Happy Canadian Thanksgiving, everyone!!!
Thanks! But I’m working from home today, gotta make it up for my unreasonable expenses 
Isn’t it really a Tory traitor holiday?
Is that why there was an early bird Turkey sale this last week? I have a turkey thawing in my fridge right now. We’re having a dinner party later this week to celebrate my Mom & brother visiting and my Mom coming back the brinks.
I didn’t realize that there was a Canadian Thanksgiving(akin to the American one) but I like the idea of celebrating it in October. Ours is simply a prelude to the Christmas season and almost has little value as a holiday. I work in retail and can’t believe how early stores open on Black Friday and how many people shop at the wee hours of Friday morning. You’d think the large dinner the night before would slow them down!
The earlier date is a reflection of the shorter growing season hereabouts.
I hate Thanksgiving, regardless of when it’s celebrated. With no family in the area, no special foods (The downside to being a vegetarian. If I see one more recipe for stuffed squash or Tofurky, I’m going to barf!), and not even a congenial vegetarian society to party with, it’s kind of empty.
But for our Canadian friends who celebrate, Happy (belated) Thanksgiving.
Redwolf
Stuffed tofurky sounds better than the roast seal we gotta eat every year.
Then celebrate Thanksgiving yourself in a non-food manner. My wife & I used to move around alot and celebrate Thanksgiving just the two of us and there was no way that we could eat a turkey so we’d eat some other fancy dinner. Lobster was a favorite. Nothing says you can’t celebrate Thanksgiving your own way to celebrate some of the bounty in your life. Go do something special. Seeing as how most folks will be sitting at home, most activities should be without wait.
We rarely lived near family so we always invited folk over for holidays. They were either people we worked with or had some professional association with outside of work who often lacked family nearby too. They always thought we were being kind but we wanted turkey and we didn’t want it hanging around for days afterwards. It was completely selfish and it work great. I was always thankful for that.
No need for a holiday to do something special, or to be thankful for the bounty in my life.
For me, Thanksgiving Day has always been about family and friends. Without that, it’s just an obligation…going through the motions to try to create some kind of festival.
Most people have their “bah-humbug” holidays. This one just happens to be mine.
Redwolf
You’re kidding. I mean, both with the tofurkey being better than seal, and eating seal for Thanksgiving. Is it flippers instead of drumsticks, then?
[u]Here are some seal recipes[/u]. Any of them familiar?
and my Mom coming back from the brink of what?
Armored car robbery.
There’s gotta be a poutine (sp. ??) joke in here somewhere. Ou est mi ami Paul? (phew, that’s the most French I’ve mangled since childhood)…
Anyway, to all our Candadadian friends: hope you are prepared for yet another winter of our current global cooling phase of the scientifically-proven global warming we are experiencing. Maybe you can have polar bear roast instead of turkey…
the only brinks that I’ve ever heard of was the brinks of death. she wasn’t doing well at all this past year and has almost fully recovered.
I’m having a bit of difficulty integrating the concept of this smiling, perfectly nice-looking lady . . . on a K12 website . . .
. . . with this:
Cut the flippers off from the oogruk.
Put the flippers on the seal in fresh blubber.
Let them stay there for about 2 weeks.
Take the loose fur off the flipper. Then
Cut them in small pieces and eat the meat.
Just so you know, I had nightmares about this all last night, as well as the word “oogruk” stuck in my mind all day today.
I think what’s bothering me is the concept of covering the flippers with fresh blubber for two weeks, after which you remove the loose fur. It just raises so many important questions.
Does one consume the fur that is NOT loose? Or does the blubbering act as a fur remover? If so, can the magic ingredient be used to eliminate the need to shave one’s legs?
I’m pretty sure that enough blubber will eliminate any need to shave your legs.