Why do we eat cranberry sauce on Thanksgiving?
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                            According to University of Maine Cooperative Extension, American Indians used cranberries as a food source, to dye fabric and as medicine. ... Due to the importance of cranberries in the 1500s and their abundance, it is believed that the pilgrims and the American Indians would have eaten them at the first Thanksgiving. 
                    
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