Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving, one of the most celebrated holydays in America. This is celebrated on the last thursday of november. Despite originating as a harvest festival, Thanksgiving is now celebrated more generally as a day for giving thanks for perceived blessings. Although the United States is the country most commonly linked to the holiday, Thanksgiving Day is also celebrated in Canada on the second Monday of October.

The Pilgrims (people who immagrated from Europe into the New World) were celebrating their first harvest in the New World and marked the occasion with a lavish three-day feast, which was attended by both Pilgrims and Native Americans. Although the European colonies didn’t treat the native Americans well, they set aside specific days for giving thanks to God for their blessings. The Native Americans on the other hand experienced this as a period of suffering. They don’t celebrate Thanksgiving and see it as a period of pain.

If you think of Thanksgiving the first thing everyone says is : Turkey !

But why we link turkey to Thanksgiving ? Well it isn’t only because the first pilgrims did it. Actually there were plenty of turkey in the Playmouth area so it was only logical to eat this delicious good looking and tasty turkeys.

In addition turkeys were the perfect meat choice because they are big and can easily feed a hungry family. Due to popular books, the value of turkey began to have it’s weight and was permanently associated with thanksgiving. Although nobody really knows how the turkey made his entrance, I can tell you with 100% assurance no one saw it gobble-ling !

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Personal opinion

As for myself, (Brian) I genuinely thought that such feasts are just a day to spend more money on food and search your limit of being food container. Now that I get the maening of a feast I came to one question, ‘Why it has to be celebrated with a big meal?’. In other words does have food an actual meaning in such feast ?

Thanksgiving (exemple) is to say thanks to your loved ones but it bothers me that the whole world stuffs up food as a treat because you thanked them.