Change one letter in a long-legged wading bird, add a fruit, and you get the tart red sauce on the Thanksgiving table. What fruit started it all?
Cranberry
The name 'cranberry' originally derived from 'crane-berry' because its pink blossoms resembled the neck and head of a crane, a wading bird. Replacing 'crane' with 'cran' gives the popular tart berry used to make autumn Thanksgiving sauce.
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