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Thursday, October 06, 2005

Double Turkey Days
by Expat

The weekend, as Canadians celebrate Thanksgiving weekend north of the 49th, we will be celebrating it Stateside. It has become tradition in our family to have big Thanksgiving dinners both in October and in November.

There are many benifits to these double festivities:

1. Twice the turkey.
2. Twice the potatoes.
3. Twice the stuffing.
4. Twice the gravy.
5. Twice the cranberry sauce.
6. Twice the homemade buns.
7. Twice the roasted veggies.
8. Twice the pumpkin pie.
9. Twice the whipped cream.

And the top benefit:

10. A trial run of cooking Thanksgiving dinner in October before the in-laws come visiting for the November festivities!

Expat Talkbalk:
Are any other Canucks abroad planning on celebrating Thanksgiving this weekend?

Posted by Expat at 11:04 AM

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Any excuse for turkey dinner with all the fixin's is all I need! So yes, I will be celebrating with you. And then again next month.

Posted by Donna at 1:17 PM, October 06, 2005

Try having Thanksgiving in Switzerland. It's much harder to make that stuff from scratch. As well, you must order the turkey from france about 2 weeks ahead of time because they don't supply them in Swiss grocery stores. It's nice to know how to make everything because you do need to be extremely creative for the feast. All in all, I had the most incredible Thanksgiving in Switzerland...

Posted by Unknown at 8:20 PM, October 06, 2005

We like to get together with some Canuck friends and celebrate, even if we don't do the whole Turkey dinner thing. There will be cake, though!

Posted by Kim at 8:28 AM, October 07, 2005

Happy Thanksgiving Expat x2

Posted by Anonymous at 10:25 AM, October 07, 2005

I have been in the US for three thanksgivings now. I have ensured that Thanksgiving was appropriately marked.
1) We had our church wedding over this weekend in '03(easier travelling for everyone). I let my wife choose everything, I made my stand on Turkey being one of dinner options.
2) Small Turkey Dinner for two.
3) Our new house, turkey will be served.

Posted by Anonymous at 7:15 PM, October 07, 2005

I think I've been away too long - I forgot!!

The shame.....

Posted by lala at 2:12 AM, October 08, 2005

I arrived in the UK just in time for Thanksgiving and made sure it was celebrated properly in my brother in law and sister in law's house. We're vegan, so we had a nut loaf, stuffing, potatoes, carrots, and surpisingly-hard-to-find cranberry sauce.

Anyone know what the deal is with British stuffing? It was GREEN and looked a lot like oatmeal. Not just my bad cooking skills either, because it looked that way on the box too. And the poor shop assistant had no idea what I meant when I asked for stuffing made out of bread cubes. Luckily it tasted the same, but for Christmas I'm definately making my own from scratch!

Posted by Anonymous at 4:26 PM, October 12, 2005