h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

. Thanksgiving? We eat turkey, I think. My relatives that do eat meat. A few of them were on some sort of a 'vegetarian kick' for a few weeks a couple of years back though. I'm not so sure what they do instead. Maybe tofu or something like that,-sculpted into the shape of a turkey? Who knows.

Hey Thorny so Turkey for Thanksgiving ,what about christmas ? and how is college going

thanksgiving is allabout turkey and football....go falcons

Hi Crazy haven't seen you around the place lately
Is it just me or is it taking far to long to post tonight ?

College is . 'Time management' isd ugly, since I'm not quite so good at it yet.

The Spirit of Christmas = Presents.

Spirit of just immediately after Christmas half-off-sale though? If there is one for that too, it is probably less well known.

Who mentioned presents
Lovely shiny things wrapped up with bows
Thorny glad college is and how right you are about the sales,just thinking about it makes me weak

hi all

i believe the usual alternative to turkey for vegetarians is a nut cutlet thing.... so do you have turkey at thanksgiving and then also at xmas?? its only a few weeks apart....must be quite stressful 2 major celebrations with the full works type of meal within a month of each other....

i am a bit humbug about xmas resent spending ridiculous ammounts on it.. so now we don't...i hate the greedy commercialism of it all...bah humbug!!!

best thing about last year was a drive out to the brecon beacons on boxing day and they were covered in thick proper fluffy snow
haven't seen snow like that since 1982...

sometimes, (very occasionally) we'll have duck at Christmas. I can kind of remember that maybe-once or twice.

Now, now,- I thought the real meaning of Christmas was that it was another one of those (Eew! )-mushy holidays,...like Valentine's Day(Even though he was martyred in an evisceral manner. That (still) doesn't make up for it ).

yes now you mention it duck or goose is actually more traditional xmas fare.. suppose it makes the break from turkey

i say we should have a huge shaped like a turkey

I suppose...
Wouldn't want to place it in the oven though; It would get all melted and drippy.

true very true....don't want to slurp our chocolate turkey substitute thru a straw....

On the other hand though,-It would be alright to eat it frozen maybe .

take a lot of serious licking and luckily my teeth are fine now the rogue tooth is gone.......

I don't know though... a 'turkey-shaped' giant popsicle might have a hard time being fit into the regular grocery frozen-food aisle...
It would look interesting though, and probably attract some attention.

As I'm sure we are all well aware, Christams is the hijacking of the ancient pagan festival of Saturnalia by the Christians....
Yes, it is too commercialised but think of the presents, food and booze....

Christmas even ^^^

Chocolate and turkey ?
I know Christmas is commercial now but I just to remember all the happy childhood christmas's I had and my Dad loved the whole season so it has always been special to me.But am a helpless romantic at heart and love all the old films too.
Presents are always nice too and mistletoe