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Does anybody know how people in other countries celebrate Thanksgiving. ? (Original Post)
BlueJazz
Nov 2014
OP
Oh NO! You mean those bastards down the street keep foreigners up all night also ??
BlueJazz
Nov 2014
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aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)1. I believe in The Shire they eat lots of seed cakes
mutton pie, lots of mushrooms, with gallons of Olde Winyards wine, and smoke many pipefulls of the Olde Toby.
jmowreader
(50,530 posts)2. I didn't know they did!
Well, the Canadians do and they do the same things the US does - turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce and football games.
murielm99
(30,717 posts)6. My daughter lives there.
They celebrated last month. Her husband went out for lunch today with his mother. She called me.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,610 posts)3. They don't. It's an American holiday, though Canada has a version
that they celebrate in October.
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)4. In Australia it's called "Leg Pulling" day
antiquie
(4,299 posts)5. My American friends in other countries
have as traditional a meal as they can -- much more so than when living in the States.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)7. Same way they celebrate the 4th of July, I would expect.
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)8. Oh NO! You mean those bastards down the street keep foreigners up all night also ??
blackcrowflies
(207 posts)9. Denmark celebrates the fourth of July
Kaleva
(36,259 posts)10. In ISIS Land, the family gathers for a stoning or beheading.
jakeXT
(10,575 posts)11. Black Friday Eve
bikebloke
(5,260 posts)12. In Switzerland...
They feast on baked yodels.
The Dutch cook their wooden shoes.
The Russians drink vodka - so every day is Thanksgiving.
I could go on, but I'll stop while I'm ahead.