Happy Thanksgiving...

[FJmonkey]

See i rest my case!  The only tea worth talking about is Twinnings!  Although i will give you ten brownie points for even knowing brands other than liptons!  If you cant get any over there let me know your address and i will send you a box.  My preference is English breakfast, although their are more varieties on the market than i can shake a stick at!!

We get Twinnings here, but my wife prefers PG Tips. Thanks for the offer though...

[Mark Olson]

I can't believe this thread turned to tea.

I survived the meal my daughter and her husband made 

wow I missed my wife's cooking . All good though with family around and alcohol. 

[big r]

Happy Thanksgiving to all our neighbors to the south. As far as tea goes there is nothing better than red rose orange pekoe tea, only in Canada you say. I suppose this could start an international incedent, but oh what the hell. Big R

[RichBaker]

Never really understood thanksgiving?  We dont have it in the UK.  It looks a bit like a practice run for Christmas from this side of the pond?  Could you give an abridged explanation?

Is it on the same date like christmas, or does it move about like Easter?

Merry Thanksgiving to you all anyway!

Thanksgiving Day is a holiday celebrated primarily in the United States and Canada. Thanksgiving Day is celebrated each year on the 4th Thursday of November in the United States and on the 2nd Monday of October in Canada.  It is a basically a harvest time celebration and is rooted in old English traditions.

It is called Thanksgiving because the Pilgrims were giving thanks for making it thru their 1st year in the New World..... It was celebrated after their 1st harvesting .

[RichBaker]

thanks lotso.  That's explained it perfectly! And pitched just at the right level!

Couple of little points. I smiled when it said we will elect a president to do what the people want!! How is that working out for you all??

Having been to the states (florida, seattle, tacoma and NYC) a couple of times i speak with authority when i say You folks still haven't learnt how to make a decent cup of tea.  Was the 'Boston tea party' part of the history books mistaken for a recipe suggestion!!

 

Only one problem with this.... Thanksgiving has nothing whatsoever to do with the American Revolution.....  They are a couple hundred years apart.

[nurse]

What so my new found understanding of American history is flawed and incorrect! How will I sleep tonight!

I do worry about you American types, you can't make tea, you don't know your own history, you buy our chocolate manufacturers (Kraft now own cadburys) sack all the staff move manufacturing abroad and go cheap on the ingredients. 

Next thing you will be invading third world and middle eastern countries purely for their resources and getting gullible European islands in the mid Atlantic to join in

Ok back to topic, so it's pilgrims and founding fathers not American civil war?  Therefore the tea party conversation is now redundant!?

[RichBaker]

Correct.... And, it was the American Revolutionary war, not the Civil war (aka: War of Northern Aggression).... You know, the one where we kicked King George III and his buddies off the continent.  

Oh, the Pilgrims weren't the Founding Fathers, either.... They were sorta responsible for the Revolution.

[Klavdy]

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Happy turkey day.

[nurse]

Correct.... And, it was the American Revolutionary war, not the Civil war (aka: War of Northern Aggression).... You know, the one where we kicked King George III and his buddies off the continent.  

Oh, the Pilgrims weren't the Founding Fathers, either.... They were sorta responsible for the Revolution.

So when do the cowboys and Indians
Fit into the scheme of things? Had king George upset them as well?

[93fj1200]

Never really understood thanksgiving?  We dont have it in the UK.  It looks a bit like a practice run for Christmas from this side of the pond?  Could you give an abridged explanation?

Is it on the same date like christmas, or does it move about like Easter?

Merry Thanksgiving to you all anyway!

Thanksgiving Day is a holiday celebrated primarily in the United States and Canada. Thanksgiving Day is celebrated each year on the 4th Thursday of November in the United States and on the 2nd Monday of October in Canada.  It is a basically a harvest time celebration and is rooted in old English traditions.

It is called Thanksgiving because the Pilgrims were giving thanks for making it thru their 1st year in the New World..... It was celebrated after their 1st harvesting .

