My Thanksgiving pet peeve....

my main cleaning products in my house are baking soda and white vinegar and apple cider vinegar..
there isn't much you can't get clean with those..they are safer for you and the things you clean them with..plus they do a better job

i get about 4 gallons of each and about 8 boxes of baking soda every time i go shopping..
you can even do your laundry with them..a lot of people think..omg my clothes will smell like vinegar..
not at all ..they smell great and feel comfy and you don't damage your clothes as much with them..

Well i figured this would be a great place to place the first version i found on the net about how thanksgiving came about lol..
I just did a google search and grabbed the first one without reading it..so it's luck of the draw..lets see how close it lines up..heheheheh



Most stories of Thanksgiving
history start with the harvest celebration of the pilgrims and the indians that took place in the autumn of 1621. Although they did have a three-day feast in celebration of a good harvest, and the local indians did participate, this "first Thanksgiving" was not a holiday, simply a gathering. There is little evidence that this feast of thanks led directly to our modern Thanksgiving Day holiday. Thanksgiving can, however, be traced back to 1863 when Pres. Lincoln became the first president to proclaim Thanksgiving Day. The holiday has been a fixture of late November ever since.

However, since most school children are taught that the first Thanksgiving was held in 1621 with the pilgrims and indians, let us take a closer look at just what took place leading up to that event, and then what happened in the centuries afterward that finally gave us our modern Thanksgiving.

The Pilgrims who sailed to this country aboard the Mayflower were originally members of the English Separatist Church (a Puritan sect). They had earlier fled their home in England and sailed to Holland (The Netherlands) to escape religious persecution. There, they enjoyed more religious tolerance, but they eventually became disenchanted with the Dutch way of life, thinking it ungodly. Seeking a better life, the Separatists negotiated with a London stock company to finance a pilgrimage to America. Most of those making the trip aboard the Mayflower were non-Separatists, but were hired to protect the company's interests. Only about one-third of the original colonists were Separatists.

The Pilgrims set ground at Plymouth Rock on December 11, 1620. Their first winter was devastating. At the beginning of the following fall, they had lost 46 of the original 102 who sailed on the Mayflower. But the harvest of 1621 was a bountiful one. And the remaining colonists decided to celebrate with a feast -- including 91 Indians who had helped the Pilgrims survive their first year. It is believed that the Pilgrims would not have made it through the year without the help of the natives. The feast was more of a traditional English harvest festival than a true "thanksgiving" observance. It lasted three days.

Governor William Bradford sent "four men fowling" after wild ducks and geese. It is not certain that wild turkey was part of their feast. However, it is certain that they had venison. The term "turkey" was used by the Pilgrims to mean any sort of wild fowl.

Another modern staple at almost every Thanksgiving table is pumpkin pie. But it is unlikely that the first feast included that treat. The supply of flour had been long diminished, so there was no bread or pastries of any kind. However, they did eat boiled pumpkin, and they produced a type of fried bread from their corn crop. There was also no milk, cider, potatoes, or butter. There was no domestic cattle for dairy products, and the newly-discovered potato was still considered by many Europeans to be poisonous. But the feast did include fish, berries, watercress, lobster, dried fruit, clams, venison, and plums.

This "thanksgiving" feast was not repeated the following year. Many years passed before the event was repeated. It wasn't until June of 1676 that another Day of thanksgiving was proclaimed. On June 20 of that year the governing council of Charlestown, Massachusetts, held a meeting to determine how best to express thanks for the good fortune that had seen their community securely established. By unanimous vote they instructed Edward Rawson, the clerk, to proclaim June 29 as a day of thanksgiving. It is notable that this thanksgiving celebration probably did not include the Indians, as the celebration was meant partly to be in recognition of the colonists' recent victory over the "heathen natives.


A hundred years later, in October of 1777 all 13 colonies joined in a thanksgiving celebration. It also commemorated the patriotic victory over the British at Saratoga. But it was a one-time affair.

