happy thanksgiving canada for now

gimli7410 · 10-13-2003, 07:56 PM

happy thanksgiving canada. eat lots of turkey. and earlier happy thanksgiving for america.

Lizra · 10-13-2003, 08:42 PM

Happy Thanksgiving Canadians! Three cheers for the "New World"!

I would enjoy hearing all about the delicious foods about to be prepared and eaten.

jerseydevil · 10-13-2003, 10:13 PM

Happy Thanksgiving Gimli, Gollum and all other Canadians. Today it's Columbus Day.

We'll eat our Thanksgiving on the REAL day - 3rd Thursday in November.

Bombadillo · 10-13-2003, 10:21 PM

Happy Turkey Day!

Hey Canada, do you celebrate it the same way America does, with a turkey and cranberry sauce and stuffing and green bean cassaroles and mashed potatos and gravy...?
Ah, now I'm hungry.

I don't even care about the fat American stereotype around Thanksgiving time. I've gotta go practice eating.

gimli7410 · 10-13-2003, 11:36 PM

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Originally posted by jerseydevil
Happy Thanksgiving Gimli, Gollum and all other Canadians. Today it's Columbus Day.

We'll eat our Thanksgiving on the REAL day - 3rd Thursday in November.

pfft foreigners

happy columbus day

bombadillo: actually we eat seal up here. anything we find in the ice like fish and sometimes whale but mostly seal

actually yea pretty Much we eat turkey,cranberry suace, stuffing all that crap

***IronParrot*** · 10-14-2003, 12:46 AM

Happy Thanksgiving, my fellow Canuckians. May our next federal elections be at least as funny as the U.S. Presidential Race.

jerseydevil · 10-14-2003, 01:48 AM

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Originally posted by IronParrot
May our next federal elections be at least as funny as the U.S. Presidential Race.

Can you tell me what is so funny about our presidential race? I've watched most of the debates and although I disagree with 80% of what they say - I still don't find anything funny about it.

Artanis · 10-14-2003, 10:21 AM

Happy thanksgiving!

Can anyone tell me what it's all about?

GrayMouser · 10-14-2003, 10:55 AM

Some helpful info from The Great White North-

Q: Why do Canadians celebrate Thanksgiving in October, rather than November?

A: So we can give thanks for living in such a wonderful country and still get to Florida before it starts to snow.

jerseydevil · 10-14-2003, 11:41 AM

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Originally posted by Artanis
Happy thanksgiving!
Can anyone tell me what it's all about?

Thanksgiving celebrates an event that occurred in New England - Plymouth - where the Indians and settlers got together for a celebration of a fall harvest.

When the settlers of the Mayflower first landed on Plymouth on December 16, 1620 - they faced a brutal winter. 46 of the original settlers died. However, by the spring they had signed a peace treaty between themselves and the Wampanaog indians, crops were planted and they were building their settlement.

In the fall - the harvest they decided to celebrate and invited the natives. Chief Massasoit and 90 Wampanoag indians came to eat with them.

Based on historical records the following was eaten during the first thanksgiving...

Seethed (boiled) lobster
Roasted goose and boiled turkey
Fricassee of coney
Pudding of Indian cornmeal with dried whortleberries
Seethed cod
Roasted duck and stewed pumpkin
Roasted venison with mustard sauce
Savory pudding of hominy
Fruit and Hollan cheese

The Indians brought 5 deer.

(No Cranberry sauce - that was "invented" in NJ in the 1800's).

They ate at large tables outdoors and competed in games testing skill and strength, keeping the celebration going for 3 days.

In 1777 the Continental Congress proclaimed the "first official national Thanksgiving" through all the colonies, but was still not made a yearly event. It had been celebrated off and on prior to this by the various colonies.

In 1863 Lincoln proclaimed the last Thursday in November as the official holiday for Thanksgiving. Franklin Roosevelt then changed it to the 3rd Thursday in November - there was a huge outcry and it was moved back in 1941 to the last Thursday. It's been celebrated as the last Thursday in November ever since (which above I incorrectly said was the third).

I've always have had plans to celebrated Thanksgiving in October with Trish and her family on Six Nation Indian Reserve - but I haven't gotten up there yet.

Historical information taken from preface of - The Thanksgiving Table: Recipes and Ideas to Create Your Own Holiday Tradition

Hope this helps you Artanis.

