Happy Thanksgiving

[qimissung]

To all the Yanks on the forum. How are you spending the day? At home? Traveling-or trying to? Eating out or in?

We're staying in and staying home.I've called the relative (my sister), the turkeys done and the countdown has begun. Still to go:the mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, green bean casserole and pumpkin pie. What am I grateful for? I have a job, friends and the day off. Happy eating, guys.

For those of you across the pond, or next door, do you have a similar holiday or one that's mainly devoted to eating (besides Christmas)?

[papayahed]

Happy Thanksgiving!

[Sancho]

Happy Turkey Day!

I normally work the the holidays, but not this time. Whoo-Hoo!

We had all that stuff Qimi listed above, plus grits-n-gravy. It was so good I'm thinking of going out to the back yard, purging, and starting over again.

[Hawkman]

Happy thanks giving to all the colonial cousins. Don't eat the natives, you'll miss them when they've gone :D

[Buh4Bee]

Happy Thanksgiving!

[Steven Hunley]

Happy Thanksgiving to YOU!

[qimissung]

Happy Turkey Day!

I normally work the the holidays, but not this time. Whoo-Hoo!

We had all that stuff Qimi listed above, plus grits-n-gravy. It was so good I'm thinking of going out to the back yard, purging, and starting over again.

I know, right, Sancho? The grits sound like a tasty addition.

Oh, and hey, Hawkman, my ancestors both came over (from Germany) and met the boat (Cherokee, 1/4). So there are a few of us left. :D

Happy Thanksgiving, papaya, Buh4Bee and Stephen.

[kittypaws]

Hello Gimi and all the others.

Happy Thanksgiving to all!

I do believe that being thankful goes beyond a holiday...or so it should.

The smile you pass on to a stranger can actually change his/her life if your smile is genuine.
I believe that! I have witnesses it first hand....so here is to all the smiles and new friendships!!


To all be happy, be safe and healthy :-) and smile at a stranger.

Kittypaws

[YesNo]

Happy thanksgiving.

We went to an Asian buffet for dinner with two relatives. None of the food looked like turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, cranberries, grits-n-gravy or pumpkin pie, but it was tasty. It was a large enough buffet to offer green-tea ice cream, two ingredients I am still amazed anything would think to combine together. Then we went to the mall for the start of black Friday at 8 pm Thursday evening.

[Idril]

It's the third Thanksgiving Basil and I have been a couple, but the first we've actually been able to spent together so it was pretty sweet. :D We drove an hour or so to my parents' new place, were joined by my sister, her husband and one nephew. My boys were with their dad and my brother and family were elsewhere so it was pretty quiet. We had the traditional turkey and mashed potatoes, along with an Amish creamed corn dish and a green bean and onion saute with fennel that was tremendous, and of course, there was lefse. No stuffing this year and Mom forgot the cranberries in the fridge. For dessert we had pumpkin and pecan pie. Then we watched old slides that had been recently rediscovered when my parents moved this last summer. They started from the time when my parents were dating and we made it through about 10 or 15 years. Basil swears he enjoyed it and that's good because we are to return for New Years Day to watch the rest. :wink5:

[qimissung]

Happy thanksgiving.

We went to an Asian buffet for dinner with two relatives. None of the food looked like turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, cranberries, grits-n-gravy or pumpkin pie, but it was tasty. It was a large enough buffet to offer green-tea ice cream, two ingredients I am still amazed anything would think to combine together. Then we went to the mall for the start of black Friday at 8 pm Thursday evening.


Sounds quite yummy, YesNo! I would never have thought of green tea ice cream but it is quite delicious. Did you score any good deals while shopping?

Hi kitty paws! They say that expressing gratitude at least once a week leads to a better quality life.

Hey Idril! So this was perhaps, a particularly sweet Thanksgiving for you guys. The slideshow sounds quite lovely-it's always fun to take a trip down memory lane, I think.

[Buh4Bee]

I am thankful I survived the guests.

[YesNo]

Sounds quite yummy, YesNo! I would never have thought of green tea ice cream but it is quite delicious. Did you score any good deals while shopping?

My wife bought some clothes at a store called "Q" which I never heard of before. I found out that my daughter liked a store called "H & M". Again I never knew it existed, but based on the line waiting for those doors to open, I might be the only one who didn't know about it. My nephew and I chatted outside guarding the coats and purchases while the women shopped.

[Calidore]

I had green tea ice cream once at a local Japanese-themed mall, and it tasted exactly like you'd expect. I like both green tea and ice cream, so it was fine.

[Sancho]

Boy Howdy!

I'm getting hungry all over again. Gonna need to fix up a turkey samich.

So, concerning pecan pie, here's a language question:

Is it, PEA-can, or pea-KAHN, or PUH-can, or puh-KAHN?

[YesNo]

I say "pea-CAN". I remember once buying something called a "Pecan Roll" in Georgia which was the sweetest tasking candy I ever ate.

The green tea ice cream tastes OK, but I picked vanilla.

