It’s Thanksgiving. You’ve got a nice pile of sliced turkey on your plate. It’s looking a little dry, though, so you reach for the gravy. It’s in that ornate-looking gravy boat your grandmother’s been serving it in for years.

She got it at a flea market a few decades back, but what she — and you, as you pour its contents onto your meal — might not realize is that it might not be a gravy boat at all.

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On Nov. 28, 2024, Jenna Jones, a TikTok creator who specializes in 1800s history, posted a video that has folks taking a much closer look at their fine china.

Jones details the similarities between the gravy boat and the bourdaloue, a daintily decorated antique vessel that was not used for dinner, to say the least. I

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