Anyone driving up to Canada this weekend?

[dquan97]

We're going to Kelowna, BC for a few days. I've been to Victoria and Vancouver before, so the 18hr drive should be familiar.

 

[techs]

What's the traditional Canadian Thanksgiving Day meal?

 

[fulltilt39]

Originally posted by: techs
What's the traditional Canadian Thanksgiving Day meal?

same as in the U.S.

except they think sweet potatoes/yams with marshmallows on top is weird.

my work is having a thanksgiving lunch here in about 15 min...omg i cant WAIT!

NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM!!!! 😉

 

[OCGuy]

DUI in '03, so I dont get to freeze my balls off until 2013, unless I pony up some $$$ to reduce it to 2010.

 

[techs]

Originally posted by: fulltilt39

Originally posted by: techs
What's the traditional Canadian Thanksgiving Day meal?

same as in the U.S.

except they think sweet potatoes/yams with marshmallows on top is weird.

my work is having a thanksgiving lunch here in about 15 min...omg i cant WAIT!

NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM!!!! 😉

So, do they put maple syrup on their potatoes/yams?

 

[sandorski]

Originally posted by: techs
What's the traditional Canadian Thanksgiving Day meal?

Turkey. More or less the same as the US meal.

 

[InflatableBuddha]

Originally posted by: fulltilt39

Originally posted by: techs
What's the traditional Canadian Thanksgiving Day meal?

same as in the U.S.

except they think sweet potatoes/yams with marshmallows on top is weird.

my work is having a thanksgiving lunch here in about 15 min...omg i cant WAIT!

NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM!!!! 😉

😕 Definitely strange. I've never heard of that.

Originally posted by: techs

So, do they put maple syrup on their potatoes/yams?

LOL, actually yea, my Mom has cooked yams in a syrupy glaze before (with some other ingredients).

 

[Paperdoc]

Originally posted by: techs
What's the traditional Canadian Thanksgiving Day meal?

Yeah, we Canadians have adopted the whole Thanksgiving ritual from the USA, even though we never has any starving pilgrims story. Except, of course, that we don't treat it as the starting line for the retail race to Christmas. We go earlier because, given the weather difference, our harvest time is earlier.

Our family will gather at our house (we're the grandparents). Menu looks like roast whole turkey with bread cube-based stuffing (we have our favourite brand of dry boxed stuffing mix), lots of gravy made from the turkey juice, mashed white potatoes, chunks (not mashed) yams (no marshmallows), baked squash (with butter and brown sugar), jellied cranberries (canned - we don't grow our own, nor stew up store-bought fresh), buns & butter, tossed salad, apple and pumpkin pies with ice cream or whipped cream options, brownies for one person who does not like pie. My son, allergic to poultry, gets beef steak. My wife is madly decorating the house with fall leaves, pumpkins, paper turkeys, scarecrows, etc.

 

[fulltilt39]

Originally posted by: InflatableBuddha

Originally posted by: fulltilt39

Originally posted by: techs
What's the traditional Canadian Thanksgiving Day meal?

same as in the U.S.

except they think sweet potatoes/yams with marshmallows on top is weird.

my work is having a thanksgiving lunch here in about 15 min...omg i cant WAIT!

NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM!!!! 😉

😕 Definitely strange. I've never heard of that.

Originally posted by: techs

So, do they put maple syrup on their potatoes/yams?

LOL, actually yea, my Mom has cooked yams in a syrupy glaze before (with some other ingredients).

see what i mean? LOL

he's a real canadian - i'm just a transplant.

 

[Instan00dles]

I put maple syrup on everything so, yes.

 

[sandorski]

Originally posted by: Paperdoc

Originally posted by: techs
What's the traditional Canadian Thanksgiving Day meal?

Yeah, we Canadians have adopted the whole Thanksgiving ritual from the USA, even though we never has any starving pilgrims story. Except, of course, that we don't treat it as the starting line for the retail race to Christmas. We go earlier because, given the weather difference, our harvest time is earlier.

