Canadian Thanksgiving this weekend and we’re having some friends over. Kitchen is full of lovely ham, roast squash and pumpkin pie aromas. Yum!
We’re so close to Canada, we should celebrate both Thanksgivings. Have fun and eat yourself silly!
::Looks at thread title:: What the…???
::Looks at OP’s name:: Ohhh, that Thanksgiving.
Have a Happy one! Having them over tonight or Mon?
The OP mentioned this publicly, so I have to ask:
Did you bring enough for everybody???
I’m thinking we haven’t had a virtual dinner thread in quite a while.
Being a Baker, you’re bringing the desserts, right?
If we’re going to have a virtual dinner, then I, being a southern USofAer will make the cornbread dressing with giblet gravy.
Baker please make at least one pecan pie. Or a cake. I’m not a big fan of pumpkin pie. I must have dessert. Pecan pie and/or cake is good. 
I don’t eat ham so people can have my share. 
Would a banana pudding* be out of line? I’m up to it.
- Real BP, not the Golden Corral BP-like substance.
Not knowing just what Canadian Thanksgiving was for, I looked it up. But the interesting thing is that it’s an official holiday except in the Atlantic Provinces–Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Labrador, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia. Why not in those places?
That’s interesting, maybe the OP will come back and explain. I’m going to go Google it too. Fighting ignorance, and all that.
I’ll start a different dinner thread, don’t want to hijack here. Look for it.
Taking this meal over to Cafe Society.
That’s odd about Thanksgiving not being a holiday in the Atlantic provinces. I’ve been in New Brunswick on Thanksgiving, and everything seemed to be closed.
In any event, Thanksgiving Dinner # 2 is underway: carrot cake done, turkey about to go into the oven, and a different set of friends coming over this evening. Vege will be mashed potatoes with gravy, plus roasted squash/onions/ carrots, drizzled with olive oil and fresh herbs.
My gut guess it’s like “Black Friday”, which technically isn’t a holiday in most American states but tons of people still get the day off.
By the way, are there any noticeable differences between Canadian and American Thanksgiving?
Huh. I have Internet friends from Newfoundland who celebrate.
Happy Thanksgiving Piper and all you dopers up north!
A bunch of my family is from Toronto and Quebec. Happy Thanksgiving!
Not really. Families gather, big meals are served, and there is plenty of football on TV. Canadian football, naturally, during the day; but there is also the NFL’s Monday Night Football at night.
About the only difference I can think of, is that there are no Black Friday sales the next day. It’s just an ordinary Tuesday, and a work day.
Northern Piper, your weekend menu sounds great!
Thanks, it was! I’m stuffed and off to bed.
The main difference between US and Canadian Thanksgiving that I can think of is that our Thanksgiving isn’t the beginning of the Christmas season, the way it is in the US. Plus, no pilgrims/Indians stuff.
In Canada, they serve the turkey with peas and gravy on top.
New Brunswick checking in. It is a small h holiday here but not statutory. Businesses are not required to have the day off or pay time and a half to workers. That being said, almost all the stores are closed and most of those give their employees the day off with pay. About 14 years ago I was working for a company that only gave statutory days off which is when I learned, to my surprise, that several holidays I thought were statutory were not.
I’m not sure why NB is so stingy with the holidays (we have 7 stats as compared to Ontario’s 11). It could have started to make us more appealing for companies to set up shop or something but competition seems to have made it so most businesses close and give paid days off for standard holidays.