The Geography Of The Thanksgiving Meal

Tomorrow across the the States people volition last sitting downward to eat a traditional Thanksgiving meal. The tradition largely depends on where you lot alive inwards the country.

The traditional Thanksgiving carte tin go last hugely influenced past times geography. For event if you lot alive inwards the northward or westward hence you lot volition likely accept cranberry sauce amongst your turkey; spell those who alive inwards the southern states volition generally last enjoying sweetness spud casserole. Nearly everyone volition last eating turkey. But how you lot laid upward your turkey tin go also last shaped past times where you lot live. Tell me if your turkey is smoked, roasted or fried as well as I tin go likely tell you lot if you lot come upward from the mid-west, the eastward coast or California.

The Los Angeles Times has used information from Google to decide the Thanksgiving foods searched for inwards dissimilar regions of the United States. You tin go read the results of their analysis inwards What volition last on your Thanksgiving plate? It depends on where you’ll be. The article includes a lilliputian tool which tin go present you lot the Thanksgiving foods that are close searched for inwards each state.


This Thanksgiving America volition eat some 250 ane chiliad k turkeys, millions of barrels of cranberries as well as hundreds of thousands of acres worth of dark-green beans. If you lot are interested inwards where your turkey was raised as well as where your brussels sprouts were grown hence you lot postulate Esri's Where Does Your Thanksgiving Meal Come From? interactive map.

The map looks at the origins of the traditional Thanksgiving vegetables, turkey as well as sweetness dishes. It includes kind maps showing where turkeys, cranberries, sweetness potatoes, potatoes, dark-green beans, brussels sprouts, pumpkins as well as pecans are grown as well as farmed inwards the United States.