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brin_bellway) wrote2020-10-12 12:25 pm
brin_bellway) wrote2020-10-12 12:25 pm
Today, I am thankful for Canada
[cw: food, (mild) illness]
[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (bysiderea)
This is...an interestingly different perspective. I'm not sure how I feel about it, but it's definitely *different*. Takes different things for granted, different things as aspirational.
I am from an Ashkenazic family--one parent by blood, and one by choice--that got out *of America* while the getting was good, and into *another* turkey-feast-holding culture. My family holds turkey feasts four times a year: Canadian Thanksgiving, American Thanksgiving, and the second nights of Rosh Hashanah and Passover.
(Do you know how hard it is to find kitniyot-free cranberry jelly? Some years we have to skip the cranberry-jelly part. But only some.)
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Said post was linked from this post, which is making me shake my head at America much like her flu-shot post did.
We have a turkey in the freezer, but we decided to leave that one for November and buy an October turkey at the store this week. We had absolutely no trouble doing so. It's about 10lb (should be a good size for leftovers, particularly since I generally only eat a token bite), and I think it was at pretty ordinary Thanksgiving-loss-leader prices.
(I mean, yeah, her fears *might* still not pan out, but I can see why she doesn't want to bet on that.)
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(Mom had a doctor's appointment a couple days ago and was offered a flu shot while she was at it, which she gladly accepted. Dad is on the high-priority waiting list at the pharmacy and will probably be offered one within the next few days. By next Errand Day they'll most likely be available to the general not-relevantly-chronically-ill public, and I can grab one on my way to grocery shopping.)
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siderea)This is...an interestingly different perspective. I'm not sure how I feel about it, but it's definitely *different*. Takes different things for granted, different things as aspirational.
I am from an Ashkenazic family--one parent by blood, and one by choice--that got out *of America* while the getting was good, and into *another* turkey-feast-holding culture. My family holds turkey feasts four times a year: Canadian Thanksgiving, American Thanksgiving, and the second nights of Rosh Hashanah and Passover.
(Do you know how hard it is to find kitniyot-free cranberry jelly? Some years we have to skip the cranberry-jelly part. But only some.)
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Said post was linked from this post, which is making me shake my head at America much like her flu-shot post did.
We have a turkey in the freezer, but we decided to leave that one for November and buy an October turkey at the store this week. We had absolutely no trouble doing so. It's about 10lb (should be a good size for leftovers, particularly since I generally only eat a token bite), and I think it was at pretty ordinary Thanksgiving-loss-leader prices.
(I mean, yeah, her fears *might* still not pan out, but I can see why she doesn't want to bet on that.)
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(Mom had a doctor's appointment a couple days ago and was offered a flu shot while she was at it, which she gladly accepted. Dad is on the high-priority waiting list at the pharmacy and will probably be offered one within the next few days. By next Errand Day they'll most likely be available to the general not-relevantly-chronically-ill public, and I can grab one on my way to grocery shopping.)
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(*Even if you completely ignore animal welfare*, the public-health issues *alone* are increasingly concerning.)
((I tend to be very confused as to whether or not I terminally value other entities' welfare, and deal with it by throwing up my hands and going "fuck it, I can think of plenty of perfectly good self-interested reasons to take the pro-other-entities'-welfare actions, I don't *need* to figure out whether I also care about them per se".))
One year the turkey was rotten and we had to use eggs as the main protein of the feast. Mom was very upset, and it *is* a shame that the turkey went to waste, but I thought the eggs worked out great. When the torch of arranging Thanksgiving feasts passes to me, I think I'll do eggs on purpose, maybe with the help of turkey-shaped cookie cutters.