Thanksgiving

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spiralingintocontrol:

weird how Thanksgiving is an extremely secular and cross-cultural holiday, such that I don’t feel bad wishing happy Thanksgiving to basically anyone who is physically in the US right now– just got off a boat from China? welcome! you’re probably going to eat different food from me on Thanksgiving but you’re probably still going to get the day off and eat lots of food with your family or something! it’s the original American Immigrant Holiday and thus is inclusive to pretty much everyone

… EXCEPT Canadians. they have their own.

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#por que no los dos #our home and cherished land #home of the brave #Thanksgiving #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once

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rustingbridges:

I have cleverly arranged my schedule so that I can participate in both canadian and american thanksgiving. I have no idea what canadians do for canadian thanksgiving but I ate a lot. wikipedia claims:

While the actual Thanksgiving holiday is on a Monday, Canadians may gather for their Thanksgiving feast on any day during the long weekend; however, Sunday is considered the most common.

which is, frankly, a lot more sane than having specifically thursday off for dinner. no I am not suggesting any amendment to the american practice

#frankly I like eating so I might adopt canadian thanksgiving to me extended schedule of holidays #dont currently have anything between labor day and thanksgiving unless we count 9/11 but that’s still a month ago #fills a good hole

The Objectively Correct solution to Columbus Day discourse.

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#where ”objectively correct” means‚ of course‚ what I personally do #seriously though‚ everyone‚ come join us #put maple syrup in your pumpkin pie #Thanksgiving #food #Columbus Day #discourse cw? #recs #reply via reblog

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rustingbridges:

I’m reading a blog post, and this guy is talking about what he does at canadian thanksgiving

is that how canadians refer to canadian thanksgiving? “happy canadian thanksgiving!” “give canadian thanks!”

 

brin-bellway:

#I mean probably not  #probably this is just because most of his blog audience is american  #and probably he gets a lot of confused questions about his thanksgiving timing  #but maybe

 

Yeah, it’s only “Canadian Thanksgiving” in contexts where the default assumption is American. Likewise, “American Thanksgiving” in contexts where the default assumption is Canadian.

Mom has been known to call the American one “Pilgrim Thanksgiving”, but I think she’s been doing that less lately.

(We celebrate both, in honor of our American heritage. I don’t know how Canadian-only people are supposed to cope with the fact that one can of pumpkin makes two pies: we get to just make both Thanksgivings’ pumpkin pies at once, keeping the second one in the freezer until it’s time.)

 

maryellencarter:

…in my experience one can of pumpkin makes one pie. I don’t know if your cans are larger, your pies smaller, or your recipes more padded with non-pumpkin ingredients, but now I’m curious.

 

brin-bellway:

I’ll go look that up.

1. Our spare can of pumpkin is 796mL. According to a grocery-store online catalogue you can also get “pumpkin pie filling” in 540mL cans, but we only buy that by accident.

2. The pie in our freezer is 9 inches in diameter and maybe an inch and a half deep.

3. The can says:

“Pumpkin pie recipe on reverse. Requires: eggs, brown sugar, ground cinnamon, ground nutmeg, ground ginger, salt, 175 mL evaporated milk (1 pie) and an unbaked pie shell.

1 can makes 2 pies.”

When I asked Mom for confirmation that we do in fact use the recipe on the can, she said yes, then asked for context (which I gave). She thinks the main difference is the can size, with a side of having to add more ingredients to the plain pumpkin.

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@alarajrogers said:

“The solution for Americans is we eat 2 pumpkin pies.”

Come to think of it I suppose that *would* work pretty well for groups with more than 2 – 3 pie-eating members (edit: or maybe even just people who aren’t also making chocolate cream pie). Maybe the canned-pumpkin manufacturers size their cans assuming you’re going to invite people over.

 

maryellencarter:

Same recipe, same size pie, about twice as large of a can. Interesting. The cans of pumpkin I recall from my childhood, which made one pie each and had that same recipe (with the addition of allspice) on the back, were somewhere between 440mL and 475mL.

