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On the Buck's Fizz pre turkey on 17:07 - Nov 23 by Archer4721
What do the Yanks give thanks for exactly?
Yeah, as JJJ says it's to do with festivals giving thanks for a good harvest right back at the start of colonisation. The first year was pretty rough (about 50% of early colonisers perished), but once they got the first harvest in things picked up. That the brief, probably inaccurate version.