"How the Turkey Ran Away From This Thanksgiving Day"-An Expat's GuideTo Choosing How to Celebrate Thanksgiving

Our first Thanksgiving meal experience was in Hong Kong, seventeen years ago, when we were allowed, as the only Brits to join a truly Hong Kong- American celebration.

During our 5 years in Hong Kong, we learned to make turkeys out of socks. Jonny wrote a poem about the challenge of finding a kosher turkey, when the only kosher store in Hong Kong did not have one. And we discovered that football does not always involve kicking a ball around a pitch with your feet.

We have celebrated many of our 12 Thanksgivings in the USA with our dear Canadian friends-well what are Brits and Canadians without American family, meant to do...???

This year, as last we will be at home instead and in true British style we have opted for---wait for it----and I apologize in advance to die hard  Thanksgiving traditionalists---

 ROAST BEEF.

Now before all you Americans turn off your computers/smartphones in disgust, humor me a little. 

We have taken on many things here:-supersized soda, basketball and baseball and twizzlers. We have had to adapt to a new language. We have dropped our u's out of some words such as coloUr andFavoUrite, and introduced others such as awesome, cool and good job to our vocabulary.

 But when it comes to food you know we are a little more particular - picky about our choice of English tea, picky about our Coleman's English mustard and  picky about our Cadbury's chocolate. 

So when I asked my family what they wanted to eat on Thanksgiving, their British roots came to the fore and they announced as a single voice.... 

"Roast beef."

So we are thankful that we can have Thanksgiving. We love the fact that everyone in the USA, from every religion, culture, country and background is celebrating Thanksgiving at the same time. 

And we are thankful that we are free and healthy  to choose what we eat and when we eat and we have a warm, safe home to eat it in, together.

We know that these simple, universal primary needs are not a given for everyone world wide. Our hearts go out to those who have lost their homes and heat and havens. 

And as we choose to eat what we love, in our own home, our prayers for peace and safety are with those around the world who can't. 

And after we have been able to celebrate Thanksgiving in which ever way we choose, we need to get up from our comfy armchairs and do something to increase the comfort of others.

Tell me about your favorite Thanksgiving experience.

Happy Thanksgiving  to all of you in the USA and Happy Thursday to all of you around the world....

(and if you'd rather be eating roast beef  or something other than the traditional turkey, you can tell me in confidence. I'll completely understand!!)

Love 

Gillyx

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