Next Monday is our Thanksgiving Day, Oct. 14.
From Mike: Happy way too early Thanksgiving , have a Macy’s parade.
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Happy Thanksgiving!
How did they get that date? Average all the historical events modulo 365/12 statistically, applying the Arrow Impossibility Theorem with vigor?
I suspect because of the following reasons: 1) It’s the finale of the harvest season… as supported by numerous Fall Fairs 2) A National Holiday was needed in the month of October in the same way Family Day was assigned to February. 3) For the majority of the geographic country ( but not the population majority) its the last of the good weather before all heck breaks loose. It’s a big travel day so much safer. It’s nice here today and tomorrow but by Halloween it will be -15 with a foot of snow on the ground and very icy.
Put that all together and you arrive at the second Monday in October as the magic date. Actually it is a great time to celebrate Thanksgiving with all the colours and crisp air. To celebrate on the same day as the USA would be a very horrible time of the year for travel and the harvest is long gone. We are too far North.
Oh wow, that Canadian bacon looks so goooooooood!!!
Most of us go into hibernation after Halloween, which makes it difficult to hold celebrations in late November.
Railroaders don’t get to hibernate, which is why we are always so grumpy.
Wayne, it’s Canadian style bacon when it comes from Wisconsin.
Wayne, it’s Canadian style bacon when it comes from Wisconsin.
(They call it ‘Canadian bacon’ but they should really Know Better… [;)])
Man, who cares WHERE it comes from? It looks fantastic!
Of course, there’s some things Canadian you just can’t get down here, for example cod tongues. You’ve gotta go to Newfoundland for those.
Don’t knock 'em 'till you’ve tried 'em!
You’re lookin’ at about $108$84 (they sliced it themselves for the picture) worth of it in that picture … and worth every penny.
Follow the link and order some of your own. I know I will. Just have to get my meat slicer out of storage…
… which started me thinking. They make corned beef for hash, but not to slice, and they don’t have pastrami at all. Perhaps I need to schmooze a little to get 'em to think about redressing this.
To add some guilt-free spice, the latest science says that eating processed and red meats isn’t likely to adversely affect our lives as once thought.
Now, where’d my wife hide that bacon…[:P]
My wife has gotten me – not that it took much ‘persuading’ – to embrace the principles of the AIP diet. Gotta love that autoimmune-safe lectin-free red raw MEAT!!
To paraphrase Herbert W. Armstrong – Let’s give thanks this Thanksgiving day … and every day!
Bacon, smoked salmon, I can’t live without them! I will definitely do something special on Canada’s Thanksgiving day. [:)]
As the immortal Red Green once said…
“I’d rather listen to a chainsaw for a week than an axe for six months!” [;)]
And if the chainsaw breaks down you fix it with duct tape!
Snow tonight starting at midnight and continuing into the am. High tomorrow low 30’sF, 20’s nighttime and continuing on like that for the next 7 days… so that’s it, it’s all over. Yeesh. Happy Thanksgiving indeed!
And what’s that other thing ol’ Red says? Oh, yeah…
“If women don’t find you handsome, at least they should find you handy!”
Worked in my case…[;)]
Or at least thoroughly equipped.
Reminds me of the old joke about the Reading conductor who got visibly riled every time he went past a factory located near West Trenton, with a prominent roof sign with its name displayed: “MURPHY’S TOOL WORKS”.
A brakeman asked him one time why he found this so irritating. His reply was “Mine does, too, but I don’t see the need to advertise.”
Reminds me of a small factory in East Paterson, now Elmwood Park, NJ.
Place was called “Precision Screw.”
To say nothing of a machine shop in Rochelle Park called “Fubar Manufacturing.”
Oh THAT"S where they make em! [(-D]