Thanksgiving dinner is by far the best dinner and is also typically the most loved holiday by most Americans. It is not a religious holiday and feels sincere, with just family and food.
Another American thanksgiving tradition is watching the big Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade on television in the morning, and then watching football games all day.
It's important to remember that half of the original 102 Pilgrims died within a year at landing at Plymouth because they weren't prepared to land so far north (they were aiming for Jamestown, Virginia), & the Native American tribe they celebrated Thanksgiving with agreed to help them live of the land in exchange for weapons & defense to fight off another tribe.
Our Thanksgiving is usually turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce, green bean casserole, rolls, lots of gravy and pumpkin pie. We eat early- one giant meal followed by football. Round 2 is late night leftovers and more pie! Christmas at my house is usually prime rib, Yorkshire pudding, Waldorf salad , veggies and pie. Thanksgiving is the best holiday - no pressure just good food and fun!
The feast of harvest held between the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag people of Massachusetts was held in late September, 1621. George Washington issued a proclamation in 1789 delaring a day of thanksgiving on Thursday November 26th of that year. Later, in 1863, at the height of the American Civil War, Abraham Lincoln declared that the holiday would be permanent, and always the 4th Thursday of November. Since that time it has remained a time to thank God for what we have been given and pray for the well-being of our nation. It is a feast to remind us to be thankful, and remind us where all our blessings come from.
You know that moment when you were reflecting on your siblings and grandparents, and how nice it felt to have everyone together? That's what Thanksgiving is. Family.
Yea, my family does this, argue about everything. Lol! Aahhh the headache I will have tomorrow. But I will never change it for the world.❤ @nullakjg767
Thanksgiving dinner is far better than Christmas dinner. Christmas "dinner" for my family is a day of snacks and finger foods and more time playing games, opening presents, and laughing at all the things you wish you DIDN'T get.
I love the food I prepare at Thanksgiving that I make the same for Christmas. Turkey, Bread Stuffing, Mashed Potatoes, Glazed Carrots, Green Rice (Broccoli, rice, etc. Casserole), English Pea Salad (created in the southern US, it is peas, grated cheese, chopped boiled eggs and mayo), Sweet Potato Casserole, Rolls, and Deviled Eggs. Sometimes I prepare celery sticks filled with Pinapple Spread or Cheese Whiz.
Some people may add a religious bent to it, but most people (at least that I know) just view it as a time to be with friends and family, and be grateful for what we have. And...good food. Thanksgiving dinner by far...we don't really do a fancy dinner for the Yule holidays, but Thanksgiving? Totally. Turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, pie, cranberry sauce...
In my family, Thanksgiving dinner is always a much bigger deal than Christmas dinner. Because Thanksgiving always centers around the meal. Whereas the focus on Christmas is about the presents, the tree, the lights, decorations, etc -- and oh, by the way, we have to eat something, also, so let's have dinner. Christmas dinner is a bit special, but not nearly the production of a Thanksgiving dinner, from my experience.
Easter in the US is more of a religious holiday, so how big it is largely depends on your family's background and religion. Christmas has become far more secularized, so even non-Christians usually do things for Christmas, but Easter hasn't been universalized in at all the same way. My Jewish family did Christmas stuff, but Easter wasn't something we did much for -- a chocolate rabbit or some jelly beans when we were little, but nothing else. One of the advantages to Thanksgiving for a nation like the US is that it _is_ a secular holiday, and not an inherited European one (although obviously it does have some roots in northern European harvest festivals), so how families celebrate it is far less dependent on where their ancestors came from or what religion they are than it is for a holiday like Christmas. British people often seem surprised, I've noticed, to hear how wide the variety of Christmas dinner traditions in the US is. Families tend to follow the Christmas traditions of their ancestors here: German-Americans do German-ish stuff, Italian-Americans eat an Italian-ish Christmas dinner with lots of seafood, etc. Thanksgiving is our holiday meal that while it does have some regional variation, is still pretty unified across the country, unlike Christmas.
