Tomorrow is Thanksgiving Day in America, which is supposed to symbolize the time when the Pilgrims and their Native American neighbors who had taken pity on the ill-prepared new arrivals and helped them figure out how not to starve, got together and feasted for three days. Now, of course, with the aid of refrigeration and microwave, we can stretch the feast out even longer--usually until the very sight of turkey and stuffing makes everyone shudder. Of course, no one ever minds having pumpkin pie for several days in a row. Amazing how that works out......
Some things I've wondered about Thanksgiving:
* The traditional Thanksgiving day is spent with women cooking a big feast, everyone eating, then men retiring into the living room to watch football for the rest of the day while the women do all the dishes. WHO THOUGHT THAT PROGRAM UP?????
* Is it the fact that the main character might be eaten that stopped Rankin-Bass from making Thanksgiving cartoons in the 1970s?
* If retailers had been able to come up with something catchy to sell for Thanksgiving, would we still have Black Friday?
* How often do we have to say that "holiday calories don't count" before my thighs believe it?
* Does it strike anyone else as odd that our tradition is to eat a whole lot and then WATCH other people play a game?
* If Benjamin Franklin had been successful in his campaign to make the wild turkey the national bird instead of the eagle, would we still eat them on Thanksgiving and would it be illegal to do so?
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