Well, I make dinner for my family and spend time drinking wine and playing board games with them. I like Thanksgiving because it's just a plain old feast. No religious overtones. No commercialism. Just good times with those close to you.
Note: my Thanksgiving was last month but I thought I'd post anyway.
Originally posted by darvlay
Well, I make dinner for my family and spend time drinking wine and playing board games with them. I like Thanksgiving because it's just a plain old feast. No religious overtones. No commercialism. Just good times with those close to you.
Note: my Thanksgiving was last month but I thought I'd post anyway.
You can have your own Thanksgiving whenever you like ?
Originally posted by darvlaylmao I am Canadian!
Not really. In Canada, land of the free, we have Thanksgiving in the second week of October. I don't really know why it's different than the Yanks.
Actually, I haven't a clue what our thanksgiving is about either, not that I'm unthankful or anything ...
Well, the traditional celebration is to have a large feast with friends and relatives normally consisting of turkey, ham, mashed potatos, etc. Then spend the rest of they day enjoying the company of your friends and family.
The idea is that when pilgrams were first settling in north america they didn't have enough food/supplies to make it through the winter. The local indians brought their excess food to them so they could eat until the following spring. In a show of "giving thanks", the pilgrams prepared a large meal and had a feast with the indians.
I think we all know that a harvest celebration has been going on for a few thousand years and that Thanksgiving is mostly likely another dirivitave of it (like Christmas).
Nonetheless, it's a day to reflect on what we have to be grateful for; food to eat, shelter over our heads, friends and family to share our lives with, etc
Originally posted by Saint NickYup, I agree, it's a celebration of a good harvest, a way of thanking whatever dieties (or luck) may have been involved in setting the table through the coming winter with enough food to survive.
Well, the traditional celebration is to have a large feast with friends and relatives normally consisting of turkey, ham, mashed potatos, etc. Then spend the rest of they day enjoying the company of your friends and family.
The idea is that when pilgrams were first settling in north america they didn't have enough food/supplies to make it through the wi ...[text shortened]... ateful for; food to eat, shelter over our heads, friends and family to share our lives with, etc