George Washington proclaimed a National Day of Thanksgiving in 1789, although some were opposed to it. There was discord among the colonies, many feeling the hardships of a few pilgrims did not warrant a national holiday. And later, President Thomas Jefferson opposed the idea of having a day of thanksgiving.

It was Sarah Josepha Hale, a magazine editor, whose efforts eventually led to what we recognize as Thanksgiving. Hale wrote many editorials championing her cause in her Boston Ladies' Magazine, and later, in Godey's Lady's Book. Finally, after a 40-year campaign of writing editorials and letters to governors and presidents, Hale's obsession became a reality when, in 1863, President Lincoln proclaimed the last Thursday in November as a national day of Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving was proclaimed by every president after Lincoln. The date was changed a couple of times, most recently by Franklin Roosevelt, who set it up one week to the next-to-last Thursday in order to create a longer Christmas shopping
season. Public uproar against this decision caused the president to move Thanksgiving back to its original date two years later. And in 1941, Thanksgiving was finally sanctioned by Congress as a legal holiday, as the fourth Thursday in November.

I hate it when people tell me to "Have a good day."
That's a lot of pressure. Let's say I don't have a good day... Now I'm saddled with a bad day AND guilt from knowing I let them down.

Maybe one day you will be blessed enough to be an American.

All righty then. Have a sucky, stinky, rotten un-Thanksgiving.

All better now.

If I recall correctly, they call then bum bags down under because "fanny" means something entirely different on their side of the pond. (Somewhere you would NOT be carrying a purse!)

I can't wait til Christmas...........oh the venom that will be spewed over someone wishing everyone a Merry Christmas!!!

Yeah, I know we are NOT in the majority there either........but, I'll still wish the world Merry Christmas.

thats the best one cause we can wish it the whole holiday shopping season
Hey that started today

Merry Christmas everyone and a happy new year \o/

damn straight..if it wasn't for America there would be no Al gore..
the man who gave us the internet and global warming.
omg i almost made me spit my own drink out.. hehehehe

Do you not have a day to give Thanks and count blessings?

Maybe you should.

Strange thing is that does happen. Cities even get sued for having Christmas decorations in public places.

The Grinch used to just be a cartoon!

I LMAO to myself quietly when I was in bed last night, and this post came to mind. Just struck me funny like that. I hope that someone saying something nice to me, wishing me a nice 'any kind' of a day, is the worst thing I ever have happen to me. And, to all of you as well.

/me waves at Amara. Thank you! Happy almost Kwaanza!

Your BFs and hubbies couldn't wait till you were finished to take a dump?

That's just rude.

Unless you take really, really, really long showers.

Since you don't even know your geography, how could you possible know how the rest of the world view us?

i have 3 bathrooms..it's the out of bed version of the over the head with the sheets thing..oh whats that called??
dutch oven or something like that..

Amen. I was hoping someone would reply like that.

Or that if you're not American, your opinion doesn't even count anyway.

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Not that I'd say something like that.

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Doesn't bitching about bitching also count as whiny ass bitching?

Sometimes.........but it's fun.

slaps a post-it note on the Count's forehead to remind every one that he is not an American. If you find it offensive people being nice to you, put a freaking tag on your head telling them so.

And since Black Friday is also only an American thing, be sure that you do not partake in any of the special sales for today or this weekend.

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What kind of person gets pissed off because someone wished them well on a Holiday their country does not celebrate?

"Bah humbug" and all that is starting early it seems.

No, cities get in trouble for using PUBLIC money for putting up Christmas decorations, which is clearly a violation of the Constitutional separation between church and state. Not everybody is a Christian, so governments shouldn't endorse anything that is or seems to be an endorsement of one religion.

/me rolls eyes.

Some people love to argue.

Okay. You're right. There has never, ever been an example where a city has been sued simply for ALLOWING public places to be decorated for Christmas. Never. Ever. Ever.

Happy?

And thanks for the religion/history lesson.