Thanksgiving

[poliphilo]

According 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?

Comments

[butterscotch711.livejournal.com]

Amongst English-speaking expats in Korea, Thanksgiving seems to be popular with everybody, and many British/Australian/etc people I know here anticipate it each year. It does serve as a nice end-of-year giving-thanks-among-friends festival, before a lot of people go travelling over Christmas.

Also the food is quite nice and really suits the time of year. (As an Australian living in the northern hemisphere, I still get excited about how much the traditional foods for each holiday actually suit the time of year!)

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Fair enough.

I don't believe I've ever sat down to a Thanksgiving Dinner. I've done the 4th of July but I've never been in America or around Americans in November.