Mmmmmmm Thanksgiving Dinner *Homer drooling gif here*
To overeat, we must over-make. While we do this purposely for the tasty leftovers, in classic American fashion, there is a lot of waste. But how much??
Thanksgiving is one of the biggest days of the year for wasting food. Americans toss around 200 million pounds of turkey meat in the wake of the holiday each year, along with 48 million pounds of sweet potatoes and 45 million pounds of green beans. Thanksgiving is a contradiction, with festive home cooks driven to both overproduce and creatively reuse.
–Grist, by Kate Yoder , https://grist.org/guides/2021-holiday-makeover/in-defense-of-leftovers/
