happy thanks givvin yall (it like in a week in a half) im doing thanks giving at my house this year... and i have to cook tons and tons of food...yum yum yum...

a week and a half early? well, at least i know it'll happen soon! being english i tend to forget when thanksgiving is

Oh well! I rarely *really* celebrate Thanksgiving... I have some turkey and then I go to sleep. I'm just grateful for the long weekend *nods*

Thank you. Happy Thanksgiving to you!

Hm.... Pumpkin pie.... Yummmmmm!

Would someone kindly explain to an ignorant Englander what Thanksgiving is?

Thanksgiving is a holiday where Americans gather together with relatives, watch football, and gorge themselves on turkey, stuffing, and the like until they are all ready to puke.

Well, pretty much, anyway. There's some stuff about the pilgrims having the first Thanksgiving with the Native Americans when they came over here...where they shared the bounty of the harvest and all that stuff. But I don't remember most of that as it's been a good 14 or 15 years since I was forced to make a pilgrim hat out of black construction paper in school and act out the whole thing.

In Canada (their Thanksgiving was last month), it's more of just a harvest celebration, from what I understand. None of the pilgrim-y stuff.

I rather enjoy Thanksgiving myself...though I didn't as a child. I have a HUGE extended family, so we had to rent a church every year to fit all of us under one roof. I usually ended up playing in the cemetery to escape my pesky cousins. That part was fun, but when it came time to eat I had to deal with irritating relatives asking me "Do you have a boyfriend yet?" and other ridiculous things that just serve to irritate a 10 year old.

But, now it's just my immediate family pretty much. We have it at my mom's house every year. This year the hubby's aunt and her hubby are driving in from Washington. I'm not very fond of her..so this should be interesting....

Oh, and by the way...the actual date for Thanksgiving this year is November 27th...sooo yeah this is just a tish bit early.

I can't wait for that day. I will be done with all of my schoolwork (except for Library Studies, which is easy...)..AHAHAHAHA FREEEE!

Ahem. Dunno where THAT came from.

Candice described it pretty well.... hehe You can read about the history of Thanksgiving Day online (Thanksgiving Day).

Oh, I see - another chance for the entire country to ignore the fact that it nicked the land from the natives and persecuted them for centuries. Well, maybe that's just me being cynical (maybe definitely). Sounds like you couldn't wait for Christmas so you invented another festival to fill the time. Am I right?

But seriously, enjoy yo'selves guys. Feed the economy and eat well this Thanksgiving!

Yes America stole the country from the natives. That's something perfect little Englands never done *shakes head*.[/sarcasm]

well, you didn't see us try to kill every native that was here in a time when we WERE supposed to be civilised...
back when we colonised, i should think circumstances may have been a little different as it was probably happening everywhere.
and what about the spanish? huh?

lol sorry, but i like to stick up for my people

Hey, I didn't steal nothin' from nobody, it was like this when I got here. I like Thanksgiving cuz of the food and family. Plus it means Christmas is getting closer! Squee

One of the things I'm most thankful of are you guys. I love you all. Everyone of you. Starting with the women. Make a line to my right please. Guys on the left for high-fives.

Oh for goodness sake.

Yeah, we ignore that we stole this country all the time. Sure. That's why it's shoved down our throats every year in school. That's why my hometown was named after a tribe. Right. That must be it...of course! Because we're trying to ignore it!

Just like black history month is a way of ignoring slavery.

It all makes sense now. Thanks ever so much for enlightening me. Because you know, all of us are so much to blame for our ancestor's actions. Yep. I sure could have prevented my great great great whatever from stealing land..why didn't I?! Shame on me.



The holiday isn't a way of ignoring what happened in the years following the first Thanksgiving. It's meant to be a way of..well..giving thanks....and for remembering that brief moment of peace in our countries history when Native Americans and pilgrims feasted together and celebrated.

Gah. Now I sound like a damned after school special. Well, no matter. The holiday has been in existence for quite a long time now, and is not simply something to hold us over until Christmas.