Christmas is a more formal dinner, in my house. It's antipasto with mixed greens, salami, ham, roast beef and fresh mozzarella with roasted peppers. A huge baked potato with butter sour cream and chives, roast Brussel sprouts with bacon and onion and filet mignon with Italian pastry for dessert. Simple and classy. Thanksgiving is more of a free for all kids sitting at the big table for the first time, coloring at the kids table, with raucous laughter,.cousins hanging out outside or in the basement, football on every TV and food every where you look. Dinner might be at 3 but we start eating at noon.
We have Thanksgiving at my grandparents house and the extended family (grandparents, aunts and uncles and all cousins and any children for all of them 5 generations now). We have around 120+ people at once whom all bring some kind of food, so you can eat 3 or 4 platefuls and not even half would have been eaten so everyone has leftovers to take home.
In my family, as far as the food is concerned, there's not much difference between Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner. Christmas my mom sometimes served both turkey and ham, and Christmas may have more dessert choices. My mom made the best cornbread dressing ever. It's taken me decades to get the hang of it.
The best outcome of Thanksgiving is that on Christmas it's usually just the parents and kids with maybe the grandparents stopping by for a bit. It makes for a relaxing day around the house, free of the noise and commotion of 10 - 20 guests.
An overlooked fact is that the first Thanksgiving was in 1610 Jamestown after the arrival of supply ships after what was called the starving times. The winter of 1609/10 started with about 500 people in Jamestown ended with about 100. Of the 102 passengers and 30 crewmen who spent the winter of 1620 at Plymouth, only 52 survived. In 1621, the survivors of the Mayflower, assisted by the Wamponaog Native Americans, produced an abundant harvest and celebrated with a Thanksgiving feast.
Thanksgiving in the USA (prior to Canada's version came along), allegedly began a few years after the Mayflower docked at Plymouth Rock. There became peace between the settlers and the Native Americans and prepared a large meal to celebrate the gathering of both peoples. Oh, and I saw on the news where the Department of Transportation is estimating in excess of 80 million people traveling this Thanksgiving.
In my family we are scattered across the country, so we pick a random date that most of us can get together. We did it last Monday, at a restaurant (for the first time). 37 of us, and about 20 couldn't make it. ❤
In our family, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year, Easter, Birthdays, and Names Days were all times when family and friends gathered together to celebrate. I was raised in a Greek American family. Each holiday had its own special cuisine to look forward to. Of course, they were most special when my grandparents (both sides) were still alive. I wish everyone a Happy and Blessed Holiday Season! Peace
To be even more confusing, the Pilgrims would have called every Sunday 'Thanksgiving'. What we now call Thanksgiving they would have called 'Harvest Feast' or 'A day of rejoicing'. The Spanish had their Thanksgiving about 20 years before the Pilgrims arrived. And they called it 'A Day of Thanksgiving' (Día de Acción de Gracias). Thanksgiving & Christmas meal around here are roughly the same with slight variations. Christmas can vary a lot between ethnic groups. Wildly different sometimes.
There is a mass Thanksgiving morning in most faiths, some people say grace, you are or should be grateful for all the good in your life. Easter is big too. Everyone is usually dressed up and the table is set fancier than at Christmas.
Laurence talked a lot about a Hollywood movie and didn't explain why Thanksgiving. 😮 It originated in 1621 after the arrival of the English, in December 1620, who settled in Plymouth, Massachussetts. Native Americans from the Wampanoag tribe, who occupied the land, taught the new arrivals how to grow crops to sustain themselves. After the harvest the following Autumn, they sat together to give thanks for the harvest. Short version as the natives did resent being occupied by strange foreigners and fought them when they first arrived.
My aunt makes a sweet stuffing with home made cornbread, glazed donuts, vanilla wafers, and stuff that's cooked inside the turkey. It's a recipe brought over from the old country . My grandfather came here through Ellis Island. They couldn't say his name so they gave him one.
The beauty of having two holidays so close together is its double the food possibilities. My son just told me he forgot the corn for the corn pudding when he went shopping. I told him, no problem, we can always have corn casserole at Christmas.
I happen to love Christmas Eve dinner. We have filet mignon and lobster tail! Italian pastries for dessert and then opening presents. Christmas dinner for us is less than that and Thanksgiving dinner, yet still very nice. More relaxing I would say.
Thanksgiving is the best meal of the year, hands down! When I was growing up, we basically did the same meal for Christmas as well but my husband's family does Christmas meal very differently. They do a huge brunch instead (eggs, biscuits and gravy, hash browns, pancakes, bacon, sausage). While I love the brunch, I still prefer my Thanksgiving meal.
