Question...I grew up here in Georgia and we’ve always called the trunk of the car the “boot”. I see that it’s British also. Any other southerners refer to the trunk as the “boot”? 🤷♂️
@@wellingtonsmith4998 they do usually drown them in butter and syrup, though. (or more commonly margarine and artificially flavored syrup - mass produced butter and syrup substitutes for your mass produced waffle substitute.)
Remember, this is observations from the British perspective. Stranger Things was the first time THEY heard it. The British were not likely to be aware of American commercials in the 80's.
Homecoming: first "home" football game of the year, typically the first dance of the school year. Prom: dance for the upper class-men (11th & 12th grades) typically the last dance of the school year. Cotillion: "coming out" dance for high society, similar to "sweet sixteen" dances, Quinceañera in many Spanish countries, or Bat Mitzvah for the Jewish. Tail gating: gathering in the parking lot for some food before a major professional sporting event, while waiting to be allowed into the stadium. Spring break: spring vacation from school, usually a week long and upper class-men and college students go somewhere warm with a beach to party.
Cotillion is much younger. Usually around 10-12 year olds. It is usually done by the same type of people who eventually do debutante balls and coming out parties for society. Cotillion will teach various ballroom dances, etiquette, and how to dress. I had friends who did it in late elementary school and wanted me to go too (I thought it sounded boring and pointless so I didn't do it).
Homecoming started as a university thing, not secondary school/high school. Originally, it was the first game and typically was against a big rival. It would draw a lot of alumni, remember America does not really have formal class distinctions so one of the substitutes is university affiliation. You would go to homecoming to make connections with other alumni and to stake your claim to the college`s brand. It started in the midwest at a state's flagship school and got copied by other universities and eventually high schools. It also drifted over time to later in the season, often as a way to try and draw a crowd for a less interesting matchup.
A tailgate is the gate that opens onto the bed of a truck. We drive a lot more trucks here and the friend with the truck can carry more stuff for the party. You open the back and party in the car park before the game, ergo a tailgate party.
I think of Cotillions as a very southern thing too. I don't know anyone who went to one and we definitely didn't have one at my school. I also got the impression that they're more of a novelty these days but maybe in certain areas they're still very common.
Amen. How I was in the Glee Club and nothing salacious happened we just sang a lot and it wasn't so productive and we had Annex Broadway musician / actress who is pretty famous for about 40 years on Broadway who told me at the time which I regret not listening to her and go to Juilliard because I used to be able to sing of 5 1/2 octave range and had perfect pitch. And then I got in a car accident and lost half my hearing in both ears and it f***** up my tones on top of the fact that I started smoking it 19 like your dumbass so now I'm like a 3 range maybe on a good day. It's still pretty good don't get me wrong but I'm I'm already Auto which means I can go lower octaves for sure but nobody wants to hear a tenor chick
From American to Brits: -American's often don't have turkey on both Thanksgiving and Christmas...Turkey always on Thanksgiving, not always on Christmas... Christmas in the US can be turkey, ham (spiral sliced), beef, pork, lasagana, etc...can be based upon family tradition and/or local preferences. In example where I'm from (Louisiana), some people do Couchon de Lait, a whole pig cooked underground My preference on Christmas...Spiral Sliced Ham or Pork Tenderloin with apricot or fig sauce -Sadie Hawkins = instead of boys asking girls to dance, girls ask boys to dance -Eggos = round toaster waffles...don't make it more complicated than it needs to be
Lmao i as an American thought everyone knew Hollywood high school films are a joke and so unrealistic lol apparently not. And i think google would have been helpful for a lot of these questions instead of guessing lmao
Homecoming is just a dance near the beginning of the school year, so in the fall. Students from all 4 grades (freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior) can go. As opposed to prom which is in the spring and is usually only open to juniors and seniors.
I love Thanksgiving so much, and it doesn’t detract from Christmas at all! The great thing about Thanksgiving ( besides all the fall yumminess) is that unlike Christmas where you ‘get stuff’...this is the holiday where you have gratitude for all the blessings in your life.
For me, Christmas is also about being grateful for blessings. The culture has sadly commercialized the hell out of it so it sometimes gives off the message that you should just care about getting gifts
@@ninjacat4929 I think Christmas is associated with getting stuff because it celebrates the birth of Christ, and grace, which is receiving something that you've done nothing to deserve. People being what we are, we've completely re-focused it, but I think that was the original thread.
Cotillion is a French tradition that is prevalent in the South especially on the Gulf Coast ( Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana) and is the time that young ladies are first introduced into "proper" society. A sort of right of passage.
@@Krisstofers The area of the US that I'm talking about has a history of five nations, actually one was a failed nation/state,that at one time have declared this area as their territory. Spain, France, Britain, the Confederate States of America and finally the United States of America. The Cotillion is a leftover tradition likened to but not as celebrated as Mardi Gras.
My brothers high school had cotillion instead of prom. I think they had junior prom then cotillion? Or vice versa? Idk but it was a public school and was really just prom by another name.
"Getting Served" originated because legal court documents are usually hand-delivered. This would include anything from divorce papers to a summons to appear in court. They have to be hand-delivered to the actual person so that person can't claim later that they never got them. Often these documents are not exactly something you want to receive, so people have been known to evade the courier. So the phrase is a jeer, meant to say "you couldn't stop this!"
"Homecoming" - During high school and college football seasons, schools are often required to play games at other school's football fields. They usually do that in a string (many games at many other school football fields). When they play their first game back at their home school, that's called the homecoming game and usually precipitates "homecoming" festivities. "Thanksgiving" is a celebration of the first "Thanksgiving" which was a dinner hosted by the early English colonists for their American Indian neighbors. "Sadie Hawkins Dance" is a dance where the girls ask the boys to accompany them. Named after a character in the old "l'L Abner" comic strip. "Spring Break" is a "vacation" from higher education. "You've been served" is a procedure where a designated representative of the court is tasked to inform an individual in writing, that the court requires their presence at a court proceeding. I guess it was initiated so people can't say "I never received notification of the requirement for my presence..in the mail". The designated representative has to hand the letter directly to the individual..so there's no excuse for not showing up.
Slight correction on the Thanksgiving. It's was the colonists who were starving and the Native Americans brought food to them so they wouldn't die in the winter. In modern terms it's a fall holiday that celebrates food and family and friends. And American football if you're into that. It's also the kickoff to the Christmas season here in America, though Christmas has been creeping more and more over the Thanksgiving borders as of late.
Here in Texas, every school from primary to University gets a week off for spring break. It's only the University students that do all that partying you see on TV. Lol
Thanks for clearing all that up lol. We have no equivalent to Homecoming, Sadie Hawkins or Thanksgiving in the UK. I’m sure your Spring is the same as our Easter holidays; which is a two week break from schools and higher education institutes. And if you get a court summons it’s usually hand delivered to your house by an officer for the Crown office or in Scotland the Procurator Fiscal. So that sounds similar to what you have in the US. 🙂
Pauline Doodle, when I was a kid we had Easter vacation. By the time I had kids the vacation had evolved to whatever time in the spring they felt like , nothing to do with matching up to Easter, and called it Spring Break!
BaddMatt I’m an American.i can answer this. They were originally called Froffles a portmanteau of frozen and waffle. Customers started calling them “Eggos” because of the egg flavor. Then in 1955 they officially changed the product name to “Eggo”
@@emanymton713 Thanks for the info about them being called Froffles. That's pretty interesting! They also must have tasted much more eggy back then for the name to be changed to Eggo, but I don't think they taste like eggs now at all. I eat them all the time, on the go, in the car, without butter or syrup or anything else on them, and I've never thought they taste like eggs.
I made a few notes, since you invited them, hope this helps. Homecoming - So in high school and college, during the American football or basketball season, there is one game designated as the Homecoming game. Since I live in the midwest in a rural area, many of the schools will have a pre-homecoming festivities on the night before homecoming which may include a parade and usually include a huge bonfire, the marching band playing, cheers and general wishing the team good luck. On day of the homecoming, after the game, there is a school dance. Depending on the school there may be things like voting for King and Queen and other activities at the event. It is not a reunion, which is a totally different thing. A lot of former students (primarily of high school) will organize a 10-year, 20-year, etc reunion of their graduting class, to get together to party and relive the glory days of high school. Tailgate Parties - Tailgate parties are primarily done in conjunction with American professional and college football games, although there are a lot other sports that have some amount of tailgating going on as well. Because food and drinks are so expensive inside of the stadium, and also since some people are traveling quite a distance, they will have a mini-party/pre-game celebration in the parking lot. There are some people that really, really get into it. Thanksgiving - It's an American holiday and for most people it is the kickoff for the whole holiday season. The holiday is about the first Thanksgiving when the Pilgrams, who arrived too late to get crops properly planted, ended up with not harvesting enough food and the Native Americans brought food to them and they shared the meal together. Thanksgiving and Christmas are the two holidays that most families all get together. Sadie Hawkins Dance - A Sadie Hawkins dance is a "usually" informal dance sponsored by a middle school or high school, in which the women invite the men. The Sadie Hawkins dance is named after the Li'l Abner comic strip character Sadie Hawkins, who went after her man instead of waiting for the man to ask her out. The event traditionally used to be held in November, but many schools eventually adopted February 29th as Sadie Hawkins day, so the dance is only held every four years. And BTW, school as depicted in Glee, doesn't happen in real life. Contillion Ball - This is actually something that is not widely known about in much of the United States. A Cotillion Ball is a formal dance specifically for middle school aged young people. The main purpose is that the young people learn "proper" manners and this ball is where they show their learning off. This should be confused with a Debutante Ball, which for many girls is their "coming out party" for when they turn 16. Both balls are typically for the families that are in the upper part of society (read rich). Eggos - Eggos are just pre-packaged waffles. They actually taste like... waffles. I have never tasted egg on them personally. Spring Break - Spring Break gets the build up from all the college students. Basically high school and colleges all have a week built into their schedule in the spring, hence spring break. For college students though, it is a huge party. You will see a lot of them will make plans with their mates to go to a destination like New Orleans or some beach place in Florida to have a gooooood time. Sometimes older and younger people try to get in on the fun, but that is how primarily college students do it. For middle and high school students, families may arrange a holiday someplace fun or go visit family in another location to get away from things for a while.
I wouldn't say it's not a reunion, because some alumni do show up for that game who no longer live there, but no, it's not designed as a reunion, strictly speaking.
Even as an American I'm learning a lot! Never heard of a cotillion ball, didn't know that alumni return for homecomings or even have coinciding reunions. I think homecoming is more of a high school than a college thing (I went to a 4-year college). It doesn't loom like anyone has explained that the term "tailgating" comes from the tailgate of a pickup truck. I don't think Eggos taste at all like egg these days. I like Eggos but I don't like eggs.
We NEED a turkey at thanksgiving, but at Christmas we can forgo the bird and just have a Christmas ham (since we already had the bird lol) and In my family we have a special Christmas sausage roll breakfast that means it’s ready to go I, mom doesn’t cook and then the first meal is the main meal ie ham with all the fixins. I feel lile fixins is a very Texas word for trimmings?
A lot of people do Turkey on Thanksgiving and Ham on Christmas - unless they are upper-middle class or expecting a lot of people and then they have both turkey and ham for both days.
Here's the story on the “SADIE HAWKINS” dance - This originated from an old American satirical newspaper comic strip called “Lil Abner” about a fictional small country town called “Dogpatch”… Because the men of Dogpatch were so particularly clueless about women, one day out of the year, Sadie Hawkins Day (Named after a character in the comic) was set aside for societal roles to be flipped and women were encouraged to ask men to marry them, to be their boyfriend, go to the dance, etc. (this was the 1940s). Much humor ensued.
Exactly, Glee's episode featuring it had absolutely NOTHING to do with the actual event, other than the fact that the girl in the clip tried to use it to her advantage. (Sorry, I don't know the names.)
From the comic strip by Al Capp. It was race! Men started first. If a woman caught a man, he had to marry her. See the movie "Li'l Abner." All will become clear.
There’s not one set name for the girl-ask-guy dance, my school calls it Sweetheart. But yes, it’s customary for the roles to be flipped, I asked a guy and paid for tickets, dinner, and drove.
On February 29th girls (women) can ask a boy (a man) to marry them - so only once every 4 years! Don't know about the etiquette of girls just asking a boy out!