I shoudl have known that Thanksgiving had to be the last Thursday - my mother died Novemeber 20th - one week before Thanksgiving.

***IronParrot*** · 10-14-2003, 01:08 PM

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Can you tell me what is so funny about our presidential race? I've watched most of the debates and although I disagree with 80% of what they say - I still don't find anything funny about it.

I didn't mean it's funny currently - I mean, when the time comes, hopefully a) yours will be an entertaining little gong show, and b) ours at least matches it.

jerseydevil · 10-14-2003, 01:13 PM

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Originally posted by IronParrot
I didn't mean it's funny currently - I mean, when the time comes, hopefully a) yours will be an entertaining little gong show, and b) ours at least matches it.

Well once the Democratic primaries occur - there will only be only ONE democrat chosen to run against Bush. Most of the democrats running are complete idiots though.

Insidious Rex · 10-14-2003, 01:23 PM

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Originally posted by jerseydevil
Well once the Democratic primaries occur - there will only be only ONE democrat chosen to run against Bush. Most of the democrats running are complete idiots though.

oh really. then how will americans be able to tell them apart from the current president?

jerseydevil · 10-14-2003, 01:28 PM

Myabe we can share some of our recipes or things we do for Thanksgiving.

When I was younger we used to always go over my maternal grandmother's house. My cousins and and aunt would be there.

Later - we had it usually at our house - especially after my grandmother died and we had moved to Indiana. Several times - we came back to NJ to celebrate it with my paternal grandmother though. When my mother died - we were scheduled to go out to NJ to celebrate Thanksgiving - instead we ended up coming out for a funeral and a "celebration". It was the hardest Thanksgiving ever.

This is usually what I have for Thanksgiving...

Turkey with my mother's homemade stuffing
Homemade mashed potatoes
Homemade gravy
Brocholli Oregonato

My mother used to like sweet potato and we used to have cranberry sauce - I like neither one of them.

I have made Thanksgiving lunch for various companies. Cooking a 25 pound turkey is a pain - but at least I always get it to come out juicy.

Never had any complaints.

jerseydevil · 10-14-2003, 01:46 PM

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Originally posted by Insidious Rex
oh really. then how will americans be able to tell them apart from the current president?

I can - because most of the democrats want to leave the national security of the United States in the hands of other countries as well as the UN.

Bombadillo · 10-14-2003, 02:15 PM

Three days? That was brilliant!

Bridgette · 10-14-2003, 04:56 PM

Happy (belated) Thanksgiving fellow Canucks! And happy (early) Thanksgiving Americans!

***gdl96*** · 10-14-2003, 08:12 PM

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CANADA TO USA: THANK YOU...

...as the nation winds up its Thanksgiving Holiday, the one day a year Canada thanks the United States for the pure, selfless act of not invading them.

"It's the proudest day of the year for our 'country'," says Canadian Prime Minister Mountie McFrench, holding up two pairs of fingers to signal quotation marks. "This is the day that we celebrate what makes Canada great: being next to the United States."

Canadians everywhere stepped tentatively outside of their igloos yesterday to thank the Americans for allowing them to live another year. "We know that invasion could come at any time, eh," said Canadian Dave Foley, huddled over an ice fishing hole. "On the day of our inevitable annihilation at their hands, only two things will be certain. One, even the greatest military stand in our nation's history would not scratch the paint from even one of their tanks, and two, we will be well-deserving of our deaths. Thank you, America, for holding the blade back from our throats once again. Please think of us as your slaves."

American President George W. Bush congratulated the Canadians, but warned them "not to make too many plans" for Thanksgiving 2004.

you gotta love pointlesswasteoftime.com

durin's bane · 10-14-2003, 08:29 PM

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Originally posted by jerseydevil
Fricassee of coney

OMG! They ate Coney!

Anyway, happy late Thanksgiving, Canadians. My family had chicken instead of turkey. :P

jerseydevil · 10-14-2003, 08:46 PM

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Originally posted by gdl96
you gotta love pointlesswasteoftime.com

Greg that is hilarious.

I think canada should be giving ALL American citizens gifts though. You never know when we may not be so generous to them. They should be treating us like an ancient god - we just don't require virgin sacrifices - but I can always use a 50" flat screen plamsa HTDV screen.

