Gareth, I honestly don't know. The Native American family my mother lived next door to celebrated Thanksgiving, but others may very well not, or they may do something different. I doubt all non-native Americans celebrate it. Didn't we have a flame war thread on this last year or the year before?

Sorcha, I ate a raw oyster in a San Antonio Riverwalk restaurant in 1998, and I didn't really see the point. You can make lots of lumpy things you can slurp, and they have more taste, they look a whole lot more attractive, and they don't give you hepatitis A.