BS: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada!

Subject: BS: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada!
From: Jeri
Date: 11 Oct 10 - 02:35 PM

To all my Canadian friends, acquaintances, and others, Happy Thanksgiving to you!
May you enjoy good food, good company, the beauty of the season, and much love and laughter.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada!
From: gnu
Date: 11 Oct 10 - 03:25 PM

Thanks.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 11 Oct 10 - 03:35 PM

Thanks, eh? ;-D Same to you, Jeri. We're having the most gorgeous day here....true "Indian Summer".

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada!
From: gnu
Date: 11 Oct 10 - 04:30 PM

Perfect fall day here. About 10C, sunny, windy day but it's calming. It'll be dark in about two hours and the last hour will be near dead calm and silent to the point of deafening... if I was up country in the woods. I miss it soooo much it nearly makes me weep.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada!
From: JennieG
Date: 11 Oct 10 - 04:39 PM

Best wishes from me too eh!

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada!
From: Beer
Date: 11 Oct 10 - 05:45 PM

Thanks Jeri.
Were not having turkey because we have a chicken which was home grown and is bigger than a turkey. In fact we had cut it in half and froze it because it was to much for Judy and I to eat. However we have a few guest that are performing at a concert tomorrow evening (Richard Wood and Gordon Belsher)so the lovely lady sowed the two half's back together.
Happy Thanks Giving to all.
Adrien

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada!
From: Jeri
Date: 11 Oct 10 - 05:47 PM

Frankenchicken! Cool.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada!
From: frogprince
Date: 11 Oct 10 - 08:03 PM

Oh, you eat turkey for thanksgiving up there too; I was going to ask what kind of stuffing you generally used in the loons.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada!
From: Mooh
Date: 11 Oct 10 - 08:40 PM

Happy Thanksgiving all!

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada!
From: Beer
Date: 12 Oct 10 - 08:50 AM

Dean,
If you don't have a recipe for Loon here it is.

Throw the Loon in a boiling pot of water along with Potatoes, carrots, onions and anything else you want to get rid of. But the most important ingredient is to carefully lower a stone about 3 inches in diameter. When you can poke a fork threw the rock the Loon is ready to be served.
Works every time.
Ad.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada!
From: Bob the Postman
Date: 12 Oct 10 - 08:57 PM

Loons don't need stuffing--they ain't hollow.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada!
From: Beer
Date: 12 Oct 10 - 10:37 PM

How true Bob. They have solid bones. They are also a specie separate from duck or bird. They are what they are.
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada!
From: gnu
Date: 13 Oct 10 - 01:51 PM

God damn annoying at dawn is what they are.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada!
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 13 Oct 10 - 01:55 PM

Had chile (tepary beans and well-cured ham in the pot). Followed by pumpkin pie slathered with whipped cream. Delicious!

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada!
From: Jeri
Date: 13 Oct 10 - 02:08 PM

Gnu, how much loon did you eat!?

Next month in the US, but I generally prefer turkey.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada!
From: open mike
Date: 13 Oct 10 - 07:38 PM

what is the tradition behind this holiday in Canada?
What is usually eaten on that day, and are there any
other celebration traditions that accompany this holiday?

are turkey and pumkin pie usually part of the feast?
Is it basically a harvest festivity?

In the U.S. i think there is a football game and a parade

for me, the meal always included Tofurkey, a vegetarian dish.

and a recipe for cranberry sauce which comes from an NPR radio host.
Susan Stamberg,whose other0-in-law had this awesome concoction
with horseradish, sour cream and cranberries...you'd never believe
it was so delicious!!   

Chongo might like this recipe and instructions by a monkey
http://www.himonkey.net/cooking/stamberg/

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada!
From: open mike
Date: 13 Oct 10 - 11:38 PM

no-one posted answers to my questions, so i went a-googlin':

excerpts from many sources.....

Thanksgiving Day in Canada has been a holiday on the second Monday of October since 1957. It is a chance for people to give thanks for a good harvest and other fortunes in the past year.

The history of Thanksgiving in Canada is related to Martin Frobisher, who was an English navigator. He made a lot of efforts to find a northern passage to the Orient. Though he did not succeed in his efforts but he was able to establish a settlement in Northern America. In the year 1578, he held a formal ceremony, in what is now known as Newfoundland, to give thanks for surviving the long journey. This is considered the first Canadian Thanksgiving. Martin Frobisher was later knighted and an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean in northern Canada was named as ' Frobisher Bay' after him.

In 1604, French settlers, having crossed the ocean and arrived in Canada with explorer Samuel de Champlain, also held huge feasts of thanks. They formed 'The Order of Good Cheer' and gladly shared their food with their First Nations neighbours.

