Happy Thanksgiving Weekend Canada!

[auntAgonist]

I'm going home for Thanksgiving, first time in a LONG time. I hope you all enjoy your weekend.

May your stuffing be tasty
May your turkey plump,
May your potatoes and gravy
Have nary a lump.
May your yams be delicious
And your pies take the prize,
And may your Thanksgiving dinner
Stay off your thighs!


(anonymous)


aA
kesha

[grasswire]

1. seriously.....what do Canadians eat for Thanksgiving?

This is my first Thanksgiving as a Canadian citizen, thanks to the law effective April 17 granting citizenship to children born outside the U.S. to Canadian parents. Is there a traditional Canadian cuisine? Why don't I know that?

[Spazito]

2. Well.....

We start with poutine washed down with a Tim Horton's latte and, for the main course, marinated moose roast with a side of Pacific salmon, B.C. cranberries and Newfoundland potatoes. For dessert, there is Eskimo pie!

:rofl: just kidding!

It is the same as the U.S.: turkey with stuffing and gravy, potatoes and veggies with pumpkin pie as dessert. That's the traditional at least as far as I know!

Congrats on your Canadian citizenship and Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!

[fudge stripe cookays]

7. What, no Nanaimo bars?

The first time reprehensor talked about Nanaimo bars, I was like ???. That was over 10 years ago. I need to learn how to make those if I go north.

[Spazito]

8. LOL, damn I forgot to list them!

I think it is a mental block because they are SO delicious and addictive you can't have just ONE or, at least, I can't! I must admit I have never made them but have purchased WAY too many of them, lol!

[Lucy Goosey]

3. As Spazito said, it's pretty much the same...

Except for the yams. Apparently, yams with marshmallows are a big deal in the States? I can't speak for all of Canada of course, but I don't personally know anyone here who does that (and frankly, I think it sounds kind of strange.)

But, other than that, it's turkey, stuffing, veg, potatoes, gravy, pie (my family always does pumpkin and apple), then change into some stretchy pants and fall asleep watching hockey.

Congrats on your citizenship! Welcome to the family! Happy thanksgiving!

[grasswire]

4. I don't know anybody who eats yams that way.

I suspect that's a southern or midwestern nasty dish. They do have some sweet tooth!

[Darth_Kitten]

11. We generally call them sweet potatoes......

My Mom makes this three vegetable medley for Xmas: Carrots, turnips, and sweet potatoes, all mashed together. :)

[fudge stripe cookays]

6. This was a surprise and a laugh for me...

reprehensor and I still laugh at various cultural traditions they don't have that Americans do. One being the complete dearth of biscuits at the grocery store!

#1. I'm a southern girl, and am just used to going to the grocery store and seeing a mile long refrigerated section full of every type of biscuit you can imagine! Buttermilk, 1869 brand, extra flaky, butter flavored...I was lucky in Stony Plain at the super super market to find one lone slot for a can of biscuits in the refrigerated section. What a shocker!

#2. It's "processed" cheese up there, not American cheese. This is one other area where he laughs at me because we Americans have such an ego problem we even named cheese after ourselves.

#3. It's back bacon, not Canadian bacon (obviously).

#4. The green bean casserole that is so near and dear to American Thanksgiving tables was never a blip on the Alberta family radar. I've had to indoctrinate him. And he is still not fond of it. I can't have Thanksgiving without it!

[Darth_Kitten]

9. Whatever the heck you want........

:)

[HeresyLives]

5. We don't have a 'traditional meal'.

I've had everything from buffalo to curry. It's all good.

[Darth_Kitten]

10. We have the traditional Turkey dinner.......

I personally will eat whatever I want, but I think families still go for the Turkey with all the fixun's traditional dinner.

Lots of people shopping yesterday for Turkey. :)

[HeresyLives]

13. It's a cheap meat, that's why.

It was never 'traditional', just affordable for big families, so it became popular.

Plus the Turkey Marketing Board did a good job promoting it as 'traditional' which gave everybody an excuse. :rofl:

[Darth_Kitten]

14. Yes, a turkey dinner is traditional.

:shrug:

What's so funny about that?

[HeresyLives]

15. Maybe in your family.

[glarius]

12. Not that it matters but did anyone ever notice that the U.S.A media never says

happy Thanksgiving to our neighbours to the north? Being a news nut and watching news channels for years, I have noticed that our networks always wish the U.S.A a happy Thanksgiving or whatever other special holiday they may have, but I don't believe I've ever heard the same courtesy from the American networks toward us. It's no big thing, but I have noticed it.
By the way I cooked a turkey with mashed potatoes, carrots, corn, cabbage salad, pickles and olives, pumpkin pie with whipped cream sprinkled with cinnamon.
:toast:

[auntAgonist]

16. You're absolutely right. I'm in MI now and there's no

mention of it in these parts. I told co-workers I was going home* for Thanksgiving and they thought I was talking about American Thanksgiving in November. Most were quite surprised that there was a Thanksgiving in October in Canada. :shrug:

Your dinner sounds marvelous! My son and his housemates made dinner for me and it too was wonderful. I was very proud of the effort they put forth. This was a first and I hope the start of a tradition.

Happy Thanksgiving to you Glarius.

aA
kesha

*home is Ontario, Canada. Specifically Elmira.