I when I was a kid, I spent the day before Thanksgiving and the day after with my paternal grandparents. There were never fewer than 22 people at Thanksgiving (my father had four siblings who all had spouses and, as time progressed, children and grandchildren). That tradition ended when my paternal grandmother died. The day after Thanksgiving I helped my grandmother putting up the Christmas tree. (I also spent Christmas Eve with my paternal family.) I only spent Christmas Day with my maternal grandparents, and my maternal grandfather was a Primitive Baptist minister who did not believe in celebrating Christmas. It was a dull day for a kid - no tree (because that is a pagan practice, and presents at all.)
Thanksgiving is the best holiday and meal. Christmas dinner is very similar in my family. The only difference is that turkey (and lasagna or ham) are on the menu for Thanksgiving, while Christmas dinner can be almost anything in my family. It's turkey most of the time, but it must have another main dish because I have a brother who is allergic to turkey and chicken. The important part is that I get to eat a lot.
Many people in the US don’t do a Christmas feast. Thanksgiving is a feast for extended family and friends to celebrate whatever they’re all thankful for. Christmas is about religion and involves Christmas trees and presents and usually more immediately family members instead of extended family.
I've got a great idea! You, Adam Cousar, L3WG, JOLLY and the Beesleys should all get together and celebrate Thanksgiving with us, your American family! (Probably too late this year to plan anything like that, but maybe next year?)
I'm one of the very lucky people who gets the four day weekend. I don't participate in Black Friday, but it's a big tradition for a lot of people, to the point it's also nearly a holiday as well. In our family, Thanksgiving was the holiday where we went all out for the meal and our extended family came to dinner. Christmas dinner wasn't quite as big a deal.
Christmas Dinner - My parents emigrated here from the UK so we just skip Thanksgiving unless someone was visiting. There is no need to go through that whole cooking ordeal so close together with Christmas lol
Thanksgiving had some history to it regarding the Native Americans and the settlers but I would say most people now think of Thanksgiving as a holiday to be thankful for all the blessings in our life. Christmas and Easter are more religious holidays I would say. Thanksgiving has the best and usually the biggest dinner but my family also goes all out for Easter and Christmas. I would say all of these holidays are pretty big in America!
My folks would have the butcher cut the turkey in half. We'd eat half on Thanksgiving and the other half on Christmas. I preferred Thanksgiving because the focus was the food. Christmas is about other things, the food being somewhat secondary.
It’s Happy Thanksgiving, not Merry Thanksgiving. Merry is reserved for Christmas. Yes, Canadians celebrates Thanksgiving on second Monday in October. USA celebrates it on the fourth Thursday in November. Just about every store in the USA is closed on Thursday. The Friday following is the traditional start of the Christmas shopping season. The mad rush buying the new hot toy and buying the heavily discounted items cause the rise of calling it Black Friday. In the few weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas is when all stores earn their profits for the year. The sales earnings for the rest of the remaining 11 months of the year barely covers the expenses of doing business. Technically, it is not a sanction religious holiday, but everyone can thank their god, whatever it is, for their blessings the past year. Thanksgiving dinner is the more important meal in the USA. It’s when all the kids in the enlarged family can hint what they wish for Christmas, just as the gift shopping season starts. Christmas and Easter are major religious holidays, and the dinner is of a secondary concern. But the dinners are still nice, just not as nice.
Hi Thurs, Thanksgiving to me is a time to give thanks to God for all he has provided. I think you have the power and ability to plan such a gathering of your family and everyone get in one place and have a meal. It doesn't need to be at Christmas. Just plan a British Thanksgiving meal. Get your family all together before it is too late. Plan it Bro.