The Kitchener-Waterloo Oktoberfest Parade serves as the nation's only Thanksgiving Day parade and is broadcast nationwide on CTV and A. Canada's top professional football league, the Canadian Football League, holds a nationally televised doubleheader known as the "Thanksgiving Day Classic."

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada!
From: gnu
Date: 14 Oct 10 - 04:29 AM

Turkey, pumpkin pie, cranberry sauce... yes. In my family, the tradition was to have the meal on Sunday and go hunting on Monday.

I am a member of The Order of Good Cheer, although I was so young when my parents visited there that I don't remember any of it.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada!
From: ragdall
Date: 14 Oct 10 - 05:04 AM

My daughter-in-law, who is still learning Canadian customs, prepared a wonderful feast for us on Monday. There was roast turkey with stuffing and gravy, mashed potatoes, Brussels sprouts, corn on the cob, red cabbage, and homemade bread rolls. We brought the dessert (from a supermarket), a choice of pecan pie or pumpkin pie with whipped cream.

We would prefer to celebrate on Sunday, but we were travelling that day. My son was glad that he'd invited us for Monday instead of Sunday because the electrical power went off Sunday from 11:30 am until about 5:30 pm. Those who planned to cook a turkey on Sunday did so with great difficulty. Barbecued turkey anyone?

rags

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada!
From: gnu
Date: 14 Oct 10 - 02:09 PM

Thanks be to that stroke of luck, rags.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada!
From: gnu
Date: 10 Oct 11 - 08:48 AM

Roast beef today. Even tho turkeys have been on for $1.37 a pound for two weeks now.

Enjoy the day eh!

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada!
From: Ed T
Date: 10 Oct 11 - 08:51 AM

tnxgiving,eh

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada!
From: kendall
Date: 10 Oct 11 - 09:22 AM

I get a ton of videos, this is the worst.

Anyway, my best wishes to all our Canadian friends.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada!
From: Ed T
Date: 10 Oct 11 - 09:23 AM

Some folks collect the worst:)

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada!
From: gnu
Date: 10 Oct 11 - 09:51 AM

It is? Good thing I turned it off quick like.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada!
From: Ed T
Date: 10 Oct 11 - 10:25 AM

:)

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada!
From: open mike
Date: 10 Oct 11 - 12:10 PM

may there be bounty for all

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada!
From: Ed T
Date: 10 Oct 11 - 12:45 PM

More turkey for Cdn-Thanksgiving, from the old master himself Mr. Bates.

Turkey

Gnu, sure hope you are flogging the turkey today,eh:)

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada!
From: GUEST,999
Date: 10 Oct 11 - 01:22 PM

"I was going to ask what kind of stuffing you generally used in the loons."

My opinion having eaten loon once is that the only fit stuffing for them is dynamite for the dead ones and whatever the hell they eat on a daily basis for the live ones. I would have to be real hungry to eat one ever again. Offered a choice between a slice of dry bread and loon, I'd go with the bread.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada!
From: Jeri
Date: 10 Oct 11 - 01:27 PM

I hope you're gettin' fed SOMETHING, B!

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada!
From: GUEST,999
Date: 10 Oct 11 - 01:36 PM

I didn't know it was TG until I saw this thread. Monday's usually slow in Ormstown anyway, what with shops closed, etc, being that they're open the other six days. The absence of traffic made me wonder a bit.

Thanks for the thread, the heads up and the wishes. Back atcha, Jeri.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada!
From: gnu
Date: 10 Oct 11 - 04:19 PM

Loon? LOON? Ya'd hafta be looney ta eat a loon. They eat fish and mud. Yeeeeccchhhh!

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada!
From: bobad
Date: 10 Oct 11 - 07:00 PM

I bypass the loon and just eat fish and mud for Thanksgiving.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada!
From: gnu
Date: 10 Oct 11 - 07:33 PM

Fish and mud? Yer lucky. When I was a lad all we had was mud and blackflies. Of cousre, the blackflies up country were so thick we   gained weight when ma would fry em up with mud and the mud was good for our alimentary canals.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada!
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 10 Oct 11 - 11:11 PM

Hope all Canadian Mudcatters had a wonderful Thanksgiving Day!

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada!
From: bobad
Date: 11 Oct 11 - 10:31 AM

Alimentary canals....you were lucky....we had our fish and mud liquified and pumped into our excretory canals.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada!
From: gnu
Date: 11 Oct 11 - 05:10 PM

Pumped in? Pffff... we had to chew ours and then shovel balckflies so's Dad could get the tractor out till the snow so we could plant.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada!
From: gnu
Date: 11 Oct 11 - 05:11 PM

get the tractor out TO till the snow

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada!
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Oct 11 - 09:41 PM

Happy Thanksgiving...give thanks you don't have OUR politicians, cuz your own are bad enough.