Shoe’s on the other ding-dong foot, now! Maybe you and Mona should pay a surprise pre-Thanksgiving visit to Paris, Donna, and one-up good old Mom and Dad!
years ago i was in London on Thanksgiving — it is not celebrated there — well maybe in the U.S. Embassy. I searched for a restaurant that served turkey — no luck. i finally wound up in an Italian restaurant that served up a wonderful roast chicken.
Well, I didn’t say it had to be the same day there as it is in the US. As the Aussies are fond of saying, “Thank heaven they got the Puritans and we got the criminals!” (though, to be fair, a lot of prisoners were transported to the American colonies, mainly Georgia).
“They have a Thanksgiving Day in England. They give thanks that they finally got rid of those prudish, troublemaking Puritans."
Without getting overly political, at around the same time we were dumping our surplus pesky Puritans and other noncomformist Prots in Northern Ireland, and oh, the trouble this caused… we’d have been better off giving ’em all the long sea route to the American colonies…
alas, Donna – no Thanksgiving over here. We save the turkey for the end of the year…
Although to be fair, Thanksgiving 1984 was celebrated by me as a guest of USAF personnel at Woodbridge, Suffolk, who wanted to host end educate a Brit or ten. Thanks, guys.
The missing M. Smokey almost 13 years ago
Maybe they have homeless people in London….
Sisyphos almost 13 years ago
Shoe’s on the other ding-dong foot, now! Maybe you and Mona should pay a surprise pre-Thanksgiving visit to Paris, Donna, and one-up good old Mom and Dad!
runar almost 13 years ago
They have a Thanksgiving Day in England. They give thanks that they finally got rid of those prudish, troublemaking Puritans.
jay_dallas almost 13 years ago
One of the best Thanksgiving meals I ever had was in a Marriott in Munich. They advertised it as a “Traditional American Holiday Meal.”
billdi Premium Member almost 13 years ago
years ago i was in London on Thanksgiving — it is not celebrated there — well maybe in the U.S. Embassy. I searched for a restaurant that served turkey — no luck. i finally wound up in an Italian restaurant that served up a wonderful roast chicken.
runar almost 13 years ago
Well, I didn’t say it had to be the same day there as it is in the US. As the Aussies are fond of saying, “Thank heaven they got the Puritans and we got the criminals!” (though, to be fair, a lot of prisoners were transported to the American colonies, mainly Georgia).
RonBerg13 Premium Member almost 13 years ago
England also has a Fourth of July.
AgProv almost 13 years ago
“They have a Thanksgiving Day in England. They give thanks that they finally got rid of those prudish, troublemaking Puritans."
Without getting overly political, at around the same time we were dumping our surplus pesky Puritans and other noncomformist Prots in Northern Ireland, and oh, the trouble this caused… we’d have been better off giving ’em all the long sea route to the American colonies…
alas, Donna – no Thanksgiving over here. We save the turkey for the end of the year…
AgProv almost 13 years ago
Although to be fair, Thanksgiving 1984 was celebrated by me as a guest of USAF personnel at Woodbridge, Suffolk, who wanted to host end educate a Brit or ten. Thanks, guys.