Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Thanksgiving Facts

3,000: Calories are consumed by the average person at Thanksgiving dinner.
–12: Million turkeys are sold by Butterball each year.
–675: Million pounds of turkey are consumed each year.
-50: Million pumpkin pies are eaten at Thanksgiving.
–350: Approximate number of pounds the largest pumpkin pie ever made weighed. It used 80 pounds of cooked pumpkin, 36 pounds of sugar, 12 dozen eggs, measured 5 feet in diameter and took six hours to bake.
–40: How many million green bean casseroles are made.
–100: Age of some of the oldest cranberry beds—and they’re still producing!
–72: Millions of can of Ocean Spray Cranberry Sauce purchased each year.
–565: Number of times a line of all the cranberries produced in the U.S. would stretch from Boston to Los Angeles if you lined them all up, end to end