Happy Canadian #MLTBuzzLuvGroovified Thanksgiving !!

[Michael Rife]

Happy Thanksgiving!!!!!! Mike.

[Diana Geertsen]

Happy Thanksgiving to my Canadian friends!!! What are some of your side dishes or traditions that are different from the US?

Your friend from South of the border,

Diana

[Jung Roe]

Hi Diana, the first thing that pops to mind are “Poutine”. The more gravy and especially more cheese the better! Maybe not very healthy, but certainly Canadian and tasty.

And nothing satisfies a sweet tooth munchies craving better than those addictive Tim Horton’s Timbits. And for JP, we have Halloween Timbits! ????

[Daryl Jones]

Jung, I have to say I’ve never had poutine in my life and I’m just coming up on 65. I have consumed my fair share of fries and gravy though, so I’d probably like it. Even my trips to Montreal haven’t gotten me past the more traditional smoked meat sandwiches and crepes. Out here in the west it’s in just about every fast-food chain there is now but I haven’t taken the plunge. Yet.

Hope everyone had a fabulous Canadian Thanksgiving what with the wonderful weather and all. We’re kind of old school traditional: turkey, stuffing, cranberries, mashed with gravy and throw in some Ukranian sides of perogies, nalesniki and cabbage rolls. You might wonder how a guy of Irish and Welsh makeup got to love Ukranian food, but our local population demographics have a lot to do with it. Always have home made (from scratch by my b-in-law) pumpkn pie and home grown apple pie (my own recipe, which if I do say so is to die for). I don’t imbibe, but there’s usually no shortage of wine at the table either.

[Jacki Hopper]

Hi Diana, well in my family, for Thanksgiving Lunch/Supper ( depending on what time it was to be served at ), the main Thanksgiving meal consisted of turkey, stuffing, maybe a cooked ham, various veggies, mashed potatoes, gravy, cranberries/jellied or in sauce form or slices/whole… dinner rolls, Apple or Pumpkin pie , other treats for dessert…

As far as Jung mentioning the Tim Hortons Timbits and Poutine are concerned, with /for me, …prior to my development of severe nut allergies eons ago, I had always thiught Poutine looked gross and turned me off to try until my best friend about 20 yrs ago, before I had developed nut /other food allergies , let me try a tiny bit of hers from a mall food court vendor… NewYork Fries not bad, but I do love curd cheese on its own…. and because of my nut allergies, can no longer eat any Timbits/Tim Hortons food items, because some stuff has nuts, and cross contamination factor there, tgey cannot guarantee nut free so I only drink tea, same with McDonald’s, etc. I rarely eat out now for thus reason, why I make my own poutine, if mood strikes to, and definitely make my own treats, but I sometimes bring my own treat /KitKat bar made in Canada to eat with my tea from McDs/ Tim Hortons … but before I had nut allergies, I enjoyed Timbits, Chocolate Dipped Donut from Tim Hortons, other stuff but I cannot now, even the other food items from Tim Hortons/McDs, and thus can’t eat ethnic foods either sadly …

Thanksgiving Meals with my immediate family ( older brother, sis in law, my niece/nephews and my 2nd oldest bro, we have usually Turkey, cooked ham, stuffing, cranberry sauce, carrots-parsnips mashed combo, turnip, dinner rolls, apple and pumpkin pies, my fudge, or squares, that I hake for dessert …. ????????????????

[Diana Geertsen]

Hi Jacki,

That menu sounds almost identical to what we eat. One of my favorite side dishes that I’ve had since I was a child is a green bean casserole. You mix green beans with cream of mushroom soup, top it with cheddar cheese and bake. Very nostalgic and I still love it to this day!!

[Johnnypee Parker]

Jacki,

It’s Halloween and then Thanksgiving. ????

Happy Thanksgiving!

JP

[Jung Roe]

Hey Jacki! A big happy thanksgiving, my fellow Canucker friend! Thank you for all you do. I have much to be thankful for this year, so this weekend will be very especially special.

[David Herrick]

Happy Thanksgiving to Jacki, Jung, the rest of the Canadian club members, hockey fans, toque wearers, and all others who are Canadian at heart!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzXt6nwPvXY

[Jung Roe]

Thanks David. Had a nice Canadian Thanksgiving, though the weather here felt like August and not October. People have put out Halloween decor already. It feels like in Canada we try to be early birds. ????