do you have any special thanksgiving traditions?
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it used to be enchiladas,, but then everyone got divorced.\nother than that the after dinner strip bar outting of 96 seemed promising
804104
Well, in my family we have a huge amount of vegetarians, so in order to make something for them we usually do something along the lines of stuffed eggplant or a vegetarian lasagnia.  Both of which turn out excellent and everyone can enjoy them.  Recipes for those can be found at numerous cooking sites.\n\nOr\n\nThe other half of my family doesn't follow the traditional thanksgiving, because none of them like turkey.  So we created our own tradition.  Thanksgiving day, we order a huge amount of chinese food to go, we usually blow about $300-400.  We open up all the boxes on the table and just pass em around.  It's really a lot more fun and less depressing than it sounds.  Best of luck...
860998
Yes. There are many. Go to google and type in Thanksgiving songs. Hope I have helped you. Have a spectacular day!
814945
Turkey and dressing/gravy, cranberry sauce (homemade, not that canned stuff) on the side...and dessert...Maple walnut pumpkin pie\n\nHappy Thanksgiving....to you, your family and friends
922967
You are going to be alone on thanksgiving? Well, prepare yourself a meal, give thanks to what you have. God bless.
882285
I think it's great that your son is home and you'll all be together for Thanksgiving! Talk about something to be thankful for! I am planning to have Thanksgiving at home with my family. My boyfreind is going to cook because he's the best at it. I think he's planning to make a traditional Thanksgiving dinner, including mashed potatoes from scratch. My mom made a pumpkin and pecan pie for dessert. I guess my contribution will be cleaning up.
547405
Hm, in my country every holiday involves that.... A loooot of cooking, and a looot of eating :)
507776
The traditions that our family has built up over the years.  the colors, the music, the emphasis on good will and giving to others, the smells of the tree, gingerbread, fires in the fireplace, and the wamr comfort of being at home with family.
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Thanksgiving, at it's most basic, is a harvest festival to thank GOD[1] and neighbors for providing enough food to last through the winter. Today, it is more of a celebration of abundance: whether of food, friends, or other 'blessings'.\n\nYou can have Thanksgiving at someone's house by cooking a large meal there on the fourth Thursday in November (US) and inviting friends and family to share in it. Different families have traditional meals, though a typical modern dinner might include Turkey, Mashed Potatoes and Gravy, a vegetable dish, a jello dish, and Pumpkin Pie.\n\n\n[1] Since Thanksgiving (as such) was a Colonial American celebration, this would be the Christian God as followed by the majority of the settlers at the time. As Thanksgiving is analogous to harvest festivals occuring in many other religions, this designation is not necessarily exclusive
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Yes, I celebrate the eight traditional sabbats; or did while My Steve, my high priest, was alive.  Now I mostly note that they have come (he died just before Yule), and remember what we would have done in our rituals.\n\nI also celebrate the Christian holidays because my friends and neighbors include me in their celebrations, and I notice the Jewish holidays because Steve's mother and sister are Jews.  He was too, genetically, but he always said I liked Jews better than he did!\n\nPersonally, I say any excuse for a party!
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Sweet pototoes, no, make that pumpkin pie, no, maybe the turkey... \nIt is too hard to narrow it down to one thing.  Thanksgiving has a very structured menu (turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, sweet potatoes, pumpkin pie).  I can't imagine not having those.\nWhen we were overseas for 3 years, it was really hard finding all the parts for Thanksgiving, but we always managed somehow.  One year, we had to cut up a huge Queensland blue pumpkin and make the pie from scratch without a recipe.  Not easy.
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celebration of Thanksgiving is a memory of the time when the british voyager had a good harmony with the american natives. it was also a thanks giving to God for the british and native american friendsip
968440
It is a holiday that began with the first English settlers in America. Their voyage was long and hard, and after they arrived, they nearly starved in the first year. But the second year they had an excellent harvest, and they were thus blessed with a relative bounty of food to eat. They decided to have a party to celebrate 1) their good fortune for a good harvest, 2) the now fairly obvious fact that the colony would be successful, and 3) their faith in God, not necessarily in that order. They invited the local Indians to the celebration and they all had a very good time. Thereafter they decided to repeat the party every year, to mostly celebrate their good harvest. In today's world, it is a family gathering time that is usually free from the commercialism that has grown up around Christmas, Easter, the Fourth of July, etc. The traditional dish is roast turkey, because it is a large bird that is native to America and was thought to be the main dish at the original celebration. Other traditional foods for Thanksgiving include pumpkin pie and perhaps something made out of corn (maize), something made from sweet potatoes, and something made out of cranberries since these were the newfound foods that are native to the American continent that the early settlers were able to obtain in quantity, and they were largely new and different from what they were used to eating in the British Isles. If you are a new arrival in America, please have a happy Thanksgiving! Perhaps you can also celebrate your own safe travel across the Atlantic to the new world!
922248
I'll get up at the crack of dawn and put the turkey and dressing in. I'll make the side dishes, with the potatoes being last. I'll set the table, then serve. I'm expecting my daughter, her new husband, his daughter, my best friends Gene and Marie, my g/f's son and her daughter, new husband and new baby(but she has to work), and probably 3-4 of my ex husband's (who now lives in florida) single middle ages friends who no family and no where else to go. Its simply a normal Thanksgiving for me.
885267
there are two thanksgivings in the americas.  canada celebrates theirs in october & we, in the usa celebrate ours on the third thursday of each november.  the friday following thanksgiving is almost as famous, known as 'black friday'.  it's the shopping day of the year but that's another story.  the origin of thanksgiving goes back to the very early 1600s when the english colonists came to america with the barest of necessities and had to make it through a very harsh, cold winter.  if it wasn't for the help of the native americans, the narragansett (i believe), the settlers would've died. the natives  supplied the yams, wild turkeys, corn & showed to the settlers not only the native foods to eat but how to prepare them.  a giant feast was held with native americans & colonists in attendance.  it was a splendid  beginning but alas, not to last.  sad to say but within 20 years, both sides were at war.  the colonists came to america with the idea of land ownership & the natives couldn't understand that.  land, to them, was something to share.  anyway, you asked & that's the real story.  i personally feel of all the american holidays, thanksgiving is the greatest.  it still signifies sharing, friends, food & giving.  nothing is really asked of you except to come to the table & give of yourself without asking for anything back. neat, eh?
901817
Yes, I celebrated Thanksgiving with my friend. And I watched the Macy's parade and the dog show on NBC. I like Thanksgiving.
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Right after Thanksgiving