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Bruce[_28_]

On Wed, 27 Nov 2019 15:59:22 -0400, wrote:

>On Wed, 27 Nov 2019 14:29:10 -0500, Dave Smith
> wrote:
>
>>On 2019-11-27 12:47 p.m., wrote:
>>> On Wed, 27 Nov 2019 05:59:58 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton
>>
>>>> On Wednesday, November 27, 2019 at 8:26:30 AM UTC-5, A Moose in
>>>> Love wrote:
>>>>> The other day Rachael Ray said that the US is the only country in
>>>>> the world that celebrates this holiday. Maybe she meant that
>>>>> other countries do not celebrate Thanksgiving on the same day?
>>>>
>>>> Or perhaps she's just ignorant. Many people are.
>>>>
>>>> Cindy Hamilton
>>>
>>> Strictly speaking she is accurate, you are celebrating the Pilgrim
>>> Fathers arriving, the rest of us don't.
>>
>>Having grown up in Canada I can tell you that the common understanding
>>about our Thanksgiving is that it is based on the Pilgrim fathers. That
>>may be because the initial influx of settlers in this country were
>>Loyalists coming here are refugees from the US. It may also be that most
>>of us lived close to the American border so we were exposed to American
>>culture.
>
>It must be, no record here of PF's thank goodness! It's aligned to
>the protestant church festival of Harvest Home and giving thanks for
>the supplies from it.

Bloody wasps.