Happy Canadian Thanksgiving everyone!

[CountDeMoney]

No dark meat for me either. Or as one of my uncles called it, the nigger meat.

My German grandfather used to get all the "vittles" from the bird in a separate bowl:  gizzard, heart, guts, all that nasty inside shit.  Not even sure if that shit was even cooked.  I avoided looking at that end of the table.

[Ed Anger]

 

[CountDeMoney]

I know; sounds offal, doesn't it.

[Tonitrus]

Dark meat turkey is mana from the gods. 

[derspiess]

Already talked my wife into having roast turkey for dinner this weekend

[Barrister]

Grocery store had a heck of a sale on turkey on Thanksgiving - to get rid off their excess stock.  So I now have an 18 pounder defrosting in the fridge...

[viper37]

same here, turkey on special after Thanksgiving.  I hadn't noticed a lot before though, to be honest.  I guess this custom never really picked up around here, not enough anglos around, maybe.  Before Grey Fox comes around and contradict me:

Though the holiday enjoys statutory status in Quebec, French-speaking Quebeckers do not typically consider it an important holiday and think of it as simply a day off, like Labour Day. It is common for people to take a weekend getaway to nearby tourist spots or, for those who have cottages, Thanksgiving is the last long-weekend they have to enjoy the cottage before closing it up for the winter. In any case, a festive meal with turkey and all the trimmings is customary.[7]

[Grey Fox]

I don't know what I am suppose to contradict.

[viper37]

I don't know what I am suppose to contradict.

the family reunion & turkey for Thanksgiving.  Last year, you said your family had this tradition when I said we did not do such a thing in Quebec

[Grey Fox]

Oh.

Yeah, we have that tradition. We also eat Ham, not Turkey on thanksgiving.

I have no idea where it's from. It's my dad's family and they are from poor Montreal.

[PRC]

For Christmas??

No no no.... it has to be homemade for Christmas.

Try the perogies from a church group.  They will be homemade, probably by an elderly Polish or Ukranian woman using an original recipe.  They will be cheap, homemade and incredibly delicious.

[crazy canuck]

For Christmas??

No no no.... it has to be homemade for Christmas.

Try the perogies from a church group.  They will be homemade, probably by an elderly Polish or Ukranian woman using an original recipe.  They will be cheap, homemade and incredibly delicious.

And better than anyone could possibly make if they tried to do it themselves.  Unless of course they were an elderly Polish or Ukranian woman who has been making them for years.

[merithyn]

Don't think we have any of those around here.

[crazy canuck]

Don't think we have any of those around here.

Church fund raising groups are the best place to look for that sort of thing.

[CountDeMoney]

I just know--i just fucking know--that my mother, in her yearly orgasmic explosion of Xmas decorating, is going to ask me if I want the cat to have her own Xmas tree.