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11 Oct 10 - 02:35 PM (#3004610) Subject: BS: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada! From: Jeri 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. |
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11 Oct 10 - 03:25 PM (#3004638) Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada! From: gnu Thanks. |
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11 Oct 10 - 03:35 PM (#3004644) Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada! From: Little Hawk Thanks, eh? ;-D Same to you, Jeri. We're having the most gorgeous day here....true "Indian Summer". |
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11 Oct 10 - 04:30 PM (#3004679) Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada! From: gnu 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. |
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11 Oct 10 - 04:39 PM (#3004688) Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada! From: JennieG Best wishes from me too eh! Cheers JennieG |
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11 Oct 10 - 05:45 PM (#3004714) Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada! From: Beer 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 |
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11 Oct 10 - 05:47 PM (#3004715) Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada! From: Jeri Frankenchicken! Cool. |
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11 Oct 10 - 08:03 PM (#3004786) Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada! From: frogprince Oh, you eat turkey for thanksgiving up there too; I was going to ask what kind of stuffing you generally used in the loons. |
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11 Oct 10 - 08:40 PM (#3004813) Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada! From: Mooh Happy Thanksgiving all! Peace, Mooh. |
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12 Oct 10 - 08:50 AM (#3005125) Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada! From: Beer 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. |
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12 Oct 10 - 08:57 PM (#3005619) Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada! From: Bob the Postman Loons don't need stuffing--they ain't hollow. |
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12 Oct 10 - 10:37 PM (#3005661) Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada! From: Beer How true Bob. They have solid bones. They are also a specie separate from duck or bird. They are what they are. Ad. |
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13 Oct 10 - 01:51 PM (#3006196) Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada! From: gnu God damn annoying at dawn is what they are. |
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13 Oct 10 - 01:55 PM (#3006198) Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada! From: Q (Frank Staplin) Had chile (tepary beans and well-cured ham in the pot). Followed by pumpkin pie slathered with whipped cream. Delicious! |
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13 Oct 10 - 02:08 PM (#3006208) Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada! From: Jeri Gnu, how much loon did you eat!? Next month in the US, but I generally prefer turkey. |
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13 Oct 10 - 07:38 PM (#3006444) Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada! From: open mike 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/ |
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13 Oct 10 - 11:38 PM (#3006572) Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada! From: open mike 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." |
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14 Oct 10 - 04:29 AM (#3006656) Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada! From: gnu 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. |
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14 Oct 10 - 05:04 AM (#3006679) Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada! From: ragdall 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 |
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14 Oct 10 - 02:09 PM (#3006987) Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada! From: gnu Thanks be to that stroke of luck, rags. |
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10 Oct 11 - 08:48 AM (#3236657) Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada! From: gnu Roast beef today. Even tho turkeys have been on for $1.37 a pound for two weeks now. Enjoy the day eh! |
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10 Oct 11 - 08:51 AM (#3236658) Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada! From: Ed T tnxgiving,eh |
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10 Oct 11 - 09:22 AM (#3236674) Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada! From: kendall I get a ton of videos, this is the worst. Anyway, my best wishes to all our Canadian friends. |
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10 Oct 11 - 09:23 AM (#3236675) Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada! From: Ed T Some folks collect the worst:) |
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10 Oct 11 - 09:51 AM (#3236694) Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada! From: gnu It is? Good thing I turned it off quick like. |
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10 Oct 11 - 10:25 AM (#3236715) Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada! From: Ed T :) |
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10 Oct 11 - 12:10 PM (#3236783) Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada! From: open mike may there be bounty for all |
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10 Oct 11 - 12:45 PM (#3236810) Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada! From: Ed T More turkey for Cdn-Thanksgiving, from the old master himself Mr. Bates. Turkey Gnu, sure hope you are flogging the turkey today,eh:) |
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10 Oct 11 - 01:22 PM (#3236831) Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada! From: GUEST,999 "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. |
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10 Oct 11 - 01:27 PM (#3236835) Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada! From: Jeri I hope you're gettin' fed SOMETHING, B! |
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10 Oct 11 - 01:36 PM (#3236840) Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada! From: GUEST,999 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. |
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10 Oct 11 - 04:19 PM (#3236942) Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada! From: gnu Loon? LOON? Ya'd hafta be looney ta eat a loon. They eat fish and mud. Yeeeeccchhhh! |
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10 Oct 11 - 07:00 PM (#3237013) Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada! From: bobad I bypass the loon and just eat fish and mud for Thanksgiving. |
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10 Oct 11 - 07:33 PM (#3237029) Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada! From: gnu 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. |
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10 Oct 11 - 11:11 PM (#3237094) Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada! From: ChanteyLass Hope all Canadian Mudcatters had a wonderful Thanksgiving Day! |
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11 Oct 11 - 10:31 AM (#3237198) Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada! From: bobad Alimentary canals....you were lucky....we had our fish and mud liquified and pumped into our excretory canals. |
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11 Oct 11 - 05:10 PM (#3237411) Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada! From: gnu 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. |
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11 Oct 11 - 05:11 PM (#3237415) Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada! From: gnu get the tractor out TO till the snow |
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11 Oct 11 - 09:41 PM (#3237549) Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving, Canada! From: Rapparee Happy Thanksgiving...give thanks you don't have OUR politicians, cuz your own are bad enough. |