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Coffee House => Coffee House Boards => CH / General => Topic started by: bjjones37 on November 24, 2004, 10:07:40 PM
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I don't know if this is just an American tradition or not, but have a Happy Thanksgiving anyway. I am going home this evening and smoke a turkey. Kinda hard to jam it in a paper cylinder, but I do my best. :-D Mesquite wood, which thankfully we have plenty of in Texas, makes the BEST smoked meat. Between that and the cranberry sauce, corn-on-the-cob, mashed potatoes and gravy, and pumpkin pie, you have a meal fit for a king. :-) Besides, I get paid holiday from work. So have a great Thanksgiving day!
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I believe it is an American thing. Can you please describe it's significance? (in a nutshell) :-)
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Tis an American tradition
the Netherlands is also a bit involved in this,
here's the story about the roots of thanksgiving:thanksgiving (http://wilstar.com/holidays/thankstr.htm)
anyhoo, happy thanksgiving to you Americans :pint:
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Speelgoedmannetje wrote:
Tis an American tradition
the Netherlands is also a bit involved in this,
here's the story about the roots of thanksgiving:thanksgiving (http://wilstar.com/holidays/thankstr.htm)
I can't reach that link. I get a timeout error.
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It works now. Thanks.
Aah!
So it's a Harvest festival type of thing.
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The Pilgrims who sailed to this country aboard the Mayflower were originally members of the English Separatist Church (a Puritan sect). They had earlier fled their home in England and sailed to Holland (The Netherlands) to escape religious persecution. There, they enjoyed more religious tolerance, but they eventually became disenchanted with the Dutch way of life, thinking it ungodly. Seeking a better life, the Separatists negotiated with a London stock company to finance a pilgrimage to America.
hm, says it all,
first enjoying our freedom, then condemning us for our freedom
tsk tsk... :lol:
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bjjones37 wrote:
I don't know if this is just an American tradition or not, but have a Happy Thanksgiving anyway. I am going home this evening and smoke a turkey. Kinda hard to jam it in a paper cylinder, but I do my best. :-D Mesquite wood, which thankfully we have plenty of in Texas, makes the BEST smoked meat. Between that and the cranberry sauce, corn-on-the-cob, mashed potatoes and gravy, and pumpkin pie, you have a meal fit for a king. :-) Besides, I get paid holiday from work. So have a great Thanksgiving day!
Us Brits eat Turkey on Christmas Day. Is that the tradition in the States also?
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It doesn't seem like a year since the last Thanksgiving... In fact, it seems so recent I thought this year's had passed!
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bjjones37 wrote:
So have a great Thanksgiving day!
Same right back at you :-)
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Oh yes!
Where are my manners.
Have a nice one BJ! :-)
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So, what's the typical Thanksgiving menu? I mean aside from Turkey, of course...
Please tell me it's a sprout free affair. The thought of a nation of some 250 million people eating sprouts in unison is deeply worrying ;-)
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mdma wrote:
Us Brits eat Turkey on Christmas Day. Is that the tradition in the States also?
Yes we do, but the menu is usually a bit more varied over Christmas. I usually have four or five different kinds of meat over Christmas. :-)
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bjjones37 wrote:
mdma wrote:
Us Brits eat Turkey on Christmas Day. Is that the tradition in the States also?
Yes we do, but the menu is usually a bit more varied over Christmas. I usually have four or five different kinds of meat over Christmas. :-)
Over here it's Turkey from Christmas Day until we run out of meat, which is usually the third week of January! ;-)
btw. Happy Thanksgiving
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Something just occured. Why is the Turkey so called anyway? Isn't it native to America?
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One explanation here (http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/natbltn/001-099/nb041.htm)
So it's some sort of onomatepaic (sp?) word from the sound they make?
From the link
The wild turkey is the largest of all our game birds. The hens have a querulous, chirping call which sounds like "turk, turk, turk". The cocks, known as "gobblers" because of their peculiar "gobble, gobble" call, attain a length of four feet and weigh from 20 to 30 pounds or more.
It must be the recent plague of purile humour but it was only after I stopped rolling on the floor at that particular wording I considered a 30lb Turkey.
How big is the largest XMas turkey you can get in the UK? I'm sure it isn't 30lbs! Is it?
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@mdma
Managed to eek out the turkey one year till mid febuary (It was frozen in sections)... Interesting though, couldn't touch white meat for months after though.
that was about 10 years ago now, and the christmas was one that saw my dad get a promotion and raise... good days them.
Thanksgiving... where the pilgrims gave thanks for the fact that they had successfully butchered the local population... Well to quote Tony Blair:
"Its a case of putting traditional values, in a modern context"
the modern context being the Iraq war...
Sorry, I know you guys enjoy the holiday, but what you're celebrating is essentially ethnic cleansing.
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Happy Thanksgiving!
We don't celebrate it downunder, in fact we don't really celebrate much at all, but have a good one :-) and enjoy a chunk'o'turkey for me :-D :pint:
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bjjones37 wrote:
I don't know if this is just an American tradition or not, but have a Happy Thanksgiving anyway. I am going home this evening and smoke a turkey. Kinda hard to jam it in a paper cylinder, but I do my best. :-D Mesquite wood, which thankfully we have plenty of in Texas, makes the BEST smoked meat. Between that and the cranberry sauce, corn-on-the-cob, mashed potatoes and gravy, and pumpkin pie, you have a meal fit for a king. :-) Besides, I get paid holiday from work. So have a great Thanksgiving day!
While I have a general dislike of celebrations (any celebration/tradition/law over 10 years old needs urgent review IMHO), that meal certaily sounds nice.
Have a good time. :-)
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In the spirit of the day, I wish a very happy and peaceful Thanksgiving to all our American posters on A.org.
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Happy Thanks giving to all Americans :pint:
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Mmm! Turkey!
I don't celebrate it, but Happy Thanksgiving! :-D
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[color=800000]Happy Thanksgiving everyone!![/color][/b] :-)