Is Anyone Here Going To Do The Thanksgiving Thing?

by Stephanus 22 Replies latest jw friends

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  Stephanus

  Not being familiar with this tradition at all, I've always found it fascinating (and on my to do list if I ever win the "big one" ). What're the peeps here going to be doing?

  NB We merge the family get together and meal with the present giving at Christmas time. We also usually tend to have more than one Christmas dinner - one, the hot one at lunch time with one set of relatives, then the other, cold Christmas dinner leftovers in the evening with anohter set of relatives. Makes for a hectic day.
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  Stephanus

  Okay, what's the problem? Have I got the date wrong; is it already over? Am I being shunned? Or is it just that no-one here likes turkey?
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  drwtsn32

  We're gonna do a thanksgiving thing with a few other apostate heathens.
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  Mulan

  We are having about 22 or 24 people for dinner that day. Everytime I count, I come up with a different number.

  Turkey and all the trimmings.
  
  
  
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  unbeliever

  I will be having Thanksgiving at my brothers house. There will be about 20+ people there. Usually we play touch football (american) in the morning. Watch football on TV, drink lots of liquor and feast on Turkey. The women are usually slaving in the kichen while the men sit on their asses talking about sports. That is usually how it goes in my family.
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  moonwillow

  yeap guna do the thanksgiving thing
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  Odrade

  Yep, whahoo! Bird is defrosting in the fridge right now.

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  Stephanus

  One little turkey for 20-24 people?

  So, okay, there's friends and family, and turkey and "fixin's" and football, etc. But I guess what I'm trying to get at here is "What's it really like"? (Hoping that I'm not blind and asking someone to describe colour to me...)
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  Euphemism

  I'll tell you after this weekend, Steph!

  Seriously... it's just a party. You've eaten turkey before, right? And you've gotten together with family before, right? So just put the two together!
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  jgnat

  Canadian Thanksgiving is over. This is what I love:

  • A warm kitchen brimming over with scents of cloves and cinnamon and scorched white meat.
  • A crumbled turkey carcass gone over by an overzealous husband and a mini buzz saw.
  • Lumpy fatty salty turkey gravy.
  • Lumpy mashed potatoes.
  • Lumpy Aunt Agnes, a giggling jelly roll, handing out scotch mints to the little ones.
  • Lolling in front of the TV afterwards. Stuffed.
  • Cousins chasing each other up and down the stairs.
  • Paper plates for easy cleanup.