Thanksgiving

[CarlS]

I wish everyone in the US a blessed Thanksgiving Day. Thanksgiving in the US is Thursday and it is national holiday. Our Canadian friends celebrate Thanksgiving in October. I am thankful for Mae Lyne, our children, my dad, good friends, my health, a roof over my head, food on the table, and my ability to ride. Life is good! We will leave in the morning for Pensacola to enjoy Thanksgiving with Mae Lyne's daughters and their families. We will stay with them through the weekend.

 

[DaveM]

Wishing you all a very good one :y18:

 

[Gromit]

To all across the great divide, TURKEY DAY! I think between all of us, we have plenty to be truly thankful for.

 

[MaeLyneS]

I wish all of our TriumphTalk members in the US a very happy Thanksgiving. Gromit, we do have so much to be thankful for. I get to see my grandson, yea!!

 

[gumpt1oo]

Happy Thanksgiving from England.
We don't have Thanksgiving over here, we have what is called a Bank Holiday, 3 times a year, always on a Monday. One at the end of April, one at the end of May, and one towards the end of August, plus the Easter and Christmas Holidays.
Have a great time with your families!

 

[stevethelondoner]

Happy Thanksgiving guys......I love this time of year. I hear ya on the thanks Carl.....I am one lucky geezer let me tell ya. I shouldn't bloody moan at the things I do.

Have a good one guys

Ride Safe

 

[dazco]

Right back at all you turkeys !!! :ya2: My kind friend Tasha who i sublet from has asked me to come up for T dinner with them. You're right Carl....i think maybe i AM blessed. :y114:

 

[Simmer]

Everyone have a great T-day. Even if you don't celebrate in your country, still have one. And we do have a lot to be thankful for. :y18:

Dave

 

[DaveM]

Dale look like you really made the right move here :y18:

 

[CarlS]

Glad to hear it, Dale. :y115:

 

[DaveM]

This may sound stupid but why Turkey what is the significance here. I would rather have a nice roast leg of lamb... YUM

 

[CarlS]

History 101. Remember that the Pilgrims and the American Indians celebrated the second Thanksgiving (the first Thanksgiving was celebrated in St Augustine 100 years earlier) at the end of the Pilgrim's first harvest. Wild turkeys were plentiful in the New England forests and all along the the eastern seaboard to Florida and west to the Mississippi River. Turkey was a popular game animal for food and easily domesticated and raised for food. Turkey, venison and fish were staples of frontier life and with the Indians. Turkey was definitely on the dinner table at the second Thanksgiving (and the first Thanksgiving, too).

 

[DaveM]

Yes I suppose looking at it this way then I can understand why it was Turkey, thanks Carl I am now edumicated :y18:

We are supposed to do Turkey at Christmas but I give it a miss and go for the Lamb, Chicken and Pork :y115:

 

[CarlS]

Ham is popular at Thanksgiving and Christmas here, too. Hogs were plentiful. they were not indigenous to North America; but were introduced by the Spanish and then the English, French and Germans. For the most part, the hogs roamed free and became quite wild. I like lamb; but it is not a traditional North American meat. The sheep brought to the New World by the Europeans were brought for their wool for clothing. With an abundance of game and fish, sheep were more valuable as a source material than they were for food.

 

[Rocky]

Happy Thanksgiving Day to everyone south of the 49th parallel and north of the Rio Grande.

 

[The Seeker]

Turkey were unique to North America at the time and were only exported to Europe later...so it's an American thing. ...and contrary to popular belief, the Pilgrims were thanking God.

Anyhow, Happy Thanksgiving to all !!!

 

[dazco]

I kinda wish somehow the mexicans had been involved in the original feast. That way maybe today i could look forward to CARNITAS for thanksgiving !!! (salivating as i speak :ya2

 

[Sunshine Jim]

happy T'day gang!

oh it was a goodun!

and as a grand finale:

cappuccino whipped cream chocolate hazelnut crusted pie!

life is good!

 

[CarlS]

That pie surely sounds good! Yum!!!

 

[stevethelondoner]

Bloody heck I ate to much................

Ride Safe