The History Behind What We Eat on Thanksgiving (with Katherine Spiers)

Everyone's Talkin' Money

Shari Rash

Business, Self-improvement, Education

4.6 • 631 Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever wondered why we eat turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy and our favorite veggie dish for Thanksgiving? The Thanksgiving meal has evolved so much since the early 1900s and become the holiday we associate with eating until we can't eat anymore. In this Friendsgiving episode reboot, I sat down with the amazing Katherine Spiers, host of the Smart Mouth Podcast, to find out the history behind the Thanksgiving meal and got to the bottom of our pumpkin crazed eating trends. What You'll Learn How the Thanksgiving meal has evolved over time Hear the fascinating story behind the year of two Thanksgivings Uncover some regional differences in Thanksgiving Why food has become a powerful mediator to tackling tough conversations What are some of the latest Thanksgiving trends How to make the most out of your Thanksgiving on any budget + host an amazing Thanksgiving party Finally, how to embrace where you're at this Thanksgiving no matter how much money is in your bank account or the goals you've achieved Links Smart Mouth Podcast SUBSCRIBE & REVIEW Want to be the first to know when new episodes are released? Click here to subscribe in iTunes! Also, podcast reviews are super important to iTunes and the more reviews we have, the more we can spread the Millennial Money message (those iTunes algorithms are crazy). I’d be honored if you left a review and let me know what you love about the podcast. Ask Shannah Have an Ask Shannah question, submit it here Get Social Shannah on Twitter Shannah on Instagram See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey friends, Shauna here, and I cannot believe it, but Thanksgiving is literally right around the corner.
0:07.4	So I wanted to bring you a reboot of one of our most popular episodes from last year, Friendsgiving, where I got to chat with Catherine Spires from the Smart Mouth podcast and figure out the history behind the Thanksgiving meal.
0:20.7	Why do we eat what we do?
0:22.7	What are the traditions?
0:24.9	All of that fascinating history and more in this Friendsgiving episode. Millennial Money with
0:45.4	Shauna Compton Game
0:46.6	It will expand your brain
0:50.6	Thanks your brain.
0:59.6	Thanksgiving is a time to eat.
1:03.5	Of course, I am the first person to line up with my plate.
1:04.7	I am not shy.
1:07.4	I love everything about the Thanksgiving meal.
1:13.5	I typically don't eat carbs a lot of the time. I'm one of those low carb people, but Thanksgiving, it is just all rules off the table. I loaded my plate with every single
1:21.4	imaginable carb. I don't care if I feel so full afterwards. I just love everything about Thanksgiving. I love hosting dinner
1:29.7	parties and having people over. It's so much fun for me to find a complicated recipe and to kind of
1:36.9	challenge myself around Thanksgiving. And then I love when people like it. Hopefully they like my
1:41.8	cooking. And this year I'm in charge of dessert and I thought,
1:45.6	rather than doing the traditional pumpkin pie and apple pie, I want to do something different.
1:49.5	So I found this amazing recipe for apple pie ice cream sandwiches. They're made with these really
1:57.5	amazing sticker dodle cookies. And then you do this crazy thing to ice cream where
2:02.4	you're basically like folding in a pumpkin pie into ice cream, and then you're making an
2:05.6	ice cream sandwich out of it. And I thought, that's so much fun because you can pick up an
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