Sadie Hawkins Day is an American folk event and pseudo-holiday originated by Al Capp's classic hillbilly comic strip Li'l Abner. This inspired real-world Sadie Hawkins events, the premise of which is that women ask men for a date or dancing. Wikipedia
This channel consists of a couple of goofy little acting school graduate Brits who attempt to teach people things of which neither of them have a clue.
qpwillie They’re funny sometimes. But, no area in the US is like the others. Every area has its customs and activities. Very little of J & L’s understandings are accurate. It’s funny in a way. But it’s unintentional so then it’s sad.
That's true, especially because the worship of Odin when they'd light their home to Light his way with his chariot and horses in the sky would end in the sacrifice of a boar originally...also why everyone puts Xmas lights on their homes.
Don't you find it a bit odd though that they traditionally serve ham in celebration of someone who was born a Jew (and would never have ate it since it would have been seen as "unclean"). lol
Thanksgiving is always turkey, but Christmas can be anything. We have a buffet on Christmas Eve and Christmas day is just a family dinner that could be roast beef or lasagna. I have a friend who on Thanksgiving serves turkey,beef and pork.
Rhonda Flesher Acts 10:9-15 (NIV): 9 About noon the following day as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the roof to pray. 10 He became hungry and wanted something to eat, and while the meal was being prepared, he fell into a trance. 11 He saw heaven opened and something like a large sheet being let down to earth by its four corners. 12 It contained all kinds of four-footed animals, as well as reptiles and birds. 13 Then a voice told him, “Get up, Peter. Kill and eat.” 14 “Surely not, Lord!” Peter replied. “I have never eaten anything impure or unclean.” 15 The voice spoke to him a second time, “Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.”
In the US a “tailgate” (noun) can refer to the drop down rear door of a pickup truck. So a “tailgate party” is a sort of pre-game party before a sport match (usually American football) where people park their vehicles (doesn’t have to be a pickup truck) in a specified lot and set up grills, games etc and have fun with family/friends. Now using “tailgate” as a verb (somebody tailgating somebody on the road) implies somebody driving too close to the rear of the car in front of them.
Yes, that. They nearly always take place in the parking lot of a sports stadium. People would arrive for sporting events hours early to beat the crowd and get a good parking spot, then folks found hanging around with other fans during the hours spent waiting made the wait less boring, and presumably at some point a day came when someone said, “Hey, I brought snacks and beer,” and from there it grew into a tradition, having a big group pre-game barbeque picnic party in the parking lot. It’s more fun than everyone sitting in their cars for hours waiting for the venue to open.
“Served” is used in the US in a legal sense to mean you’ve been officially served court documents by a court representative. Meaning you can’t claim you didn’t know that you needed to show up to court.
Spring break is when u have time off from school and most will take vacation. And teacher's can get there grades in or the lessons for the next quarter
Spring break isn't a thing when you aren't in school and don't have kids yet. So depressing when a teacher friend asks if you are doing anything for spring break, and are like "yeah, I don't get time off"
I didn’t really have spring break till college. In k-12 we just had Thursday-Sunday off. That was really just a 4 day weekend. Not enough time to do much of anything special. Then in college I almost always worked during spring break.
@@sarahp6554 Yep, Spring Break is usually a college/university rite of passage with the usual partying and fun times. Drinking, socializing, music, and promiscuous behavior (sex) are the norm. A lot of times at warm beach locations in Florida, Mexico, and Texas (South Padre Island) but could be other cool places like Vegas or SoCal. Fun times. I guess the definition has also been co-opted by families and younger school crowd too.
While spring break can refer to any school break in the spring, the spring break of lore is from college and the students going someplace warm and doing a lot of crazy partying. Not sure how that became a thing or when. Knowing America, it probably started as an advertising campaign for someplace. 😂
I feel like Brits are missing out on the ability to tailgate. Like they are so- intense- soccer fans that I feel like a pre-game/ pre- match party would be a huge success.
The Brits are way more tribal when it comes to their soccer. Here in the US fans of different teams sit together and you might even have friends that like a different team than you, yeah you might trash talk but it's all in fun.
Well, the alumni don't go to the school homecoming dance unless they are recent graduates, perhaps, but it is a sort of school reunion. If course, it varies. In Indiana, basketball being a big deal, hence the movie "Hoosiers" and all that, we also have homecoming during the basketball season. Alumni will make special trips to these games, and sometimes hold class reunions coincident to the game.
They go to the football game and parade at my school. Also the previous years senior king and queen go to the dance to pass the crowns on to the new king and queen
It comes from an old comic strip in the US... Li'l Abner... There is a musical based on the comic that was made in the 60s which was based on a play on Broadway
As RW says, it's from the Li'l Abner comic strip. In the comic, which took place in a very isolated, poor, rural community called Dogpatch, there was an annual holiday in November (exact date not specified by the comic strip) where the unmarried women would chase the unmarried men, and if the lady caught the man, he was obliged to marry her. I believe this first appeared in the comic strip around 1937 or so. Real life Sadie Hawkins dances started taking place the following year, and it's my understanding the custom has even been adopted in Canada. (Canadians please correct me if I'm wrong)
And in college it often involves traveling to a beach vacation spot. Hence all the difficulties Florida had with trying to shut down their beaches and send people home when COVID-19 started to explode in March
It seems like we have a totally different school system in the UK. With longer holidays. Our school year starts in September. Actual dates vary slightly across the country. Our local school dates 2020 to 2021 are. Autumn term and new school year. Starts Thursday 3rd September. Finishes Friday 11th December. With Half term Holiday Saturday 17th October to Sunday 1st November. Christmas Holiday from Saturday 12th December to Monday 4th January 2021. Spring Term starts Tuesday 5th January Finishes Friday 26th March. With Half Term Holiday Saturday 13th February to Sunday 21st February. Easter Holiday Saturday 27th March to Monday 19th April. Summer Term starts Tuesday 20th April finishes Friday 9th July. Half Term holiday Saturday 29th May to Sunday 6th June. Summer Holiday from Saturday 10th July untill the new school year starts on Thursday 2nd September.
Spring break is literally just a week off of school. 🤣 And it happens every year for elementary through university students. When I think of spring break, I think of family vacations! Lol
Homecoming happens every year for the high school grades (Froshman, Sophomore, Junior, & Senior). A Prom only happens once for a Graduating class. Re: my Junior Year I went to my boyfriend's Senior Prom although he was a year ahead of me. Homecoming is not the same as a Class Reunion- it is not open to All Ages, especially a lot of legally older people. Usually anyone above 21, who might already be in College & of drinking age, would be prohibited from the premises for the younger people (as young as 15 or 16) to have a safe enjoyable time. Class Reunions generally happen every 5 or 10 years once you get out of school.
Just about everybody tailgates, and it's illegal! you can get pulled over and get a ticket for following the vehicle in front of you too closely. lol different use of the word...
Also sometimes called Morp - prom backwards ... where the girl asks the boy to a dance. In my experience much more casual (jeans and a tshirt). Also, no royalty for this dance haha.
You saved me having to explain that tailgate parties don't happen at random parking lots for no reason. It is almost always sporting events especially American football and usually prior to the game.
Thanksgiving originated as a celebration of the harvest and other blessings of the past year. Its generally believed that Thanksgiving is modeled on a 1621 harvest feast shared by the English colonists (Pilgrims) of Plymouth and the Wampanoag Indians.
Sadie Hawkins was a character from the OLD Lil' Abner comic strip. She was the homeliest (Most unattractive) girl in "Dogpatch" (the town where they live). She got tired of waiting for a man to ask her to marry him, so she got all the unmarried women in the town together, and declared it "Sadie Hawkins Day"... on this day, and this day only girls have a race to capture their man, and marry them. The "Sadie Hawkins dance" which is not celebrated everywhere, or sometimes it is called "MORP" (Backwards Prom) the girls ask the guys. The dress is usually down for these dances... No fancy dresses, or floor-length dresses. It is simply casual and fun, That is where it comes from.
You nailed it. A Sadie Hawkins dance is a Highschool dance where the girls are expected to invite the boys. I think the name actually came from a character in an old comic strip called Lil' Abner.
Sadie Hawkins was a character in Li'l Abner who was unable to find a husband. Finally her father lined up all the eligible bachelors in town, with all the unmarried women behind them, When he fired his pistol in the air the first time, the bachelors took off running, when he fired again.the woman took off after them, and if they caught one of the bachelors, he had to marry her.
The US celebrates thanksgiving to give thanks for everything they have and it originates from the year 1621, the Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag Indians shared an autumn harvest feast that is acknowledged today as one of the first Thanksgiving celebrations in the colonies.
Lol, your story is the cute one they tell us in school, yes that's the basis but it was actually instituted after the civil war to help bring the country back together.
@@kimberlypage6344 also true...it was designated to be a non religous holiday that all faiths could take part in. its to recognize the 150 years of peace between the europeon colonists and the native americans
@@kimberlypage6344 "Thanksgiving" actually was a European tradition. In exceptionally good years, they'd have a feast showing thankfulness to God for their bounty. It was uncommon, though, and you could go generations without having one. American Thanksgiving did indeed start with the pilgrims, and it *was* celebrated prior to the civil war, but not *every* year, and not on the same dates from place to place. Lincoln made it a regular national holiday, as you said.
@It's yuh girl mikkeai8908 "History is a set of lies agreed upon" - Napoleon Bonaparte "History is Bunk" - Henry Ford "I don't know how accurate our view of history can be when I realize that my history professor consistently forgets where he parked his car" - Vojislav Stanijovic
I'm an American and I've lived over there. They're not all uptight. They drink like fish! Also you can take your kids to pubs and it's completely acceptable.
@@lauracastle6035 my grandmother was English and she always said what we consider "drinking", the English call "lunch". She drank whiskey like no one's business...miss her..
Oh, I can explain why we have all the breaks :) so, it’s actually originally due to the fact that many kids back in the day came from farming families, and they worked on the farm as well. Spring break was a week off because that’s when crops were planted, then students came back to school until summer, then most of summer was a break because that’s when almost all of the work after that needed to be done for crops. You might also have a fall break for harvest, or in my small town, kids often got two weeks of the fall hunting season off school because they would go with their parents and hunt deer (as it was deer season), then kids would come back to school afterwards with deer sausage and whatnot in their lunch lol. My grandfather did it, my uncles did it, kids in my school still did it when I was there. Although for the most part, schools have eventually been shifting more and more away from breaks, because that’s simply not the social climate anymore, where a large portion of kids are helping their families on farms. Not entirely though! Certain things (like summer break, and a week off in spring) stick around mostly just to give students rest, and the ability to have time to still be kids and enjoy their summers :) Hope that helps! Tl;dr: it’s a leftover from early family farming practices in America.
Thanksgiving was us Americans grateful to the native Americans helping us learn how to survive in our new climate and we celebrated with a feast of the harvest before winter.
Thanksgiving is totally separate from Christmas. If you grow up with it you don't feel that it undermines the holidays at the end of the year. When Thanksgiving is over, it's considered the official start of the Christmas season. Watch footage of the end of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade - Santa Claus comes and Christmas is official. You might get a kick out of the beginning of the Parade - There's a giant Turkey balloon that everyone gets excited about - it's kind of comical if you don't celebrate Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving Thursday is followed by Black Friday, a shopping ritual event, starting at 12:01AM when stores open their doors to people lined up often waiting for hours, to get the biggest sales of the year.
@@fionnmaccumhaill3257 interesting! What part of the country are you from? I'm in the midwest and I've never heard of that around here...maybe it's more of a private school thing?
Thanksgiving for the longest time celebrated the first thanksgiving when the Native Americans shared food with the early settlers. But now a days we just celebrate all the things we are thankful for.
It's about family, friends, and giving thanks to God for all He has given me in the last year. In New England it is very special i live about 60 miles away from Plymouth Plantations, the earliest settlement in the North East. Then there is also a reason to be thankful in my s few ate, Rhode Island because we didn't take the land from the natives we bought (most of it) from the natives. We were a breakaway from Plymouth because our founder didn't totally agree with the Puritans beliefs.
