10 Stats To Get You Ready For Thanksgiving

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There are expected to be 248 million turkeys raised in 2011. This means that every man, woman and child in the U.S. could eat over half a turkey, and there would still be some leftovers.The total weight of all of the turkeys produced in 2010 came in at over 7 billion pounds.
Despite the over $4 billion in turkeys produced domestically, during the first half of 2011 the nation imported nearly $8 million more turkeys. Most of these were from Canada.
On average, each American consumed a yearly amount of 13.3 pounds of turkey in 2009. This is spread out over the entire year, so not all 13.3 pounds was eaten at Thanksgiving. However, a sizable portion would be.
750 million pounds of cranberries are expected to be produced in 2011. No word on how many of those will form the cranberry sauce shaped like a can.
In 2010 the retail price of a frozen turkey was $1.38 per pound.
Around 2.4 billion pounds of sweet potatoes were produced last year. How heavy is that? Over a quarter of a million elephants would weigh less than that many sweet potatoes.
The total weight of sweet potatoes produced by major sweet-potato-producing states in 2009 was 1.9 billion.
The value of all pumpkins produced by major pumpkin-producing states in 2009 was $103 million.
About 1.1 pounds of pumpkins were grown in 2010, making billions of pumpkin pies a possibility. The state of Illinois produced over a third of the pumpkins. California, Ohio, and New York collectively produced another third of them.
In the first half of this year, $5.3 million in sweet potatoes were imported into the U.S. Over half of these sweet potatoes came from the Dominican Republic.


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