This isn't a thread to criticize Americans. There are plenty of those. Move on and go complain in those and leave us to our nice little happy holiday, please.

I don't know why we should be trying to be all superior the pilgrim came from here orginally so were just as much to blame! If were going to be all finger poitingy and blamey & they went to get away from being pursecuted over here any way. and any way were just probably jelous cause you's get an extra party on us!
So Anyway have a good one & eat way to much!

You know what. You're ALL WRONG.

Thanksgiving isn't about pilgrims or native americans or lesbian rights...

It's all about the pie...

Anyhoo, Happy T-Day!! Have some pie!! *sets up little signs that say "Free Pie!" and begins serving*

Yay! Pie! Much better idea.

im vegetarian...so its tofu and apple pie for me

Happy Pie Day!


OK, so we weren't exactly a nice empire ourselves, but at least we didn't invent a holiday to celebrate how nice we were when we really, really weren't.

Neither did we, Polo.

All the mean stuff our country ever did is shoved down our throat from the time we're born. All the time. Like I said before, the day isn't about pretending that we weren't ever naughty...it's about giving thanks for all the good stuff we have. Stuff like pie.

Now shoo. Leave us to our pie.

Yay for pie!

Oh, alright, you can be allowed one day off, I suppose. Enjoy all the nice fattening foods! Yum!

Just as an aside, around the time that the Native Americans were being persecuted etc was when the British Empire was finishing off a couple of hundred years of raping, pillaging, perseucting and basically being a bunch of complete bastards to more or less everyone in the world. So there you go.

Anyway, this is my first proper Thanksgiving stateside (spent last year's one in a hotel on my own in the desert in Cali), and the girly's folks are coming into town so we're cooking up a storm. From what I can gather, it's basically Christmas without the presents and the fat bearded bloke.

Mmmm....


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Pie.

I hate Thanksgiving..........a horrible weekend with my moms superior family.......my grandma who is the bitch of all bitches who hates me and says anything wrong with me every chance she gets cuz im the only 1 with enough guts to talk back, my grandpa who is afraid of standing up to her, the my perfect cousins and there mother and father who im surprised can talk with there lips always on my grans ass!!!*rips out hair and starts screaming at the thought of Thankgiving* sorry just had to get the out. besides that Thanksgivings great!!!!Football!!! YAY!!! the best damn soprt ever besides dressage

Turkey Day Nears!!!
Better Watch Some Football
I love Thanksgiving. It's the one day a year I: gorge myself, have fun with my favorite reletives, and and beat the crap out of the ones I don't like during the poker tournament (or the football game).

I never really do anything for Thanksgiving anymore. My own family is half the country away from me, and it doesn't make sense to spend $300 on a plane ticket to spend only a weekend with them to celebrate one holiday (makes more sense to wait till the "big" holiday of christmas when there's generally more vacation time). I can't stand spending Thanksgiving with my boyfriend's family -- their idea of a Thanksgiving dinner is full of cheating. They hate cooking and they hate washing dishes, so barely anything, even for holidays, is home-cooked. They buy everything pre-baked from the grocery store. Pre-baked pie, pre-packaged salads, 10-minute potatoes (e.g. Hungry Jack or Betty Crocker brand), and so forth. Having grown up in a family that does everything from scratch for such holidays, it just seems to ruin it all when replacing all the homemade food with store-made crap.

Anyway, I don't really care to make a big deal out of it. Last year, my dude and I just ate macaroni and went about our regular daily business as if it were not a special day at all. And that's just fine with me. I want some pumpkin pie though. That's all I ask for this time.

I'm baking all of the deserts on Wed. for Thanksgiving.... Pumpking pie included! I'll try to save you a slice to send to you! lol

Yay! Save me a piece of that pumpkin pie, Crissi! Yummm......

Pre-made...food? For...Thanksgiving?

Barbaric!

