Turkey Day

Let me start off by wishing you all a Happy ThanksGiving. What is ThanksGiving anyways? When the pilgrims came to America, the Indians helped them with food and shelter so they can live through the cold winter. The pilgrims survived the winter and the next year as a means of saying thanks to the Indians, the pilgrims hosted a feast with food and fun. Those days turkeys were available in plenty and was used to feed the people. That is how turkey became a part of ThanksGiving. Well, that is just a preview of ThanksGiving by me. You can get more information on this on the google.

Now that the big day is here, I went to the shop with a determination to make turkey this year. I usually make chicken instead, as it tastes good and is not dry unlike turkey and is also small, catering to my needs. But this year, I wanted to follow the tradition and make a turkey dinner. I went on the net, got the receipies for turkey, gravy, and mashed potatoes, made a list of ingridients that I needed and off I went turkey hunting on the night before the actual ThanksGiving. I was in the grocery store, hoping to find the smallest bird possible (at this point, let us just hope that I find a turkey to start with).

I was in the store looking at the ads saying 'You will never go home without a turkey today'. I went to the right aisle, looking for the bird. I saw dozens of shoppers there for the same reason. All of them were getting a bird for themselves. I found a 10 pounder and got all the things that I needed. I will make my ThanksGiving dinner today and will post tomorrow how it turned out. :-)

But the point that I am trying to make here is, most everyone is trying to make turkey for ThanksGiving and are shopping for it in the last minute. If turkeys are not available, will we stop saying our thanks? We should say thanks to what we got, no matter whether we put a turkey on the table or not.