Thanksgiving? What is it?

Last updated on: January 5, 2025 at 8:02 am by Mark Williams

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Thanksgiving? What is it? 2025-01-05T08:02:11-07:00 Mark Williams

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Why not?

What is it?

I don’t think it’s a real secret to anyone, many people, including myself, don’t care for turkey. The stores are already looking like they’ve been raided by a pack of wolves with paper lists of things to get before they’re gone. Turkey-its dry, it doesn’t fit in your freezer, it doesn’t fit in your oven. Why do we have it as the traditional Thanksgiving meal rather than, let’s say-meat loaf?History of the First Thanksgiving – History of Massachusetts Blog

I make good meat loaf.

It’s tasty, its moist. You can do all the things with it you can with a turkey. Slice it, dip it, make sandwiches out of the next day or three. It doesn’t get stuck behind that new crown you just got.

Mark, hey-why are you spreading all the bad juju? It’s what the pilgrims ate on that first thanksgiving.

Open a history book

Open a history book and quit listening to that guy with the spotty beard broadcasting his/it ‘influence’ from his aunt’s basement. There wasn’t a turkey at that party. Lots of deer, duck, fish that washed up on shore. These people were just happy to be alive. That first winter made snow angels-real snow angels, out of about have the group. Indians gave them corn, and probably the deer. It was dried or boiled. Yum.

If we want to be traditionists, lets boil our turkeys. And no one had a pig there either. So, that delicious ham we all like over the turkey, yeah, you couldn’t find one. If they had one, they would have surely eaten it somewhere between snowpacks that froze old lady Sorenson to her rocker. That’s where they found her, in mid-stitchery.

…thanks to God.

We are giving thanks to God. Hard to get around that statement with those who don’t believe in God. We give thanks for family, homes, food. We take a time out and we do-that. But we have to find the cream cheese and candlesticks firsPhilippians 4:6-7 NIV – Do not be anxious about anything, but – Bible Gatewayt.

This is the only holiday the vegetarian and vegan crowd could come the closest to being on traditional point. You can eat some corn and some squash, and you will have been flashed back to 1621. You guys could probably even wear the clothing and make the whole show work.

And let’s not even talk about pumpkin pie. There was no coffee and cream to go with your desert back then and where is the Baileys? There was no desert. Someone might have gotten the idea to make a beer. They made the yeast out of table scraps and let it rot for a while then cooked it. How far do you go in your experimentation before you say ‘yeah, that’s just bad. Let’s not do this any longer and we have to stop with the mushrooms we find as well.’

Mushrooms go with anything

You can put mushrooms in your meat loaf. Jes sayin.’

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Philippians 4:6-7 NIV – Do not be anxious about anything, but – Bible Gateway

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Mark Williams spent the first twenty-one years of his career as a Special Agent for the Organized Crime Division of the State Attorney General’s Office. As part of his duties, he investigated organized crime, homicides, and fraud cases submitted by other agencies to that office. He has traveled across the United States as an instructor for law enforcement in various capacities. After he retired, he became a high school English teacher at an inner-city school in central Phoenix where he is the fourth generation in his family to live in the valley. Mark was married for almost thirty-eight years and is a retired widower. He has three children and ten grandchildren. You can read more about the author here.

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