The “you’ve been served” that Joel specifically refers to is being served a subpoena to appear in court. Not necessarily the person being sued (although that could be the case) but sometimes a subpoena just means you have to testify or be present at court
Actually, the true intention of Homecoming is for the alumni to be invited back to visit their alma mater. Now, on a high school level, not so much. But on a collegiate level, there will be lots of alumni activities planned, usually a whole weekend of alumni brunches, alumni campus tours, homecoming football games, etc. The optimist view is that once you're a part of a university, you're always welcome back. The cynical view is that this is a way for the university to keep track of you so that they can ask for donations. LOL Edit: I just saw where you saw this for yourself. Teaches me to reply without watching the whole video! ;)
Traditionally, the football team would go "on the road" for several games, playing at other schools' fields. When the team returned to their home field, it was "homecoming" and the excuse for a party. Reunions are different. Tailgate parties are generally associated with sporting events. The "tail gate" is the boards that close the back of a wagon. It carried over to the back door of a pickup truck or station wagon (estate car). A sedan will have a "trunk". Thanksgiving is a holiday based on a tradition from the Pilgrims' giving thanks for surviving their first winter in America. Think of it as a harvest festival. Sadie Hawkins is a dance where the girl has to ask the boy to go. It's giving permission for reversal of the traditional roles. A Cotillion is a formal dance given to introduce young women to society. Traditionally, it marks the change from girl to eligible young lady. While I have attended a cotillion, I think that puts me in the
I’m American and that is the best description of these things I’ve ever heard. Although, the Sadie Hawkins dance can go by other names. In one of my high school, it was nicknamed the “Girls dance” and in another it was called the Sweetie/Sweetheart/Valentines Dance. (There was a Valentines Dance and a Sadie Hawkins/Sweetie Dance, but it was too expensive, so they mushed the two together and was known as one of the above dance names.)
Lego my Eggo actually started back in the 1970s as a slogan; a shortening of let go of my eggo waffles. Stranger Things simply used the iconic slogan which has stuck with the brand for over 50 years.
*Homecoming* - It originally started as a way for the alumni to come back and cheer their football team on. Which still happens at colleges. But for high schools, it's really just the football game and a dance. At colleges/universities, there is a lot of *tailgating* (pre-gaming/partying before the game, usually in the stadium parking lot) and after parties. *Sadie Hawkins (also known as TOLO)* - It's a dance where girls are SUPPOSED to ask boy's to the dance. It's slowly starting to fade out though. It's usually a very low-attended dance. *Eggos* - Frozen waffles, popular with kids/teens. They don't really have eggs in them. *Spring Break* - ORIGINALLY started as Easter Break when the country was much more religious. Now, it's used as a break to gear up before the last quarter of the school year. EVERYBODY from Pre-Schoolers to seniors in college has spring break, but the partying you see in the movies/TV, usually only happens with college students. And the occasional rebellious high schoolers 🤷🏿♂️
In Texas especially Homecoming is a BIG deal!! It can have two meanings but generally it’s both a special high school (American) football game where there were several ‘away’ games at other school’s stadiums before the homecoming game on Friday and formal dance on Saturday. And yes it’s very common for each high school to have their own football field with band stand, cheerleaders and grandstand seating for both the ‘home’ team and the ‘away’ team. So that’s how the terms home game and away game came about. Also it’s a time for alumni of that school to go to the game & have fun. I went Jesuit College Prep in Dallas and for us Homecoming weekend was also very important for scholarship fundraising.
Cameron Enoch Yeah Cameron it’s crazy here in Texas in some very affluent cities or suburbs like Plano in north Dallas or Westlake Hills which is a suburb of Austin they build $15 to $20 MILLION DOLLAR stadiums for high school football. It get ridiculous to me anyway to think how much better that money could have been spent. Trust me I’m not anti-sports at all. I’m pro common sense though!!
Homecoming is also important for my high school. The alums come back for the game, the JRROTC shoot a blank from the canon, the marching band and color guard perform their competition routine, and everybody cheers. The the Homecoming princesses ride on golf carts to the center of the field, and the Queen is announced. The next day is the dance. That is the best week of school for me.
Thanksgiving started when the Pilgrims came together with the Native Americans and gave Thanks for their meal and "friendship". Americans have since celebrated that time as a holiday.
@Soul Purpose Energy Healing, that depends on the school system. Some schools go all out for Homecoming, like my school. Some go an extra mile for Prom, which my school still does, so it depends where you live.
Avalon Signora Almas totally agree. It differs a lot depending on where you’re from. I know it’s fancier now in my small home town than it was when I was young. That was ages ago I was young 🤣🤣
To clarify, Thanksgiving is strictly a food oriented holiday, on which you eat till you reach coma. Elastic waistbands mandatory. Christmas is the gift giving opportunity enhanced by food experiences but not centered round them. Cheers.
@@GreatLakesSurfer I agree there are different rituals. I think there are a lot of different family traditions for Christmas where Thanksgiving seems to be a lot more uniform (turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, etc. with special family dishes and recipes). My dad's family was Italian American so we usually had pasta on Christmas Eve with garlic and olive oil along with fried fish (usually flounder and smelts but not a whole "7 fishes") as well as some items like meatballs and lasagna. Christmas day at my mom's side would usually include roast beef and sometimes ham. We never really had turkey around Christmas.
OMG.. Thanksgiving involves food, but that isn't the historical reason for it.. Thanksgiving is the yearly tradition of celebrating American/ Canadian settlers "giving thanks" for surviving the hazardous journey overseas and a successful first harvest
Spring Break is just one week when both grade schools and colleges don't have school. It's not always the same week, though, just being determined by the particular school, which can make trips difficult to coordinate if different family members, etc. are in different schools. As for "celebrating" it, not everybody does, just students who celebrate any long enough time off school and sometimes their families, and not everyone can afford to or has the energy to do much. There are no doubt even some people who just study straight through it or something. I usually just stayed at home doing whatever, and sometimes my family went on some kind of minor trip.
To explain homecoming. It's when your school's football team would play it's home field for the first time in the season. At the game during halftime they show off everyone running for homecoming queen and king and at the dance after they announce the winner. Now the Sadie Hawkins dance is the only time girls can ask a boy out.
In California it’s the last home game of the season, not the first. Makes sense when you think of welcoming the team to the home field for the last time, after playing a fair number of away games.
My meaning of homecoming is how we do things in Texas highschools. It may be different depending location or weather it's highschool or University. I can only tell you what I know from my experience.
Tyler West Sadie Hawkins was a big dealup until the late 80s, since girls didn't commonly ask out guys. Once women asked me out more commonly, sadie hawkins kind of evaporated
Sadie Hawkins Day dances were popular from WW2 until the 1980s since at that time it was scandalous for a woman to ask a man on a date. The super rich stopped cotillions about the same time major newspapers dropped their society columns. Probably "Sweet Sixteen Parties" aren't a thing anymore either.
We didn’t have a Sadie Hawkins dance, it we had a version of it called Bells Ball. It was in 2003. So they were still out there somewhat recently, no idea if they still do it.
"Tailgate" is what the drop down panel on the back of a pickup truck bed is called. It makes a table for the barbecue etc. I suppose now there are more SUVs (with their tailgate up) than pickup trucks at tailgate parties at American football games.
We had a Ford LTD wagon growing up in the 70s/80s and it had a dual direction tailgate that could either flip down like a pickup gate or open out like a standard card door.
@@janeathome6643 We in the UK do use tailgate for the thing at the back of a station wagon (we call them estate cars). However, it is also used as a verb when someone is driving aggressively close to the vehicle in front, as in "look at that idiot in the BMW tailgating that little car".
Eggos don’t taste like eggs, they’re just regular waffles that you can heat up in a toaster. They’re also not the only brand of frozen waffles. There used to only be plain, but most brands also have other flavors now, too (like blueberry, apple-cinnamon, etc.).
Rose Midnight Ah, I wasn’t aware of that. In trying to find a recipe for those (searching on “English waffle recipe,” “UK waffle recipe,” and “British waffle recipe”), the only recipes that turned up for me were for the waffles we eat here. So “Mum’s best waffle recipe” on Allrecipes UK, “Waffles recipe” on BBC Good Food, “Breakfast waffle recipe” on Jamie Oliver’s website, or Nigella Lawson’s waffle recipe on BBC Food website ... any of those will give some idea what American waffles are. They do contain eggs as an ingredient, but they don’t taste like egg, the same way most breads don’t taste like egg. As an aside, the batter used for our waffles is the same batter used for our pancakes, the only difference is how it’s cooked. I hope that’s sort of helpful.
Rose Midnight Okay, so American waffles taste exactly like Belgian waffles, which are also popular here. The only difference is that American waffles are about half the thickness of Belgian waffles and they have smaller squares.
What you guys described as a homecoming sounds more like a high school reunion; in which different classes of whatever year all gather together at school after so many years a part since they’ve graduated.
Some of the schools here in Louisiana actually use homecoming to have all the classes come together again. So instead of doing individual class reunions that get way expensive, they come each year for homecoming. This last year there was a school in Monroe, LA that has every class and most of the classmates attended all the way back to the class of '63! It was HUGE!
Friendsgiving is something a lot of people I know have started doing as well. (I'm in the midwest) It's just a large meal party among friends during the Thanksgiving season. We usually do pot luck and everyone brings a different dish. it's typically much more informal than Thanksgiving and we usually get intoxicated.
I think it depends where it is in the US. I'm in NJ (public school) and we had a freshman/sophomore cotillion and then a junior/senior prom when I was in school. No difference in the two really, besides prom being a bit more upscale... Both still just lame dances, lol
At least where I live (Indiana) there are actual trunk (same as British "boot") sales. Before all of this covid chaos a group met occasionally at a parking lot at a store that is no longer open and they each had kind of a mini yard sale out of the trunks of their cars.
@D Brick actually it's just a flea market because people do sell as a business like you said, but not from their trunk. It's usually loads of boxes, furniture, antiques, clothing, etc they set out to yet yes the truck/van is right there with them. I've never seen people just pop their trunks to sell what little fits in a truck. And yes I know flea markets are all sorts of sizes from smaller to massive. Some are even inside buildings or shelters.
The whole point of Thanksgiving is that you didn't starve to death before the fall harvest. Now that the crops are in, it's time for EATING in a major feast.
All of those things are really things that we do. Not just TV and movies. Thanksgiving is my second favorite holiday (Halloween being the first) - I think I just like fattening food... Sadie Hawkins where I grew up (outside of Chicago) is called Turnabout because the girl asks the boy to the dance instead of waiting for a guy to ask her. Cotillion Ball is not a midwestern thing. Eggo is a pancake waffle that you can pop in the toaster and top with syrup - quick breakfast.
You’ve been served, means you have been given legal documents by a person who works for the Courts and are required to appear in court on the date in the paperwork. We try to avoid this court server and if they can’t find you they can’t give you the paperwork.
I know some people who also use the term, you’ve been served, to mean that somebody is better at something than you are. And, they’ve just proven that they are better.
They didnt understand the 4th of July either🤔 apparently the schools over their dont like to teach anything about people who celebrate their freedom from the crown! Lol!!!!😁🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
@@connieclark3543 It's more the fact that Britian has such a long diverse history that the US history (which is pretty modern compared to ours) doesn't really get taught. Instead we learn about the different people who we're in charge of the UK, from the Romans, the Vikings and the Tudors, to name a few!!!
@@izzybanning5879 No, I get it and was just making a joke because Americans would be the only ones celebrating holidays such as 4th of July and Thanksgiving. It would be like teaching the your children (that you had with your new husband) about your ex who left you for another woman🤔. You just dont do it😏 A little American humor for ya 😉😁.
People go to Florida or diffrent places to drink and party have sex and just hang out to let lose and not worry about there study's.watch a clip on RUclips about springbreak. break,people get crazy.
@@izzybanning5879 blah blah blah, the americans started the chain of revolutions in Europe. Yall learn about india and france but not america which is arguably way more important. I hate that excuse, It's so dumb
A "cotillion" is really only held for rich communities and I believe some black communities still keep it alive. It's basically a modern version of a debutante ball where all the young ladies are presented to the communities as grown women and officially old enough to be courted and subsequently married off. It's a whole ordeal where the girls all wear a giant white ballgown and are escorted to the event by a prominent Male member of society. Its ridiculous and outdated and I've never once heard of anyone actually attending one. Like I said, its usually in the rich communities who have the money to waste on endless parties.
I'd say your everyday American would have no clue about a cotillion. And where I live, we didn't have homecoming. I think there are some parts of the US that are more into some of that stuff than others.
I think it's more popular in the South. When I lived in Georgia, the local papers would have a section for all the debutantes (which I believe is the same thing.)
A Cotillion Ball is where young girls about 18 - 20 or so are "presented to society." Only for the rich or at least people whose parents are in "high" society. It's a big ego trip for both the girl to have been selected (and get her picture in the society pages of the newspaper or online) and the parents. Happens in every large city.
