turkey day

Fairfield

Happpy Thanksgiving everyone, eat a gobbler for me

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stirmantrees

happy thanksgiving to you as well. my sis lives in PA

Fairfield

oh ya where abouts??

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Apocalypsse

Dammit, now I have a hankering for some turkey...

Educated this Aussie, what is thanks giving?

newguy18

Have fun guys,i choose not to celebrate holidays.

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windthrown

Thanksgiving is a big holiday stateside (one of the biggest). Basically started by the Pilgrims that landed here in New England in 1620, the 'frist' Thanksgiving was a feast when they knew that they were running low on food and winter was setting in. So basically, they partied to lift their otherwise dismal spirits. No one is sure as to the exact date that it took place, but sometime in October or November.

Abe Lincoln made Thanksgiving a holiday back in 1863 when he was president of the US. It is always the last Thursday in the month of November. School is closed that day and the following Friday. Most people take the following Friday off as well, which is called 'Black Friday'. It is called Black Friday becasue that is the day that most stores in the US move into the black for making a profit in retail sales on the year. It is also a typical mob shopping day for Christmas purchases. Thanksgiving typically is a big family reunion day in the US, and it is the most travelled holiday in the US. Tradition is that you have a big feast, and typically it involves serving turkey, though ham and roast beef are also popular (though not nearly as common as turkey). For that reason, we commonly call it, "Turkey Day". In Canada, they celebreate Thanksgiving in October and it is not as big a deal. In Mexico, it is not a holiday at all, except when us expats want to eat turkey there. I had a ton of turkey and dressing at my brother's this year. Then we watched the new Start Trek movie in Hi Def and drank a lot of beer.

Now you are educated... its funny, here we say 'gobble gobble' this time of year. Mimiking a turkey call, and that we gobble up a lot of food. In the UK, that means oral sex. Of course, when I ate too much turkey at my brother's, I was 'stuffed.' I am told that in Oz stuffed means I am preggo... or 'knocked up,' as we say here. Knocked up in the UK means knocking on the door. Several of those common language separated by an ocean things.

Apocalypsse

Ive heard about Black Friday, looooooooooots of hurt people :P

kel

the 'frist' Thanksgiving was a feast when they knew that they were running low on food and winter was setting in. So basically, they partied to lift their otherwise dismal spirits.

Thats an interesting way to deal with immenent food shortage and winter ahead. Do the local original inhabitants/injuns play a part in it, showing the new comers whats good to eat in the bush or is that another festival?.

windthrown

Supposedly the Indians smelled the food from miles away, and came around. The trendy modern theme is that the Indians brought food and they all shared happily in the feast. The more likely theme is either: 1) the Indians came and stared at them hungry, and there was nothing else anyone could do but share, 2) the Indians brought the bulk of the food and shared it with the white folk. The Pilgrims were poorly prepaired for the early winters, and more provisions were supposed to show up before winter set in. The first Thanksgiving was either shortly before or after another ship arrived, called Fortune, which had one of my great ancestors aboard (Henry Bump). But it was mostly people, and not a lot of provisions. Just what you need when supplies are low, more mouths to feed. Of course, there was a plethora of food around. The Boston area is famous for seafood. Lobsters, clams, crabs and fish. They likely preferred red meat and game though.

I have to presume that the Pilrgim venture was like Oregon was when Louis and Clark got here after the US bought the Louisianna Purchanse from France (about 200 years ago). The PNW Indians gave the expedition all the salmon and clams that they wanted. They did not want any. Louis' men pleased with him to shoot a horse so that they could eat it. I mean, these people were starving in an area teaming with food. They either did not recognize it as food, did not know how to cook it, or they had another diet. Its amzing to me to read these kinds of accounts. Of course, I know how to catch and cook salmon, clams, crabs, and lobsters. And I was raised eating them. They obviously did/were not. My ex SIL is like that. She and my niece would starve to death before eating seafood. As my nephew says, his mother was raised on, "Mormon Wagon Train" food. Lots of preserves and canned food, red meat, game, and poultry. He was seething when I fed him a leg of lamb once. He had never had it before, and he was about 20 at the time. He loved it. Lamb was not on the Mormon Wagon Train diet it seems.