[papayahed]

I don't know what I call them, I think I use all of the above depending on who I'm talking too. I do know that I used to say "PEA-can" when I first moved here and people used to say "That's what we used when we have to go to the bathroom".

[qimissung]

Boy Howdy!

I'm getting hungry all over again. Gonna need to fix up a turkey samich.

So, concerning pecan pie, here's a language question:

Is it, PEA-can, or pea-KAHN, or PUH-can, or puh-KAHN?

I always say peh-KAHN-thank you, papaya for explaining why-and I would love some right about now.

[qimissung]

Green tea itself has a kind of earthy flavor. But I've had the ice cream on occasion and seem to remember that it had a surprising delicacy.

[YesNo]

There is also a red bean ice cream that my in-laws enjoy. When I think of all the different sorts of ingredients one can find in ice cream these days, green tea and red beans are probably tame.

I once tried an ice cream while with some friends that looked a strange blue. I didn't really want any ice cream, but just told the person working at the counter to pick the variety that people least preferred and make that a single scoop. He agreed and gave me the one he least preferred. It wasn't all that bad.

[Idril]

Hey Idril! So this was perhaps, a particularly sweet Thanksgiving for you guys.

It really was. ;)



So, concerning pecan pie, here's a language question:

Is it, PEA-can, or pea-KAHN, or PUH-can, or puh-KAHN?

I say PUH-can. I got some grief about that pronunciation by a particularly surly waitress in Georgia awhile back. I will refrain from ordering pecan pie at that particular restaurant again. :p

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

We had a nice time at my sister's in the piney woods of East Texas.

Pee-Kahn for me.

[Sancho]

Gotta be a regional thing, I reckon.

I've got a few pecan trees of the Stuart and the Eliot variety on my place (they need to cross pollinate). I'm thinking of just calling calling them Stuarts and Eliots respectively. And that brings up my next question: Filbert or Hazel nut? Or more importantly, Garbanzos or Chick peas? This is all very perplexing.

Here's a Georgia-ism for you Idril. Check it out the next time Basil drags you down here. For some strange reason a shopping cart is a buggy around here. It drives my wife nuts (she's from California). So the other day we were over at the Kroger, picking up stuff for our Turkey-day feast, and I said, "Hey, baby, kin I git you a buggy?" Luckily, we weren't in the throwable fruit section at the time. She did lay a vicious stink-look on me though.

[YesNo]

I don't think I've ever called a shopping cart a "buggy".

[Basil]

I call them carts, but I've certainly heard them referred to as buggies.

Since we seem to have reached the intersection of Thanksgiving and Georgia, everyone should check out this wonderful tribute to the holiday by Georgia band the Drive-By Truckers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APSQWPf0XLg

My aunt's praising Palin
My niece loves Obama
My uncle came to dinner
Wearing his pajamas

[Sancho]

I like that band. I guess I didn't realize they were from Georgia.

And now that my 'fridge is filled with sliced turkey-parts in zip-lock bags, shall I fix them up into a sub sandwich, or a hoagie, or a hero, or po-boy?

(Also we have ham)

very confusing

[JBI]

There is also a red bean ice cream that my in-laws enjoy. When I think of all the different sorts of ingredients one can find in ice cream these days, green tea and red beans are probably tame.

I once tried an ice cream while with some friends that looked a strange blue. I didn't really want any ice cream, but just told the person working at the counter to pick the variety that people least preferred and make that a single scoop. He agreed and gave me the one he least preferred. It wasn't all that bad.

Those are East Asian staples. not all that weird here. IF you want weird, watch the Japanese Iron Chef - somebody always puts fish, or chicken broth, or something exotic in the icecream machine.

[YesNo]

Those are East Asian staples. not all that weird here. IF you want weird, watch the Japanese Iron Chef - somebody always puts fish, or chicken broth, or something exotic in the icecream machine.

Just the thought of chicken broth in ice cream makes me want that blue stuff again whatever it was.

[Delta40]

I'm not googling it. Pray tell - what is thanksgiving and over time, has it taken on religious undertones?

[JBI]

I'm not googling it. Pray tell - what is thanksgiving and over time, has it taken on religious undertones?

It's an excuse for Americans (and to a lesser extent Canadians) to have a holiday in the harvest season, which culturally is a replacement for the various harvest festivals found in numerous religions around the world. As the US is warmer, they celebrate it toward the end of November, thus allowing marketers to use this as a jumping point for "holiday season shopping" which symbolizes that hideous period between American Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Generally the food culture is supposed to reflect a sort of American food culture in honor of Pilgrims who moved into the new world of Edenic North America. That's why the Turkey, and other harvest staples have traditionally been associated with the holiday.

Still, the holiday is not exactly religious, but more cultural - however, it ultimately, like almost everything American, is quite particularly religious in how it is celebrated - with ideas like having to have a Turkey as central as Jews buying an Etrog.

[papayahed]

I like that band. I guess I didn't realize they were from Georgia.