I think tailgates may have originated because everybody’s dad is obsessed with beating the traffic. So, if you’re going to a music festival, air show, football game, etc. you have to arrive hours early so you’re not pulling into the lot at the last minute. And since you’re so early that the start time of the event is still hours away, you need to eat. Also, food and drink in American stadiums and arenas costs about $1 million. It’s must cheaper to bring your own, but you usually aren’t allowed to carry it into the stadium. Ergo, tailgate.
Watch videos called "Girls Gone Wild " This is what college spring break. I call Easier Break because it's a break for Good Friday and Easter. Schools are off the week before Easter or the week after.
Homecoming so much happens it is a week-long of events. There are spirit week where people dress up for the theme every day. Classes and clubs build floats for the parade at the end of the week. There is a king and queen, but there is also a whole homecoming court. The court is for the "popular" boy and girl in each grade. The king and queen are only the "popular" girl and boy from the senior class. There is usually a pep rally around the homecoming game on Friday of that week. They usually have the homecoming court present themselves, sometimes in suits and dress, on the football field. Then on Saturday, there is a dance. This dance is typically less formal than prom. Most High schools have class reunions every 5-10 years basically until they die. It's called tailgate because people have parties at the back of their truck. Every truck has a tailgate, is like the door to the bed of a truck. Cotillion ball dates back to went boys and girls had to be presented to society as ready to date. This usually happens after they learn the rules of ettique for society. This is usually for rich families. Spring Break is a break in the middle of the spring semester. Many young adults, partially college, use this time to go on wild beach vacations.
I just got invited to my 45th class reunion. No way. My sister and BIL just had their 50th class reunion from high school . So basically until you die or you're the last one standing.
Getting swerved refers to a "Process Server", a legal term, serving a notice of a lawsuit. The precipitant must "answer" the law suit, usually by an attorney, within a certain number of days or the judge will grant "summary judgment" against the party that was served.
@@kathy2trips Kathy, except for my bad spelling, that is the process for serving an order to appear in court. In some cases, "service" can be by mail. The defendant must "answer" the complaint by filing at least a limited answer with the court, usually by an attorney, within a certain number of days or the judge rules for the Plaintiff.
It's also means like "you got served". Like when somebody disses you. The slang reference on South Park was in reference to the dance movie U Got Served.
“Served “ = served court summons papers... it’s a whole thing where someone with the court tracks you down and surprises you with the paperwork so you can’t avoid the civil suit
first off, PROM, Homecoming and Highschool reunions are three, that is three, let me tell u again 3 different things. Prom in the richer Highschool neighborhoods are close to Hollywood portrayal. Homecoming is centered more around the the fact that the football team is playing their first game back at home after a series of Away (on the road) games. Yes alumni do attend these games. a reunion is exactly that after graduation most highschools have a 5 year, 10 year, 20 year, 30 year and every decade until there r no alumni of that year left alive. one of my dads Uncles just went to his 80th highschool reunion last this month. of course there were a whopping 10 people there and his class had 128 graduates
Hey guys. Y'all do pretty good for folks who get most of their information from hollywood. Just remember, hollywood is not everyday life in the U. S. It is not unusual for us to refer to hollywood sarcastically as "hollyweird". Also Austin is not a good representation of the rest of Texas. Love what y'all do.
I'm sure some America schools actually have a Sadie Hawkins dance but I'm 50 and my daughter is 15 and I've honestly never seen a school have one. What happens in most of America is significantly different than what happens in Southern California or New York City
I went to jr. high, 9th and 10 grades in Cal. and 11th and 12th in Ark. We had Sadie Hawkins dances at all three schools. BTW, I'm 67 yrs. old. I guess Sadie Hawkins dances were more prevalent back then. Come to think of, I don't think I've heard any of my grandkids mention S. Hawkins dances, but my kids did get to have them.
@@davidmetzger5986 We never had a Sadie Hawkins dance at my schools either. Only time I ever encountered it was at camp. They had one every year and I hated it. I grew up thinking it was something specific to that camp for the longest time.
Yes, Homecoming is usually planned around a school football game, with a party at night for all those alumni who come home. Prom is an end of school party for the graduating seniors. Sadie Hawkins dance is when the girls invite the boys to the dance... that slutty thing was cringe! Cotillion balls started out as a “coming out party” for wealthy young women, that they are now eligible for marriage. Spring break is the mid semester break during college, a break from studies to go home or on vacation, then they return to finish out the semester till summer. Being served. Someone literally “serves “ or personally hands you documents calling you to go to court for a suit, a divorce, etc.
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Wait till November
It’s right there in Wikipedia:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadie_Hawkins_Day
You've been served papers
Question...I grew up here in Georgia and we’ve always called the trunk of the car the “boot”. I see that it’s British also. Any other southerners refer to the trunk as the “boot”? 🤷♂️
Eggos DO NOT taste like eggs. They taste like waffles.
eggos don't taste like waffles, either. they are the waffle equivalent of Hormel tamales from a tin.
I've never seen anyone put an egg atop an Eggo, you strange strange Brits. lol
@@wellingtonsmith4998 they do usually drown them in butter and syrup, though. (or more commonly margarine and artificially flavored syrup - mass produced butter and syrup substitutes for your mass produced waffle substitute.)
@@wellingtonsmith4998 they try to put eggs on everything
All waffles taste like eggs. You literally cannot make a waffle or pancake without using eggs in the recipe.
I wish you two had a panel of Americans to explain these things to you because you were very, very off. 🤣🤣🤣
I volunteer!!!!!
@Headwhacker Oh, I just meant in real time, so we can see the reactions to the explanations.
Great idea because-I totally agree-even after reading “definitions” they were still 180 degrees off.
I know what you mean. It would be interesting if they brought on an American.
It's like they don't even have Google 🤷🏽♀️
Wait until they find out about high school reunions.
Or Texas homecomings with their giant mums
@@halliwellfamily They have a video reacting to Mums!!
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You go to your
10th reunion to see who's married
20th reunion to see who's divorced
30th to see who's made it big
40th+ to see who's left.
"Leggo my Eggo" was *NOT* first used in Stranger Things! It was the Eggos ad slogan for many years in the '80s or '90s!
I think it actually still is... Dunno, I haven't actually seen an Eggo commercial in a while...
@@elealehblue6429 it is.
Still is
I'm going through the comments and this hasn't come up in the video yet.
Remember, this is observations from the British perspective. Stranger Things was the first time THEY heard it. The British were not likely to be aware of American commercials in the 80's.
Homecoming: first "home" football game of the year, typically the first dance of the school year. Prom: dance for the upper class-men (11th & 12th grades) typically the last dance of the school year. Cotillion: "coming out" dance for high society, similar to "sweet sixteen" dances, Quinceañera in many Spanish countries, or Bat Mitzvah for the Jewish. Tail gating: gathering in the parking lot for some food before a major professional sporting event, while waiting to be allowed into the stadium. Spring break: spring vacation from school, usually a week long and upper class-men and college students go somewhere warm with a beach to party.
Our homecoming was the last home game usually against a weaker opponent.
Cotillion is much younger. Usually around 10-12 year olds. It is usually done by the same type of people who eventually do debutante balls and coming out parties for society. Cotillion will teach various ballroom dances, etiquette, and how to dress. I had friends who did it in late elementary school and wanted me to go too (I thought it sounded boring and pointless so I didn't do it).
Homecoming started as a university thing, not secondary school/high school. Originally, it was the first game and typically was against a big rival. It would draw a lot of alumni, remember America does not really have formal class distinctions so one of the substitutes is university affiliation. You would go to homecoming to make connections with other alumni and to stake your claim to the college`s brand. It started in the midwest at a state's flagship school and got copied by other universities and eventually high schools. It also drifted over time to later in the season, often as a way to try and draw a crowd for a less interesting matchup.
A tailgate is the gate that opens onto the bed of a truck. We drive a lot more trucks here and the friend with the truck can carry more stuff for the party. You open the back and party in the car park before the game, ergo a tailgate party.
I think of Cotillions as a very southern thing too. I don't know anyone who went to one and we definitely didn't have one at my school. I also got the impression that they're more of a novelty these days but maybe in certain areas they're still very common.
Most Americans have never been to a Cotillion. People who have are most likely from families where the word summer is a verb.
Very well said 😂
Cotillion (from what my friends have told me) is a class on how to act pretentious. They went themselves and did not enjoy it.
@DJ Davis, for me, it was just an etiquette activity on proper manners.
An upper class Southern mixer (dance/tea) adhering to specific etiquette.
It's a southern thing. Pre teen kids take classes then have a fancy dance to show off what they learned.
Glee was NOTHING like High School!
Except the for the fact that it seems to go on longer than it should
Amen. How I was in the Glee Club and nothing salacious happened we just sang a lot and it wasn't so productive and we had Annex Broadway musician / actress who is pretty famous for about 40 years on Broadway who told me at the time which I regret not listening to her and go to Juilliard because I used to be able to sing of 5 1/2 octave range and had perfect pitch. And then I got in a car accident and lost half my hearing in both ears and it f***** up my tones on top of the fact that I started smoking it 19 like your dumbass so now I'm like a 3 range maybe on a good day. It's still pretty good don't get me wrong but I'm I'm already Auto which means I can go lower octaves for sure but nobody wants to hear a tenor chick
Definitely not. I would have made friends in choir otherwise lol
From American to Brits:
-American's often don't have turkey on both Thanksgiving and Christmas...Turkey always on Thanksgiving, not always on Christmas...
Christmas in the US can be turkey, ham (spiral sliced), beef, pork, lasagana, etc...can be based upon family tradition and/or local preferences.
In example where I'm from (Louisiana), some people do Couchon de Lait, a whole pig cooked underground
My preference on Christmas...Spiral Sliced Ham or Pork Tenderloin with apricot or fig sauce
-Sadie Hawkins = instead of boys asking girls to dance, girls ask boys to dance
-Eggos = round toaster waffles...don't make it more complicated than it needs to be
no we have turkey on thanksgiving and christmas
Some Americans do have turkey on both holidays, but not everyone in America does that.
Turkey is a must on Thanksgiving, but optional on Christmas
I only have turkey on thanks giveing. Ham is on Christmas
It can also be cultural in my family we eat tamales 🫔 on Christmas.
When the video started off with this explanation of homecoming, I knew it was not going to turn out well
Lmao i as an American thought everyone knew Hollywood high school films are a joke and so unrealistic lol apparently not. And i think google would have been helpful for a lot of these questions instead of guessing lmao
Wasn’t even close to what homecoming actually is even after they looked it up
Well what is it then ?
We have par ties we go to meet with others. Brits have potties which we would go alone. 🤔
Homecoming is just a dance near the beginning of the school year, so in the fall. Students from all 4 grades (freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior) can go. As opposed to prom which is in the spring and is usually only open to juniors and seniors.
I love Thanksgiving so much, and it doesn’t detract from Christmas at all! The great thing about Thanksgiving ( besides all the fall yumminess) is that unlike Christmas where you ‘get stuff’...this is the holiday where you have gratitude for all the blessings in your life.
For me, Christmas is also about being grateful for blessings. The culture has sadly commercialized the hell out of it so it sometimes gives off the message that you should just care about getting gifts
You also give stuff . Don’t think getting stuff was the original meaning for Christmas !
@@ninjacat4929 I think Christmas is associated with getting stuff because it celebrates the birth of Christ, and grace, which is receiving something that you've done nothing to deserve. People being what we are, we've completely re-focused it, but I think that was the original thread.
.Thanksgiving... and family and friends around the table to share some love.
Also, Thanksgiving is the only reason they don't start playing Christmas carols in September
There’s No cotillion at school, that’s more for rich families outside of school.
Cotillion is a French tradition that is prevalent in the South especially on the Gulf Coast ( Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana) and is the time that young ladies are first introduced into "proper" society.
A sort of right of passage.
Ummm. Back in the 90s, we had cotillion dances... however, it was more like taking ballroom dancing elective.
@@Krisstofers The area of the US that I'm talking about has a history of five nations, actually one was a failed nation/state,that at one time have declared this area as their territory. Spain, France, Britain, the Confederate States of America and finally the United States of America. The Cotillion is a leftover tradition likened to but not as celebrated as Mardi Gras.
Actually Alabama claims six because it...for a brief time called itself an independent country.
My brothers high school had cotillion instead of prom. I think they had junior prom then cotillion? Or vice versa? Idk but it was a public school and was really just prom by another name.