Our family will gather at our house (we're the grandparents). Menu looks like roast whole turkey with bread cube-based stuffing (we have our favourite brand of dry boxed stuffing mix), lots of gravy made from the turkey juice, mashed white potatoes, chunks (not mashed) yams (no marshmallows), baked squash (with butter and brown sugar), jellied cranberries (canned - we don't grow our own, nor stew up store-bought fresh), buns & butter, tossed salad, apple and pumpkin pies with ice cream or whipped cream options, brownies for one person who does not like pie. My son, allergic to poultry, gets beef steak. My wife is madly decorating the house with fall leaves, pumpkins, paper turkeys, scarecrows, etc.

That meal sounds familiar. I believe iit was the Loyalist who left the 13 Colonies around the time of the Revolution who brought Thanksgiving to Canada. Not 100% sure of that though.

Other common foods I've had for Thanksgiving are: Cabbage Rolls, Potato/Macaroni salad, brussel sprouts. The same Meal is pretty much standard for Xmas and Easter, at least it was amongst my acquaintances. Which was something that shocked me about the Americans I know(including my Sister in Law), which is that they don't traditionally eat Turkey on other occasions. :Q XMas with Roast Beef only is full of Disappoint.

 

[Iron Woode]

Originally posted by: Paperdoc

Originally posted by: techs
What's the traditional Canadian Thanksgiving Day meal?

Yeah, we Canadians have adopted the whole Thanksgiving ritual from the USA, even though we never has any starving pilgrims story. Except, of course, that we don't treat it as the starting line for the retail race to Christmas. We go earlier because, given the weather difference, our harvest time is earlier.

Our family will gather at our house (we're the grandparents). Menu looks like roast whole turkey with bread cube-based stuffing (we have our favourite brand of dry boxed stuffing mix), lots of gravy made from the turkey juice, mashed white potatoes, chunks (not mashed) yams (no marshmallows), baked squash (with butter and brown sugar), jellied cranberries (canned - we don't grow our own, nor stew up store-bought fresh), buns & butter, tossed salad, apple and pumpkin pies with ice cream or whipped cream options, brownies for one person who does not like pie. My son, allergic to poultry, gets beef steak. My wife is madly decorating the house with fall leaves, pumpkins, paper turkeys, scarecrows, etc.

um, no.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving_%28Canada%29

The history of Thanksgiving in Canada goes back to an explorer, Martin Frobisher, who had been trying to find a northern passage to the Pacific Ocean. Frobisher's Thanksgiving was not for harvest but homecoming. He had safely returned from a search for the Northwest Passage, avoiding the later fate of Henry Hudson and Sir John Franklin. In the year 1578, he held a formal ceremony, in what is now the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, to give thanks for surviving the long journey. The feast was one of the first Thanksgiving celebrations in North America, although celebrating the harvest and giving thanks for a successful bounty of crops had been a long-standing tradition throughout North America by various First Nations in Canada and Native-American groups in the USA. Canada's First Nations and Native Americans throughout the Americas, including the Pueblo, Cherokee, Cree and many others organized harvest festivals, ceremonial dances, and other celebrations of thanks for centuries before the arrival of Europeans in North America [6]. Frobisher was later knighted and had an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean in northern Canada named after him ? Frobisher Bay.

At the same time, French settlers, having crossed the ocean and arrived in Canada with explorer Samuel de Champlain, in 1604 onwards also held huge feasts of thanks. They even formed 'The Order of Good Cheer' and gladly shared their food with their First Nations neighbours.

there were other influences, ie: UEL.

but who cares as long as there is food and drink and family and friends.

 

[Paperdoc]

Hey, Iron Woode, thanks for that info. I always enjoy learning the truth behind common events. So it appears harvest celebrations have been around for a long time in many cultures, widely dispersed around the globe and apparently with little contact among them. Anthropologists love these things!

 

[techs]

Huh. And here I thought they were giving thanks for Universal Health Care.

This thread is full of mouth watering goodness.

 

[Iron Woode]

Originally posted by: Paperdoc
Hey, Iron Woode, thanks for that info. I always enjoy learning the truth behind common events. So it appears harvest celebrations have been around for a long time in many cultures, widely dispersed around the globe and apparently with little contact among them. Anthropologists love these things!

well, you know if they grow and hunt they will always celebrate the bounty sometime.

everyone loves a feast!

 

[BassBomb]

I am pakistani origin so we don't really celebrate thanksgiving

I am going to convince my mom to make some turkey though