Turkey for Thanksgiving

[Alpo]

21 minutes ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

Or did you look it up?

Joe, you ought to know by now that I don't ever look anything up.

 

Just made sense. Actually, our Thanksgiving in late November seems too late. The first Thanksgiving - Massachusetts - I don't think they would be harvesting in November. We harvest in November here in Florida, but up there? Doesn't the snow on the ground get in the way?

 

Especially in the 1600s. I direct y'all's attention to the little ice age.

Edited October 9 by Alpo

[Subdeacon Joe]

36 minutes ago, Alpo said:

Joe, you ought to know by now that I don't ever look anything up.

 

 

 

36 minutes ago, Alpo said:

Just made sense. Actually, our Thanksgiving in late November seems too late. The first Thanksgiving - Massachusetts - I don't think they would be harvesting in November. We harvest in November here in Florida, but up there? Doesn't the snow on the ground get in the way?

 

 

Looks like it bounced around some:  https://www.si.edu/spotlight/thanksgiving/history

 

Also,  per that,  we might have G. Washington to thank for the November date. 

 

Before I looked it up I was going to guess that it was November because that was when all the grain was  threashed and stored, all the meat salted and in barrels,  or smoked and hanging. 

[watab kid]

2 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

 

 

Got me curious myself. 

 

Good guess, Alpo.  Or did you look it up?

 

https://www.trafalgar.com/real-word/canadian-thanksgiving/

 

"The date has moved around a few times – and it wasn’t even regularly observed until it was formalised as a national holiday in 1879. The Canadian government finally settled on an October Thanksgiving celebration in 1957. Why? The date lines up with the end of the Canadian autumn harvest and it’s early enough to avoid the freezing cold of winter. While the official Thanksgiving Day is Monday, the big family feast can happen at any point on the weekend – so you have time to shake off that food coma!"

i think the date is quite fitting as you stated it , end of harvest makes perfect sense ............wonder why ours is so late ? 

[Rip Snorter]

Probably warmer in 1621! 

[Chief Rick]

I ain't much of a fan of turkey either.  I'd much prefer a nice big ham with pineapple and brown sugar.

 

Last Thanksgiving I smoked/grilled a whole chicken.  That tasted awesome!

 

That said, I was in the commissary the other day and they had some small/medium turkeys for $.68/lb.

 

I bought two.

 

Reckon I'll thrown one on the egg Thanksgiving morning and the other for Christmas day.

[Chief Rick]

Grilled chicken in garlic and butter

[Pat Riot]

I love turkey. If I could afford it I would make a turkey a week. Not kidding. 
 

I think this year I am going to smoke a turkey for Thanksgiving. 
I won’t need the Big Bamboo rolling paper, but in high school we filled that big rolling paper up in the school parking lot and torched that bad boy. My friend bought the album. No one suspected a thing. Just 15 guys standing in a circle having a discussion. 
What did we fill it with? Why parsley and pipe tobacco…Uh-huh, then we went to church…Yeah, that’s what we did. We went to the Dari-Delight…I mean, church. Yep! Church…I don’t recall what we did after that. All that churchin’ got my brain addled and fuzzy. 
 

 

EDIT: By the way. Big Bamboo was released in 1972. The experience above happed in 1976. My friend Chuck got the album, brand new with the giant rolling paper at a “second hand” store, and yes, the paper was just fine. 

Party On, Dudes! 
 

 

 

 

 

Edited October 10 by Pat Riot

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

Yes, our Harvest In is earlier, since our growing season ends a lot sooner than most places in the USA.

Here in Ottawa, tonight will be a little warmer, only dropping to around 45F 

Tomorrows CAS match at Prescott, near the St. Laurence River and the New York, US border will be  around the mid 40s in the morning to a high of around 55F

BUT, NO Mosquitos or Blackflies!!