Happy Thanksgiving

[Janus]

As I might not have time tomorrow, this is for those who do celebrate it.

 

[Astronuc]

Happy Thanksgiving, and safe and pleasant travels to and from visiting with family, friends, colleagues and associates.

 

[jedishrfu]

Happy Thanksgiving!

After Thanksgiving Day, check the weather as a major storm will be sweeping across the US from west to east with freezing temps, snow, sleet and ice in parts and rain in other parts further south.

CNN has the details

https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/26/weather/thanksgiving-travel-weekend-snow-climate

 

[sbrothy]

Forgive me for my cultural ignorance but seeing as they fall so close is thanksgiving bigger than x-mas over there, or can't they be compared?

EDIT: I guess I could look this up on Wikipedia. I'm just being really really lazy these days. I'm low on blood and iron and got my COPD to worry about.

 

[jedishrfu]

Thanksgiving has nearly the same pomp as Christmas without the presents. We have family over.

We have big meals both days sometimes with Turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie with ice cream and cider.

Thanksgiving kicks off the Xmas rush with big football games, Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales. Things wind down after New Years.

Then it's back to the grind.

 

[sbrothy]

Thanksgiving has nearly the same pomp as Christmas without the presents. We have family over.

We have big meals both days sometimes with Turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie with ice cream and cider.

Thanksgiving kicks off the Xmas rush with big football games, Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales. Things wind down after New Years.

Then it's back to the grind.

Ah, so the one kind of lays the "groundwork" for the other? Cozy!

EDIT: Still, that's has to demand some cardio, no?

 

[berkeman]

Then it's back to the grind.

But with leftover turkey sandwiches for at least a week...

 

[Janus]

Thanksgiving has nearly the same pomp as Christmas without the presents. We have family over.

We have big meals both days sometimes with Turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie with ice cream and cider.

Thanksgiving kicks off the Xmas rush with big football games, Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales. Things wind down after New Years.

Then it's back to the grind.

This reminds me of an episode of "Dharma and Greg". The main characters were discussing whose parents they would spend the holidays with. One of them responded, That's easy, we spend one with your family and the other with mine. That's the reason we even have two holidays where we eat the same food."

 

[jbriggs444]

We had our first Thanksgiving this year a week ago Thursday. Our away son had plans for Thanksgiving day, so we did it a week early. I cooked the spread and we carted it over to his grandmother's house.

Yesterday (Saturday after Thanksgiving) we were out grocery shopping and they had fresh turkeys on sale for 39 cents per pound. Fresh turkeys had been going for 99 cents per pound with $40 purchase prior to Thanksgiving. It is not uncommon to find fresh turkeys for bargain prices in the wake of Thanksgiving.

So I got up early this morning (Sunday) and started cooking again. Turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, green bean casserole, pumpkin pie.

Very tasty!

 

[Janus]

We had our first Thanksgiving this year a week ago Thursday. Our away son had plans for Thanksgiving day, so we did it a week early. I cooked the spread and we carted it over to his grandmother's house.

Yesterday (Saturday after Thanksgiving) we were out grocery shopping and they had fresh turkeys on sale for 39 cents per pound. Fresh turkeys had been going for 99 cents per pound with $40 purchase prior to Thanksgiving. It is not uncommon to find fresh turkeys for bargain prices in the wake of Thanksgiving.

The store where we do the majority of our shopping does a "get a free turkey is you speed $125" deal in the week before Thanksgiving. It not too hard to spend that much when you are getting everything for the dinner. A few years ago it used to be $50 dollars, and I'd split the spending up over two trips in order to get a turkey for Christmas, but as of late we have switched up the Christmas dinner to a different menu.