And now that my 'fridge is filled with sliced turkey-parts in zip-lock bags, shall I fix them up into a sub sandwich, or a hoagie, or a hero, or po-boy?

(Also we have ham)

very confusing


oh, a ham and turkey sandwich sounds good!

[Delta40]

Thanks JB. Do they have another turkey at Christmas?

[Sancho]

oh, a ham and turkey sandwich sounds good!

Good choice. I went with Ham on Rye - which oddly enough is also a fine novel by Charles Bukowski. (I'm a ham, now shoot me a bottle of Rye, whiskey that is). So anyway, I'm still unsure what I should call the sandwich: a sub, a hero, a po-boy, or a hoagie. If I'm remembering correctly, Papaya, you come from from a place where they make po-boys. Also excellent muffulettas.


It's an excuse for Americans (and to a lesser extent Canadians) to have a holiday in the harvest season, which culturally is a replacement for the various harvest festivals found in numerous religions around the world. As the US is warmer, they celebrate it toward the end of November, thus allowing marketers to use this as a jumping point for "holiday season shopping" which symbolizes that hideous period between American Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Generally the food culture is supposed to reflect a sort of American food culture in honor of Pilgrims who moved into the new world of Edenic North America. That's why the Turkey, and other harvest staples have traditionally been associated with the holiday.

Still, the holiday is not exactly religious, but more cultural - however, it ultimately, like almost everything American, is quite particularly religious in how it is celebrated - with ideas like having to have a Turkey as central as Jews buying an Etrog.

Awe shucks, and I always though it was just an excuse for us trace one of our hands with a crayon onto a piece of construction paper and then cut it out and fashion it into a facsimile of a turkey.

Gobble gobble gobble

[qimissung]

It's an excuse for Americans (and to a lesser extent Canadians) to have a holiday in the harvest season, which culturally is a replacement for the various harvest festivals found in numerous religions around the world. As the US is warmer, they celebrate it toward the end of November, thus allowing marketers to use this as a jumping point for "holiday season shopping" which symbolizes that hideous period between American Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Generally the food culture is supposed to reflect a sort of American food culture in honor of Pilgrims who moved into the new world of Edenic North America. That's why the Turkey, and other harvest staples have traditionally been associated with the holiday.

Still, the holiday is not exactly religious, but more cultural - however, it ultimately, like almost everything American, is quite particularly religious in how it is celebrated - with ideas like having to have a Turkey as central as Jews buying an Etrog.

Or a turducken. The thought of which makes me want to do a Homer Simpson "Mmmm..."



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFwv_mW8kIc


Liked the song, Basil.

Blessed be my family from 300 miles away...speaking of, I need to call my aunt.

[YesNo]

I remember, living on a farm as a child, that my sister would help our mother prepare and bake the turkey or chicken. My father and I would get a bird we raised and kill it. That was long ago, probably before the idea of black Friday occurred.

My sister told me, much later in life, that after she saw how the stuffing was made, she could never eat it. The rest of us thought it tasted pretty good. I can still see the upturned, unsplit block of firewood with the bird's head on it looking as if it were unsure what sort of amusement those humans were up to now.

[papayahed]

Good choice. I went with Ham on Rye - which oddly enough is also a fine novel by Charles Bukowski. (I'm a ham, now shoot me a bottle of Rye, whiskey that is). So anyway, I'm still unsure what I should call the sandwich: a sub, a hero, a po-boy, or a hoagie. If I'm remembering correctly, Papaya, you come from from a place where they make po-boys. Also excellent muffulettas.

muffulettas are good. I really dislike the term "po-boy". It confuses me, is it a cutesy twist on "Poor-boy"? I feel like I'm being made to use a colloquial term against my will. Just like the restaurant "Podnuhs". If that is somebody's name then ok, but if it's a twist on the word Partner I'm not digging it.

[qimissung]

All this talk of muffaleftas and po-boys is making me hungry!

According to Wikipedia the term is etymologically derived from a French word pourboire which means to tip a waiter. But of course there's also a local story on New Orleans that also explains the origins of the word.

[Sancho]

All this talk of muffaleftas and po-boys is making me hungry!

According to Wikipedia the term is etymologically derived from a French word pourboire which means to tip a waiter. But of course there's also a local story on New Orleans that also explains the origins of the word.

I always wondered where that came from. And I'm getting hungry too.


muffulettas are good. I really dislike the term "po-boy". It confuses me, is it a cutesy twist on "Poor-boy"? I feel like I'm being made to use a colloquial term against my will. Just like the restaurant "Podnuhs". If that is somebody's name then ok, but if it's a twist on the word Partner I'm not digging it.

In dat case den, I jes gonna hab a crawfish étouffée
- e laisser les bons temps rouler, aiy-yeee!

[qimissung]

Now I need to listen to some cajun music.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH2ppLxTHAY

an old one, but played with a great deal of ferocity.

[Anaya Roy]

Happy Thanks Giving 2 U All!!

[qimissung]

Thank you, Anaya.