Mmmm Thanksgiving food....
I have always loved Thanksgiving-- it's the only holiday in which the tradition is to eat lots of food and hang out with the people you love, without having to buy presents! How great is that?!
I leave you now with some pictures of the yummy food I ate. These foods are Thanksgiving traditions in my own family (the pictures are in no particular order): tortellini soup (an Italian tradition), the ever-popular turkey (which we name every year), a huge array of pot luck desserts (including the famous Turkey Cookies Mom and I make), rice balls (another Italian tradition), and apple pie. Let me know what your own family's food traditions are!!!! Mmmm sooo much Thanksgiving food! :)
posted by Living Life With Exclamation Points! at
5:05 PM
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In Canada, Thanksgiving is in October. We have the same traditional turkey dinner and pumpkin pie, and families get together for a thanksgiving meal, and of course football on TV. This year I was invited to my younger son's fiancee's mother's house to share their Thanksgiving. Lots of relatives that I had never met before, but as my son is joining their family by means of a wedding next October, I shall probably be getting to know them all a lot better in the near future.
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Shammickite, at November 27, 2006 at 10:07 PM
Thanksgiving in Canada?
Funny, I don't remember anything about Pilgrims landing at Manitoba Rock and sharing the walrus blubber harvest with the Indians. Do they even have turkeys in the Northwest Territories, or the Yukon? Only frozen ones, I would think. Yuk yuk.
This is just a suggestion, but couldn't you come up with some holidays of your own? Like, oh, I don't know...like the "Celebration Feast of the Clubbing of the Baby Seals" or something like that?
Just a suggestion. (Next thing you know, they'll be stealing Christmas, too. Which would be absurd, since everyone knows that Santa lives in a condo in Palm Beach.)
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Anonymous, at November 28, 2006 at 10:04 PM
To me, Thanksgiving marks the start of the month of too much going on, but at least the lights come out, and for the like 20th year the artificial tree (because Dad and I react to pine sap and pollen) makes its appearance at the old farm. The turkey, stuffing, and yams dinner is a small part of the whole day, it's the time with the parents and having Carol weave in and out under the lights while trying to hang them (no pics in all these years). So for me, Thanksgiving is like a kickoff holiday to birthdays, parties, Christmas, more birthdays, and the New Year.
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Anonymous, at November 28, 2006 at 11:45 PM
FYI Lutz: We have Thanksgiving in Canada to celebrate the fact that we're not American!! :-)
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Shammickite, at November 28, 2006 at 11:53 PM
Woah...looks like we have an American/Canadian squabble! ;)
And to think, this all started from a discussion about food and family.
I love holidays.
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Living Life With Exclamation Points!, at November 29, 2006 at 8:39 AM
Big grin here!
And if you haven't experienced the walrus blubber harvest at Manitoba Rock, you just haven't lived!
A slightly belated "Happy Thanksgiving" to all our American neighbours! :-)
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Shammickite, at November 29, 2006 at 2:39 PM
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cvd, at December 5, 2006 at 11:33 AM
I want to know what names you've chosen for the turkey!
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cvd, at December 5, 2006 at 11:34 AM
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