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MAD_MAX333
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 Posted: Tue, 8th Oct 2013 21:21 Post subject: Thanksgiving plans and recipes |
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I know people have different celebration dates so this isn't just about this weekend, it's about whenever u guys celebrate it in general!
What do u guys do? Who comes over? Where do u guys go? Any secret recipes? Once a year traditions?
My close friends will have their moms over, we getting a massive organic bird. My gf and I doing the side dishes like loaded mashed potatoes, butter ball golden baby potatoes, cheesy bean casserole, corn on the cob and cheese cake and pumpkin pie (ew)
Im looking to see if u guys have some yummy secret side dishes I can steal too!
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tw1st
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| Posted: Tue, 8th Oct 2013 21:37 Post subject: |
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Typically we do thanksgiving at my fiances parents house, we have the whole family, parents, siblings, sometimes close friends.
The typical goodies, turkey, mashed taters, sweet potatoes (the ones with marshmallows on top hehe), pumpkin pie, lots of different veggie options, lots of beer & wine, cranberries whole and the sauce. It's normally a great time, followed by lots of drinking and then being lazy 
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Everyone usually brings something with them, for me it's usually a case of beer since I'm in the beer industry hehe, my fiance always makes some awesome dessert.
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| Posted: Tue, 8th Oct 2013 22:02 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Tue, 8th Oct 2013 23:07 Post subject: |
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No such thing as thanksgiving here.
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| Posted: Tue, 8th Oct 2013 23:51 Post subject: |
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gonna kill some indjuns
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| Posted: Wed, 9th Oct 2013 00:57 Post subject: |
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| Newty182 wrote: | | No such thing as thanksgiving here. |
Thanksgiving is a capitalist fad!
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Przepraszam
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| Posted: Wed, 9th Oct 2013 01:35 Post subject: |
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Ahh. That silly day.
I doubt many people here celebrate thanksgiving. I could count number of people on my hand, how many live in US/Canada
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MAD_MAX333
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| Posted: Wed, 9th Oct 2013 02:06 Post subject: |
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Seriously.? Man why did I think this was a Christian holiday? Wtf... Well.... U... Guys are missing on extremely excessive over consumption of calories....
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ixigia
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| Posted: Wed, 9th Oct 2013 02:25 Post subject: |
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No thanksgiving here either 
I guess it's because we don't have to say thanks to anyone  
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Frant
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| Posted: Wed, 9th Oct 2013 13:22 Post subject: |
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Thanksgiving =
| Quote: | | Thanksgiving Day (Jour de l'Action de grâce for French Canadians) is a national holiday celebrated primarily in the United States and Canada as a day of giving thanks for the blessing of the harvest and of the preceding year. |
In the rest of the world there may be harvest festivals and similar but Thanksgiving to me is USA + turkey, sort of like the little brother to fourth of July.
In Sweden we have couple of heathen celebrations like Midsummer (summer solstice), the day of the year where more Swedes are drunk than any other day during the year.
| Quote: | | Midsummer is especially important in the cultures of Scandinavia, Finland and the Baltics. In Sweden the Midsummer is such an important festivity that there have been serious discussions to make the Midsummer's Eve into the National Day of Sweden, instead of the 6th of June. |
Midsummer is basically our 4th of July (while our actual National Day is 6th of June which isn't celebrated since few know what it signifies (it's based on something that happened 500+ years ago) and it's only been National Day since 1983 so we have no history of National Day. Before that it was called Swedish Flag Day that basically meant people all over the country put up the Swedish flag (there were/are actually rules when you can put up the Swedish flag). In any case, our National Day isn't connected to something that is important to us in modern times. Hence Midsummer being the practical National Day since that's when people celebrate all over Sweden.
| Quote: | In modern Sweden, Midsummer's Eve and Midsummer's Day (Midsommarafton and Midsommardagen) were formerly celebrated on 23 June and 24 June, but since 1953 the celebration has been moved to the Friday and Saturday between 19 June and 26 June with the main celebrations taking place on Friday. It is one of the most important holidays of the year in Sweden, and probably the most uniquely Swedish in the way it is celebrated. When Sweden got its National day (6 June), discussions were held about making Midsummer the Swedish national day because of the strong civil celebration on this day.
