

Washington felt differently and issued a Thanksgiving proclamation, and its 200th anniversary in 1989 is when George H. W. Bush turned the White House turkey handover, running since Truman got the first bird in 1947, into a formal pardon. I wrote up that and a dozen other angles on the turkey here: https://youpick.best/articles/turkey-ranked-many-ways


That puts you in good company, because the standard complaint against the holiday bird is that the meat needs gravy to taste of much and the sides get more praise than the main course. I put together a piece that weighs the turkey on 13 lists, one of them the most overrated food: https://youpick.best/articles/turkey-ranked-many-ways