No. Thanksgiving has nothing to do with any religion. People will often say thanks before they eat and religious people direct their thanks to whichever god or deity they believe in. But it’s just about being thankful for what you have. It is debatable how thanksgiving started, but it is currently just about being thankful and celebrating what you are thankful for and spending time with family &/or friends who you appreciate being around.
ummm, "which is better", it's really a toss up. the foods are different, but where as one person in my family hosts thanksgiving, we rotate between myself and my siblings and generally have 12 to 15 people at the meal. christmas is a two day event and you visit four or five houses of your immediate and extended family with as many as 80 people at one event. i've never been a big fan of turkey, but all of the other dishes are great. at christmas, we lean heavily into our cultural background and have tamales, capirotada, biscochos, turron, ham and spanish style hot chocolate and churros. there is generally christmas eve dinner, midnight mass, the opening of presents, christmas morning breakfast, christmas lunch, christmas dinner, all at different people's houses and we open more presents on three kings day (the epiphany) and have a rosca de reyes or king's cake. easter is very similar, and in our tradition, all three are religious holidays and all three are for giving thanks for different reasons.
Thuston take some initiative and reach out to your fellow British RUclips creators.How there gets to be those kind of things is someone starts organizing it You can start planning for next year now.
What had you thought it was about? I know someone in Australia says that Our Thanksgiving is.very controversial, because you know. I.was told as a response. I know what? That you slaughtered Indians that had dinner afterwards. WHATTT????!!!!!
in reality thanksgiving is not an american holiday. alot of cultures have something that might celebrate the fall harvest. might be a meal might be some sort of event. which is basically what thanksgiving is.
Thanksgiving is an American holiday celebrating the fall harvest season, which is different and distinct from any other culture’s fall harvest celebrations.
@ yes but they all have different foods, different traditions, different histories. That’s like saying Christmas is the same as every other midwinter holiday. It’s nonsense unless you don’t look at any of the details, in which case Thanksgiving is no different from Easter, they’re both holidays. It’s the most pedantic and reductionist opinion that it is meaningless.
So.right away you come to the conclusion that American stuffing is bad. Nice!!!! No it's not bad,.it's quite good actually. Mine is really good never heard anyone say anything. They come in and ask me how are you doing? Did you make the stuffing? Yes!..Thank you!!! Now you'll surely never know. Because beans on toast is of course superior to anything American because you're brilliant and can tell that by looking at a screen. I'm taking my subscribe back now.
You seem to have an enormous chip on your shoulder, so much so that you actually misheard what he said about the stuffing altogether. He said that he thought the American stuffing was probably better, and said that he found the usual stuffing in the UK bland. But even if he'd thought that ours sounded worse, so what? Is there no local food that you prefer over other country's versions of the same dish? People often prefer the versions of food that they grew up on, even if in this case, Thurston did not. Between this and your astonishment over the idea that some find the Thanksgiving story controversial (you can't _possibly_ tell me that you'd never heard of that before some Australian mentioned it to you! It's such a well-known controversy that it's been a tired old cliche of a sit-com plot on American TV for literal decades now, as well as a phenomenon for unoriginal stand-up comics and late night TV hosts to riff off of. Are you sure you actually live in the US?), I get the impression that you are very hostile to the entire idea of non-Americans commenting on our traditions, unless they're totally sycophantic and OTT positive about everything American. There are indeed a number of channels that cater to that sort of audience here on RUclips, more's the pity, but I'm more interested in at least somewhat more honest reactions, myself.
Thanksgiving dinner is by far the best dinner and is also typically the most loved holiday by most Americans. It is not a religious holiday and feels sincere, with just family and food.
Another American thanksgiving tradition is watching the big Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade on television in the morning, and then watching football games all day.
It's important to remember that half of the original 102 Pilgrims died within a year at landing at Plymouth because they weren't prepared to land so far north (they were aiming for Jamestown, Virginia), & the Native American tribe they celebrated Thanksgiving with agreed to help them live of the land in exchange for weapons & defense to fight off another tribe.
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles is one of the most perfect movies ever made. And one of the only Thanksgiving movies.
Our Thanksgiving is usually turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce, green bean casserole, rolls, lots of gravy and pumpkin pie. We eat early- one giant meal followed by football. Round 2 is late night leftovers and more pie! Christmas at my house is usually prime rib, Yorkshire pudding, Waldorf salad , veggies and pie. Thanksgiving is the best holiday - no pressure just good food and fun!
