Americans will eat 46 million turkeys this Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is the second favorite holiday of Americans, bested only by Christmas Day. In celebration of 395 years since the Wampanoag Indians launched a delicious tradition by sitting down to share a meal with the Pilgrims, here is a look at American Thanksgiving by the numbers. Jeva Lange
Number of pumpkin pies at the first Thanksgiving: 0
Number of towns and townships in the U.S. that have the word "turkey" in their name: 15, including Turkey Creek Village, Louisiana, and Turkey City, Texas.
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Number of turkeys in the "Presidential Flock": 20
Percent of Americans interested in trying a turducken: 28
Percent of Americans who correctly think pumpkin pie is the best pie: 37
How much worse traffic will be if you try to drive home Saturday rather than Sunday: Up to 40 percent
Percent of Americans anticipating political conversation at the dinner table: 45 percent
Average cost of Thanksgiving for 10 people: $49.87
Percent of American homes with a dishwasher: 69.3
Percent of American homes with a refrigerator: 99.2
Number of people who attended the first Thanksgiving: Over 100
Average price of a night in a hotel if you're traveling over 50 miles from home: $155
Expected number of home cooking fires: Over 1,000
How many calories you'll probably eat: 4,500
Members of the Wampanoag American Indian tribe, descendants of those who attended the first Thanksgiving: 6,500 in 2010
Anticipated calls to the official Butterball Turkey talk-line: Over 10,000
Number of meals expected to be donated by Blue Apron: 181,196
Number of people who watched the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade last year: 22.3 million
Number of people who watched a Thanksgiving Day NFL game last year: 32.5 million
Turkeys that will be consumed: 46 million
Number of people traveling for the holiday: 48.7 million, the most since 2007
Forecasted weight of all the cranberries produced in the United States this year: 859 million pounds
Total weight of sweet potatoes produced in the U.S. last year: 3.1 billion pounds
Amount spent on Black Friday deals by Americans: Over $10 billion
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Jeva Lange was the executive editor at TheWeek.com. She formerly served as The Week's deputy editor and culture critic. She is also a contributor to Screen Slate, and her writing has appeared in The New York Daily News, The Awl, Vice, and Gothamist, among other publications. Jeva lives in New York City. Follow her on Twitter.
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