10-13-2003, 07:56 PM	#1
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10-13-2003, 08:42 PM	#2
Lizra Domesticated Swing Babe Join Date: May 2002 Location: Reality Posts: 5,340	Happy Thanksgiving Canadians! Three cheers for the "New World"! I would enjoy hearing all about the delicious foods about to be prepared and eaten. __________________ Happy Atheist Go Democrats!

10-13-2003, 10:13 PM	#3
jerseydevil I am Freddie/UNDERCOVER/ Founder of The Great Continent of Entmoot Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Plainsboro, NJ Posts: 9,431	Happy Thanksgiving Gimli, Gollum and all other Canadians. Today it's Columbus Day. We'll eat our Thanksgiving on the REAL day - 3rd Thursday in November. __________________ Come back! Come back! To Mordor we will take you! "The only thing better than a great plan is implementing a great plan" - JerseyDevil "If everyone agreed with me all the time, everything would be just fine"- JerseyDevil AboutNewJersey.com New Jersey MessageBoard Another Tolkien Forum Memorial to the Twin Towers New Jersey Map Fellowship of the Messageboard Legend of the Jersey Devil Support New Jersey's Liberty Tower Peacefire.org AboutNewJersey.com - New Jersey Travel and Tourism Guide

10-13-2003, 10:21 PM	#4
Bombadillo "The Bomb" Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: all over the place Posts: 1,601	Happy Turkey Day! Hey Canada, do you celebrate it the same way America does, with a turkey and cranberry sauce and stuffing and green bean cassaroles and mashed potatos and gravy...? Ah, now I'm hungry. I don't even care about the fat American stereotype around Thanksgiving time. I've gotta go practice eating. __________________ Could it be that one path to enlightenment leads through insanity?

10-14-2003, 12:46 AM	#6
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10-14-2003, 10:21 AM	#8
Artanis Greatest Elven woman of Aman Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Having way too much fun with Fëanor's 7 Posts: 4,285	Happy thanksgiving! Can anyone tell me what it's all about? __________________ --Life is hard, and then we die.

10-14-2003, 10:55 AM	#9
GrayMouser Elf Lord Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Ilha Formosa Posts: 2,068	Some helpful info from The Great White North- Q: Why do Canadians celebrate Thanksgiving in October, rather than November? A: So we can give thanks for living in such a wonderful country and still get to Florida before it starts to snow. __________________ Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come when you do call for them? "I like pigs. Dogs look up to us, cats look down on us, but pigs treat us as equals."- Winston Churchill

10-14-2003, 01:28 PM	#14
jerseydevil I am Freddie/UNDERCOVER/ Founder of The Great Continent of Entmoot Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Plainsboro, NJ Posts: 9,431	Myabe we can share some of our recipes or things we do for Thanksgiving. When I was younger we used to always go over my maternal grandmother's house. My cousins and and aunt would be there. Later - we had it usually at our house - especially after my grandmother died and we had moved to Indiana. Several times - we came back to NJ to celebrate it with my paternal grandmother though. When my mother died - we were scheduled to go out to NJ to celebrate Thanksgiving - instead we ended up coming out for a funeral and a "celebration". It was the hardest Thanksgiving ever. This is usually what I have for Thanksgiving... Turkey with my mother's homemade stuffing Homemade mashed potatoes Homemade gravy Brocholli Oregonato My mother used to like sweet potato and we used to have cranberry sauce - I like neither one of them. I have made Thanksgiving lunch for various companies. Cooking a 25 pound turkey is a pain - but at least I always get it to come out juicy. Never had any complaints. __________________ Come back! Come back! To Mordor we will take you! "The only thing better than a great plan is implementing a great plan" - JerseyDevil "If everyone agreed with me all the time, everything would be just fine"- JerseyDevil AboutNewJersey.com New Jersey MessageBoard Another Tolkien Forum Memorial to the Twin Towers New Jersey Map Fellowship of the Messageboard Legend of the Jersey Devil Support New Jersey's Liberty Tower Peacefire.org AboutNewJersey.com - New Jersey Travel and Tourism Guide Last edited by jerseydevil : 10-14-2003 at 01:31 PM.

10-14-2003, 02:15 PM	#16
Bombadillo "The Bomb" Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: all over the place Posts: 1,601	Three days? That was brilliant! __________________ Could it be that one path to enlightenment leads through insanity?

10-14-2003, 04:56 PM	#17
Bridgette Enting Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Canada! Posts: 70	Happy (belated) Thanksgiving fellow Canucks! And happy (early) Thanksgiving Americans! __________________ Used to be known as Lady of Rohan

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