# Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 10, 2009, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksgiving-everyone/513306 "2009-10-10T12:12:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2009, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksgiving-everyone/513306/1 "2009-10-10T12:12:19Z")
More than anything else, I am grateful for my family and my friends. I am a very lucky man, and there isn’t a day goes by that I’m not reminded of my good fortune in a new and interesting way. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! ---
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2009, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksgiving-everyone/513306/2 "2009-10-10T12:46:31Z")
Happy Thanksgiving! Can’t wait for the US date to get here. I love Thanksgiving! ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2009, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksgiving-everyone/513306/3 "2009-10-10T12:48:32Z")
For those celebrating a holiday - wishing you a safe and happy holiday! ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2009, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksgiving-everyone/513306/4 "2009-10-10T13:25:52Z")
Save your forks, there’s pie! 😃 Happy Thanksgiving! ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2009, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksgiving-everyone/513306/5 "2009-10-10T15:23:30Z")
😕 Even in Canada, it doesn’t look like Thanksgiving is for another two days. Or is the Wikipedia wrong? > **[Thanksgiving (Canada)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving_%28Canada%29)** > > Thanksgiving (French: Action de grâce) or Thanksgiving Day (French: Jour de l'Action de grâce), is an annual Canadian holiday and harvest festival, held on the second Monday in October, which celebrates the harvest and other blessings of the past year. Outside of the country, it may be referred to as Canadian Thanksgiving to distinguish it from the American holiday of the same name and related celebrations in other regions. > Thanksgiving has been officially celebrated as an annual holiday in Ca... ---
**Author:** ![Kid\_A\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Kid\_A\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kid_A_1)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2009, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksgiving-everyone/513306/6 "2009-10-10T15:28:19Z")
It’s Thanksgiving weekend. Ironically, the only day that I’m not eating Turkey is Monday. Dinner tonight, lunch tomorrow, and then I’ll be so sick of it that I don’t want it for another year…but then there’s always Christmas. ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2009, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksgiving-everyone/513306/7 "2009-10-10T15:52:17Z")
We’re doing turkey dinner on Sunday. Things to do today to make the house presentable, then housecleaning while the turkey cooks tomorrow. Turkey dinner, then vegging on Monday. Both my husband and I are sick, so we aren’t going to be too active other than achieving Dinner, methinks. I’m already looking forward to turkey soup. Sick + homemade soup = good. Except, I have to get through dinner and hosting, and make the soup, before eating soup and collapsing. Can I go back to bed now? Edited to add: I am grateful that: we have a house to host dinner in we have people in our lives to eat dinner with we have food in the cupboards and more to come after grocery shopping tonight it’s been a beatiful autumn after a beautiful summer we have a Wii which should entertain the little ones before and after dinner the dog will enjoy the company (and whatever she manages to mooch from the diners) we all have work to do and get paid for it’s just a cold, not the flu and not the swine flu (I think!) ---
**Author:** ![Canadjun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2009, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksgiving-everyone/513306/8 "2009-10-10T17:29:09Z")
A question for you folks down there; I understand you celebrate Columbus Day when we celebrate Thanksgiving. Is Columbus Day usually considered a holiday (i.e. do you get a day off work)? ---
**Author:** ![Huerta88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/82dd89/32.png) [@Huerta88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Huerta88)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2009, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksgiving-everyone/513306/9 "2009-10-10T18:08:39Z")
> [@Canadjun](#): > > A question for you folks down there; I understand you celebrate Columbus Day when we celebrate Thanksgiving. Is Columbus Day usually considered a holiday (i.e. do you get a day off work)? Government employees, usually. Otherwise, impression is mostly not. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2009, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksgiving-everyone/513306/10 "2009-10-10T18:17:29Z")
> [@Canadjun](#): > > A question for you folks down there; I understand you celebrate Columbus Day when we celebrate Thanksgiving. Is Columbus Day usually considered a holiday (i.e. do you get a day off work)? When I was young it was more common to get this day off. Then it was just the schools, government and bank workers. Now I don’t think even most banks give the day off. In other words, in my experience, it is not too common any more. ---
**Author:** ![gwendee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2009, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksgiving-everyone/513306/11 "2009-10-10T18:37:22Z")
I read the thread title and thought “wth?!? Thanksgiving’s not 'til October!” Where’d the last 2 weeks GO? Happy Thanksgiving. Schools here are not closed for Columbus Day. My bank is. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2009, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksgiving-everyone/513306/12 "2009-10-10T18:40:07Z")