The feast of harvest held between the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag people of Massachusetts was held in late September, 1621. George Washington issued a proclamation in 1789 delaring a day of thanksgiving on Thursday November 26th of that year. Later, in 1863, at the height of the American Civil War, Abraham Lincoln declared that the holiday would be permanent, and always the 4th Thursday of November. Since that time it has remained a time to thank God for what we have been given and pray for the well-being of our nation. It is a feast to remind us to be thankful, and remind us where all our blessings come from.
You know that moment when you were reflecting on your siblings and grandparents, and how nice it felt to have everyone together? That's what Thanksgiving is. Family.
yeah thats how it is in the hallmark cards, in reality people are gonna be screaming at each over other politics lol.
Yea, my family does this, argue about everything. Lol! Aahhh the headache I will have tomorrow. But I will never change it for the world.❤ @nullakjg767
Both Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner are the best.
Thanksgiving is a harvest celebration with extended family since pre-modern times, everyone would help with harvesting the fields before winter.
Thanksgiving dinner is far better than Christmas dinner. Christmas "dinner" for my family is a day of snacks and finger foods and more time playing games, opening presents, and laughing at all the things you wish you DIDN'T get.
I love the food I prepare at Thanksgiving that I make the same for Christmas. Turkey, Bread Stuffing, Mashed Potatoes, Glazed Carrots, Green Rice (Broccoli, rice, etc. Casserole), English Pea Salad (created in the southern US, it is peas, grated cheese, chopped boiled eggs and mayo), Sweet Potato Casserole, Rolls, and Deviled Eggs. Sometimes I prepare celery sticks filled with Pinapple Spread or Cheese Whiz.
Some people may add a religious bent to it, but most people (at least that I know) just view it as a time to be with friends and family, and be grateful for what we have. And...good food. Thanksgiving dinner by far...we don't really do a fancy dinner for the Yule holidays, but Thanksgiving? Totally. Turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, pie, cranberry sauce...
In my family, Thanksgiving dinner is always a much bigger deal than Christmas dinner. Because Thanksgiving always centers around the meal. Whereas the focus on Christmas is about the presents, the tree, the lights, decorations, etc -- and oh, by the way, we have to eat something, also, so let's have dinner. Christmas dinner is a bit special, but not nearly the production of a
Thanksgiving dinner, from my experience.
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My church does have a thanksgiving day service.
Easter in the US is more of a religious holiday, so how big it is largely depends on your family's background and religion. Christmas has become far more secularized, so even non-Christians usually do things for Christmas, but Easter hasn't been universalized in at all the same way. My Jewish family did Christmas stuff, but Easter wasn't something we did much for -- a chocolate rabbit or some jelly beans when we were little, but nothing else.
One of the advantages to Thanksgiving for a nation like the US is that it _is_ a secular holiday, and not an inherited European one (although obviously it does have some roots in northern European harvest festivals), so how families celebrate it is far less dependent on where their ancestors came from or what religion they are than it is for a holiday like Christmas. British people often seem surprised, I've noticed, to hear how wide the variety of Christmas dinner traditions in the US is. Families tend to follow the Christmas traditions of their ancestors here: German-Americans do German-ish stuff, Italian-Americans eat an Italian-ish Christmas dinner with lots of seafood, etc. Thanksgiving is our holiday meal that while it does have some regional variation, is still pretty unified across the country, unlike Christmas.
Christmas is a more formal dinner, in my house. It's antipasto with mixed greens, salami, ham, roast beef and fresh mozzarella with roasted peppers. A huge baked potato with butter sour cream and chives, roast Brussel sprouts with bacon and onion and filet mignon with Italian pastry for dessert. Simple and classy. Thanksgiving is more of a free for all kids sitting at the big table for the first time, coloring at the kids table, with raucous laughter,.cousins hanging out outside or in the basement, football on every TV and food every where you look. Dinner might be at 3 but we start eating at noon.
We have Thanksgiving at my grandparents house and the extended family (grandparents, aunts and uncles and all cousins and any children for all of them 5 generations now). We have around 120+ people at once whom all bring some kind of food, so you can eat 3 or 4 platefuls and not even half would have been eaten so everyone has leftovers to take home.
In my family, as far as the food is concerned, there's not much difference between Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner. Christmas my mom sometimes served both turkey and ham, and Christmas may have more dessert choices. My mom made the best cornbread dressing ever. It's taken me decades to get the hang of it.
