“How Do I Catch A Turkey?” The Questions You’re Googling For Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving - older than the U.S. itself - has evolved to be a time where families and friends gather to eat, drink, and be thankful.

Google released its annual Thanksgiving report on the top "how to" questions we've been googling. From Stuffing - or whatever YOU call it - to pies, from football to parades - some interesting questions, some goofy questions, and some are juts plain out there.

Turkey is the traditional main course on Thanksgiving day. Search interest in "how to cook turkey" spikes each year in November.

Your questions came at it from a lot of angles this year, so here you go:

-Carla Rea

The top sides we're searching for include stuffing, mashed potatoes, and green bean casserole, and cranberries.

How to "smoke" a turkey.  How to deep-fry a turkey also a very popular search right now.

"How to make stuffing," "How to cook a turkey," and "How to CATCH a turkey" - Really?

Pumpkin, apple, pecan, sweet potato, and cranberry.  Pumpkin is first in 28 states, and apple in 22.

Trendy Thanksgiving drinks this year include:  Hot buttered rum, apple cider mojito, pumpkin martinis, pumpkin pie pudding shots, and cranberry sangria.

Believe it or not = Montana, Michigan, West Virginia, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont have been googling "Parades" more than Football.

Or "dressing" as it's called in the South.  There are too many to list them all, but you can check out the map   "Cornbread dressing" dominates in the South, and in a few states where it's called "cornbread STUFFING" instead.  Also, "Turkey stuffing" and "sausage stuffing" are big in a lot of states.