Happy Thanksgiving
My old boss in Chicago once described Thanksgiving as a 4-day Sunday. You wake up late, and a bacon sarnie and a mimosa starts a whole day of eating and drinking, with sport on TV all day.
All this with no added pressure of buying anyone presents. Then Friday, you can buy what you want at reduced prices. God bless America and all that sailed in The Mayflower.
The first ever Thanksgiving was said to have been celebrated in 1621 by the Pilgrims after their first harvest. The Pilgrims had settled in Plymouth Colony, which is now in Massachusetts on the beautiful slither of land between Cape Cod Bay and Nantucket Sound. As wild turkeys were in plentiful supply, that is what they ate.
Some Floridian historians lay claim to the first Thanksgiving being 56 years before the Plymouth one in St. Augustine, the oldest continuously occupied settlement in the United States, and a popular tourist spot on the Florida Atlantic coast.
The day sporadically became a regular observance throughout Colonial America, but after the American Revolution, it was George Washington who declared the first official national Thanksgiving Day on November 26, 1789.
Oddly even up until 1940, various states observed different dates and some, particularly in the south didn’t recognise it at all. Fortunately It is now always on the last Thursday of November.
Today, we will do exactly what it says on the tin and have a fridge full of food including a sumptuous turkey. Apparently Yorkshire puddings are not a thing on Thanksgiving, well I am going make them a thing.
Lol😂😂…..You can take the man out of England but you can’t take England out of the man….Happy Thanksgiving CA.
Ha. You cannot, Greg. Although the family turned their noses up at the bread & dripping offer..
OMG I remember that too. My old Nan used to dish that up……..chloresterol on bread !!! Lol.
It was breakfast in our house growing up.
Yorkshire puddings may not be a thing, but popovers are.
Popovers! Indeed. Had to look them up. Topped it looks like with sweet things, but very similar recipe.
Enjoy CA> We went to St Augustine a few years ago, and I am also an old boy of St Augustine’s College in Ramsgate and Westgate. My wife also used to go to New York and Miami as an auditor every year. Plus my late mum taught me to make the best ever Yorkshire puddings. So small world.
Crow
Indeed it is, Crow. As the American’s say: Happy Holiday season.