The best outcome of Thanksgiving is that on Christmas it's usually just the parents and kids with maybe the grandparents stopping by for a bit. It makes for a relaxing day around the house, free of the noise and commotion of 10 - 20 guests.
An overlooked fact is that the first Thanksgiving was in 1610 Jamestown after the arrival of supply ships after what was called the starving times. The winter of 1609/10 started with about 500 people in Jamestown ended with about 100. Of the 102 passengers and 30 crewmen who spent the winter of 1620 at Plymouth, only 52 survived. In 1621, the survivors of the Mayflower, assisted by the Wamponaog Native Americans, produced an abundant harvest and celebrated with a Thanksgiving feast.
You can make it religious if you are religious but it can also be a secular holiday.
Thanksgiving is always a Thursday which why the day after Thanksgiving is always Black Friday.
Thanksgiving in the USA (prior to Canada's version came along), allegedly began a few years after the Mayflower docked at Plymouth Rock. There became peace between the settlers and the Native Americans and prepared a large meal to celebrate the gathering of both peoples. Oh, and I saw on the news where the Department of Transportation is estimating in excess of 80 million people traveling this Thanksgiving.
At our house, Thanksgiving dinner is the exact same as Christmas dinner. Christmas Eve is all about the tamales and green chili cheese dip.
In my family we are scattered across the country, so we pick a random date that most of us can get together. We did it last Monday, at a restaurant (for the first time). 37 of us, and about 20 couldn't make it. ❤
In our family, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year, Easter, Birthdays, and Names Days were all times when family and friends gathered together to celebrate. I was raised in a Greek American family. Each holiday had its own special cuisine to look forward to. Of course, they were most special when my grandparents (both sides) were still alive. I wish everyone a Happy and Blessed Holiday Season! Peace
To be even more confusing, the Pilgrims would have called every Sunday 'Thanksgiving'. What we now call Thanksgiving they would have called 'Harvest Feast' or 'A day of rejoicing'. The Spanish had their Thanksgiving about 20 years before the Pilgrims arrived. And they called it 'A Day of Thanksgiving' (Día de Acción de Gracias). Thanksgiving & Christmas meal around here are roughly the same with slight variations. Christmas can vary a lot between ethnic groups. Wildly different sometimes.
There is a mass Thanksgiving morning in most faiths, some people say grace, you are or should be grateful for all the good in your life. Easter is big too. Everyone is usually dressed up and the table is set fancier than at Christmas.
Laurence talked a lot about a Hollywood movie and didn't explain why Thanksgiving. 😮
It originated in 1621 after the arrival of the English, in December 1620, who settled in Plymouth, Massachussetts. Native Americans from the Wampanoag tribe, who occupied the land, taught the new arrivals how to grow crops to sustain themselves. After the harvest the following Autumn, they sat together to give thanks for the harvest. Short version as the natives did resent being occupied by strange foreigners and fought them when they first arrived.
My aunt makes a sweet stuffing with home made cornbread, glazed donuts, vanilla wafers, and stuff that's cooked inside the turkey. It's a recipe brought over from the old country . My grandfather came here through Ellis Island. They couldn't say his name so they gave him one.
In USA Washington state. Pacific Northwest and Thanksgiving is my favorite ❤️
Oregon here, and I agree. Unfortunately my family lives in New York and Chicago. No Thanksgiving for me.
The beauty of having two holidays so close together is its double the food possibilities. My son just told me he forgot the corn for the corn pudding when he went shopping. I told him, no problem, we can always have corn casserole at Christmas.
I happen to love Christmas Eve dinner. We have filet mignon and lobster tail! Italian pastries for dessert and then opening presents. Christmas dinner for us is less than that and Thanksgiving dinner, yet still very nice. More relaxing I would say.
I make oyster stuffing every thanksgiving. Bread crumbs, oysters and herbs. Simple and so tasty.
Thanksgiving is the best meal of the year, hands down! When I was growing up, we basically did the same meal for Christmas as well but my husband's family does Christmas meal very differently. They do a huge brunch instead (eggs, biscuits and gravy, hash browns, pancakes, bacon, sausage). While I love the brunch, I still prefer my Thanksgiving meal.
