Which got me thinking of all the festive things we learned about in grade school, my favorite being:
Turkey Hands...I'm just gonna wait while y'all click on that. Impressive huh? I especially like the turkey hands on chest t-shirt and this little class project:
Some teacher must have been reading Fifty Shades of Grey during recess and felt inspired to create this masterpiece.
I also remember discussing the Cornucopia every November, as if it were a totally natural, commonplace thing:
2nd Grader:
We decorated our cornucopias today. Have you even heard of them before?3rd Grader:
Duh, we made like fifty cornucopias in first grade and twenty in second. We've moved on to bigger and better things this year.2nd Grader :
Like what?3rd Grader:
Like Pilgrim hats. And Indian headdresses.
Yes indeed, we have moved on to bigger and better Thanksgiving things such as eating, drinking, tryptophan, and more eating.
But I can't for the life of me remember what a cornucopia is or what it represents.
Googling "cornucopia thanksgiving" provided several magical 1-800 Flowers arrangement pics, and then what I was hoping to find:
Also known as the horn of plenty, it's from way way way back when, but we really associate it with Thanksgiving.
But that was all I found.
Wasn't it a gift or something from the natives?
Googled "cornucopia thanksgiving gift indians" and found this:
No one knows when the first Thanksgiving truly was, and apparently the cornucopia has just been hanging out as the symbol for that holiday. All I can discern is that it comes from ancient Greece where it would have been made from a goat's horn, and nowadays is typically a basket, full of squash and other seasonal veggie bounty.
Perhaps that's why I couldn't remember the significance of the cornucopia.
It's simply a centerpiece.
And just for that, I'm gonna make one this year. Happy Tofurky day!
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