B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for December 29, 2018

“Urp.”

You stop at January 1st? Why??? There’s so much more that can be done with the leftovers!

It’s that HalloThanksMas thing. The first notice of its effect is right after Labor Day when brightly decorated artificial evergreens show up in dens of commerce and the end is nigh on the 1st when one is confronted with heaping helpings of sauerkraut.

Happy hoggydays, I mean holidays.

all the eating during the holiday season is just a way of storing up fat for winter. It also gives the gyms and weight loss folks hope for a ‘fat’ three months until the ‘dedicated exercisers’ fade into the mist.

I thought it lasted until Easter

It goes on till the 6th here, presents are given night of the 5th and the 6th and then the kids go back to school on the 7th.

He has no leftovers after New Years Eve dinner?

Smörgåsbord, a Swedish term that deconstructs into “butter” “goose” “table”. “Smör” can also mean “smear”, so I wonder whether in old times goose fat might have been used instead of butter, but I haven’t been able to confirm that.

(I have a friend who grew up in the Ozarks who says that their family used lard (pig fat) where most of us use butter. Discovering butter after moving to a big city, they never again used lard on bread.)

Technically, the holidays go until Epiphany (january 6th) . That ends the Twelve Days of Christmas. That’s where Shakespeare got the title of his play, Twelfth Night.

Until? Through at least January 1.

And up here Thanksgiving is the third Monday of October.