I when I was a kid, I spent the day before Thanksgiving and the day after with my paternal grandparents. There were never fewer than 22 people at Thanksgiving (my father had four siblings who all had spouses and, as time progressed, children and grandchildren). That tradition ended when my paternal grandmother died. The day after Thanksgiving I helped my grandmother putting up the Christmas tree. (I also spent Christmas Eve with my paternal family.) I only spent Christmas Day with my maternal grandparents, and my maternal grandfather was a Primitive Baptist minister who did not believe in celebrating Christmas. It was a dull day for a kid - no tree (because that is a pagan practice, and presents at all.)
Thanksgiving is the best holiday and meal. Christmas dinner is very similar in my family. The only difference is that turkey (and lasagna or ham) are on the menu for Thanksgiving, while Christmas dinner can be almost anything in my family. It's turkey most of the time, but it must have another main dish because I have a brother who is allergic to turkey and chicken. The important part is that I get to eat a lot.
Many people in the US don’t do a Christmas feast. Thanksgiving is a feast for extended family and friends to celebrate whatever they’re all thankful for. Christmas is about religion and involves Christmas trees and presents and usually more immediately family members instead of extended family.
I've got a great idea! You, Adam Cousar, L3WG, JOLLY and the Beesleys should all get together and celebrate Thanksgiving with us, your American family! (Probably too late this year to plan anything like that, but maybe next year?)
I'm one of the very lucky people who gets the four day weekend. I don't participate in Black Friday, but it's a big tradition for a lot of people, to the point it's also nearly a holiday as well.
In our family, Thanksgiving was the holiday where we went all out for the meal and our extended family came to dinner. Christmas dinner wasn't quite as big a deal.
Christmas Dinner - My parents emigrated here from the UK so we just skip Thanksgiving unless someone was visiting. There is no need to go through that whole cooking ordeal so close together with Christmas lol
For us Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners are the same except we usually had fancier sweet rolls at Christmas breakfast which was not the dinner.
Christmas Dinner is usually similar but Thanksgiving Dinner is usually better… it kind of depends on who’s cooking. 😅
Thanksgiving had some history to it regarding the Native Americans and the settlers but I would say most people now think of Thanksgiving as a holiday to be thankful for all the blessings in our life. Christmas and Easter are more religious holidays I would say. Thanksgiving has the best and usually the biggest dinner but my family also goes all out for Easter and Christmas. I would say all of these holidays are pretty big in America!
Thanksgiving is all about the dinner so it tops Christmas dinner but the same amount of family and friends 🧡
My fam is a bit dysfunctional, but somehow they get it together for Thanksgiving & Christmas. So that's cool.
Having 2 holidays is very convenient because you can spend time with both sides of the family.
Happy US Thanksgiving Thurston
My folks would have the butcher cut the turkey in half. We'd eat half on Thanksgiving and the other half on Christmas. I preferred Thanksgiving because the focus was the food. Christmas is about other things, the food being somewhat secondary.
Happy Thanksgiving, Thurston!
Also, I prefer Thanksgiving to Christmas dinner (and Easter dinner, you guessed right that its another major family day)
Happy Thanksgiving!
Thanksgiving dinner is better. ❤
Not religious, just sacred to many of us.
It’s Happy Thanksgiving, not Merry Thanksgiving. Merry is reserved for Christmas.
Yes, Canadians celebrates Thanksgiving on second Monday in October. USA celebrates it on the fourth Thursday in November.
Just about every store in the USA is closed on Thursday. The Friday following is the traditional start of the Christmas shopping season. The mad rush buying the new hot toy and buying the heavily discounted items cause the rise of calling it Black Friday. In the few weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas is when all stores earn their profits for the year. The sales earnings for the rest of the remaining 11 months of the year barely covers the expenses of doing business.
Technically, it is not a sanction religious holiday, but everyone can thank their god, whatever it is, for their blessings the past year.
Thanksgiving dinner is the more important meal in the USA. It’s when all the kids in the enlarged family can hint what they wish for Christmas, just as the gift shopping season starts. Christmas and Easter are major religious holidays, and the dinner is of a secondary concern. But the dinners are still nice, just not as nice.
The best dinner is the one I do not have to make. LOLOLOLOL! Its true.
