maize-on-the-cob

— No other American menu could be more traditional than that offered on each and every Thanksgiving, from that first brave display of garnered harvest, when both Pilgrims and Indians sat together in amity around a groaning board: craneberries (from the fancied resemblance of their arching stems), wild turkey (often brought down with arrows), oysters (eaten from their shells), maize-on-the-cob (or made into a pudding of Indian meal), pie (of minced apples, wild grapes and nuts from native trees).