"Getting Served" originated because legal court documents are usually hand-delivered. This would include anything from divorce papers to a summons to appear in court. They have to be hand-delivered to the actual person so that person can't claim later that they never got them. Often these documents are not exactly something you want to receive, so people have been known to evade the courier. So the phrase is a jeer, meant to say "you couldn't stop this!"
"Homecoming" - During high school and college football seasons, schools are often required to play games at other school's football fields. They usually do that in a string (many games at many other school football fields). When they play their first game back at their home school, that's called the homecoming game and usually precipitates "homecoming" festivities.
"Thanksgiving" is a celebration of the first "Thanksgiving" which was a dinner hosted by the early English colonists for their American Indian neighbors.
"Sadie Hawkins Dance" is a dance where the girls ask the boys to accompany them. Named after a character in the old "l'L Abner" comic strip.
"Spring Break" is a "vacation" from higher education.
"You've been served" is a procedure where a designated representative of the court is tasked to inform an individual in writing, that the court requires their presence at a court proceeding. I guess it was initiated so people can't say "I never received notification of the requirement for my presence..in the mail". The designated representative has to hand the letter directly to the individual..so there's no excuse for not showing up.
Slight correction on the Thanksgiving. It's was the colonists who were starving and the Native Americans brought food to them so they wouldn't die in the winter. In modern terms it's a fall holiday that celebrates food and family and friends. And American football if you're into that. It's also the kickoff to the Christmas season here in America, though Christmas has been creeping more and more over the Thanksgiving borders as of late.
Here in Texas, every school from primary to University gets a week off for spring break. It's only the University students that do all that partying you see on TV. Lol
Thanks for clearing all that up lol. We have no equivalent to Homecoming, Sadie Hawkins or Thanksgiving in the UK.
I’m sure your Spring is the same as our Easter holidays; which is a two week break from schools and higher education institutes.
And if you get a court summons it’s usually hand delivered to your house by an officer for the Crown office or in Scotland the Procurator Fiscal. So that sounds similar to what you have in the US.
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Pauline Doodle, when I was a kid we had Easter vacation. By the time I had kids the vacation had evolved to whatever time in the spring they felt like , nothing to do with matching up to Easter, and called it Spring Break!
Also, it's o oh one week long, not two!
Trust me, us Americans do not even know why Eggo is called Eggo.
I make my own waffles. I don't get Eggos.
It also doesn't taste like eggs
BaddMatt I’m an American.i can answer this. They were originally called Froffles a portmanteau of frozen and waffle. Customers started calling them “Eggos” because of the egg flavor. Then in 1955 they officially changed the product name to “Eggo”
@@emanymton713 Thanks for the info about them being called Froffles. That's pretty interesting!
They also must have tasted much more eggy back then for the name to be changed to Eggo, but I don't think they taste like eggs now at all. I eat them all the time, on the go, in the car, without butter or syrup or anything else on them, and I've never thought they taste like eggs.
@Katie McAlister Why would you want building blocks on your dinner?
I made a few notes, since you invited them, hope this helps.
Homecoming - So in high school and college, during the American football or basketball season, there is one game designated as the Homecoming game. Since I live in the midwest in a rural area, many of the schools will have a pre-homecoming festivities on the night before homecoming which may include a parade and usually include a huge bonfire, the marching band playing, cheers and general wishing the team good luck. On day of the homecoming, after the game, there is a school dance. Depending on the school there may be things like voting for King and Queen and other activities at the event.
It is not a reunion, which is a totally different thing. A lot of former students (primarily of high school) will organize a 10-year, 20-year, etc reunion of their graduting class, to get together to party and relive the glory days of high school.
Tailgate Parties - Tailgate parties are primarily done in conjunction with American professional and college football games, although there are a lot other sports that have some amount of tailgating going on as well. Because food and drinks are so expensive inside of the stadium, and also since some people are traveling quite a distance, they will have a mini-party/pre-game celebration in the parking lot. There are some people that really, really get into it.
Thanksgiving - It's an American holiday and for most people it is the kickoff for the whole holiday season. The holiday is about the first Thanksgiving when the Pilgrams, who arrived too late to get crops properly planted, ended up with not harvesting enough food and the Native Americans brought food to them and they shared the meal together. Thanksgiving and Christmas are the two holidays that most families all get together.
Sadie Hawkins Dance - A Sadie Hawkins dance is a "usually" informal dance sponsored by a middle school or high school, in which the women invite the men. The Sadie Hawkins dance is named after the Li'l Abner comic strip character Sadie Hawkins, who went after her man instead of waiting for the man to ask her out. The event traditionally used to be held in November, but many schools eventually adopted February 29th as Sadie Hawkins day, so the dance is only held every four years. And BTW, school as depicted in Glee, doesn't happen in real life.
Contillion Ball - This is actually something that is not widely known about in much of the United States. A Cotillion Ball is a formal dance specifically for middle school aged young people. The main purpose is that the young people learn "proper" manners and this ball is where they show their learning off. This should be confused with a Debutante Ball, which for many girls is their "coming out party" for when they turn 16. Both balls are typically for the families that are in the upper part of society (read rich).
Eggos - Eggos are just pre-packaged waffles. They actually taste like... waffles. I have never tasted egg on them personally.
Spring Break - Spring Break gets the build up from all the college students. Basically high school and colleges all have a week built into their schedule in the spring, hence spring break. For college students though, it is a huge party. You will see a lot of them will make plans with their mates to go to a destination like New Orleans or some beach place in Florida to have a gooooood time. Sometimes older and younger people try to get in on the fun, but that is how primarily college students do it. For middle and high school students, families may arrange a holiday someplace fun or go visit family in another location to get away from things for a while.
I wouldn't say it's not a reunion, because some alumni do show up for that game who no longer live there, but no, it's not designed as a reunion, strictly speaking.
Tailgating also happens at some concerts. Ever been to a Jimmy Buffet concert? The parking lot is incredible.
Spring Break isn't just college and highschool, it's all school grades, and basically just a refreshing break
I live in the Midwest too and many small town do have reunions at homecoming.
Even as an American I'm learning a lot! Never heard of a cotillion ball, didn't know that alumni return for homecomings or even have coinciding reunions. I think homecoming is more of a high school than a college thing (I went to a 4-year college). It doesn't loom like anyone has explained that the term "tailgating" comes from the tailgate of a pickup truck. I don't think Eggos taste at all like egg these days. I like Eggos but I don't like eggs.
Idk why, but I feel like thanksgiving and Christmas meals are VERY different lol
They are. Lol
We NEED a turkey at thanksgiving, but at Christmas we can forgo the bird and just have a Christmas ham (since we already had the bird lol) and In my family we have a special Christmas sausage roll breakfast that means it’s ready to go I, mom doesn’t cook and then the first meal is the main meal ie ham with all the fixins. I feel lile fixins is a very Texas word for trimmings?
@@internaloptometrist2702 accurate lol my grandparents say “fixins” instead of sides! I’ve never heard trimmings though
it basically is lol
A lot of people do Turkey on Thanksgiving and Ham on Christmas - unless they are upper-middle class or expecting a lot of people and then they have both turkey and ham for both days.
Here's the story on the “SADIE HAWKINS” dance - This originated from an old American satirical newspaper comic strip called “Lil Abner” about a fictional small country town called “Dogpatch”… Because the men of Dogpatch were so particularly clueless about women, one day out of the year, Sadie Hawkins Day (Named after a character in the comic) was set aside for societal roles to be flipped and women were encouraged to ask men to marry them, to be their boyfriend, go to the dance, etc. (this was the 1940s). Much humor ensued.
Exactly, Glee's episode featuring it had absolutely NOTHING to do with the actual event, other than the fact that the girl in the clip tried to use it to her advantage. (Sorry, I don't know the names.)
Thanks I learned something new..I've only seen this take place in tv not real life lol
@@wesleyjaym Really? I've never heard it called a "Turn-about" before. Maybe that's a local thing in your state, though? I'm in SC.
From the comic strip by Al Capp. It was race! Men started first. If a woman caught a man, he had to marry her. See the movie "Li'l Abner." All will become clear.
There’s not one set name for the girl-ask-guy dance, my school calls it Sweetheart. But yes, it’s customary for the roles to be flipped, I asked a guy and paid for tickets, dinner, and drove.
A Sadie Hawkins dance is where the girls have to ask the boys out on a date. Reversal of roles.
I literally never heard of it.
I have but the UK don’t even do massive promposals
On February 29th girls (women) can ask a boy (a man) to marry them - so only once every 4 years! Don't know about the etiquette of girls just asking a boy out!
Sadie Hawkins Day is an American folk event and pseudo-holiday originated by Al Capp's classic hillbilly comic strip Li'l Abner. This inspired real-world Sadie Hawkins events, the premise of which is that women ask men for a date or dancing. Wikipedia
@@gillianboakes9455why every four years they should be able to ask whenever they want
Spring break is literally just what the week you have off in the spring from school. A lot of people goes on trips during that week.
Actually it was originally Easter break
But if you work a normal job (after finishing school), you no longer get spring break, unless you're a teacher.
Thanksgiving is the beginning of the Holiday "season" and definitely does not detract from Christmas.
I’ve never seen anyone misunderstand anything more than this.
This channel consists of a couple of goofy little acting school graduate Brits who attempt to teach people things of which neither of them have a clue.
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They’re funny sometimes. But, no area in the US is like the others. Every area has its customs and activities. Very little of J & L’s understandings are accurate.
It’s funny in a way. But it’s unintentional so then it’s sad.
You would think at this point though how many of these type of videos have they done and still can't get it? 🙄🤷♀️
They behave like idiots on purpose...I think everyone has figured that out by now
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It’s beyond that.
Thanksgiving is the start of our Christmas Season, many families have Turkey on Thanksgiving, and Ham on Christmas.
That's true, especially because the worship of Odin when they'd light their home to Light his way with his chariot and horses in the sky would end in the sacrifice of a boar originally...also why everyone puts Xmas lights on their homes.
Some have turkey on both and other meat but different ones from the previous one but the turkey can show in both and ham is usually easter
Agreed! the food is completely different for these holidays
We're Italian so we have Turkey on Thanksgiving and homemade pasta and sauce on Christmas! But a ham for New Years!
@@kathy2trips I normally switch between roast or lasagna on Christmas.
Thanksgiving: turkey; orange and brown decor; Christmas: Ham, red and green decor.
Don't you find it a bit odd though that they traditionally serve ham in celebration of someone who was born a Jew (and would never have ate it since it would have been seen as "unclean"). lol
Tamales for Christmas, instead of ham, for me. XD
We do turkey at both.
Thanksgiving is always turkey, but Christmas can be anything. We have a buffet on Christmas Eve and Christmas day is just a family dinner that could be roast beef or lasagna. I have a friend who on Thanksgiving serves turkey,beef and pork.
Rhonda Flesher Acts 10:9-15 (NIV): 9 About noon the following day as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the roof to pray. 10 He became hungry and wanted something to eat, and while the meal was being prepared, he fell into a trance. 11 He saw heaven opened and something like a large sheet being let down to earth by its four corners. 12 It contained all kinds of four-footed animals, as well as reptiles and birds. 13 Then a voice told him, “Get up, Peter. Kill and eat.”
14 “Surely not, Lord!” Peter replied. “I have never eaten anything impure or unclean.”
15 The voice spoke to him a second time, “Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.”
"Why are they called Eggo?"
Surely you're familiar with the concept of a brand name.
Eggo is the brand name. :)
🤣🤣
Look it up ppl used to say they had an egg taste
@@MamaRoblox a long time ago maybe, but modern eggos are just normal waffles, like you eat with butter and syrup
In the US a “tailgate” (noun) can refer to the drop down rear door of a pickup truck. So a “tailgate party” is a sort of pre-game party before a sport match (usually American football) where people park their vehicles (doesn’t have to be a pickup truck) in a specified lot and set up grills, games etc and have fun with family/friends. Now using “tailgate” as a verb (somebody tailgating somebody on the road) implies somebody driving too close to the rear of the car in front of them.
Yes, that. They nearly always take place in the parking lot of a sports stadium. People would arrive for sporting events hours early to beat the crowd and get a good parking spot, then folks found hanging around with other fans during the hours spent waiting made the wait less boring, and presumably at some point a day came when someone said, “Hey, I brought snacks and beer,” and from there it grew into a tradition, having a big group pre-game barbeque picnic party in the parking lot. It’s more fun than everyone sitting in their cars for hours waiting for the venue to open.
I've heard of tailgate parties taking place during baseball games too
@@karlsmith2570 and NASCAR races.
