Happy Turkey Day! GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE. 

If you don't celebrate thanksgiving, then.. Happy... November 25th >.>

im canadian, already had them turkeyz.  i sure could go for a turkey sammich right now

Turkeys done.
I am STUFFED.
Boy these elastic Jammies feel good 

Didn't have any turkey today. I feel so lame..... leftover pizza here I come

Can sombody explain what is thanks giving Im in AUS and ive like never herd of it

Thanksgiving is a "fairly" new holiday here in the US.

Family and friends get to gather at some victims house, we cook far too much food and devour it.
Then the girls go to the kitchen (again) and clean up while the guys sit, bloated, at the TV to watch football..

(Thats gridiron, not REAL football)

Quote from: juliemac on November 25, 2010, 08:12:35 PM
Thanksgiving is a "fairly" new holiday here in the US.

Family and friends get to gather at some victims house, we cook far too much food and devour it.
Then the girls go to the kitchen (again) and clean up while the guys sit, bloated, at the TV to watch football..

(Thats gridiron, not REAL football)

That is a pretty accurate description.

Thanksgiving was first celebrated by the Pilgrims in the "New World", aka the United States, after a successful harvest.  This was after a particularly nasty winter.  Without football or beer of course.

This was my first Vegan Thanksgiving.  And it was just as "fullfilling"  as any other.

Turkeys are vegetarian!! Or did you make one out of tofu?

Thanksgiving was first celebrated by the Pilgrims in the "New World", aka the United States, after a successful harvest.  This was after a particularly nasty winter.  Without football or beer of course

While they didn't have the NFL, the first building that was erected at Plymouth was a brewery.  People didn't drink water as a matter of routine course until after the 1820s when water purefication systems were first built.  People didn't know all that 'germ' stuff - but they did know that if they took the water and made it into some sort of wine or beer it wouldn't kill them.

Quote from: Janet Lynn on November 26, 2010, 02:01:16 AM
Thanksgiving was first celebrated by the Pilgrims in the "New World", aka the United States, after a successful harvest.  This was after a particularly nasty winter.  Without football or beer of course.

This was my first Vegan Thanksgiving.  And it was just as "fullfilling"  as any other.

Sorry to say it. But...
The only recorded harvest dinner was the first fall after they arrived. The harvest had failed in the sandy soil, so low on rations they pooled all the food together. A hunting party of Wampanochs came by, saw the low rations and went and shot 5 deer and brought a lot of other foods.
The first people then taught them to plant and harvest maise and pumpkins etc.

The first recorded Thanksgiving was just prior to the Civil war. It was an attempt to get people to sit together and eat and talk. History says that attempt failed.

It wasnt a hoilday till President (arrghh) signed it into law as a national holiday in 1951.

Any body want to play Trivia? (didnt think so... Sigh...)

I am glad I got some people interested enough to do some research.  Hey you need some thing to do to keep you awake after all that Food.

The first American Thanksgiving was celebrated in 1621, to commemorate the harvest reaped by the Plymouth Colony after a harsh winter. In that year Governor William Bradford proclaimed a day of thanksgiving. The colonists celebrated it as a traditional English harvest feast, to which they invited the local Wampanoag Indians.
Like all legal/government proclamations there are copies of it, so we can tie it to the 1621 date.

By the mid–1800s, many states observed a Thanksgiving holiday. Meanwhile, the poet and editor Sarah J. Hale had begun lobbying for a national Thanksgiving holiday. During the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln, looking for ways to unite the nation, discussed the subject with Hale. In 1863 he gave his Thanksgiving Proclamation, declaring the last Thursday in November a day of thanksgiving.
Not exactly 1851.

Read more: Thanksgiving History — Infoplease.com

Thank you Tekla... This was my understanding of it also... Although I couldn't remember the dates and such

One of my neighbors doesn't like turkey and won't celebrate Thanksgiving... I think he just doesn't want to be accused of cannibalism 

Thinking about it... I've never heard him say thank you either