Hi Thurs, Thanksgiving to me is a time to give thanks to God for all he has provided. I think you have the power and ability to plan such a gathering of your family and everyone get in one place and have a meal. It doesn't need to be at Christmas. Just plan a British Thanksgiving meal. Get your family all together before it is too late. Plan it Bro.
It was pilgrims giving thanks
PT&A is a great movie 🎬
No. Thanksgiving has nothing to do with any religion. People will often say thanks before they eat and religious people direct their thanks to whichever god or deity they believe in. But it’s just about being thankful for what you have. It is debatable how thanksgiving started, but it is currently just about being thankful and celebrating what you are thankful for and spending time with family &/or friends who you appreciate being around.
ummm, "which is better", it's really a toss up. the foods are different, but where as one person in my family hosts thanksgiving, we rotate between myself and my siblings and generally have 12 to 15 people at the meal. christmas is a two day event and you visit four or five houses of your immediate and extended family with as many as 80 people at one event. i've never been a big fan of turkey, but all of the other dishes are great. at christmas, we lean heavily into our cultural background and have tamales, capirotada, biscochos, turron, ham and spanish style hot chocolate and churros. there is generally christmas eve dinner, midnight mass, the opening of presents, christmas morning breakfast, christmas lunch, christmas dinner, all at different people's houses and we open more presents on three kings day (the epiphany) and have a rosca de reyes or king's cake. easter is very similar, and in our tradition, all three are religious holidays and all three are for giving thanks for different reasons.
Thuston take some initiative and reach out to your fellow British RUclips creators.How there gets to be those kind of things is someone starts organizing it You can start planning for next year now.
🤦🏾♀️the Indigenous people might disagree with this entire explanation of Thanksgiving.
Most American families will do the same thing all again, with a big dinner for Christmas.
Both are huge meals
What had you thought it was about? I know someone in Australia says that Our Thanksgiving is.very controversial, because you know. I.was told as a response. I know what? That you slaughtered Indians that had dinner afterwards. WHATTT????!!!!!
in reality thanksgiving is not an american holiday. alot of cultures have something that might celebrate the fall harvest. might be a meal might be some sort of event. which is basically what thanksgiving is.
Thanksgiving is an American holiday celebrating the fall harvest season, which is different and distinct from any other culture’s fall harvest celebrations.
@@Ojisan642 no it isnt. we call it thanksgiving but other cultures and countries have a celebration or meal also
@ yes but they all have different foods, different traditions, different histories. That’s like saying Christmas is the same as every other midwinter holiday. It’s nonsense unless you don’t look at any of the details, in which case Thanksgiving is no different from Easter, they’re both holidays. It’s the most pedantic and reductionist opinion that it is meaningless.
A holiday in America, celebrated by Americans, calm down. It's American enough.
So.right away you come to the conclusion that American stuffing is bad. Nice!!!! No it's not bad,.it's quite good actually. Mine is really good never heard anyone say anything. They come in and ask me how are you doing? Did you make the stuffing? Yes!..Thank you!!! Now you'll surely never know. Because beans on toast is of course superior to anything American because you're brilliant and can tell that by looking at a screen. I'm taking my subscribe back now.
You seem to have an enormous chip on your shoulder, so much so that you actually misheard what he said about the stuffing altogether. He said that he thought the American stuffing was probably better, and said that he found the usual stuffing in the UK bland. But even if he'd thought that ours sounded worse, so what? Is there no local food that you prefer over other country's versions of the same dish? People often prefer the versions of food that they grew up on, even if in this case, Thurston did not.
Between this and your astonishment over the idea that some find the Thanksgiving story controversial (you can't _possibly_ tell me that you'd never heard of that before some Australian mentioned it to you! It's such a well-known controversy that it's been a tired old cliche of a sit-com plot on American TV for literal decades now, as well as a phenomenon for unoriginal stand-up comics and late night TV hosts to riff off of. Are you sure you actually live in the US?), I get the impression that you are very hostile to the entire idea of non-Americans commenting on our traditions, unless they're totally sycophantic and OTT positive about everything American. There are indeed a number of channels that cater to that sort of audience here on RUclips, more's the pity, but I'm more interested in at least somewhat more honest reactions, myself.
Thanksgiving is the best dinner. Christmas is second. July 4th is third. Easter is 4th. My birthday is 5th.