@@steveeliscu1254 yup that too, especially in the infield at NASCAR tracks
The party is outside of the venue, not just a random parking lot*
“Served” is used in the US in a legal sense to mean you’ve been officially served court documents by a court representative. Meaning you can’t claim you didn’t know that you needed to show up to court.
Which, strangely, people do anyway.
Usually it's a subpoena.
Really? That guy looked more like a breakdancer to me.
Spring break is for all ages. Is just a break from school in the spring. A lot of families take a vacation
Spring break is when u have time off from school and most will take vacation. And teacher's can get there grades in or the lessons for the next quarter
Spring break isn't a thing when you aren't in school and don't have kids yet. So depressing when a teacher friend asks if you are doing anything for spring break, and are like "yeah, I don't get time off"
I didn’t really have spring break till college. In k-12 we just had Thursday-Sunday off. That was really just a 4 day weekend. Not enough time to do much of anything special.
Then in college I almost always worked during spring break.
@@sarahp6554 Yep, Spring Break is usually a college/university rite of passage with the usual partying and fun times. Drinking, socializing, music, and promiscuous behavior (sex) are the norm. A lot of times at warm beach locations in Florida, Mexico, and Texas (South Padre Island) but could be other cool places like Vegas or SoCal. Fun times.
I guess the definition has also been co-opted by families and younger school crowd too.
While spring break can refer to any school break in the spring, the spring break of lore is from college and the students going someplace warm and doing a lot of crazy partying. Not sure how that became a thing or when. Knowing America, it probably started as an advertising campaign for someplace. 😂
I feel like Brits are missing out on the ability to tailgate. Like they are so- intense- soccer fans that I feel like a pre-game/ pre- match party would be a huge success.
Lol. There'd be fightin'.
The Brits are way more tribal when it comes to their soccer. Here in the US fans of different teams sit together and you might even have friends that like a different team than you, yeah you might trash talk but it's all in fun.
@@Murph_gaming I get that but I still think it would be fun for them. Even if the tribes stay apart.
homecoming isn't a school reunion. the alumni don't go to the dance/party, unless they're chaperoning
Yeah only in college is it really a reunion of alumni
Well, the alumni don't go to the school homecoming dance unless they are recent graduates, perhaps, but it is a sort of school reunion. If course, it varies. In Indiana, basketball being a big deal, hence the movie "Hoosiers" and all that, we also have homecoming during the basketball season. Alumni will make special trips to these games, and sometimes hold class reunions coincident to the game.
We go to football game/parade
It’s supposed to be a reunion. (Hence the coming home) In many small towns it still is.
They go to the football game and parade at my school. Also the previous years senior king and queen go to the dance to pass the crowns on to the new king and queen
Sadie Hawkins is a dance when the girls ask the guys to a dance... that clip of glee would not have helped you! Lol
Finally the real definition
Lol grew up American and my s
whole life I thought it was like a ho down.
"Sadie Hawkins dance.. in my khaki pants.." listen to the reliant k song lol
It comes from an old comic strip in the US... Li'l Abner... There is a musical based on the comic that was made in the 60s which was based on a play on Broadway
As RW says, it's from the Li'l Abner comic strip. In the comic, which took place in a very isolated, poor, rural community called Dogpatch, there was an annual holiday in November (exact date not specified by the comic strip) where the unmarried women would chase the unmarried men, and if the lady caught the man, he was obliged to marry her. I believe this first appeared in the comic strip around 1937 or so. Real life Sadie Hawkins dances started taking place the following year, and it's my understanding the custom has even been adopted in Canada. (Canadians please correct me if I'm wrong)
Spring break isnt "celebrated" it's just a week off from school so a lot of people take the opportunity with a week off to let loose and have fun.
Let loose and have fun can be translated to get drunk and screw if you are of college age 😆
Or travel. My family always took a little trip on Spring Break.
And in college it often involves traveling to a beach vacation spot. Hence all the difficulties Florida had with trying to shut down their beaches and send people home when COVID-19 started to explode in March
if you go to a religious private school it usually is called Easter break and is week off around Easter
It seems like we have a totally different school system in the UK. With longer holidays. Our school year starts in September. Actual dates vary slightly across the country. Our local school dates 2020 to 2021 are.
Autumn term and new school year. Starts Thursday 3rd September. Finishes Friday 11th December. With Half term Holiday Saturday 17th October to Sunday 1st November.
Christmas Holiday from Saturday 12th December to Monday 4th January 2021.
Spring Term starts Tuesday 5th January Finishes Friday 26th March. With Half Term Holiday Saturday 13th February to Sunday 21st February.
Easter Holiday Saturday 27th March to Monday 19th April.
Summer Term starts Tuesday 20th April finishes Friday 9th July. Half Term holiday Saturday 29th May to Sunday 6th June.
Summer Holiday from Saturday 10th July untill the new school year starts on Thursday 2nd September.
Spring break is literally just a week off of school. 🤣 And it happens every year for elementary through university students. When I think of spring break, I think of family vacations! Lol
… and coincides with the Easter weekend holiday.
homecoming: in the fall
short dress
all students/grades
prom: spring time
long dress
upperclassmen only (grades 11 and 12)
And with prom the clothes are more fancy.
Homecoming happens every year for the high school grades (Froshman, Sophomore, Junior, & Senior). A Prom only happens once for a Graduating class. Re: my Junior Year I went to my boyfriend's Senior Prom although he was a year ahead of me. Homecoming is not the same as a Class Reunion- it is not open to All Ages, especially a lot of legally older people. Usually anyone above 21, who might already be in College & of drinking age, would be prohibited from the premises for the younger people (as young as 15 or 16) to have a safe enjoyable time. Class Reunions generally happen every 5 or 10 years once you get out of school.
The way they explained it was like homecoming was a reunion. It's not...
Tailgating is usually done before a sporting event. American football
Most Americans don't tailgate as a general practice. Some people who go to sporting events do it.
Just about everybody tailgates, and it's illegal! you can get pulled over and get a ticket for following the vehicle in front of you too closely. lol different use of the word...
@@brehum LOL! Another definition of "tailgate" that no one was thinking of!
Posh Brits do it at polo matches, horse races etc, but don't know if they call it the same.
Football and (in CT at least) big concerts.
Sadie Hawkins is NOT like glee.
Also sometimes called Morp - prom backwards ... where the girl asks the boy to a dance. In my experience much more casual (jeans and a tshirt). Also, no royalty for this dance haha.
”tailgate parties” usually precede a sports event.
You saved me having to explain that tailgate parties don't happen at random parking lots for no reason. It is almost always sporting events especially American football and usually prior to the game.
Sporting events or concerts. Jimmy buffet concerts at Gillette stadium are probably most known for the tailgate parties. Lol
Yes, Sadie Hawkins dance is where the woman asks the man.
The dance was inspired by an American newspaper comic "Lil' Abner" in which one day a year the women of the town of Dogpatch could pursue men.
I never heard of a Sadie Hawkins dance being held. I think it was from the 1940's or early 50's.
In the Pacific Northwest (especially in the Seattle area,) we call it a Tolo. It was only recently that I ever heard called a Sadie Hawkens Dance.
@@lynnolson6680 here in S. California we have Sadie Hawkins.
Yep. And they aren’t as common as shoes like that indicate.
Thanksgiving originated as a celebration of the harvest and other blessings of the past year. Its generally believed that Thanksgiving is modeled on a 1621 harvest feast shared by the English colonists (Pilgrims) of Plymouth and the Wampanoag Indians.
"Eggo" is a brand name. That are simply frozen waffles you put in a toaster for a quick (unhealthy) breakfast.
Yes, and I would not call them a "staple." I guess people still eat them, but I have not had one for a couple of decades.
Eggo is a brand of frozen waffles that you cook in a toaster. "Leggo my Eggo" was an advertising slogan.
Meaning...let go of my eggo
Sadie Hawkins is a dance where the girls ask the boys.
Sadie Hawkins was a character from the OLD Lil' Abner comic strip. She was the homeliest (Most unattractive) girl in "Dogpatch" (the town where they live). She got tired of waiting for a man to ask her to marry him, so she got all the unmarried women in the town together, and declared it "Sadie Hawkins Day"... on this day, and this day only girls have a race to capture their man, and marry them. The "Sadie Hawkins dance" which is not celebrated everywhere, or sometimes it is called "MORP" (Backwards Prom) the girls ask the guys. The dress is usually down for these dances... No fancy dresses, or floor-length dresses. It is simply casual and fun, That is where it comes from.
🤯 I never knew the history behind this!
Yes Sadie Hawkins was a cartoon character in Little Abner Cartoon. Un-lucky in love and very aggressive with men, who were never attracted to her.
When I was young there was a Ladies excuse me - ladies did the asking; asked men for a dance rather than the other way around.
This is the best explanation, all the others can be ignored.
Very good explanation!
Re: Tailgate parties & Thanksgiving.... We Americans just basically will look for any reason to get together and have FOOD! LOL
You nailed it. A Sadie Hawkins dance is a Highschool dance where the girls are expected to invite the boys. I think the name actually came from a character in an old comic strip called Lil' Abner.
Sadie Hawkins was a character in Li'l Abner who was unable to find a husband. Finally her father lined up all the eligible bachelors in town, with all the unmarried women behind them, When he fired his pistol in the air the first time, the bachelors took off running, when he fired again.the woman took off after them, and if they caught one of the bachelors, he had to marry her.
"You've been served" just means you've been served legal papers such as divorce or custody.
The US celebrates thanksgiving to give thanks for everything they have and it originates from the year 1621, the Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag Indians shared an autumn harvest feast that is acknowledged today as one of the first Thanksgiving celebrations in the colonies.
Lol, your story is the cute one they tell us in school, yes that's the basis but it was actually instituted after the civil war to help bring the country back together.
@@kimberlypage6344 also true...it was designated to be a non religous holiday that all faiths could take part in. its to recognize the 150 years of peace between the europeon colonists and the native americans
@@kimberlypage6344 "Thanksgiving" actually was a European tradition. In exceptionally good years, they'd have a feast showing thankfulness to God for their bounty. It was uncommon, though, and you could go generations without having one.
American Thanksgiving did indeed start with the pilgrims, and it *was* celebrated prior to the civil war, but not *every* year, and not on the same dates from place to place.
Lincoln made it a regular national holiday, as you said.
@It's yuh girl mikkeai8908 "History is a set of lies agreed upon" - Napoleon Bonaparte
"History is Bunk" - Henry Ford
"I don't know how accurate our view of history can be when I realize that my history professor consistently forgets where he parked his car" - Vojislav Stanijovic
I feel like the UK is the US' weird antisocial cousin that only drinks hot tea and questions all social norms.
I love the Brits but they really tend to be uptight over the most insignificant things.
They’re just playing dumb
I'm an American and I've lived over there. They're not all uptight. They drink like fish! Also you can take your kids to pubs and it's completely acceptable.
@@lauracastle6035 my grandmother was English and she always said what we consider "drinking", the English call "lunch". She drank whiskey like no one's business...miss her..
@@shanewindhaus8385 Some of us are quite uptight although not like our ancestors. I find some Americans are also uptight - in a puritan way.
Oh, I can explain why we have all the breaks :) so, it’s actually originally due to the fact that many kids back in the day came from farming families, and they worked on the farm as well. Spring break was a week off because that’s when crops were planted, then students came back to school until summer, then most of summer was a break because that’s when almost all of the work after that needed to be done for crops. You might also have a fall break for harvest, or in my small town, kids often got two weeks of the fall hunting season off school because they would go with their parents and hunt deer (as it was deer season), then kids would come back to school afterwards with deer sausage and whatnot in their lunch lol. My grandfather did it, my uncles did it, kids in my school still did it when I was there. Although for the most part, schools have eventually been shifting more and more away from breaks, because that’s simply not the social climate anymore, where a large portion of kids are helping their families on farms. Not entirely though! Certain things (like summer break, and a week off in spring) stick around mostly just to give students rest, and the ability to have time to still be kids and enjoy their summers :)
Hope that helps! Tl;dr: it’s a leftover from early family farming practices in America.
Thanksgiving was us Americans grateful to the native Americans helping us learn how to survive in our new climate and we celebrated with a feast of the harvest before winter.
Whew! Thought I was going to have to give a long explanation, but thanks for making it concise.
