If you're Canadian and Jewish, your stomach might resemble a roller coaster.
Over the long weekend, you had Yom Kippur (day of fasting) from Friday sundown to Saturday sundown, and then Thanksgiving Sunday and Monday. Oy vey, eh!
Seriously, Happy Thanksgiving to our Canadian readers. Canada celebrates its Thanksgiving on the second Monday in October. A few in the United States also have today off for Columbus Day.
Canadians eat pretty much what Americans eat for Thanksgiving. Canadians are more likely to eat more wild animals (elk) than we do, but the basic menu is the same. Like the U.S. Thanksgiving, Canadians also celebrate with football on TV.
If you share lineage in both the United States and Canada, you can enjoy both Thanksgiving celebrations.
Sharing a Canadian Thanksgiving makes you appreciate the commonality between the two countries (as exemplified in our sister blog, CanadianCrossing.com), especially when it comes to food. And the weather is a lot nicer when Canada celebrates the festive holiday.
We also enjoy the Oktoberfest parade from Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario each year.
Posted by: CQ | October 10, 2011 at 12:55 PM
In Newfoundland they will usually include salt meat and cabbage to the menu. I highly recommend this (unless you aren't supposed to eat a LOT of salt) as it is delicious.
Posted by: SelahBeth | October 10, 2011 at 08:19 PM
A little salt meat and cabbage sounds good. A little. Just heard a CBC Radio report about obesity and diabetes levels in Newfoundland and Labrador being the highest in Canada.
Posted by: Chad | October 11, 2011 at 11:52 AM