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(PENMART01) wrote in
:

>>Petra Hildebrandt writes:
>>
>>Sheryl Rosen wrote:
>>
>>> Everyone has a good time, and by the time we're done with the
>>> appetizers, we're all feeling really good, glad that Charlie or Mike
>>> had no cooking ability and graced us with a couple good bottles of
>>> wine, by then no one cares who made what, as long as it tastes good
>>> and we get to laugh
>>together.
>>>
>>> Isn't that the entire point of sharing a meal with friends?
>>>
>>> Or maybe I'm the one who's got it all wrong.
>>
>>No, you've got it perfectly all right. That's what it's all about, and
>>I second the thought of having more quality time and fun _together_
>>because everybody contributes what he or she can. Same with me. I'm
>>hosting a Thanksgiving feast with friens - one has a 1-room apartment
>>and no space. I happen to have space & table for a party and live in
>>the middle of all of them. Friends bring wine or a dessert, some
>>bread, I prepare the turkey, another one contributes cool board games
>>- and so on...
>
> Why the need to apologize so...
>
> Sounds like Salvation Army Thanksgiving for the homeless. A wonderful
> concept, and quite appropriate, even more appropriate to volunteer
> your time and effort to the real deal, if that's your thing, and you
> actually do it instead of pretending. Your concept, patronizingly
> sticky sweet though it may be, is not something I'd aspire to... gotta
> tell yoose, I never had a hankering for a Thanksgiving beach party...
> something about the informality of it just dosen't jive with
> genuine/serious Thankfulness. Enjoy your pot party, but to me
> Thanksgiving has some deeper spiritual meaning than totally
> unstructured "do your own thing". Unstructured could be why so many in
> your liberal Democrat crowd lead such perpetually needy lives (your
> explanation/alibi).... seems you'll never really have much to be
> Thankful for, so I suppose pretending you do one day a year works for
> you. I count my blessings and am Thankful every day, but one day each
> year I give formal Thanks, with some decorem.
>
> -[p0=o98m <--- Jilly just typed this, says shut up already and hold
> me...
>
>
>
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What is the history of Thanksgiving? Didn't the settlers get together and
have a Community Feast/Celibration? Wouldn't that mean many hands cooking,
many hands sharing their bounty? ...Many friends and families sharing?
Wasn't the First Thanksgiving similar to a Church Pot-Luck Dinner?

I don't believe it was formal dinner parties where the host supplied
everything.

I believe it was farmed out to the community's women folk to cook up what
ever their men folk brought in from the fields or from the forest.

I believe it would be closer to the true tradition, if friends and family
gathered to share their harvest bounty and celibrate having enough to
continue for one more year.

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Starchless in Manitoba.