I know people who do that too, though. They get big platters of pre-made stuff from Safeway. And they eat off of paper plates. It's just not the same. We make everything from scratch on holidays. It's better that way, I think. But then, I like cooking. A little bit of my LGG pumpkin is waiting in the freezer to make its way into our pumpkin pie(s). I hate pumpkin pie, so I won't eat any...but at least my family will get some enjoyment out of that thing. Hehe..she lives on! We also have a bunch of assorted berries from my mom's garden that are going into pies. Yep. Lots of pie. And cheesecake too, I think. Probably at least 3 pies will be pumpkin. We're having 10 or 12 people this year, so 2 regular ones for the group and 1 sugarless version for my dad.

We always plan to decorate for Christmas after we eat...but it usually ends up in all of us laying around, stuffed so full we can barely move, and saying "uggh...I'm going to die. Let's do it tomorrow instead." Hehe. I imagine that'll probably happen again this year. We always swear that it won't...but it always does. Yay for unhealthy traditions!

Yay Thanksgiving snow!

Now we can stuff ourselves stupid for a couple of days, learn how much we all hate turkey again, then once the food's settled by Sunday, we strap a big bit of wood to our feet, and hurl ourselves down snowy mountains. Hurrah!

*itiching to get back on the freshly waxed board*

And pie. Mmm, pie. As the head under-chef for the Thanksgiving dinner, I've appointed myself as Quality Assurance Executive i.e. I have to make sure that it's all OK thorugh the medium of tasting it all.

Yay!

And you wouldn't want anyone slipping poison into your mother-in-law's pie now, would you?

Bah! Silly Americans! Thanksgiving was last month. You showed up late and now there's no turkey for you!

That would be some trick, being that in order to achieve that, they'd have to secretly marry me off to some poor lass without me noticing to actually [u]get [/i]me a mother-in-law, then go to all the trouble of slipping the poison in.

Sounds like more trouble than it's worth.

Nah, I'm just a greedy sod, me. That's all.

Yup, that's exactly what my boyfriend's family do, paper plates included. They hatehateHATE doing dishes, so they just go the wasteful way and use up paper plates and paper bowls for every meal instead. I've never eaten off of a proper plate while at their house. :-/ Holidays included. That plus the Safeway platters just kinda ruins it for me.

that's plain unamerican! who would even dream of yams that are microwaved! someone needs to go to their house and re-educate them.

My lord.

Hmm. Why don't they just get one plate/bowl/glass/silverware set per person and have them each wash it themselves whenever they want to eat if they're that against doing dishes? It doesn't take but 5 seconds to wash one plate! Hmm, of course then they'd have to have extra for company as well...but geez is it really that difficult to was a couple of extra plates every once in awhile?

Poor Moonlight. Do you want some of my LGG pumpkin pie? (It doesn't actually have LGG on it..lol...but the pumpkin it came from had her carved on it)

That's ideally how they already have it set up right now, except it only includes drinking glass and silverware for each person (and also, I think that the dishes have fallen back to being only one person's job in that house again anyway). They used to have a sign up in front of the kitchen sink reminding each family member to "wash your own dishes." Apparently, having to wash silverware and a few drinking cups is too much work as is for that family. They are soooooooo lazy when it comes to dishes. It bugs the crap out of me how wasteful they are.



Yay! I'm getting lots of pumpkin pie off of you guys lately. First Crissi and now candice is making me pie. Hey, I'll take all I can get.

Speaking of microwaves, whenever I ask for a baked potato at my boyfriend's parents' house, I end up with one that's been microwaved instead. I don't know if any of you have ever tried a microwaved potato, but microwaves seem to merely "heat up" rather than "cook" some foods, and that potato was still hard and difficult to eat, even though it was steaming hot. It was awful. :-/

And whenever they have green salads, it's one of the pre-packaged salad thingies that supposedly doesn't need to be washed before being served, and usually I can still taste the pesticides on those prepackaged salads. Gahhh.... Is it just me? Maybe they buy a really cheap, low-quality brand or something.

