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

[artkouros.livejournal.com]

But that begs the question, if your don't celebrate Thanksgiving, then just how do you Brits celebrate genocide?

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I guess the nearest we come is November 5th- when we celebrate the thwarting of the gunpowder plot and the subsequent torture and execution of the surviving plotters.