THANKSGIVING: A “sexy holiday?”

Just don’t wind up with spotted dick.

UPDATE: Reader Jeff Johnson emails: “Anecdotal evidence: In a previous job our department (with about 15 people) would have cake on each person’s birthday. This group had a large fraction of people whose birthdays were at the end of August/beginning of September – five within two weeks. This seemed a little unusual, until I counted back nine months from August – it was Thanksgiving! So either the food “helped things along” for people or the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade has always been boring.”