On Sunday we had ourselves an early (and partially Costco-enabled) Thanksgiving, since Thursday is rather a difficult day to take off in the bustle of Japan, and since it was actually a local holiday called Labor Thanksgiving Day here, a day for giving thanks to people who work hard all year. It's not always easy to translate special cultural events to other countries, but we did our best to have a traditional holiday meal anyway, enjoying chicken and mashed potatoes and gravy, although there was sushi, too. It was up to me to explain the background of Thanksgiving to the Japanese friends we'd invited over, and I did my best to impart the history of the holiday to everyone, also explaining little details like, no, no one actually likes cranberry sauce, but we have to have it out because it's traditional. I've been careful to indoctrinate my kids in all the little things American kids must know, so we sat around watching A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving on DVD, which is always fun.
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This is going to be my first turkeyless Thanksgiving thanks to the fact that I'm studying out here in Kyoto. Though thanks to my school having a long holiday starting this Wednesday, I will be in Tokyo for the weekend (specifically Akiba) celebrating Thanksgiving at a maid cafe. Gotta make do with whats available right?
Heh, hope you have fun. Really, KFC is not bad at all, get some mashed potato mix and gravy and KFC, that's just fine.
I don't know what you're talking about with nobody liking cranberry sauce. I'll admit I'll only eat it homemade by someone I know, but when it's on target, it's delicious.
I'm with Spruce: cranberry sauce is one of those things I enjoy about Thanksgiving!
I wonder if it's because I enjoy Thanksgiving in October? Maybe November cranberries suck...
FYI, this year, Canadian Thanksgiving was the same day as Taiiku no hi.
Haha, I knew I'd get in trouble with that. I actually don't mind it now, but it took me 40 years of trying. All the kids sneered at it so I had to do something to at least get them to taste it. ^_^
The question is Peter;
Did you eat the "cranberry jelly" sauce that's basically a gelatin-based cranberry puree that comes out in the shape of the can? Or did you eat REAL traditional cranberry sauce with a warm liquid sauce and seeded cranberries in it?
While the gelatin version is OK, many people do not like it. But the traditional sauce is HEAVENLY and something no person should ever miss on Thanksgiving.
It was the real stuff, and I actually like it a little. But it's taken a long time to get to this point ^_^
im with you peter, i still dont like it, lol! (well, im 28 though. shrug, who knows about in the future?!) ^.^
In the immortal words of Homer Simpson, "Hmmmm, cranberries!"
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