(for me atleast) (not really I threatened to hang myself in the bathroom multiple of times for multiple

THE MYTH: Pilgrims wore their usual clothing of black and white suits, and buckled tall hats and shoes.

THE REALITY: This was actually a popular style of clothing in England, but not until the 1700s. It made its way into modern (at the time) depictions of the first settlers in the Americas, but it’s not what they actually wore. Shiny metal buckles would be far too expensive to wear simply as affectations, and black and white garb, also expensive to make, would have been reserved for more somber church services on Sundays.

The other days of the week, early American settlers donned the motley and colorful clothes of people who wore whatever they grabbed before they set off across the ocean.

THE MYTH: We eat turkey, cranberry sauce, stuffing, and pumpkin pie on Thanksgiving because the Pilgrims ate it.

THE REALITY: Our traditional Thanksgiving menu is based much more on what’s generally served at New England fall festivals, and has become greatly customized by region. Depictions of the original Thanksgiving include mentions of fowl, but not turkey in general. Pumpkin might have been served, but not in any kind of congealed pie form, while local vegetables and fish would have had a prominent place at the feast.

And, sweet potatoes weren’t introduced into American diets until long after the Pilgrims landed in New England, being popularized by Spanish settlers returning to Europe from South America.

THE MYTH: Thanksgiving has always been celebrated on the 4th Thursday of November.

THE REALITY: Thanksgiving was held on a wide range of days in November until the Civil War. Then, as a symbol of national unity, President Lincoln proclaimed a national Thanksgiving Day, to be celebrated on the final Thursday in November 1863. Subsequent Presidents continued these declarations, and President Roosevelt solidified the holiday as taking place on the fourth thursday of November in 1939.

November had five Thursdays that year, and Roosevelt didn’t want retailers to miss out on a week of Christmas sales. Even for a few years after that, the holiday took place on the next-to-last Thursday of the month, and it was only in 1941 that Roosevelt signed a federal law making the fourth Thursday in November the official day Thanksgiving would be celebrated.