The Heathen English don’t celebrate Thanksgiving but, if they did, it would be on October 21st because that’s when we were finally able to get around to cooking ourselves a feast. This morning we went to Morrison’s to pick up all the fixings. Our trip was on the, wait for it, bus. Now let me stop right here to say that this was my first trip on the bus (excluding tourist related bus rides) since April 18, 2001. How do I know the day? Because on that day, the day of my last ever law school exam, I vowed to never take the bus again. Why should I? Fancy corporate lawyer and such. I’ll always have a car. Nice one too. But there I was shamefacedly back on the bus. So much for making vows.
Back to Morrison’s. Morrison’s is an English grocery store but really is subpar by any standards. By way of example, Morrison’s failed to stock any turkeys. No turkeys on English Thanksgiving. The mind reels. So that is story behind the fact that English Thanksgiving is celebrated with roast chicken.
This brings us to one of the most important matters of Thanksgiving: Pie. To my knowledge, the English fail to engage in the delights of Pumpkin Pie. Or if they do, they call it something else, like Wikki-stick Pie or Bumjam Pie meaning that, if I’m looking for Pumpkin Pie, I can’t find it. Besides even if they did have pumpkin pie here they would probably do something crazy like put 'treacle' in it. Either way, all the bakers are wankers, clearly. Luckily, we outsmarted them by sending ourselves pumpkin puree from Canada before we left.
So the Thanksgiving menu is as follows: Roast Chicken with gravy, stuffing with mushrooms, Davis family world famous mashed potatoes, broccoli with cheese sauce, green beans and Pumpkin Pie with whipped cream. Not bad at all.
This now brings us to the part where I outline those things for which I am thankful. Apart from the obvious, I am most thankful that today, out of the blue, the North American Sports Network has started to appear on our Sky Cable. I have watched the Saskatchewan Roughriders play the Toronto Argonauts and now the St. Louis Blues are home to Vancouver Canucks. I’d blog more but I’m Canadian and have gone 126 days without watching a hockey game. Hockey is more important. Let me just say that I can’t wait to watch Hockey Night in Canada tomorrow.
Happy Thanksgiving to all and to all a good night.