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brin-bellway:

rustingbridges:

I’m reading a blog post, and this guy is talking about what he does at canadian thanksgiving

is that how canadians refer to canadian thanksgiving? “happy canadian thanksgiving!” “give canadian thanks!”

#I mean probably not  #probably this is just because most of his blog audience is american  #and probably he gets a lot of confused questions about his thanksgiving timing  #but maybe

 

Yeah, it’s only “Canadian Thanksgiving” in contexts where the default assumption is American. Likewise, “American Thanksgiving” in contexts where the default assumption is Canadian.

Mom has been known to call the American one “Pilgrim Thanksgiving”, but I think she’s been doing that less lately.

(We celebrate both, in honor of our American heritage. I don’t know how Canadian-only people are supposed to cope with the fact that one can of pumpkin makes two pies: we get to just make both Thanksgivings’ pumpkin pies at once, keeping the second one in the freezer until it’s time.)

…in my experience one can of pumpkin makes one pie. I don’t know if your cans are larger, your pies smaller, or your recipes more padded with non-pumpkin ingredients, but now I’m curious.

I’ll go look that up.

1. Our spare can of pumpkin is 796mL. According to a grocery-store online catalogue you can also get “pumpkin pie filling” in 540mL cans, but we only buy that by accident.

2. The pie in our freezer is 9 inches in diameter and maybe an inch and a half deep.

3. The can says:

“Pumpkin pie recipe on reverse. Requires: eggs, brown sugar, ground cinnamon, ground nutmeg, ground ginger, salt, 175 mL evaporated milk (1 pie) and an unbaked pie shell.

1 can makes 2 pies.”

When I asked Mom for confirmation that we do in fact use the recipe on the can, she said yes, then asked for context (which I gave). She thinks the main difference is the can size, with a side of having to add more ingredients to the plain pumpkin.

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@alarajrogers said:

“The solution for Americans is we eat 2 pumpkin pies.”

Come to think of it I suppose that *would* work pretty well for groups with more than 2 – 3 pie-eating members (edit: or maybe even just people who aren’t also making chocolate cream pie). Maybe the canned-pumpkin manufacturers size their cans assuming you’re going to invite people over.

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#food #Thanksgiving #our home and cherished land #home of the brave #reply via reblog

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rustingbridges:

I’m reading a blog post, and this guy is talking about what he does at canadian thanksgiving

is that how canadians refer to canadian thanksgiving? “happy canadian thanksgiving!” “give canadian thanks!”

#I mean probably not  #probably this is just because most of his blog audience is american  #and probably he gets a lot of confused questions about his thanksgiving timing  #but maybe

Yeah, it’s only “Canadian Thanksgiving” in contexts where the default assumption is American. Likewise, “American Thanksgiving” in contexts where the default assumption is Canadian.

Mom has been known to call the American one “Pilgrim Thanksgiving”, but I think she’s been doing that less lately.

(We celebrate both, in honor of our American heritage. I don’t know how Canadian-only people are supposed to cope with the fact that one can of pumpkin makes two pies: we get to just make both Thanksgivings’ pumpkin pies at once, keeping the second one in the freezer until it’s time.)

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#Thanksgiving #our home and cherished land #home of the brave #language #reply via reblog #food

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Today, I am thankful that my workplace does not play Christmas music.

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#Top 40 is vastly preferable #(I mean there’s other things I’m thankful for too) #(but this is one of the less obvious ones) #we aren’t actually observing Thanksgiving today because from 1 PM to midnight at least one family member is at work at any given time #we will have our feast on Saturday instead #(note: from what I can gather regarding previous years it really is that they *don’t* play it and not that they start playing it later) #(but I suppose it could do with some wood-knocking anyway) #Christmas #in which Brin has a job #oh look an original post #music #Thanksgiving #this kind of sounds like a joke but it is also completely truthful

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bisexualzuko:

nonomella:

here are some excerpts from my thanksgiving lesson. once class just couldn’t let the whole squanto thing go. it was not a particularly productive lesson.

it’s six months from thanksgiving but this post never gets old
is squanto a chinese curse word or something

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#Thanksgiving #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #may or may not have reblogged this before