Happy Thanksgiving (Canadian style)

[Sherlock77]

We do Thanksgiving Day a little earlier up north here, and as I recently discovered the roots of our celebration have little to do with the United States (History 101)

For all the Canucks here, enjoy your day off, enjoy some time with family and friends, maybe take a walk through autumn leaves, and enjoy some great food

And be thankful! I have to train myself to be better at that

Just thankful for friends, hanging out a pub for awhile with friends yesterday afternoon, dinner tonight, etc...

 

[VictorR]

And for our American friends, greetings on the occasion of Columbus Day!

 

[Forest Cat]

Happy Thanksgiving Canada.

 

[Shevek]

What family and friends? I'm thankful for a day with reduced risk of drop-in visitors.

 

[Sherlock77]

What family and friends? I'm thankful for a day with reduced risk of drop-in visitors.

Then that is a good day as well then...

 

[Yeshuasdaughter]

Happy Thanksgiving! In Canada, do you eat similar foods as Americans do on Thanksgiving?

I have heaps of Canadian relatives, mostly in Saskatchewan, but also in Nova Scotia/New Brunswick. But we only ever celebrated American Thanksgiving as a big thing. On Columbus Day/ Canadian Thanksgiving, my grandmother would usually make a small fancy dinner for the immediate family, usually of Cornish Game Hens, green bean casserole, rolls, mashed potatoes and gravy, and usually like a pecan pie or a mincemeat pie.

Are these American Thanksgiving Foods the same for you?: Turkey, dressing (stuffing), devilled eggs, sweet potatoes, rolls, mashed potatoes and gravy, and various salads and cultural foods. And pies for dessert (pumpkin, apple, cherry, and pecan pies being the most common).

 

[Yeshuasdaughter]

And for our American friends, greetings on the occasion of Columbus Day!

It's also Indigenous People's Day too!

 

[Mary Terry]

Happy Thanksgiving, Sherlock!

 

[Shevek]

Happy Thanksgiving! In Canada, do you eat similar foods as Americans do on Thanksgiving?

I have heaps of Canadian relatives, mostly in Saskatchewan, but also in Nova Scotia/New Brunswick. But we only ever celebrated American Thanksgiving as a big thing. On Columbus Day/ Canadian Thanksgiving, my grandmother would usually make a small fancy dinner for the immediate family, usually of Cornish Game Hens, green bean casserole, rolls, mashed potatoes and gravy, and usually like a pecan pie or a mincemeat pie.

Are these American Thanksgiving Foods the same for you?: Turkey, dressing (stuffing), devilled eggs, sweet potatoes, rolls, mashed potatoes and gravy, and various salads and cultural foods. And pies for dessert (pumpkin, apple, cherry, and pecan pies being the most common).

This Saskatchewanian wouldn't even breathe in a room like that now, but that was the menu a half century ago.

 

[Yeshuasdaughter]

This Saskatchewanian wouldn't even breathe in a room like that now, but that was the menu a half century ago.

what do you mean? please explain.

 

[Shevek]

what do you mean? please explain.

My friend Don had a bull that followed him around like a dog. Except for a few cantankerous individuals, all domestic animals make fine pets if you have the room and give them some attention. Every free-range chicken has a distinct personality. Cows cry all night when their calves are taken away. Therefore, the smell of roast meat is the smell of a bizzare, ghoulish funeral for an abandoned pet. It is also the smell of a Stone-Age diet that uses several times more land to produce worse health than a tasty vegan diet. There are over seven billion people now, and we, and our domestic animals, weigh four times more than all the wild species put together, and we are still driving more to extinction every day. These years are being written into the rocks as the sixth great mass extinction event, and it on course to get as bad as the Asteroid that took out the Dinosaurs.

 

[Luca]

And for our American friends, greetings on the occasion of Columbus Day!

We don't call it Columbus Day in Massachusetts anymore. It's officially recognized as Indigenous People's Day
Not scolding you, just didn't know if you knew.

 

[GrownupGirl]

I know I should have been thankful this Thanksgiving but instead I'm miserable, depressed, and full of paranoia because we could get nuked any second. Covid, climate change, rising food prices, nukes, every other day a new crisis, It never stops. Why won't it stop? Haven't we suffered enough? I guess not, the human race must be really evil. Of course it is, it always has been. At least the holiday is over now, so I can stop masking and go back to shrilly cursing the very day I was born until I have a nervous breakdown. It's a wonder I haven't had one by now.