Canadian Thanksgiving traditions

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Timetrvlr

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[FONT=&quot]In Canada we celebrate thanksgiving this coming Monday, October 9. Canada celebrates thanksgiving in October rather than November. That seems a more appropriate time to me because that is at the end of the harvest season whereas November is in the middle of stone-cold winter, but I suppose that depends on where you live to some extent.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]As I understand it, Americans have their thanksgiving in late November so they will know when to start Christmas shopping. We have no such bellwether to guide us and it has had a terrible effect on our economy. Merchants are never sure when the shopping season starts either so they are never sure whether they have had a good season or not. It is all very disorganized here.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]We have another thanksgiving custom that is somewhat different too. The standard for American thanksgiving dinner is the butterball turkey. We are too far north to raise butterball turkeys so we make do with butterball ravens. Today we got ours at Safeway for our thanksgiving on Monday. Years ago people had butterball bears for thanksgiving but with the smaller families of today, it’s just not practical. Leftovers would last until breakup![/FONT]
 

:lofl: Nothing beats butterball echidna IMO.

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We will have our Thanksgiving dinner on Sunday with a butterball turkey and all the trimmings, dressing, vegetables and cranberry sauce.
There are cranberry bogs in the Annapolis Valley so no shortage of cranberry sauce for Thanksgiving.
For dessert there are the traditional pumpkin and apple pies.
If there's no time to bake then they are available at the farm markets.
This is a great time to visit farm markets and they have many customers during the autumn season and right up until Christmas.
 
Raven said:
We will have our Thanksgiving dinner on Sunday with a butterball turkey and all the trimmings, dressing, vegetables and cranberry sauce.
There are cranberry bogs in the Annapolis Valley so no shortage of cranberry sauce for Thanksgiving.
For dessert there are the traditional pumpkin and apple pies.
If there's no time to bake then they are available at the farm markets.
This is a great time to visit farm markets and they have many customers during the autumn season and right up until Christmas.
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Just in case......

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Our Butterball experts are available to answer your questions by phone, online chat and email. Let’s talk turkey! 1-800-BUTTERBALL (1-800-288-8372)
 
Raven said:
We will have our Thanksgiving dinner on Sunday with a butterball turkey and all the trimmings, dressing, vegetables and cranberry sauce.
There are cranberry bogs in the Annapolis Valley so no shortage of cranberry sauce for Thanksgiving.
For dessert there are the traditional pumpkin and apple pies.
If there's no time to bake then they are available at the farm markets.
This is a great time to visit farm markets and they have many customers during the autumn season and right up until Christmas.
Click to expand...

Just in case......

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Our Butterball experts are available to answer your questions by phone, online chat and email. Let’s talk turkey! 1-800-BUTTERBALL (1-800-288-8372)

http://www.butterball.ca/en
 
This morning I was in the grocery store. The guy behind me bought a turkey breast. It was $18.00.

The turkeys were on sale for 99 cents a pound so he could have bought a 10 pound turkey for 9.90 and just cut the breast off.

Oh well.
 

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