Why Do We Eat Cranberry Sauce on Thanksgiving?
While plenty of people eat turkey , mashed potatoes , and pie twelvemonth - around , it seems like cranberry sauce almost only exists in theThanksgivinguniverse . Although we do n’t know for certain whether it was eat at the very first Thanksgiving , the jiggly , gelatinous side sweetheart does have deep roots in the history of America ’s fruit plains . According toInsider , cranberry are one of only three commercially farm fruit native to the United States , and the Wampanoag kin had beenusingthem for food , dye , and medicine long before feasting with the Pilgrims in 1621 ....