Happy Thanksgiving Day!!!!

For the U. S. contingent,

Happy Thanksgiving Day! The annual stuff your face with turkey, stuffing/dressing, pumpkin (punkin) pie, and then lie dormant on the couch watching the DALLAS COWBOYS beat the stuffing out of the Tampa Bay Buck an Ears!

For the non-US side of the world, just shake your heads and keep on smiling.

Curtis

Yep! Happy Turkey Day All!

yes yes... Happy Turkey day one and all..

From one of your northern neighbors, I'll echo that. Of course here in Canada we celibrated it on October 9th. We're not uncrafty north of the 49th parallel.
We celibrate it before the northern hawk decends and we might wonder exactly what it is we're celibrating. Brrrr.

Lawrence

If there was one Anglosaxon/American fall tradition that demands to be imported and celebrated in other countries, I'd probably vote for Thanksgiving rather than Halloween. However, from a shopkeeper's point of view, I suppose Thanksgiving doesn't generate quite as much side business, and these days new traditions are pushed by what is marketed...

I know some US people who moved to Sweden and try to put together a Thanksgiving dinner for family, friends and neighbours. Some ingredients are almost impossible to find, or only found in special American food stores who overcharge the imported stuff big time. I suppose it is when creativity takes over, and one might consider replacing e.g. the cranberry sauce with something else. We have cranberry juice, dried cranberries, lingonberry jam and so on. Small turkeys have become rather common in the stores' freezer disks, a bit more difficult to find those monster turkeys if you must have them.

Eat turkey, No turducken.

apple2fan said:

Eat turkey, No turducken.

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Tried a turducken once. Wasn't that impressed.

Curtis

I never cared for the concept of Turducken.. by the time the chicken's finished, the duck is rubbery and hard, and the turkey's toast.. unless, of course, you used a *shudders* wet cooking method

Wikipedia writes the record for nested bird roast is 17 birds, a bustergophechideckneaealckideverwingailusharkolanine from a royal feast in France in the 19th century. It sounds like more work than fun to prepare.