Pie!

The turkey’s eaten, all the food is gone, you watch some football, and then you hear these beautiful words, “Time for pie!” There is one reason pie is the best food at Thanksgiving dinner, everyone loves it. According to spoonuniversity.com “About 50 million pumpkin pies are consumed each Thanksgiving…” This shows that pie is the best thanksgiving food because so much is eaten on Thanksgiving every year. Don’t forget this is only the pumpkin pies, and foodbeast.com states “Apple - 20% Strawberry 19% Pumpkin 16% …” This means that pumpkin pie is not even the most consumed pie and 50 million pumpkin pies are consumed, imagine how many apple and strawberry pies are consumed. This is why pie is the best Thanksgiving food.

The Best Thanksgiving Food

There are many kinds of food that are made for Thanksgiving, and there isn't always room for all of it. There are some must-haves, and one of them is definitely yams with marshmallows. According to The New York Times, "research shows that only 12 percent of sweet potato eaters consume them solely during the holidays. Almost 30 percent of sweet potato fans eat them several times a month." This means that a lot of people eat sweet potatoes not only during Thanksgiving but throughout several months of the year. I mean who doesn't love the taste of marshmallows and sweet potatoes together.

The Best Thanksgiving Food

When you think of Thanksgiving foods, which is the dish that comes to your mind first? Well of course, it’s green beans! Doesn’t that color just draw you in? They’re really good when they are made into a casserole. The green bean casserole has been a dish in the traditional thanksgiving dinner according to goodhousekeeping.com. One reason Margaux J. Rathbun gives for loving green beans is that, they are a great source of vitamin K to promote healthy bones! So not only are they delicious but they are extremely good for you! So this Thanksgiving when the green bean casserole is passed to you, take a nice big scoop!

Thanksgiving is right around the corner and there is one food that EVERYBODY loves. Thanksgiving wouldn't be the same without the one and only, pumpkin pie! There is absolutely no excuse to not liking pumpkin pie unless you are allergic to pumpkins, which I'm sorry for your loss. Without a doubt pumpkin is the best because it's the breakthrough to sweater weather. Once you've eaten a big slice of pumpkin with whipped cream on top you know it's fall! According to the daily meal it states, "There’s no denying that pumpkin pie is the best fall dessert in the history of time and space. If you don’t agree, I’m sorry but you’re wrong. A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away (just kidding, same galaxy), writer Charles Caleb Colton famously said, “Imitation is the sincerest [form] of flattery,” and centuries later this still rings true." This means that everybody likes pumpkin pie and you aren't fooling anyone when you try to fight it. Pumpkin pie is the best Thanksgiving food!

The best food for Thanksgiving

If you’ve never been treated to the tasty, crispy goodness that comes with a fried

Thanksgiving turkey, this is the year to go for it. Turkey is the best Thanksgiving

food because of how many people eat turkey on Thanksgiving day. According to extension.illinois.edu/turkey/turkey_facts.cfm, 88% of Americans surveyed by the National Turkey Federation eat turkey on Thanksgiving. That means 46 million turkeys are eaten each Thanksgiving, 22 million on Christmas and 19 million turkeys on Easter. In 2011, 736 million pounds of turkey were consumed in the United States. Fun Fact! : The heaviest turkey ever raised was 86 pounds, about the size of a large dog. In brief, turkey is one of the most flavorful, finger licking, mouthwatering, and most delightful food you could ever eat at Thanksgiving time.

NOVEMBER BLOG ASSIGNMENT: DUE NOVEMBER 30TH

NOVEMBER BLOG POST ASSIGNMENT: 

DUE NOVEMBER 30th

It's Thanksgiving time! For your post this month you will write an ONE explanatory paragraph using evidence (yes, find factual information online). You'll need to find an article or survey. Start with a topic sentence, introduce your evidence, do a citation, explain why the evidence matters and have a strong conclusion. You can also include a picture if you would like to. Enjoy!!

Writing prompt: Why is _____________ (choose one) the best food at Thanksgiving time?

Don't forget to do 3 comments on other's posts.  

Example:

As the smells of Thanksgiving dinner awaken your senses and make your tummy rumble, you might wonder which is the best food. Stuffing is the best Thanksgiving food because of it's popularity: everyone loves stuffing! According to the "Most Googled Recopies" on the ProFlower site, stuffing comes in 1st place at 60,500 searches in the month of November. This means that A LOT of people are cooking stuffing in America and want to know how to make it well. Who can resist the salty, savory tang of bread all smashed up in a turkey? All in all, stuffing is a tremendously popular dish that everyone loves. So, find your best recipe and make some stuffing today!

     The black cat twitched its tail twice. It hissed. Then with a twitch of its tail, nothing. The alley cat laid back down on the cobblestone wall. Curled up in a black ball of fuzz, and went back to sleep. Leaving me to the whispers of the night. Great.

     Sharp winds whistled by, cutting into every patch of bare skin it could reach. Numbing me to the bones. Every step I took as I continued to stalk off to my neighborhood resulted in a squish from the puddled roads and my soaked through socks. Followed by cracks and crunches from the fall leaves blown beneath my rubber soled boots.

      It was only the beginning of October and my town already looked ready to spook and scare all the kids that came through this Halloween. Not that it needed much preparation. The trees had no leaves, bare to the world with their bony like branches. Most of the houses were either broken down or abandoned years ago. Plus the people that were still living here looked like skeletons, just skin and bones and sunken in eyes. See through. I was used to it by now though, we all were. It was all we saw either in the mirror or just out our bedroom windows anyways. 

     As I walked I counted. I counted the petal less flower stems in Ms. Rayeths front lawn. The crows in the sky. The little children who hung to their parents hands pulling them along. The house numbers. All the way back to my house. 193. Right between the Lighs and Dess', and right across from the Links old house. Now left abandoned and empty. Just like other dozens of houses.

     It had been about a year since the accident but I still remember how it was before all this. The happy smiles, and joyful laughter. The color, the singing, the happiness. The people. 

    All that's left is hollow eyes and empty rooms in a black and white town, lined with grey. If you were to ask  me if I missed the way my town used to be I'd tell you it's all I know. These memories of times that may or may not have been are but figments of my imagination.Just memories. Nothing more. This is my home, this is my life. All I know. All I remember at least.

     "Blayde!" somewhere inside my dark house my mom called. Probably needing help with the laundry again. Sighing, I walked in, contemplating the witchs words in my head.

      But maybe, just maybe if I could. I'd change everything. Make it better, reverse time. Anything but this, but then again, it's not that bad, is it. Just a little different. Missing. Not now though, later. When it's time. When were ready, when the dead fade and live return, maybe. Just maybe.

-Emily Harrison