Thanksgiving is the one time a year it├óΓé¼Γäós alright to break out of your diet…at least a little. What├óΓé¼Γäós most amazing about Thanksgiving is that almost everyone in America is eating pretty much the exact same thing as you! That doesn├óΓé¼Γäót happen any other day of the year!
Here are some fun facts about Thanksgiving dinner:
–3,000: Calories are consumed by the average person at Thanksgiving dinner.
–12: Million turkeys are sold by Butterball each year.
–675: Million pounds of turkey are consumed each year.
–50: Million pumpkin pies are eaten at Thanksgiving.
–350: Approximate number of pounds the largest pumpkin pie ever made weighed. It used 80 pounds of cooked pumpkin, 36 pounds of sugar, 12 dozen eggs, measured 5 feet in diameter and took six hours to bake.
–40: How many million green bean casseroles are made.
–100: Age of some of the oldest cranberry beds├óΓé¼ΓÇ¥and they├óΓé¼Γäóre still producing!
–72: Millions of can of Ocean Spray Cranberry Sauce purchased each year.
–565: Number of times a line of all the cranberries produced in the U.S. would stretch from Boston to Los Angeles if you lined them all up, end to end.
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