Raising and dancing around a maypole (majstång or midsommarstång) is an activity that attracts families and many others. Before the maypole is raised, greens and flowers are collected and used to cover the entire pole. People dancing around the pole listen to traditional music and sing songs such as Små grodorna associated with the holiday. Some wear traditional folk costumes or crowns made of wild springs and wildflowers on their heads. The year's first potatoes, soused herring and pickled herring, chives, sour cream, beer, snaps and the first strawberries of the season are on the menu. Drinking songs (snapsvisor) are also important at this feast, and many drink heavily.
Because Midsummer was thought to be one of the times of the year when magic was strongest, it was considered a good night to perform rituals to look into the future. Traditionally, young people pick bouquets of seven or nine different flowers and put them under their pillow in the hope of dreaming about their future spouse. In the past it was believed that herbs picked at Midsummer were highly potent, and water from springs could bring good health. Greenery placed over houses and barns were supposed to bring good fortune and health to people and livestock; this old tradition of decorating with greens continues, even though most don't take it seriously. To decorate with greens was called att maja (to may) and may be the origin of the word majstång, maja coming originally from the month May. Other researchers say the term came from German merchants who raised the maypole in June because the Swedish climate made it impossible to find the necessary greens and flowers in May, and continued to call it a maypole. Today, however, it is most commonly[citation needed] called a "midsommarstång" (literally midsummer pole).
In earlier times, small spires wrapped in greens were erected; this probably predates the maypole tradition, which is believed by many to have come from the continent in the Middle Ages. Others argue that some form of Midsummer pole occurred in Sweden during the pre-Christian times, and was a phallic fertility symbol, meant to impregnate the earth, but as there were no records from those times it cannot be proven, and this idea might just be a modern interpretation of the pole's form. The earliest historical mention of the maypole in Sweden is from the Middle Ages. Midsummer was, however, linked to an ancient fertility festival which was adapted into St. John's Day by the church, even though it retained many pagan traditions, as the Swedes were slow to give up the old heathen customs. The connection to fertility is naturally linked to the time of year. Many young people became passionate at Midsummer, and this was accepted, probably because it resulted in more childbirths in March which was a good time for children to be born.
In Denmark and Norway midsummer is referred to as the eve of Skt. Hans but it's only in Sweden that it has kept its original name. |
In other words, xtianity tried to "own" Midsummer in the Nordic countries but it didn't work in Sweden, the heathen traditions were too strong.
Oh, when it comes to Christmas the christians couldn't force us to christianize the name either. It's still Jul (Yule), a pagan/heathen name of the holidays. But the actual celebration is pretty much the same as in the rest of the west except that we celebrate and do the xmas present thing the eve of 24th, xmas eve. That's our xmas. In the UK, US and some other countries that happens the 25th.
Since Sweden is the most secular and atheistic country in the world we don't really do religious holidays religiously. Easter used to be a pagan celebration, xtianity stole it (like they tried to do with every pre-xtian holiday/celebration) but we don't celebrate the resurrection of jesus, our kids dress like easter-witches:
https://www.google.se/search?q=p%C3%A5skh%C3%A4xa&safe=off&client=firefox-a&hs=UXt&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&channel=np&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=dz5VUvacEYjUtAax8YGwDg&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAQ&biw=1680&bih=782&dpr=1
A collection of images showing how pagan/anti-xtian we celebrate "easter" that is named Påsk here. It's a secular holiday based on old traditions with little to no religious content.
The only religious content is the fact that the kids dress like little witches that comes from Blåkulla (bluehill) that under the xtian days of Sweden was where witches entered the underworld and partied with Satan.
Now it's a cute holiday with little kids, painted eggs (non-xtian), candy and stuff. Like a cute spring-Halloween.
Oh how I love Sweden in that way.
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