Happy Thanksgiving...Now Kill Them All
The turkey is the plastic thing on the platter...
Yesterday was Thanksgiving day here in America, land of the free and home of the brave. Most of America sheds their need for pizza and fast food and turns to the killing of what many believe as the first national bird, the turkey.
The turkey almost became the national bird when Benjamin Franklin proclaimed it the most common and symbolic bird in the Americas. After many discussions about whether the Philadelphia football team should be named the Philadelphia Turkeys or the bald eagle becoming the next November meal, the bald eagle became the national bird instead.
Thanksgiving is not only represented by the cooking and now deep-frying of whole turkeys, but also for the stuffing, sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, corn bread and pumpkin pie. If that wasn't enough, Cool Whip.
The Pilgrims who had migrated to America (a land with 10 million occupants) had a grand feast in 1621, after their first harvest, and it is this feast which people often refer to as "The First Thanksgiving". As this feast was never repeated so it can't be called the beginning of a tradition. The colonists did not call it a Thanksgiving Feast. In fact, to these piously religious people, a day of thanksgiving was a day of prayer and fasting, and would have been held any time that they felt an extra day of thanks was called for. Yet, the 1621 feast has become a landmark that we think of for our own Thanksgiving celebration.
Today though is the day AFTER Thanksgiving. This is the day that the Pilgrims stood in line at 4:00AM waiting for the Native villages to open so they make the mad rush for the toys for the Pilgrim children. After finding out that the Natives were out of these items, they stole the painted dolls and beads by prying off the anti-theft devices and taking them from the displays.
Dismayed by the lack of toy supplies and quickly forgetting the fact that the Natives showed them how to farm, the Pilgrims decided land would be a good gift and felt that the land the Natives were occupying was best and forcefully asked them to leave or die.
This brings me to my point (as I almost always have one). How many of you mad people ventured out on black Friday? Ah, yes, black Friday. Is it black because of the death associated with the color here in America?
No. Black Friday is because many companies make their yearly profits during the next month. The term black is for the receipts. Red receipts means you run in a deficit (much like our country). Black receipts means you are making a profit. Some companies do not make profits until black Friday. To get more people walking into the store, some stores place items on sale a prices lower than they paid just to get the other sales.
We have a wage-earner that went to work at 4:00 AM this morning and had to wade through the mass of people to enter the store.
At 4:00 AM, I was fast asleep.
Did you know...
Wild turkeys can fly at a speed of as much as 55 miles per hour over short distances and are good runners with a speed of about 25 miles per hour.
Yesterday was Thanksgiving day here in America, land of the free and home of the brave. Most of America sheds their need for pizza and fast food and turns to the killing of what many believe as the first national bird, the turkey.
The turkey almost became the national bird when Benjamin Franklin proclaimed it the most common and symbolic bird in the Americas. After many discussions about whether the Philadelphia football team should be named the Philadelphia Turkeys or the bald eagle becoming the next November meal, the bald eagle became the national bird instead.
Thanksgiving is not only represented by the cooking and now deep-frying of whole turkeys, but also for the stuffing, sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, corn bread and pumpkin pie. If that wasn't enough, Cool Whip.
The Pilgrims who had migrated to America (a land with 10 million occupants) had a grand feast in 1621, after their first harvest, and it is this feast which people often refer to as "The First Thanksgiving". As this feast was never repeated so it can't be called the beginning of a tradition. The colonists did not call it a Thanksgiving Feast. In fact, to these piously religious people, a day of thanksgiving was a day of prayer and fasting, and would have been held any time that they felt an extra day of thanks was called for. Yet, the 1621 feast has become a landmark that we think of for our own Thanksgiving celebration.
Today though is the day AFTER Thanksgiving. This is the day that the Pilgrims stood in line at 4:00AM waiting for the Native villages to open so they make the mad rush for the toys for the Pilgrim children. After finding out that the Natives were out of these items, they stole the painted dolls and beads by prying off the anti-theft devices and taking them from the displays.
Dismayed by the lack of toy supplies and quickly forgetting the fact that the Natives showed them how to farm, the Pilgrims decided land would be a good gift and felt that the land the Natives were occupying was best and forcefully asked them to leave or die.
This brings me to my point (as I almost always have one). How many of you mad people ventured out on black Friday? Ah, yes, black Friday. Is it black because of the death associated with the color here in America?
No. Black Friday is because many companies make their yearly profits during the next month. The term black is for the receipts. Red receipts means you run in a deficit (much like our country). Black receipts means you are making a profit. Some companies do not make profits until black Friday. To get more people walking into the store, some stores place items on sale a prices lower than they paid just to get the other sales.
We have a wage-earner that went to work at 4:00 AM this morning and had to wade through the mass of people to enter the store.
At 4:00 AM, I was fast asleep.
Did you know...
Wild turkeys can fly at a speed of as much as 55 miles per hour over short distances and are good runners with a speed of about 25 miles per hour.
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