Thanksgiving is on 26th November 2009
November 19th, 2009 - 2:15 am ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
New York, Nov 18 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Thanksgiving Day is primarily a harvest festival. Traditionally, it is an occasion to say thanks for the harvest and express gratitude in general. It is a holiday celebrated primarily in Canada and the United States. Though Thanksgiving started out primarily as a religious holiday, now it has secular over-tones.
Thanksgiving started around the country in the mid-19th century, with the hope that it would help in healing the North-&-South divide. So, the Thanksgiving menu had to be a mix of the traditional North as well as the South recipes in a bid to placate the feelings of both the communities.
The main course is Turkey with cranberry sauce, because Turkey is an indigenous American bird. It was well known that Native Americans and the early colonists used cranberries to flavor meat, so obviously cranberry sauce had to be used to flavor turkey. And since Americans are great pie lovers so roast turkey, cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie became religiously tied to this holiday.
Nowadays, Thanksgiving is celebrated on the second Monday of October in Canada and on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States. A lavish Thanksgiving dinner is held on this day, usually as a gathering of near and dear family members and close friends.
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