General Chat

We were "up north" in the province for a couple of days, and I picked up a little free local advertising/newspaper in a coffee shop


.............. it is Thanksgiving in Canada this coming Monday October 8, and they had printed recipes for some of the foods traditionally eaten at Thanksgiving, as recommended by the Kindergarten Class (ages 5 to 6).

I thought you might enjoy reading them.


Turkey ............. you buy the turkey and take the paper off it. Then you put it in the refrigerator and take it back out and cut it with a knife and make sure all the wires are out and take out the neck and heart. Then you put it in a big pan and cook it for half an hour at 80 degrees. Then you invite people over and eat.


Chicken Pie ............... Put the chicken in the pot and put the salad and cheese and mustard and then you mix it all together. Then put chicken sauce and stir it all around again. Then you cook it for 5 minutes at 9 degrees. Then you eat it.


Pumpkin Pie ............. First you put pumpkin seeds in it. Put it in a pan and bake it at 5 degrees for 6 minutes. Then take it out and eat it.


Deer Jerky (a dried meat) ....... Put it in the oven overnight at 20 degrees. Then you go hunting and bring it with you. Then you eat it.


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sylvia

Thank goodness we dont celebrate it in the land of all lands,,,,,, ;-) :-D.

the children know a little about cooking then,


never really understood thansgiving........maybe an equal to our harvest festival without the turkey and family dinners? :-D

Hi Kay


............. just shows how little sense of time kids have!!


One thing that is always slipped under the rug is that Canada celebrated Thanksgiving years before the Americans held their first one.

Both celebrated the first harvest in the new land with a huge dinner for everyone ........ but the Canadian one pre-dated the US one by about 20 years.


Yes .............. Thanksgiving is giving thanks for the harvest, but is much more of a family and friends celebratory feast than a religious observance. Family members will make every effort to get home for the meal, and friends will be invited to make sure no-one is left alone.

There is no church service on Thanksgiving Day.


The closest might actually be the huge Harvest meals that farmers, or land owners, used to put on for all their workers when the harvest was all in.



Also, the churches here do not really have a harvest festival .................. there is a harvest service to give thanks, but no foods or crops are taken to the church these days.

Children do say the funnest things in all seriousness,,,,,,,we have outtakes of them saying how much they think items cost or how rich someone famous is,,,,,how the queen lives......the answers are as they see it,,,,rib cracking innocent answers.