YES! I have tried and tried to tell my family I do not like my baked potatoes cooked in the microwave because it isn't as good.... They all insist that they can't tell the difference between a potatoe that has been cooked in the oven and one that was heated in the microwave. They are crazy.... lol

And I don't know how true this is (I just heard it from somebody else), but I heard that some people have gotten sick from eating those pre-packaged salads without washing them first.

Microwaves are for reheating/warming stuff up only! Not actual cooking of foods that aren't actually packaged as stuff intended to be cooked in a microwave! Any non-prepackaged foods just end up icky when you try to cook them in a microwave, I think.

Also, Crissi, you aren't mistaken about people getting sick from those salads. I saw something about that on the news...some little girl got pretty sick from eating one and had to be hospitalized. You should always wash them before you eat them. I can still taste the pesticides too if they aren't washed, Moonlight...so it's not just you. Blegh. So gross. I soak them in a little bit of baking soda and water, then rinse em like crazy before I even take one bite of them. I'm kind of fanatic about making sure food is clean before I eat it. Meanwhile, I think your bf's family should make a dishwasher a Christmas present to themselves one of these days from the sound of things..lol. If they have a small family that wouldn't really need a full-sized dishwasher, the table top compact kind can be great, and it usually uses less water than most people use when washing the dishes by hand. I have one myself (if by some chance they did decide to get one, get a Danby I think they're called...something with a D....they're faaar superior to the kind I have...Haier...luckilly my hubby can fix stuff ). I hate washing dishes too...it's my least favorite household chore...but I hate waste even more, so I could never bring myself to do the paper plate thing.

Wow...microwaved yams. I can't believe people actually microwave food on Thanksgiving! That just boggles my mind. I've only ever experienced Thanksgiving with my own family and with my hubby's family...I've only heard about other families that do that sort of thing. My hubby's grandparents have almost certainly already begun cooking, I'm sure. They make these..things...I forget what they're called. Pasteles is what it sounds like, but I don't think that's right...anyway, they're..interesting. They're mashed bananas (not regular bananas, these weird ones that don't taste banana-ish at all) and I think turkey..and spices...wrapped up in foil and boiled. At least I think that's what it is. Hmm. Well, there are spicy and non-spicy varieties...and they're actually pretty good. None of the kids ever like them though. My mom will probably make pies all day Wednesday...I just can't imagine instant food on Thanksgiving!

The funny thing is, they already have a (functional) dishwasher...but they only use it for storing their tupperware that never gets used??? Go figure... It's easier for them to just buy disposable dishware and not give a thought to all the waste, I suppose. *sigh*

Well gosh...lol. /me shrugs in dismay in their general direction


Anyway, turkey day has arrived. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.

i still think that sounds like sea food.....like clams i guess

todays the day...

a huge turkey roasting in the oven..delicious stuffing...

sneaking out of me house to visit my friend tamee..

*Sigh*

but it seems too odd..

in the midst of life we are death....

to be happy yet be so sad...

Strangely enough though I cooked a pumpkin pie for Halloween and that is my new year and it celebrates the lives of people who have passed that year. Dayan will be given a place at the table next year now but Thanksgiving Pumpkin pie can translate to Halloween and the Day of the Dead.

Does that make any sense? Well I know what I mean!

Ah thanksgiving. Now, let's see what do I have to do today. Science project due Monday. I'll do it tomorrow (meanwhile yesterday: Science project due Monday? I'll do it tomorrow. ). Let's see... ah yes, exactly what I hoped to do, computer and junk food (with all the junk food that I consume it amazes me that I'm average weight and size).

Silly SPS. Yams are sweet potatoes. They're icky. My family never has them. Do they not have them in England?

Well, if not...sweet potato pie tastes identical to pumpkin pie...just to give you and idea of what they're like.

And Kidvish, Dayan would want us going about our normal lives. I'm such a hypocrite saying that, you know, because I'm certainly not following my own advice! But, it's true. He would want us to be happy. He always cared about everyone else's happiness above all else.

My turkey day was okay. Better than I expected. The aunt and such ended up not showing up cause of the bad weather, so it was just immediate family. I was really glad for that.