- What are your Thanksgiving traditions.
Thanksgiving is just around the corner and that means Thanksgiving traditions. Do you have traditions this strange?
Turducken
If you’ve never heard of it, Turducken is a chicken, stuffed inside a duck, stuffed inside a turkey. This combination is truly something for everyone, with chicken being lighter and full of protein, duck as richer and the turkey, as a little of both. But you can have all three if you make this dish for your holiday. Would you try to attempt cooking it? What about eating it?
Substitute Turkey For Lobster
Well, lobster or Italian or Mexican or even pizza. The thing is, Thanksgiving traditions don’t have to be traditional. So whether it’s a big bird or a big ol’ pizza pie, take the traditions you love and live them out for as long as your little heart desires.
Turkey Toss
This Thanksgiving tradition started in Indianapolis, Indiana, when some high school students started a tradition of dressing turkeys in baby onesies, lighting them on fire and throwing them across a football field to see which turkey could “fly” the furthest. Do you think you might try this tradition? Because the kiddos in Indianapolis are still doing it and it could be one of the fun Thanksgiving traditions.
Thinking Thanksgiving Was Originally Ours
Better said, Thanksgiving is not an American holiday, well, meaning that it didn’t actually start here. So where did it start? Canada. It was first celebrated in that country 40 years before we began to celebrate it in the states. Sorry but now you know.
National Thanksgiving Turkey Presentation
It started back in the 1940s but officially since 1989, US presidents have been “pardoning” turkeys prior to Thanksgiving. Historically, the president is presented with a live domestic turkey during a televised ceremony, which he pardons. The turkey, from there, will live the rest of its days in Mount Vernon, the former estate of President George Washington. You know, instead of turning into someone’s turkey dinner.
Turkey Trot
Have you ever participated in a run on Thanksgiving. This is a very strange tradition for some and probably doesn’t help with the “I need to earn my Thanksgiving dinner” sentiment. Which, by the way, you don’t EVER have to earn food you eat. Anyhow, a turkey trot is usually a 5K or up to a five mile run, the morning of Thanksgiving. So if you’re up for it on a holiday morning, there are many to sign up for and why not start your day this way?
Black Friday
The day after Thanksgiving, gratitude and being thankful for who and what you already have, of course, has to lead into something absolutely glutenous and consumerism. There are great black Friday deals and honestly, it isn’t what it was back in the day with all the online shopping and what not. But remember how thankful and blessed you are before braving the early morning black Friday sales. Also, be a pal, and be nice!
Do you have strange Thanksgiving traditions for your holiday? Let me know what you think of these in the comments!