HAPPY THANKSGIVING! (canada)

[freespirit]

hope everyone has a safe and happy long weekend, and that we all find something to be thankful for.

see you in chat tonight!

[zap]

Happy Thanksgiving to you FS and to all the other Canadians here !

[willie pete]

what's the traditional Canadian Thanksgiving meal? ......anyone?

[Dogman]

what's the traditional Canadian Thanksgiving meal? ......anyone? Roast Moose?

[bootstrap]

I think you've jumped the gun, eh? Isn't Thanksgiving Monday?

Either way Happy Thanksgiving to the Canadian GSUSers!

[willie pete]

Roast Moose?

yea, I was thinking roast moose or boiled hedgehog with weasel gravy....>:D


...could be possum too....here's a recipe:

Canadian Possum Chili - NUCLEAR HOT !!!

Ingredients:
Tomato Sauce (depends on possum)
1 tsp.-1 cup Chili Powder (Depends on Taste and possum)
1 Large possum or 3 small (If you ran over the possum better make it 4)
1 large pot or two large ones if the first isn't enough.
5-10 chili peppers (depends on taste and possum)
5-10 red peppers (depends on taste and possum)
5-10 jalapenio peppers (depends on taste and possum)
How ever much Cayenne Pepper you like, it depends on your taste and possum.
1 tsp. Black Pepper
a pinch of salt
Chili Beans for extra flavor
And whatever other ingredients that are hot and spicy you would like to add.

Directions:
1. Skin possum(s) TRY and obtain young possums, the older adult possum meat seems to be more tough
2. Remove internal organs, head, claws, and bones. *Reserve for making Gravy later
3. Put some tomatoe sauce in the pot(s). Then add the possum. (This is a great step to add in to taste; the lungs, stomach and colon from the reserved parts above)
4. Chop peppers
5. Skip step four if you don't want chopped peppers; it doesn't matter.
6. Put the rest in and let set for a long while.
7. Before serving make sure you have enough bread, Milk, and Toliet paper for after dinner, while being an Excellant meal, it tends to cause loose stools in many. *NOTE: Ponce pay attention to this step please
8. Serve. Enjoy
9. Race for bathroom. Whoever is first will make a large stench. Have enough air freshner.

#9 IS a VERY Important Step

[Libertytree]

Happy Thanksgiving weekend :) Is it a 3 day national holiday for yaw'll?

[freespirit]

I think you've jumped the gun, eh? Isn't Thanksgiving Monday?

Either way Happy Thanksgiving to the Canadian GSUSers!

true, thanksgiving actually is monday, but one thing we canadians are famous for is taking a national holiday and turning it into a three day holiday! lol ;D

[freespirit]

Happy Thanksgiving weekend :) Is it a 3 day national holiday for yaw'll?

actually, i am going to turn it into a 5 day holiday! ;D

[freespirit]

what's the traditional Canadian Thanksgiving meal? ......anyone?

not sure how "traditional" its gonna be, but i'm cooking turkey, ham, roast potatoes, sweet potatoes, mixed veg, stuffing, and a spinach salad w/ gr peppers, mushrooms, celery, tomatoes, cucumber, carrot and grated marble cheese...
dessert will be simply strawberries with whipped cream.

and yes, i am doing all the cooking! ;D

[Veni, vidi...evigilavi!]

With the exception of spinach into a salad, everything else is similar to what our family prepares (my part of TX anyways). Your making me hungry, damn. Happy thanksgiving Canada!

[gunDriller]

what's the traditional Canadian Thanksgiving meal? ......anyone?

bacon, Molson's, & BC Bud ?

[Gaillo]

Little-known facts about the American Thanksgiving and pilgrims:

(1) The very FIRST act of the pilgrims, upon landing in the new world and scouting the territory, was to break into native American grain storage caches and STEAL everything contained therein.
(2) Contrary to the BS we learned in school about the "harmony" and mutual assistance between the natives and pilgrims, the initial years were FILLED with skirmishes, robbery, murder, and in at least one instance a full-fledged battle wherein the pilgrims were beaten back to the sea.
(3) The first thanksgiving dinner was not a formalized celebration like we see nice little paintings of long tables filled with food, etc. - but rather a chaotic harvest-type setting where many of the pilgrims were exhausted, diseased, on the verge of starvation, and in general demoralized. Much of the food was provided by native Americans, who did not want to see the settlers starve to death. The pilgrims did not want the natives in their settlement, but did not want to turn down the food. After obtaining it, they used a massive "show of arms" to scare off the natives.
(4) From surviving accounts, duck, deer and fish were the main harvest meal, not turkey.
(5) During the initial colonization of America by the pilgrims and others, one of the biggest problems facing settlements was figuring out how to keep people from going "native" and leaving the settlements for the more leisurely, well-fed, and better adapted to winter-weather existence of the native tribes.
(6) Black hats, buckles, and other "proper" clothing that we think of when imagining the pilgrims is a made-up fantasy of 19th century artists. In reality, the pilgrims were lower-class Englishmen, who tended to wear brightly colored clothes and rags.
(7) Despite the "puritanical" prim and proper hard-working, piously religious view we have of the pilgrims, the reality was that they preferred beer to water, drank a LOT of it, and early surviving writings speak of widespread drunkenness, "sodomy", and laziness among the settlers.
(8 ) Finally, a quote: "At the first thanksgiving celebration in 1621, there were only 6-7 sane people left in the whole pilgrim colony. The rest were mentally gone. ...so great was our famine that a savage we slew and buried, the poorer sort took him up again and ate him; and so did divers ones another boiled and stewed with herbs. And one amongst the rest did kill his wife, powdered her and had eaten part of her." - Captain John Smith (1580-1631)


Just curious... what are the Canadian traditions and history (true or "embellished") revolving around your Thanksgiving?

