Happy Canadian Thanksgiving!
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you, Canada!
classical_hero
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Isn't this a bit early?
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Happy Thanksgiving! We really need to make it a 4 day weekend thing like in the States, in my family we always do the Thanksgiving meal on Sunday, since no one wants to work the day after.
cybrxkhan
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Happy Thanksgiving to America's hat!
Nope, it's exactly right. Thanks, guys.
We have our Thanksgiving when it's still warm enough to go outside and enjoy the gorgeous fall colors, and have fresh pumpkin pie. And we've still got Halloween to look forward to (chocolate and "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown").
As for the shopping, it's nice that Canada finally gets to take part in the Friday shopping you do in the U.S. But we have our own annual shopping ritual called Boxing Day (December 26), which means standing outside in freezing weather, sometimes hours before the store opens, in search of bargains. If the store is near a Tim Hortons, they do brisk business, as well.
BenitoChavez
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Does that make America, Canada's shoes?
GinandTonic
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No, America's always America's America. Us as shoes? That would be silly!
My name is bhsup, and I approve of this smiley!
Thanksgiving is on the first sunday after Michaelmas (except when that's on a saturday).
The shiftless socialists are one week late, not early.
SS-18 ICBM
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Hopefully the local grocery store has pumpkin pie on sale so I can keep doing that for a while.
Ugh. So. Full.
warpus
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I have a TON of turkey in my fridge. Also stuffing and mashed potatoes. From 2 different thanksgiving dinners.
My mom as usual made amazing dinner yesterday. She first served pumpkin soup, which I did not really look forward to, since I'm not huge on pumpkin. It tastes okay. Well, turns out she made her pumpkin soup using squash. We told her that it's squash soup. She seemed confused. It was good.
She also made pumpkin pie, which actually tasted good. It was made from pumpkin. So an authentic pumpkin production this time.
The beauty of Polish thanksgiving is that we don't tie this holiday to anything. To us it's just food and nothing else. Everybody else in the country is making a feast, so we figured we might as well. So it's incredibly low key. I didn't even really feel like I needed to be wearing pants (which I was).
My mom as usual made amazing dinner yesterday. She first served pumpkin soup, which I did not really look forward to, since I'm not huge on pumpkin. It tastes okay. Well, turns out she made her pumpkin soup using squash. We told her that it's squash soup. She seemed confused. It was good.
She also made pumpkin pie, which actually tasted good. It was made from pumpkin. So an authentic pumpkin production this time.
The beauty of Polish thanksgiving is that we don't tie this holiday to anything. To us it's just food and nothing else. Everybody else in the country is making a feast, so we figured we might as well. So it's incredibly low key. I didn't even really feel like I needed to be wearing pants (which I was).
It's a 3-day weekend here. Thanksgiving is a statutory holiday.
My pumpkin pie came from a local bakery. They make good stuff, though.
I daresay most Canadians view Thanksgiving weekend as the weekend for either one last camping trip before winter (I've gone camping on this weekend a couple of times), or an excuse to eat turkey, potatoes, dressing, cranberries, gravy, pumpkin pie, assorted other goodies, and relax in front of the TV with the sporting event of one's choice.
For me, though, during most of the '80s - '90s, Thanksgiving weekend meant a trip to either Edmonton, Calgary, or Banff to a science fiction convention. I'd leave Friday afternoon and get back late Sunday - or even Monday, the year we had the convention here in Red Deer. I was on the con committee that year, and we (my roommates and I) had an open room - running Doctor Who videos all day, so anyone who wanted to, could come in and watch. On those weekends, food was something people were advised to eat at least once a day, and nobody worried much about it being Thanksgiving.
*Nostalgic sigh... 30 years ago, I was at Noncon 7 in Edmonton, where Alan Dean Foster was the guest of honor. I was happy because I'd had the chance to meet and chat with him on several occasions that weekend.