Sorry, but the pilgrims did not invent Thanksgiving, they only continued traditions that they had brought with them from England.  Pilgrims did not arrive until 1620.  There were many different thanksgiving days in Europe.  Look it up on Wikipedia and not only the American version.  A little excerpt:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving

Prayers of thanks and special thanksgiving ceremonies are common among almost all religions after harvests and at other times.[1] The Thanksgiving holiday's history in North America is rooted in English traditions dating from the Protestant Reformation. It also has aspects of a harvest festival, even though the harvest in New England occurs well before the late-November date on which the modern Thanksgiving holiday is celebrated.[1][2]

In the English tradition, days of thanksgiving and special thanksgiving religious services became important during the English Reformation in the reign of Henry VIII and in reaction to the large number of religious holidays on the Catholic calendar. Before 1536 there were 95 Church holidays, plus 52 Sundays, when people were required to attend church and forego work and sometimes pay for expensive celebrations. The 1536 reforms reduced the number of Church holidays to 27, but some Puritans, the radical reformers of their age, wished to completely eliminate all Church holidays, including Christmas and Easter. The holidays were to be replaced by specially called Days of Fasting or Days of Thanksgiving, in response to events that the Puritans viewed as acts of special providence. Unexpected disasters or threats of judgement from on high called for Days of Fasting. Special blessings, viewed as coming from God, called for Days of Thanksgiving. For example, Days of Fasting were called on account of drought in 1611, floods in 1613, and plagues in 1604 and 1622. Days of Thanksgiving were called following the victory over the Spanish Armada in 1588 and following the deliverance of Queen Anne in 1705. An unusual annual Day of Thanksgiving began in 1606 following the failure of the Gunpowder Plot in 1605 and developed into Guy Fawkes Day.[3]

[FJmonkey]

Thanksgiving just gave me a good excuse to catch a plane and spend a few days with my brother (Ex Blue Power Ranger on a Seca 650 Turbo) and mother. His kids talked us into playing a game of Airsoft capture the flag. 4 young pups against us two old farts. They had no idea we stayed in comm with our cell phones and ear pieces, could not figure out how covered almost every move they made. The smoked turkey was really good too.....

[Zwartie]

Jeremy Hotz on Canadians, Americans and Thanksgiving
Jeremy Hotz - Canada & USA

Oh, and Tetley for my wife and I...

Zwartie

See i rest my case!  The only tea worth talking about is Twinnings!  Although i will give you ten brownie points for even knowing brands other than liptons!  If you cant get any over there let me know your address and i will send you a box.  My preference is English breakfast, although their are more varieties on the market than i can shake a stick at!!

We get Twinnings here, but my wife prefers PG Tips. Thanks for the offer though...

[DoD#663]

Never really understood thanksgiving?  We dont have it in the UK.  It looks a bit like a practice run for Christmas from this side of the pond?  Could you give an abridged explanation?

One (or more) of my direct progenitors was on the Mayflower, so I have a good reason to know the subject.

Having a "Thanksgiving Feast" goes way back, it's the "Harvest Feast" tradition with a Christian overlay.

The American version is because in 1620 the Puritans immigrated from Holland to Plymouth. The Mayflower had been sponsored by English firms that imposed Utopian Communism on the migrants, just as had been done in Jamestown and Roanoke.

In 1623, after 50% losses from starvation, the colony re-established private property, profits, and markets. The feast of 1623 was so great that it is still regarded as a miracle by the economically illiterate.

The other two English colonies did not fare so well. Jamestown had 90% starvation before abandoning Communism, and the Roanoke colony simply vanished.

http://mises.org/daily/336

Is it on the same date like christmas, or does it move about like Easter?

The tyrant FDR set it in stone as the 3rd Thursday of November.

Merry Thanksgiving to you all anyway!

I assure you, I had a BLAST handing out Thanksgiving meals to needy families, and then eating my own.