Thanksgiving is totally separate from Christmas. If you grow up with it you don't feel that it undermines the holidays at the end of the year. When Thanksgiving is over, it's considered the official start of the Christmas season. Watch footage of the end of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade - Santa Claus comes and Christmas is official. You might get a kick out of the beginning of the Parade - There's a giant Turkey balloon that everyone gets excited about - it's kind of comical if you don't celebrate Thanksgiving.
Also it's on a Thursday and most ppl have off (or take off) from work or school, so it's a rare 4-day freebee weekend too.
And a lot of people use that long weekend to do their Christmas decorating. 😂
Thanksgiving Thursday is followed by Black Friday, a shopping ritual event, starting at 12:01AM when stores open their doors to people lined up often waiting for hours, to get the biggest sales of the year.
Not the “boot” of a car but the “tailgate” of a truck. It’s America we drive truck.
In Russia Truck drives you
And it's a parking lot, not a car park.
It was the tailgate was on a car called a station wagon (British estate wagon). Station wagons are now much smaller and called "hatchbacks".
I have only ever seen a Cotillion on tv...Gilmore Girls, to be exact. That is not a school activity 😆
It is a school thing in some places. I remember it from Jr.high
@@fionnmaccumhaill3257 interesting! What part of the country are you from? I'm in the midwest and I've never heard of that around here...maybe it's more of a private school thing?
@@adoptinformed It might be. I am from Central Ohio and I went to a Catholic school and we had Cotillion.
@@adoptinformed
I went to Jr high in Phoenix, AZ.
@@TheDoctorsDancer maybe it's more of a private school thing! I love that Gilmore girls episode though 😆
Thanksgiving for the longest time celebrated the first thanksgiving when the Native Americans shared food with the early settlers. But now a days we just celebrate all the things we are thankful for.
It's about family, friends, and giving thanks to God for all He has given me in the last year. In New England it is very special i live about 60 miles away from Plymouth Plantations, the earliest settlement in the North East. Then there is also a reason to be thankful in my s few ate, Rhode Island because we didn't take the land from the natives we bought (most of it) from the natives. We were a breakaway from Plymouth because our founder didn't totally agree with the Puritans beliefs.
"Why are they having parties so much? Where's the education?"
U nailed that one! We ask ourselves the same questions sometimes 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
The education happens during daylight hour on week days; parties happen at night or on weekends. Simples.
I think this is why British students graduate at 16 and US at 18.
@@ssmith543 no the normal age for Americans to graduate is 17 if your birthday is off or if you failed it might be 18 or 19
Bwahahahaha
Truth, all parties, no education 😂
The “you’ve been served” that Joel specifically refers to is being served a subpoena to appear in court. Not necessarily the person being sued (although that could be the case) but sometimes a subpoena just means you have to testify or be present at court
It is a legal requirement that the subpoena be physically delivered and that the deliverer inform the party that the subpoena has been served.
Actually, the true intention of Homecoming is for the alumni to be invited back to visit their alma mater. Now, on a high school level, not so much. But on a collegiate level, there will be lots of alumni activities planned, usually a whole weekend of alumni brunches, alumni campus tours, homecoming football games, etc. The optimist view is that once you're a part of a university, you're always welcome back. The cynical view is that this is a way for the university to keep track of you so that they can ask for donations. LOL
Edit: I just saw where you saw this for yourself. Teaches me to reply without watching the whole video! ;)
Traditionally, the football team would go "on the road" for several games, playing at other schools' fields. When the team returned to their home field, it was "homecoming" and the excuse for a party. Reunions are different.
Tailgate parties are generally associated with sporting events. The "tail gate" is the boards that close the back of a wagon. It carried over to the back door of a pickup truck or station wagon (estate car). A sedan will have a "trunk".
Thanksgiving is a holiday based on a tradition from the Pilgrims' giving thanks for surviving their first winter in America. Think of it as a harvest festival.
Sadie Hawkins is a dance where the girl has to ask the boy to go. It's giving permission for reversal of the traditional roles.
A Cotillion is a formal dance given to introduce young women to society. Traditionally, it marks the change from girl to eligible young lady. While I have attended a cotillion, I think that puts me in the
Donald Newcombe..... Homecoming was originally about a dance that was for former graduates 'coming home' .....
This is it!
I’m American and that is the best description of these things I’ve ever heard. Although, the Sadie Hawkins dance can go by other names. In one of my high school, it was nicknamed the “Girls dance” and in another it was called the Sweetie/Sweetheart/Valentines Dance. (There was a Valentines Dance and a Sadie Hawkins/Sweetie Dance, but it was too expensive, so they mushed the two together and was known as one of the above dance names.)
Well said
Lego my Eggo actually started back in the 1970s as a slogan; a shortening of let go of my eggo waffles. Stranger Things simply used the iconic slogan which has stuck with the brand for over 50 years.
*Homecoming* - It originally started as a way for the alumni to come back and cheer their football team on. Which still happens at colleges. But for high schools, it's really just the football game and a dance. At colleges/universities, there is a lot of *tailgating* (pre-gaming/partying before the game, usually in the stadium parking lot) and after parties.
*Sadie Hawkins (also known as TOLO)* - It's a dance where girls are SUPPOSED to ask boy's to the dance. It's slowly starting to fade out though. It's usually a very low-attended dance.
*Eggos* - Frozen waffles, popular with kids/teens. They don't really have eggs in them.
*Spring Break* - ORIGINALLY started as Easter Break when the country was much more religious. Now, it's used as a break to gear up before the last quarter of the school year. EVERYBODY from Pre-Schoolers to seniors in college has spring break, but the partying you see in the movies/TV, usually only happens with college students. And the occasional rebellious high schoolers 🤷🏿♂️
Homecoming is pretty popular for small-town high schools
In Texas especially Homecoming is a BIG deal!! It can have two meanings but generally it’s both a special high school (American) football game where there were several ‘away’ games at other school’s stadiums before the homecoming game on Friday and formal dance on Saturday. And yes it’s very common for each high school to have their own football field with band stand, cheerleaders and grandstand seating for both the ‘home’ team and the ‘away’ team. So that’s how the terms home game and away game came about. Also it’s a time for alumni of that school to go to the game & have fun. I went Jesuit College Prep in Dallas and for us Homecoming weekend was also very important for scholarship fundraising.
@@murdockoliver2433 true. I know in the South, especially small towns, its HUGE! Basically college style lol. I was just generalizing, though.
Cameron Enoch Yeah Cameron it’s crazy here in Texas in some very affluent cities or suburbs like Plano in north Dallas or Westlake Hills which is a suburb of Austin they build $15 to $20 MILLION DOLLAR stadiums for high school football. It get ridiculous to me anyway to think how much better that money could have been spent. Trust me I’m not anti-sports at all. I’m pro common sense though!!
Homecoming is also important for my high school. The alums come back for the game, the JRROTC shoot a blank from the canon, the marching band and color guard perform their competition routine, and everybody cheers. The the Homecoming princesses ride on golf carts to the center of the field, and the Queen is announced. The next day is the dance. That is the best week of school for me.
Thanksgiving started when the Pilgrims came together with the Native Americans and gave Thanks for their meal and "friendship".
Americans have since celebrated that time as a holiday.
Prom: May; Homecoming: October.
Home coming is more casual as well. Or was I think it’s become super fancy now but it used to be just like a nice out fit.
@Soul Purpose Energy Healing, that depends on the school system. Some schools go all out for Homecoming, like my school. Some go an extra mile for Prom, which my school still does, so it depends where you live.
Tuxedos for prom; suits for Homecoming
Memorial day and Veterans day!
Avalon Signora Almas totally agree. It differs a lot depending on where you’re from. I know it’s fancier now in my small home town than it was when I was young. That was ages ago I was young 🤣🤣
Spring break:
Pool Parties
Hanging out with friends
Losing your virginity
Reality:
At home sleeping in and alone 😢
No no thanksgiving is characterized by a turkey whereas Christmas is characterized by a tree and Santa lol
To clarify, Thanksgiving is strictly a food oriented holiday, on which you eat till you reach coma. Elastic waistbands mandatory. Christmas is the gift giving opportunity enhanced by food experiences but not centered round them. Cheers.
Thanksgiving turkey or ham. Christmas holidays we usually had a ham but that was my family rituals.
@@GreatLakesSurfer I agree there are different rituals. I think there are a lot of different family traditions for Christmas where Thanksgiving seems to be a lot more uniform (turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, etc. with special family dishes and recipes). My dad's family was Italian American so we usually had pasta on Christmas Eve with garlic and olive oil along with fried fish (usually flounder and smelts but not a whole "7 fishes") as well as some items like meatballs and lasagna. Christmas day at my mom's side would usually include roast beef and sometimes ham. We never really had turkey around Christmas.
OMG.. Thanksgiving involves food, but that isn't the historical reason for it.. Thanksgiving is the yearly tradition of celebrating American/ Canadian settlers "giving thanks" for surviving the hazardous journey overseas and a successful first harvest
These days most people eat turkey on Thanksgiving, and ham at Christmas.
Spring Break is just one week when both grade schools and colleges don't have school. It's not always the same week, though, just being determined by the particular school, which can make trips difficult to coordinate if different family members, etc. are in different schools. As for "celebrating" it, not everybody does, just students who celebrate any long enough time off school and sometimes their families, and not everyone can afford to or has the energy to do much. There are no doubt even some people who just study straight through it or something. I usually just stayed at home doing whatever, and sometimes my family went on some kind of minor trip.
To explain homecoming. It's when your school's football team would play it's home field for the first time in the season. At the game during halftime they show off everyone running for homecoming queen and king and at the dance after they announce the winner. Now the Sadie Hawkins dance is the only time girls can ask a boy out.
In California it’s the last home game of the season, not the first. Makes sense when you think of welcoming the team to the home field for the last time, after playing a fair number of away games.
I think you've lost me there.
@@angelsshare. at my school in cali it isnt the last game
Homecoming is specifically for school alumni to come back. Hence, home coming.
My meaning of homecoming is how we do things in Texas highschools. It may be different depending location or weather it's highschool or University. I can only tell you what I know from my experience.
"Cotillion ball" and "Sadie Hawkins" are just as foreign to 70% of Americans as to anyone else- these are regional things.
Tyler West Sadie Hawkins was a big dealup until the late 80s, since girls didn't commonly ask out guys. Once women asked me out more commonly, sadie hawkins kind of evaporated
Sadie Hawkins Day dances were popular from WW2 until the 1980s since at that time it was scandalous for a woman to ask a man on a date. The super rich stopped cotillions about the same time major newspapers dropped their society columns. Probably "Sweet Sixteen Parties" aren't a thing anymore either.
I was asked to Sadie Hawkins in 1997.
@@doncarlton4858 Yes. I think "Prom King and Prom Queen" are kind of on the way out as well.
We didn’t have a Sadie Hawkins dance, it we had a version of it called Bells Ball. It was in 2003. So they were still out there somewhat recently, no idea if they still do it.
"Tailgate" is what the drop down panel on the back of a pickup truck bed is called. It makes a table for the barbecue etc. I suppose now there are more SUVs (with their tailgate up) than pickup trucks at tailgate parties at American football games.
Yep, an old school pickup truck tailgate did make a nice table.
We had a Ford LTD wagon growing up in the 70s/80s and it had a dual direction tailgate that could either flip down like a pickup gate or open out like a standard card door.
Or back in the day, a station wagon. Now, SUVs can also accommodate tailgating.
Ok first tailgate is at a sporting event.. We just don't go to a car park and BBQ.. Let's go to Target and tailgate 🤣🤣🤣 nope
@@janeathome6643 We in the UK do use tailgate for the thing at the back of a station wagon (we call them estate cars). However, it is also used as a verb when someone is driving aggressively close to the vehicle in front, as in "look at that idiot in the BMW tailgating that little car".
Americans don't usually even know why they're called Eggos. Lol
7:52 eggs are an ingredient of waffles?
ruclips.net/video/y28Gqk4krNY/видео.html < toaster waffles
That's the brand name
It’s not a difficult concept. It’s just their brand name.
It's not complicated. It's caused the used to taste like egg
Eggos are frozen waffles that you heat up in the toaster, leggo my eggo is a marketing catchphrase used in their television commercials
Eggos were originally called froffles. Frozen+Waffles
Eggos don’t taste like eggs, they’re just regular waffles that you can heat up in a toaster. They’re also not the only brand of frozen waffles. There used to only be plain, but most brands also have other flavors now, too (like blueberry, apple-cinnamon, etc.).
