Happy Thanksgiving – And Be Glad You Aren’t Eating Pigeon

Remember this before you complain about the turkey being dry or how there isn't enough marshmallow topping on your sweet potatoes.  You could be eating PIGEON and TURTLE. The website Gothamist.com searched through archives in the New York Public Library for Thanksgiving menus from the early 1900s . . . and found that our Thanksgiving dinners have changed a lot since then.  FOR THE BETTER.

Here are some of the foods people used to eat -

--Sheepshead with Hollandaise sauce. Sheepshead is actually a type of fish.  Still, horrible name.  And drowning it in Hollandaise sauce wouldn't help.

--Pigeon pie. Yes, in the late 1800s, people ate pigeon.  In pie.

--Bisque of Terrapin. That's "turtle soup" if you're not being fancy about it.

--Broiled quail on toast. People still eat quail, but not on toast.  And not as an appetizer like this.

--Baked tautog. Tautog is a fish that's nicknamed the "poor man's lobster."  

You can see these old-school Thanksgiving menus on their website here.

Enjoy your sugar-and-marshmallow-covered yams, my friends.

With a meal like that it would probably be a lot less expensive! How much is your meal going to cost?