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Thanksgiving and Other Reasons to Over-eat with No Historical Regrets
Thanksgiving.
Turkey, family, and a nap.
All hail the holiday season!
Who would have thought a day to celebrate historical events most of us have no idea about would turn into a free-reign buffet line combined with a Bed, Bath and Beyond public relations tool on a fall Thursday?
Not exactly idolization of the pilgrims and indians, is it?
Folks, the staff at NH DotComedy likes Thanksgiving as much as the next lazy, fat group of NFL fans, but shouldn't we stop sometimes, take a deep breath, take the candied yam out of our piehole and try to find some respect for the fourth Thursday in November?
It's not just a day off work, folks. Thanksgiving is more than just Black Friday Eve, and DotComedy staff thinks that gets overlooked more than it should.
Look, no one here is trying to jam the historical meaning of Thanksgiving down your gullet like a drumstick greased up with gravy and guilt, but the bottom line is there is a reason this is a national holiday. Sorry if all you Rachel Ray cult followers look at this as nothing more than a reason to try out those Justin Bieber pot holders, but there is a reason we all spend this coming Thursday concocting ways to loosen up the buttons on our Levis.
Tom Turkey is a great icon, assuming we all believe Plymouth Rock and everything else associated with Thanksgiving is nothing more than a pipe dream, but at the end of the day, Thanksgiving should be about more than overeating and Rolaids.
Is it really all about dinner? Is that why we all get a day off work and the post office shuts down on a Thursday? If that is the case, maybe we should have National Hamburger Day recognized and have American Greetings Cards dripping in grease and American cheese flying off the shelves on a Tuesday in March with cows being pardoned by the president.
Again, we like Thanksgiving, but in our older age, we just need the holiday to mean more than just a reason to eat a wild bird we don't normally taste unless our freezer is empty with the exception of a Swanson TV dinner.
There has to be a happy medium.
So here is a radical thought: Appreciate for what it is truly about while you are bloating yourself with stuffing and niblet corn.
The Wednesday before is a great party night. The Friday after is a day set off from the main calendar to get absurd in a department store at 4 a.m. Thursday HAS to be about more than just Butterball and pumpkin pie.
At least, we hope it is, folks. Happy Thanksgiving.
Got a problem with that?
Take it up with Rachel Ray.
BTilton@News-Herald.com
Turkey, family, and a nap.
All hail the holiday season!
Who would have thought a day to celebrate historical events most of us have no idea about would turn into a free-reign buffet line combined with a Bed, Bath and Beyond public relations tool on a fall Thursday?
Not exactly idolization of the pilgrims and indians, is it?
Folks, the staff at NH DotComedy likes Thanksgiving as much as the next lazy, fat group of NFL fans, but shouldn't we stop sometimes, take a deep breath, take the candied yam out of our piehole and try to find some respect for the fourth Thursday in November?
It's not just a day off work, folks. Thanksgiving is more than just Black Friday Eve, and DotComedy staff thinks that gets overlooked more than it should.
Look, no one here is trying to jam the historical meaning of Thanksgiving down your gullet like a drumstick greased up with gravy and guilt, but the bottom line is there is a reason this is a national holiday. Sorry if all you Rachel Ray cult followers look at this as nothing more than a reason to try out those Justin Bieber pot holders, but there is a reason we all spend this coming Thursday concocting ways to loosen up the buttons on our Levis.
Tom Turkey is a great icon, assuming we all believe Plymouth Rock and everything else associated with Thanksgiving is nothing more than a pipe dream, but at the end of the day, Thanksgiving should be about more than overeating and Rolaids.
Is it really all about dinner? Is that why we all get a day off work and the post office shuts down on a Thursday? If that is the case, maybe we should have National Hamburger Day recognized and have American Greetings Cards dripping in grease and American cheese flying off the shelves on a Tuesday in March with cows being pardoned by the president.
Again, we like Thanksgiving, but in our older age, we just need the holiday to mean more than just a reason to eat a wild bird we don't normally taste unless our freezer is empty with the exception of a Swanson TV dinner.
There has to be a happy medium.
So here is a radical thought: Appreciate for what it is truly about while you are bloating yourself with stuffing and niblet corn.
The Wednesday before is a great party night. The Friday after is a day set off from the main calendar to get absurd in a department store at 4 a.m. Thursday HAS to be about more than just Butterball and pumpkin pie.
At least, we hope it is, folks. Happy Thanksgiving.
Got a problem with that?
Take it up with Rachel Ray.
BTilton@News-Herald.com
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