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Eadie
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 Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2016 7:31 pm Post subject: Happy Thanksgiving (Part 1) |
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For Brent and all our Canadian members!
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Custer
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| Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2016 4:18 am Post subject: |
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Yes, Happy Thanksgiving! 
In Britain we don't have a public holiday for celebrations, and this year's "Harvest Festival of Thanksgiving" has already come and gone. It's held on "the Sunday of the harvest moon that occurs closest to the autumnal equinox," so generally September or very early October.
"Harvest Thanksgiving in Britain pre-dates Christianity when the Saxons would offer the first sheaf of corn to fertility gods. When the harvest was finally collected, communities would come together for a harvest supper," Wikipedia informs us. |
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Bud Brewster
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| Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2016 12:25 pm Post subject: |
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Ah-ha, buy do you have THIS? 
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orzel-w
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| Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2016 12:42 pm Post subject: |
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I would advise a measure of caution in regards to eating potato salad that old, Bud.
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Bud Brewster
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| Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2016 3:37 pm Post subject: |
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Oh, don't be silly! After a few days I just take the leftover portion and stuff it into pop sickle molds, then I freeze it.
I can enjoy crispy potato salad sickles all summer long!
Bud's Crispy Potato Salad Sickles ~ a summertime snack that's both healthy and tasty!
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Brent Gair
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| Custer wrote: | | ...In Britain we don't have a public holiday for celebrations... |
Of course you don't...Thanksgiving is for people who escaped from Britain; not for people who stayed there  .
Or, in the case of my family, it's for people who got kicked out of Britain. |
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Custer
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| Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2016 6:04 am Post subject: |
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We didn't quite kick you out - according to my researches, your neighbors took up a collection to pay your fare, and all enthusiastically accompanied you to the ship, helpfully not just carrying your luggage, but carrying your ancestors too...
Too bad your people missed the party they held on the shore afterwards!  |
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