OT - the heck with Xmas - who's is getting ready for Thanksgiving

"Cheryl Isaak" wrote

I know this is mean, but it is late and night and it has been a long day at the store, and none of the tills balanced properly so.....

(Big smug smile) Thanksgiving is already over where I am.

Dawne

That is mean, but I'm going to shop today for the ingredients for the most decadent chocolate truffle pie on earth that will come with me to my friends house on Thanksgiving. Lucky me, she will do all the hard work and I get to do the chocolate.

Lucille

Hee hee hee - I just made that comment to a friend yesterday. I pointed out to him like separation between church and state, we have separation between Thanksgiving and Xmas turkeys.

Recipe !

I'll go look for it and send it shortly.

My son is cooking the turkey at his home. Everyone (me, his sister, his inlaws) are bringing appetizers, side dishes, and/or desserts. If my daughter isn't making it, I'm supposed to bring the ever popular green bean casserole. I'm also going to bring 'hello dollies' because a holiday feast isn't complete without chocolate. A recipe for the cookies can be found at:

Good one, saved that ! Can't get much easier.

Oh dear

Thanksgiving is the only holiday we look forward to, so I'm content plan... C

I'm going to shop today for the ingredients for the most

Here it is. Very, very easy. It's extremely rich and goes a long way because most people only want a sliver. It's nice to top it with a dollop of whipped cream too, just to add a little more unhealthy fat. ;^)

I don't think it was mean. Thanksgiving has long been over here, as well. We don't do thanks only on one day, anyway. It's another overblown holiday, as well. I mean, I'm happy for people who have families who celebrate, but it really reminds me of barbarians who would grab hunks of meat and cheese and stuff themselves while the slaves chained to the cave starved. How's that for mean? LOL Victoria

Now who is being mean. Lucille, stop tempting us and surrender the chocolate recipe. Dawne

Well, a bit vivid!!---but not really mean. Working in a store for the past couple of holiday seasons has really opened my eyes. For so many people, any holiday seems to be just one more reason to shop. My store is not in a mall, but next to one, and like all of the stores in the mall we are open every day of the year except Christmas Day. But only the grocery store in the mall could really be said to be selling necessities of life.

Why is that necessary??

When I was growing up the stores were open late one night a week, closed Sunday and Monday, and on many holidays. I know life is more complicated now, and many households do not have someone at home during the day to go shopping, so I understand more night shopping. And Sunday is not universally the day to worship in a multicultural society . But do people have to shop on Thanksgiving Day?

The one that troubles me most is Remembrance Day. That day (before going in to work), I listened to a local talk show host trying to whip up support for making it a statutory holiday all across Canada. He was asking "what could Canadians do with that day?" I am sure he was thinking things like visit the veterans section of the cemetary. I told the radio, "They will hit the mall, then pick up a Starbucks and wander through our magazine section, leaving piles of magazines on every chair in the store." I was right.

Shouldn't there be a few days when we don't have to shop??

Dawne

Here it is again. Sorry for my Sunday morning confusion. Up too late and out of bed too early.

In message , Lucille writes

Shirley

oops -- you might have already known what to use but that recipe didn't tell you that you should use sweetened condensed milk, not evaporated milk.

I felt quite bitter a couple of years ago when Sunday Shopping was instituted here, just because all the rest of you had it and NS was 'behind the times' -

All the arguments about it were so putrid, no they do not need extra time. The store hours were far shorter when my family was young, stores opened in the evenings in December only, one of us had to give up a lunch hour each month to go and deposit our paper pay cheques, there were no bank machines so you had to figure out how much cash you were going to need.

I think it is a question of being organized. I find it a pity we now have Sunday Shopping, not that I have ever been in one on a Sunday, nor will I ever.

Sounds like I am missing out, won't shop on Sunday and won't go to Wartmart at any price - but here I am still alive and well and lecturing lol

Each square is one ounce.

Enjoy!