Who Would Your Celebrity Guest Be For Thanksgiving

With the holidays around the corner, we wanted to know who would be your celebrity guest for Thanksgiving? The Mike & Carla Morning Show had their own picks, but we wanted to know who you would invite.

Ranker.com threw it out there to find out who we would invite over for Thanksgiving Day dinner. Now, you might have your own reasons as to what celebrity it might be, but the Top 3 were pretty diverse.

However, before we get to the Top 3, some celebrities that indeed made the list, but didn't crack the Top 10. For example, Johnny Depp was on the list at #14 and probably be higher, but you know what they say about "Captain Jack"?

The "Rock" made the list and you would have thought he would have ranked higher, but Duane Johnson came in at #17. Maybe because of his appetite?

Depending on what you're looking for in a Thanksgiving Day guest, we found it interesting that "Captain Picard", actor Patrick Stewart, came in at #5! Maybe there are more "Trekkies" out there voting on this website than thought.

Mike O'Brian went with his "man crush" Matt Damon. He seems easy going, could have a nice conversation with him and he likes sports. He also thought Selma Hayek would have been nice to have over as well.

On the other hand, Carla Rea went with Tina Fey, formerly of "Saturday Night Live" fame. Funny that Tina actually just cracked the Top 10 and was labeled the most "diverse" guest on the list!

But it's the listeners who kept the list very intriguing with their selections. Anyone from Sandra Bernhard to Jack Black. In fact, many others that you would have never thought of made The M&C Listener List!

One listener texted in that she would invite the entire cast of "Law & Order: SVU" over for the holidays. You'd just have to figure out which season right?

Take a couple of minutes, listen to the segment from this morning and you decide!

I went to a Thanksgiving buffet this past weekend with some friends. And I saw all the same dishes that I'm preparing for my own Thanksgiving meal. The green bean casserole with the French fried onions on top. The turkey, the ham, the mashed potatoes and gravy. Rolls, cranberry sauce and an assortment of pies. We've all pretty much gotten used to making the same dishes every year for the holiday.

But I've never stopped to wonder just how authentic those dishes are compared to the very first Thanksgiving. Did the pilgrims even have French fried onions? So I did what I do. I looked it up. According to familysearch.org, turkey most likely was eaten at the first Thanksgiving. Since wild turkey was easily accessible to those who were living in the newly-settled area of Plymouth, Massachusetts.

Mashed potatoes, however, were nowhere near the table on the first Thanksgiving. Potatoes weren't even introduced to the American colonists until the 1700s (familysearch.org). And since the first Thanksgiving happened in 1621, and the pilgrims didn't have Morty McFly and his time machine, there weren't ANY potatoes. Let alone mashed ones.

Cranberry sauce also was most likely missing from the first Thanksgiving table. Since there wasn't a lot of sugar in 1621. Plus the cranberry was so new to the pilgrims at that time, they wouldn't even know how to sauce those little guys. At that time, the Wampanoag people were using the cranberry to dye clothing (familysearch.org). Pumpkin pie was also not likely there. While the pilgrims did make foods out of pumpkins, they didn't have the ingredients to make a crust that is needed for a pie.

If you're looking to make a REALLY authentic Thanksgiving this year, try adding one of these to your meal. -Wendy Rush, 96.3KKLZ

Historical accounts of the first Thanksgiving clearly state that there was deer meat there. In fact, when a leader of the Wampanoag people brought 90 of his warriors to join the feast, there wasn't enough food to go around. So he sent his men out to bring more back. They returned with five deer and added them to the meal (plimoth.org).

Intrigued? If you'd like to add a venison dish to your table this year, there are many options. Here's a recipe for Stuffed Venision Loin, to get those creative juices flowing.

Accounts from life in the 1620s around Plymouth indicate that there was plenty of lobster in the nearby bay. Mussels as well, according to familysearch.org. So, if you're a seafood lover, get your Thanksgiving lobster on! And here are four recipes to pick from this year. Written by the Maine Lobster Festival! So, you know those are going to be good.

Remember we said the nearby bay for the pilgrims had lobster as well as mussels. So it's a good bet that there were a few of those little guys at the first Thanksgiving feast as well. If you want to give that a go, here's a recipe to try for Seethed Mussels with Parsley and Vinegar.

Historians say that there definitely was corn at the first Thanksgiving, but not in the way we eat them today. There were no cobs or loose corn with butter. It was most likely served in the form of pudding that was mixed from the Wampanoag's cornmeal. Along with molasses brought from the Caribbean, and milk from the colonists from Europe (bostonmagazine.com).

You can serve the pudding in ramekins, or make it super cute and festive by pudding it back into the corn husks! Here's the recipe for the Pioneer Woman's version. I'm pretty sure this is happening at our house this year.

As mentioned before, there wasn't pumpkin pie at the first Thanksgiving. But the Plymouth settlers did have access to a lot of pumpkins. They just did other things with them. One of them being roasting. And not only is this Stuffed Pumpkin recipe adorable for your table, but it's vegetarian-friendly too! If you have any tofurkey eaters coming this year.

Another thing the pilgrims did with pumpkins is fill them with milk and honey to make a custard. If you're curious about what that tastes like, here's a recipe for Pumpkin Custard to try. You can even serve it in the mini pumpkins!

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