We’re in the countdown to the Thanksgiving feast. Mothers, grandmothers, nay anyone in charge of the meal is busily prepping dishes for Thursday’s big event, drying breadcrumbs on every counter for stuffing, and warning teenagers away from scarfing down the wrong food. Two days before the holiday is a bad time to wander into the kitchen. The latest meme has a family asking what’s for dinner and mom yelling, “You’ll eat Thursday!”
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On the Tuesday before Thanksgiving, Nov. 20, 1973, A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving aired for the first time on CBS. This 25-minute special has worked its way into the collective Gen X memory.
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