Rose Midnight Ah, I wasn’t aware of that. In trying to find a recipe for those (searching on “English waffle recipe,” “UK waffle recipe,” and “British waffle recipe”), the only recipes that turned up for me were for the waffles we eat here. So “Mum’s best waffle recipe” on Allrecipes UK, “Waffles recipe” on BBC Good Food, “Breakfast waffle recipe” on Jamie Oliver’s website, or Nigella Lawson’s waffle recipe on BBC Food website ... any of those will give some idea what American waffles are. They do contain eggs as an ingredient, but they don’t taste like egg, the same way most breads don’t taste like egg. As an aside, the batter used for our waffles is the same batter used for our pancakes, the only difference is how it’s cooked. I hope that’s sort of helpful.
Rose Midnight Okay, so American waffles taste exactly like Belgian waffles, which are also popular here. The only difference is that American waffles are about half the thickness of Belgian waffles and they have smaller squares.
What you guys described as a homecoming sounds more like a high school reunion; in which different classes of whatever year all gather together at school after so many years a part since they’ve graduated.
Some of the schools here in Louisiana actually use homecoming to have all the classes come together again. So instead of doing individual class reunions that get way expensive, they come each year for homecoming. This last year there was a school in Monroe, LA that has every class and most of the classmates attended all the way back to the class of '63! It was HUGE!
Friendsgiving is something a lot of people I know have started doing as well. (I'm in the midwest) It's just a large meal party among friends during the Thanksgiving season. We usually do pot luck and everyone brings a different dish. it's typically much more informal than Thanksgiving and we usually get intoxicated.
Cotillion is more upper class. An average Joe wouldn’t go to a cotillion.
A cotillion is usually a private school or boarding school thing
And it's a very southern thing. As a US northerner/westerner, I had never heard the term until I was about 20 years old, in college.
I go to public charter school, but we still do it as an optional thing attached to the community. I live in GA, tho.
I think it depends where it is in the US. I'm in NJ (public school) and we had a freshman/sophomore cotillion and then a junior/senior prom when I was in school. No difference in the two really, besides prom being a bit more upscale... Both still just lame dances, lol
@@criskity Yep, I agree, it is regional. Kind of how debutante balls really only happened in the South past the 1800's.
Your Car Boot Sale is our Flea Markets. Yet Flea Markets even like those are a bigger in here in the US.
At least where I live (Indiana) there are actual trunk (same as British "boot") sales. Before all of this covid chaos a group met occasionally at a parking lot at a store that is no longer open and they each had kind of a mini yard sale out of the trunks of their cars.
@D Brick actually it's just a flea market because people do sell as a business like you said, but not from their trunk. It's usually loads of boxes, furniture, antiques, clothing, etc they set out to yet yes the truck/van is right there with them. I've never seen people just pop their trunks to sell what little fits in a truck.
And yes I know flea markets are all sorts of sizes from smaller to massive. Some are even inside buildings or shelters.
Visiting my friend in Scotland a couple years ago I cooked a Thanksgiving dinner for her family and friends. We had such a great time!!
Not a lot of people go to home coming anymore. But we tend to have 5 year, 10, 20, 25 year, etc high school reunions
Eggos are just frozen, easy waffles. You pop it in a regular bread toaster and you have a warm waffle ready to eat. Not premium but not bad.
The whole point of Thanksgiving is that you didn't starve to death before the fall harvest. Now that the crops are in, it's time for EATING in a major feast.
Americans do love to party. We even celebrate other people's holidays and make it our own.
Like Cinco de Mayo. It's a Mexican holiday that is apparently only celebrated in the US.
All of those things are really things that we do. Not just TV and movies. Thanksgiving is my second favorite holiday (Halloween being the first) - I think I just like fattening food... Sadie Hawkins where I grew up (outside of Chicago) is called Turnabout because the girl asks the boy to the dance instead of waiting for a guy to ask her. Cotillion Ball is not a midwestern thing. Eggo is a pancake waffle that you can pop in the toaster and top with syrup - quick breakfast.
You’ve been served, means you have been given legal documents by a person who works for the Courts and are required to appear in court on the date in the paperwork. We try to avoid this court server and if they can’t find you they can’t give you the paperwork.
I know some people who also use the term, you’ve been served, to mean that somebody is better at something than you are. And, they’ve just proven that they are better.
“What is thanksgiving?” Seriously...? I was like am I really watching brits rn😂😂
They didnt understand the 4th of July either🤔 apparently the schools over their dont like to teach anything about people who celebrate their freedom from the crown! Lol!!!!😁🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
@@connieclark3543 It's more the fact that Britian has such a long diverse history that the US history (which is pretty modern compared to ours) doesn't really get taught. Instead we learn about the different people who we're in charge of the UK, from the Romans, the Vikings and the Tudors, to name a few!!!
@@izzybanning5879 No, I get it and was just making a joke because Americans would be the only ones celebrating holidays such as 4th of July and Thanksgiving. It would be like teaching the your children (that you had with your new husband) about your ex who left you for another woman🤔. You just dont do it😏 A little American humor for ya 😉😁.
People go to Florida or diffrent places to drink and party have sex and just hang out to let lose and not worry about there study's.watch a clip on RUclips about springbreak. break,people get crazy.
@@izzybanning5879 blah blah blah, the americans started the chain of revolutions in Europe. Yall learn about india and france but not america which is arguably way more important. I hate that excuse, It's so dumb
I've lived in America for 61 years and I never heard of a "cotillion ball" before seeing this video.
A "cotillion" is really only held for rich communities and I believe some black communities still keep it alive. It's basically a modern version of a debutante ball where all the young ladies are presented to the communities as grown women and officially old enough to be courted and subsequently married off. It's a whole ordeal where the girls all wear a giant white ballgown and are escorted to the event by a prominent Male member of society. Its ridiculous and outdated and I've never once heard of anyone actually attending one. Like I said, its usually in the rich communities who have the money to waste on endless parties.
I'd say your everyday American would have no clue about a cotillion. And where I live, we didn't have homecoming. I think there are some parts of the US that are more into some of that stuff than others.
Mark Johansen I have lived in America my entire life (born & raised here) and have never heard of this before.
I think it's more popular in the South. When I lived in Georgia, the local papers would have a section for all the debutantes (which I believe is the same thing.)
Cotillions are pretty popular in the south. Kids used to have to take cotillion class prior to the ball. Basically a course on manners.
I never went anywhere for spring break. I just used it to get extra hours at my part-time job.
Spring break is a BLAST!!! You get a break from school and party like you won the lottery!
A Cotillion Ball is where young girls about 18 - 20 or so are "presented to society." Only for the rich or at least people whose parents are in "high" society. It's a big ego trip for both the girl to have been selected (and get her picture in the society pages of the newspaper or online) and the parents. Happens in every large city.
In English Society it would be s girls first Season. Debutantes
@Shard 308 In San Francisco, where I live, girls are "presented" annually at the ball usually held in the Opera House. Big society event.
Thought it was mostly a Southern thing...
@Jonathan Parks In major cities, yes. There is a big one here in San Francisco every year, except for this virus year.
@@cathyvickers9063 It happens in San Francisco every year, except for this virus year.
Yep, exactly right! The Sadie Hawkins dance IS centered around the girl asking the guy out.
I think tailgates may have originated because everybody’s dad is obsessed with beating the traffic. So, if you’re going to a music festival, air show, football game, etc. you have to arrive hours early so you’re not pulling into the lot at the last minute. And since you’re so early that the start time of the event is still hours away, you need to eat.
Also, food and drink in American stadiums and arenas costs about $1 million. It’s must cheaper to bring your own, but you usually aren’t allowed to carry it into the stadium. Ergo, tailgate.
We have actually planned our family vacations so we won’t be anywhere near “spring break” college kids.
Because yes, the tv and movie versions of spring break are true, especially in poor Florida, they get hammered with stupid drunk 20 year olds.
Watch videos called "Girls Gone Wild " This is what college spring break. I call Easier Break because it's a break for Good Friday and Easter. Schools are off the week before Easter or the week after.
Homecoming so much happens it is a week-long of events. There are spirit week where people dress up for the theme every day. Classes and clubs build floats for the parade at the end of the week. There is a king and queen, but there is also a whole homecoming court. The court is for the "popular" boy and girl in each grade. The king and queen are only the "popular" girl and boy from the senior class. There is usually a pep rally around the homecoming game on Friday of that week. They usually have the homecoming court present themselves, sometimes in suits and dress, on the football field. Then on Saturday, there is a dance. This dance is typically less formal than prom.
Most High schools have class reunions every 5-10 years basically until they die.
It's called tailgate because people have parties at the back of their truck. Every truck has a tailgate, is like the door to the bed of a truck.
Cotillion ball dates back to went boys and girls had to be presented to society as ready to date. This usually happens after they learn the rules of ettique for society. This is usually for rich families.
Spring Break is a break in the middle of the spring semester. Many young adults, partially college, use this time to go on wild beach vacations.
I just got invited to my 45th class reunion. No way. My sister and BIL just had their 50th class reunion from high school . So basically until you die or you're the last one standing.
Getting swerved refers to a "Process Server", a legal term, serving a notice of a lawsuit. The precipitant must "answer" the law suit, usually by an attorney, within a certain number of days or the judge will grant "summary judgment" against the party that was served.
Bob, just confirming this is correct.👍😄💯
@@kathy2trips Kathy, except for my bad spelling, that is the process for serving an order to appear in court. In some cases, "service" can be by mail. The defendant must "answer" the complaint by filing at least a limited answer with the court, usually by an attorney, within a certain number of days or the judge rules for the Plaintiff.
yeah the slang version on SouthPark is completely different
It's also means like "you got served". Like when somebody disses you. The slang reference on South Park was in reference to the dance movie U Got Served.
Back in olden times I got served was said yay! Im underage and i got served a drink.
“Served “ = served court summons papers... it’s a whole thing where someone with the court tracks you down and surprises you with the paperwork so you can’t avoid the civil suit
first off, PROM, Homecoming and Highschool reunions are three, that is three, let me tell u again 3 different things.
Prom in the richer Highschool neighborhoods are close to Hollywood portrayal.
Homecoming is centered more around the the fact that the football team is playing their first game back at home after a series of Away (on the road) games. Yes alumni do attend these games.
a reunion is exactly that after graduation most highschools have a 5 year, 10 year, 20 year, 30 year and every decade until there r no alumni of that year left alive.
one of my dads Uncles just went to his 80th highschool reunion last this month. of course there were a whopping 10 people there and his class had 128 graduates
Hey guys. Y'all do pretty good for folks who get most of their information from hollywood. Just remember, hollywood is not everyday life in the U. S. It is not unusual for us to refer to hollywood sarcastically as "hollyweird". Also Austin is not a good representation of the rest of Texas. Love what y'all do.
Sadie Hawkins was a cartoon character in the comic strip, L’il Abner. She was a very forward woman in the strip.
So, yes, Sadie Hawkins dances are dances where women ask the guys.
I'm sure some America schools actually have a Sadie Hawkins dance but I'm 50 and my daughter is 15 and I've honestly never seen a school have one. What happens in most of America is significantly different than what happens in Southern California or New York City
I went to jr. high, 9th and 10 grades in Cal. and 11th and 12th in Ark. We had Sadie Hawkins dances at all three schools. BTW, I'm 67 yrs. old. I guess Sadie Hawkins dances were more prevalent back then. Come to think of, I don't think I've heard any of my grandkids mention S. Hawkins dances, but my kids did get to have them.
@@davidmetzger5986 We never had a Sadie Hawkins dance at my schools either. Only time I ever encountered it was at camp. They had one every year and I hated it. I grew up thinking it was something specific to that camp for the longest time.
@@davidmetzger5986 I'm 15 and never heard of that its obviously not that big
Leggo my Eggo was their advertising slogan in the 80s.
The holiday commemorates a harvest festival celebrated by the Pilgrims in 1621, and is held in the US on the fourth Thursday in November.
Yes, Homecoming is usually planned around a school football game, with a party at night for all those alumni who come home. Prom is an end of school party for the graduating seniors. Sadie Hawkins dance is when the girls invite the boys to the dance... that slutty thing was cringe! Cotillion balls started out as a “coming out party” for wealthy young women, that they are now eligible for marriage. Spring break is the mid semester break during college, a break from studies to go home or on vacation, then they return to finish out the semester till summer. Being served. Someone literally “serves “ or personally hands you documents calling you to go to court for a suit, a divorce, etc.
Thanksgiving does "prepare" for Xmas. I recommend you watch the Peanuts Thanksgiving cartoon. It's a rite of passage.
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