When my son was in college, he deliberately avoided the American kids because he wasn’t into rap, video games, or anime. Instead he cultivated a circle of friends from all over the world, including England, Italy, Portugal, India, Sweden, Norway, Australia, and more.
So when Thanksgiving rolled around, he invited them all (about 12) to our house for “Friends-giving,” and treated them to a huge home-cooked traditional Thanksgiving feast. It was also nice because school was closed for the Holiday, but these kids didn’t go all the way home, so it gave them all a family to hang with for the Holiday, so they wouldn’t be homesick.
Several had never eaten turkey, and didn’t even really know what a turkey was, other than a bird. Sweet potatoes were another mystery, and my wife makes the best sweet potatoes ever.
But the thing that was most surprising was the pumpkin pie. First of all, the pie itself was new to many of them. Sweet dessert pies seems to be a uniquely American dish. Having a PUMPKIN pie was another surprise. I have a Venezuelan neighbor, and when a judgy snooty relative came at Thanksgiving, she was offended when they offered her pumpkin pie, because back home, they feed pumpkins to the pigs.
So Friendsgiving was a massive hit, and we planned on doing it every year, but then Covid hit, and all of his International friends went home, and none of them ever came back.
He’s gone back to school for a new degree that might actually lead to a job, and he just made friends with a Japanese girl who barely speaks English. They’ve been having fun watching movies and going to museums. He’s really not interested in what Americans his age are into.
I can’t wait to invite her to Thanksgiving this year!
Paul Bunyan was lost in the battle of gravy falls, that’s how Johnny Appleseed met Babe the blue ox he rode across the countryside planting apples and getting ripped on apple jack
We all know what happened to Lincoln’s eagle-griffin but what ever happened to his sword, the Emancipator? He didn’t have it on him during his assassination, but it wasn’t at the White House either…
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Ahh, Turkor the ungrateful. I remember him
When my son was in college, he deliberately avoided the American kids because he wasn’t into rap, video games, or anime. Instead he cultivated a circle of friends from all over the world, including England, Italy, Portugal, India, Sweden, Norway, Australia, and more.
So when Thanksgiving rolled around, he invited them all (about 12) to our house for “Friends-giving,” and treated them to a huge home-cooked traditional Thanksgiving feast. It was also nice because school was closed for the Holiday, but these kids didn’t go all the way home, so it gave them all a family to hang with for the Holiday, so they wouldn’t be homesick.
Several had never eaten turkey, and didn’t even really know what a turkey was, other than a bird. Sweet potatoes were another mystery, and my wife makes the best sweet potatoes ever.
But the thing that was most surprising was the pumpkin pie. First of all, the pie itself was new to many of them. Sweet dessert pies seems to be a uniquely American dish. Having a PUMPKIN pie was another surprise. I have a Venezuelan neighbor, and when a judgy snooty relative came at Thanksgiving, she was offended when they offered her pumpkin pie, because back home, they feed pumpkins to the pigs.
So Friendsgiving was a massive hit, and we planned on doing it every year, but then Covid hit, and all of his International friends went home, and none of them ever came back.
He’s gone back to school for a new degree that might actually lead to a job, and he just made friends with a Japanese girl who barely speaks English. They’ve been having fun watching movies and going to museums. He’s really not interested in what Americans his age are into.
I can’t wait to invite her to Thanksgiving this year!
Accurate except for the last part. Preventing history from repeating has never been an American cultural value.
At least not for enough.
Paul Bunyan was lost in the battle of gravy falls, that’s how Johnny Appleseed met Babe the blue ox he rode across the countryside planting apples and getting ripped on apple jack
We all know what happened to Lincoln’s eagle-griffin but what ever happened to his sword, the Emancipator? He didn’t have it on him during his assassination, but it wasn’t at the White House either…
And how come it was found in the ruins of the Twin Towers? How did it get there? And when?