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turkey, and sweet potatoes are indispensable to the "fixin’s.” Sweet potatoes, as well as the white potatoes, misnamed Irish, are American in origin*
The sweet potatoes, “’taters” south of the Mason and Dixon line, are probably of tropical origin. At any rate, they thrive best now in the warmer parts of the country.
The white potatoe is not Irish but Peruvian in origin. It got its misnomer because it was so widely 'grown there and Irish immigrants in the early 1700’s brought large quantities of them to the United States.
For the salad course, there may be avocadoes, also called alligator pears, for these are native to this hemisphere.
The bread should be corn bread, of course.
Com is the greatest of the agricultural gifts of America to the world. When the first settlers from England found this grain being cultivated by the Indians they called it Indian com to distinguish it from the use of the word com to mean in British usage all kinds of grain, wheat, barley, rye and all the rest
Com probably originated in the South American highlands but by the time the white men came its cultivation had spread as far north on this continent as the climate permitted.
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