Thanksgiving
Nov. 26th, 2014 10:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloAccording to the news sheet they display at the checkout in Waitrose one in every ten Brits is now celebrating Thanksgiving.
What!
Why?
It's not our history.
Why put yourself to all the trouble and expense of a second gourmandising winter festival when it isn't mandatory?
What!
Why?
It's not our history.
Why put yourself to all the trouble and expense of a second gourmandising winter festival when it isn't mandatory?
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Date: 2014-11-26 01:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-11-26 01:58 pm (UTC)Well, well, well....
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Date: 2014-11-26 03:02 pm (UTC)One has native American ancestry, the other is a woman of African ancestry.
Go figure, as our American cousins have it............
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Date: 2014-11-26 04:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-11-26 04:32 pm (UTC)Us Puritans didn't all go away y'know :op
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Date: 2014-11-26 04:50 pm (UTC)I don't feel like I'm missing anything. I'm happy to let people who celebrate go for it. I am not a fan of traditional Thanksgiving foods anyway!
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Date: 2014-11-26 04:57 pm (UTC)I'd assumed it was one of those things- like Christmas- that everyone subscribed to- irrespective of tradition.
I can live without turkey. In fact- being a vegetarian- I do.
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Date: 2014-11-26 04:58 pm (UTC)We do get holidays because school/work/etc mandate that. But I tend to act during the Thanksgiving holiday as I would on any weekend. :)
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Date: 2014-11-26 06:16 pm (UTC)I find it very hard work due to my own life experiences connected to that time of year.