Thanksgiving
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I've never paid much attention to thanksgiving.
What exactly is it for?!
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Ah, the clue is in the title then.
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I've got flocks of turkeys that hang out in my neighborhood. They are all protected though, since our thanksgiving aptetite prety much killed them all off in the past. Now they are making a comeback, and no one is allowed to eat them.
But we're going up the hill into California gold country - Placerville - for thanksgiving. We're doing turkey, candied yams, some horrbile nasty green bean casserole (green beans!!!!
). And bread pudding and lots of pumpkin and pecan pies - MmmMMmmm, pie. 
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Of all the holidays in America, I believe Thanksgiving is my favorite, not for any other reason than it promotes being with family, unfortunately I've noticed Thanksgiving getting less and less attention every year, possibly because it's not a great marketing holiday like Valentines day where Hallmark, Hersheys and online dating sites do all the promoting, or Halloween where the party supply outlets, candy manufacturers, etc are dominant, Thanksgiving does not have a Patron saint of media, hence it's dying in this age of advertising. In fact Black Friday (day after Thanksgiving where all stores have huge limited quantity sales, creating an orgy of buying) this year has gotten more media than Turkey-day.
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Ditto on Thanksgiving being my favorite holiday. It's not commercialized to death like Christmas, there aren't fights between religions and commercialism ("reason for the season"), or between religions as to what kind of displays can be put up (menorah, nativity, Christmas tree, flying spaghetti monster, whatever...). I must say that this bickering and especially the hyper-commercialized materialism have totally killed the season for me.
Thanksgiving on the other hand is still about everyone getting together, sitting around the table and having a great meal together; and if one should happen to think of the fact that they are fortunate enough to be there, great!
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@escapeartist said:
Ditto on Thanksgiving being my favorite holiday. It's not commercialized to death like Christmas, there aren't fights between religions and commercialism ("reason for the season"), or between religions as to what kind of displays can be put up (menorah, nativity, Christmas tree, flying spaghetti monster, whatever...). I must say that this bickering and especially the hyper-commercialized materialism have totally killed the season for me.
I've got a boss who is part native-american, raised on a reservation. Turns out he's not particularly fond of the holiday from what I understand. I think they like getting time off to get together, but from what I hear, they often put up large shooting targets that look like pilgrims
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The Canadian Thanksgiving is over. It falls on what would be the U.S. Columbus Day. And it's not earlier because our pilgrims beat you to the shores, but is more a bountiful harvest celebration.
We did the traditional with our daughter who lives on a farm, so everything was raised and grown by her, which made it even more special.
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In holland, thanksgiving is not much of a dinnerparty like it is in America. There's mainly the church service. For those who attend. The rest of the people usually don't know what it is. We call it dankdag. And it's almost a month ago... so, no - I'm not gonna make turkey
Then again. As far as good parties go; we have Sinterklaas!
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From '89 til '05 I always spent Thanksgiving alone, as my family lived too far away to travel for just a few days, but since then my parents have moved up here so will have a traditional Thanksgiving with them. I don't think Thanksgiving is dying - go to any grocery store today, and you'll see it's alive and kicking. I do think, though, Black Friday is over emphasized.
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Chris, those wild turkeys are tough and gamy anyway.
We're doing Thanksgiving with my family. Fresh turkey and all the trimmings. Fortunately we got out before the sleet and freezing rain began.
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