[ShortJohnSilver]

Just curious... what are the Canadian traditions and history (true or "embellished") revolving around your Thanksgiving?

The guys in America's "hat" / "loft apartment" realized that with all the partying downstairs they wouldn't be able to get anything done, anyways, so they put a hockey game on TV and sit around drinking brewskis and calling each each other "hosers" and commenting on their "beauty toques". Then they eat turkey.

[mightymanx]

Hell we just call it Columbus day and the government and schools take it off as well.

We just don't eat catsup flavored potatochips to go along with our day off.

[willie pete]

not sure how "traditional" its gonna be, but i'm cooking turkey, ham, roast potatoes, sweet potatoes, mixed veg, stuffing, and a spinach salad w/ gr peppers, mushrooms, celery, tomatoes, cucumber, carrot and grated marble cheese...
dessert will be simply strawberries with whipped cream.

and yes, i am doing all the cooking! ;D



wow......sounds like you're a good cook .....you Go girl....>:D

[freespirit]

wow......sounds like you're a good cook .....you Go girl....>:D

i can thank my mother for that one, i guess...she taught me to cook when i was very young. i remember getting a badge in cubs by preparing a 5 course meal for my family. i think i was maybe 10. lol

she used to say "there's no way any son of mine is gonna have to rely on a woman to take care of him!"
as a result, i can cook, clean, sew, iron, bake (kinda, lol) as well as hunt, fish, build, etc.

we aren't close, but i believe in credit where it is due...

[keehah]

Wine, Turkey, stuffing and gravy, squash, whole cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie.
After getting the outside painting done and the garden put away.

Next year I start with a greenhouse.

[Awoke]

Happy Thanksgiving. I suppose I missed chat.

[k-os]

Happy Thanksgiving to ya!

[mamboni]

Little-known facts about the American Thanksgiving and pilgrims:

(1) The very FIRST act of the pilgrims, upon landing in the new world and scouting the territory, was to break into native American grain storage caches and STEAL everything contained therein.
(2) Contrary to the BS we learned in school about the "harmony" and mutual assistance between the natives and pilgrims, the initial years were FILLED with skirmishes, robbery, murder, and in at least one instance a full-fledged battle wherein the pilgrims were beaten back to the sea.
(3) The first thanksgiving dinner was not a formalized celebration like we see nice little paintings of long tables filled with food, etc. - but rather a chaotic harvest-type setting where many of the pilgrims were exhausted, diseased, on the verge of starvation, and in general demoralized. Much of the food was provided by native Americans, who did not want to see the settlers starve to death. The pilgrims did not want the natives in their settlement, but did not want to turn down the food. After obtaining it, they used a massive "show of arms" to scare off the natives.
(4) From surviving accounts, duck, deer and fish were the main harvest meal, not turkey.
(5) During the initial colonization of America by the pilgrims and others, one of the biggest problems facing settlements was figuring out how to keep people from going "native" and leaving the settlements for the more leisurely, well-fed, and better adapted to winter-weather existence of the native tribes.
(6) Black hats, buckles, and other "proper" clothing that we think of when imagining the pilgrims is a made-up fantasy of 19th century artists. In reality, the pilgrims were lower-class Englishmen, who tended to wear brightly colored clothes and rags.
(7) Despite the "puritanical" prim and proper hard-working, piously religious view we have of the pilgrims, the reality was that they preferred beer to water, drank a LOT of it, and early surviving writings speak of widespread drunkenness, "sodomy", and laziness among the settlers.
(8 ) Finally, a quote: "At the first thanksgiving celebration in 1621, there were only 6-7 sane people left in the whole pilgrim colony. The rest were mentally gone. ...so great was our famine that a savage we slew and buried, the poorer sort took him up again and ate him; and so did divers ones another boiled and stewed with herbs. And one amongst the rest did kill his wife, powdered her and had eaten part of her." - Captain John Smith (1580-1631)


Just curious... what are the Canadian traditions and history (true or "embellished") revolving around your Thanksgiving?

And herein lies the secret to America's future greatness. For out of such a surly desperate lot under such privations would only the strongest in body and will survive, their progeny to inherit the new world!

Oh Canada!!!! Happy Thanksgiving!!!;D

[Awoke]

My version of Thanksgiving is more focused towards God and the blessings He has bestowed upon myself and my family.

I don't care much about how the pilgrims might have gotten drunk and screwed each other. Don't forget Mamboni, the same pilgrims settled the States.

[mamboni]

My version of Thanksgiving is more focused towards God and the blessings He has bestowed upon myself and my family.

I don't care much about how the pilgrims might have gotten drunk and screwed each other. Don't forget Mamboni, the same pilgrims settled the States.

Yes, I know. I'm living next door to a few of them.::)