Happy Thanksgiving to **Le Ministre de l’au-delà** all of my other fellow Canadian Dopers. Tonight’s menu is minimalist-traditional: Turkey Roast Vegetables Salad Bread Pumpkin Pie ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2009, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksgiving-everyone/513306/13 "2009-10-10T20:40:56Z")
MMmm. I’m not doing a turkey, never made a turkey myself and we usually eat it at relatives. This time some are coming over here though, so I don’t think it’s the time to experiment. I always buy a ham at this time of year, so that’s what we’ll have. Along with scalloped potatoes, carrots, squash, lazy cabbage rolls and the option of pumpkin pie or trifle for dessert. Would be nice to go to Grandma’s but the highways haven’t been the greatest this past week… ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2009, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksgiving-everyone/513306/14 "2009-10-10T21:02:06Z")
Going to a party at the neighbour’s tonight. Got my 20 lb turkey in the fridge for tomorrow. Got all my stuff to make turkey soup after we’ve got our fill or turkey. Got 8 face chords of wood delivered and will be lighting the wood stove in the morning. (With a wicked hangover, I hope!) Happy Thanksgiving, mes amis. ---
**Author:** ![Heckity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a5b964/32.png) [@Heckity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heckity)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2009, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksgiving-everyone/513306/15 "2009-10-10T21:13:16Z")
Happy Thanksgiving all! This year my husband will see whether a 12 lb. turkey will foil the rotisserie as the 16 lb. one last year did. We may be down to a half dozen cornish hens to achieve his dream. We’ll also have a backup roast beef if the turkey isn’t enough. Squash, sweet potato, mashed potato, vegetable, pumpkin pie, cranberry - I’m ready now. Yes, we Canadians have managed to make it Thanksgiving Weekend and different folks have the big dinner on different days. Ours is tomorrow. I don’t have a cite, but I do have first-hand experience – I’ve been told that Thanksgiving is the # 1 cause of gall bladder-induced hospital visits, so easy on the gravy folks 😛 ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2009, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksgiving-everyone/513306/16 "2009-10-11T02:08:43Z")
> [@Khadaji](#): > > When I was young it was more common to get this day off. Then it was just the schools, government and bank workers. Now I don’t think even most banks give the day off. > > In other words, in my experience, it is not too common any more. 'Round here, you don’t even get off from school any more. Apparently they celebrate the 26th of October, for some reason… ---
**Author:** ![spoike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@spoike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spoike)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2009, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksgiving-everyone/513306/17 "2009-10-11T02:23:00Z")
I’m in the midst of making Chai Pumpkin Pies right now. They smell fantastic, and are filling my house with the scent of cardamom and me with all sorts of warm gratitude-filled thoughts. Happy Thanksgiving! ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2009, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksgiving-everyone/513306/18 "2009-10-11T04:13:06Z")
Half the bananas in the freezer have been turned into banana bread. That was 4 batches…which really indicates that I don’t bake nearly often enough! The turkey will be cooked tomorrow, along with mashed potatoes and carrots and sweet potatoes, and turnip if we can find some bigger than the sad little ones in the store tonight, and green beans. My brother is showing up tomorrow with desserts made by my mom (who is visiting my sister this weekend across the country). My friend will make the side dishes, and the beverages will mostly be provided by the other guests. It’s a reject thanksgiving…those of us who can’t see our immediate families this weekend are gathering together. It should be fun! Happy Turkey Day! ---
**Author:** ![Canadjun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2009, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksgiving-everyone/513306/19 "2009-10-11T20:46:07Z")
I get to spend Thanksgiving in the hospital for the third year in a row (3 separate admissions, but for the same problem). I can tell it’s Thanksgiving weekend because the napkins with the meals are orange. ---
**Author:** ![Mahna\_Mahna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47c2d/32.png) [@Mahna\_Mahna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahna_Mahna)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2009, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksgiving-everyone/513306/20 "2009-10-11T22:31:14Z")
Happy Turkey Day, everyone! Strangely enough, no turkey on the menu this weekend. Last night’s dinner was pulled pork sandwiches with corn and coleslaw (yes, we’re in denial… it’s warm and lovely place, dammit), tonight’s dinner will be roast beef with sweet potatoes, and tomorrow’s dinner will be spaghetti with meat sauce at the in-laws’. I guess I’ll just have to make two turkeys for Christmas to make up for it. 🙂 Sorry to hear about your hospitalization, **Canadjun**. Hope you feel better soon (and hope that there’s no pumpkin jello with your dinner). [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-thanksgiving-everyone/513306.md?page=2)