tell!)
Americans followed suit, and turkey is consumed by most on Thanksgiving to this day.
At the same time, we eat a lot on Thanksgiving for psychological reasons.
Holidays are notoriously stressful, so Thanksgiving and Christmas both see people eating more than usual for this reason.
It’s for multiple reasons, then, that we eat a lot on Thanksgiving.
Enjoy yourself this year, and indulge if you’ve got the option to.
