Monday of the Turkeys

Not Thanksgiving related at all, but I really like this song.

All The Same To Me, by Anya Marina:

♦For your enjoyment, a really interesting article about the history of mincemeat pie.

♦A really neat idea for making mini pumpkin pies. (Use mini-muffin pans.)

♦The "Perfect Sugar Cookie recipe" from The Sweet Adventures of Sugar Belle.

♦Now presenting the infamously bad Kwanza cake from Sandra Lee!

Some Thanksgiving Trivia from National Geographic:

     ♦The largest pumpkin pie ever made weighed 2,020 pounds (916.25 kilograms).

     ♦A ripe cranberry will bounce.

     ♦All turkeys and chickens have wishbones.

     ♦Canadians celebrate their own Thanksgiving every October.

     ♦Abraham Lincoln declared a national day of Thanksgiving in 1863.

     ♦The first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade was held in 1924


If you want more tivia, quiz yourself here.

Source

　
♦For my sentimental friends, Seven authors talk about their family traditions. One of them is by Garrison Keillor. (I love the Mr. Turkey one.)

♦To honor my vegetarian friends. Here is a vegetarian’s take on Thanksgiving.

　
♦Here is a HUGE LIST of vegetarian dishes that would be awesome for Turkey Day.

♦Thanksgiving Cake Wrecks.

♦There is a great movement to combat consumerism. The idea behind Buy Nothing Day is to boycott the madness of Black Friday. Doing so sends a message to retailers that we as consumers won’t fall for their madness.
     *Wiki Page
     *Adbusters

Have  great Thanksgiving! (Go easy on your poor stomachs!)

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