Nothing remotely close to what we eat.
While it is possible that the Pilgrims ate turkey, it is more likely that the centerpiece of their Thanksgiving feast was venison, accompanied by duck or goose. The meal may have also included seafood, such as clams, eel, cod or lobster.
Potatoes, apples, pears and cranberries were not commonly available at that time, nor would they have had corn on the cob, as it would have been dried by that time of year.
And pumpkin pie? Forget it. They may have made some sort of dessert with pumpkins, but since sugar and flour were scarce, and there were no ovens for baking, it would not have been pumpkin pie.
The "traditional" Thanksgiving meal most of us eat today is an invention of the Victorian era, composed of foods that were appropriate to celebrate the harvest when Thanksgiving was established as a national holiday in 1863.
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