It wasnāt like all the stories made it out to be. Hereās a couple of facts about the real thing;
They didnāt have furniture so there was no sitting around tables.
Forks didnāt exist so they probably ate with their hands using their knives.
Turkeys were thin and gamy but waterfowl were plentiful. So were eels. Lots and lots of eels.
No yams as they hadnāt made their way from Peru yet. Same with potatoes and tomatoes. Lots of turnips and cabbage.
Oh yeah, corn. But not like the kind we know today.
And donāt forget the ones that thought they didnāt have to lift a hand as everything would be given to them.
Itās a long article but tells you lots of things you probably never knew.
And so thatās another thing, I suppose, when weāre imagining them sitting on the ground eating with their hands, letās imagine them wearing orange and red and yellow, not black. They werenāt wearing buckles because they actually disliked any kind of adornment like that.
The women didnāt wear jewelry of any kind and so forth. So they wouldnāt have had that, but lots of bright colors. In fact, the will for William Bradford, the inventory of his estate shows that he had a red vest and a purple cape, among other things. So these folks wouldāve been pretty striking, I think, in their fashion sense if nothing else.
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