LAST EDITED ON 10-13-14 AT 07:27 PM (EST)Oh, you can have all this leftover stuff here - two Thanksgiving meals yesterday has me all turkey-ed out and I have banned all mention of "turkey" in this household for the next two months until Christmas. There's even a sweet potato left over.
But thank you for the kind wishes... it was a good Thanksgiving up here - we hosted a lunch for Pene's family and then headed on over to my parents for dinner. 39 pounds in total of turkeys devoured with little leftovers to speak for. Never again to have two Thanksgiving meals on the same day.
LAST EDITED ON 10-15-14 AT 09:24 AM (EST)You know, a bright idea (my version of brightness) would be to combine Canadian and USA'ian T'days into a month (make it two months) of celebrations. Then, when we get used to that, extend it further to include Christmas. Logically and diplomatically it could also include the Jewish Chanukah holiday. Catering compromises could include Kosher dills, but come on, Gefilte fish is out, right? And Matzo?
The more holidays, the better right? We can all agree on that? Except for the inevitable Scrooges? (Where’s Fooner?)
Turkey farmers would rejoice. As would Yam growers (except in California, apparently) and cranberry farms. And since turkey is a relatively healthy and low fat meat, we would all benefit. But however we pace ourselves during the extended secular celebrations, we will depend on Islamic Ramadan fasting to get the girth back to normal, so they’re in too.
OK. You may have not noticed, but I just came up with a plan to solve most of the world's problems.
Thank you very much.
(I’m still working on Hindus and Shintos, but I’m sure we can accommodate them too. And Pagans are really easy to please).