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ORIGINAL: Marc2b
Got some coal in the stocking huh? That's the only explanation I can come up with for that level of resentment.
I've neither the time nor the inclination to address every point but there are a few things I must answer.
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This is not normal behaviour, is it? You don't turn to someone in your life and say 'It's your birthday next month I better start shopping.
When it is someone's birthday you're only shopping for one person, with Christmas you're shopping for several.
It's not unusual to have several birthdays of family members very close to each other.
And from my own experience, most people don't bother for birthday shopping until almost the 11th hour generally (that's assuming the guys actually remember the birthdays! lol)
I understood what she was getting at.
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ORIGINAL: Marc2b
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You don't wake up on a Monday morning and say 'Oh shit! I've only got six days left to buy the meat for Sunday dinner."
Not when it is dinner for a family of four or five... a dinner for twenty or thirty people on the other hand take some advanced planning.
Most of us over here don't usually have dinner for more than the immediate family.
Larger gatherings of more than that are not the norm over here.
For one, most of us don't have kitchens or homes big enough to cater for such large numbers. So for anything like this we would need to hire a hall or hotel or other such venue big enough to cater for more than a small group of people.
For another, most of us, even with a good salary, don't have that sort of spare cash to lash out on such huge amounts of food unless it's a special occasion such as a wedding or golden anniversary etc. Our income is less than half of those in equivalent jobs in the US and our cost of living is considerably higher.
I see what she is getting at - we buy our sunday meat on the Saturday prior to the immediate Sunday lunch or even on the same day.
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ORIGINAL: Marc2b
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How many of you are going to be sitting there at home and saying at some point 'I'm completely stuffed and can't eat another thing'? And how many of you will probably get up an hour and half later and make a sandwich?
In all of my Thanksgivings I have never seen anyone make a sandwich and hour and a half after the the meal... or even two hours or three hours. The sandwiches are for the next day. I've already got my mayo and cheese ready to go.
What you Americans tend to do regarding stuffing yourself stupid at Thanksgivings is what us Brits tend to do at xmas dinners (seeing as we don't have anything like Thanksgivings here).
And wherever I have been visiting friends and relatives, I have seen this behaviour pretty much most of the time here.
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ORIGINAL: Marc2b
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Take turkey for instance. Let's face it, turkey is a big ugly bird which by rights should have been extinct, but survives because people force themselves to eat its dry, bland, tasteless meat.
Dry? Bland? Tasteless? Somebody in your circle needs some cooking lessons. When done properly turkey is juicy and delicious. Also, turkeys are doing just fine in the wild. They are intelligent birds and surprisingly fast and any hunter who bags one has earned some major bragging rights.
My turkey isn't ever dry.
But to be honest, it's hardly a very tasty meat is it?
I couldn't give a flying fuck if I never tasted the bird ever again for the rest of my life.
Unless it's spiced up, it really is quite tasteless.
Turkeys don't run wild here either. They are farmed purely for xmas in large turkey farms.
So nobody over here could go bag a turkey.
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ORIGINAL: Marc2b
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I live in London. You can go down any High Street in London and you will find places where you can buy pizza, kebabs, chicken and burgers, or burgers, pasta, pizzas, chicken and kebabs, or even burgers, pizza, chicken and kebabs. You don't find anyone selling turkey anywhere. Burger King and MacDonalds don't offer turkey and KFC is probably so successful because it is Kentucky Fried Chicken and not Kentucky Fried Turkey.
I can go into any deli, any grocery store, and find turkey for sale any time of the year. I can go to any sub shop and get a turkey sub any time of the year.
Actually, turkey is not that common over here.
You can't just go into any grocery store or supermarket here and buy turkey.
You also don't have a 'turkey sub' in our Subways over here either - it's not an option. In all the Subway's I've been in I have never seen turkey on the Subway menu. Chicken, yes. Beef, yes. Steak, yes. Cheese & bacon, yes. All sorts of sliced meat including the likes of ham, pastrami, salami etc... but never turkey.
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ORIGINAL: Marc2b
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But this doesn't stop people buying turkey for all the major Christian holidays and forcing themselves to eat it.
I have never heard of anybody having turkey on Easter. What other major Christian holidays are there? Well, at least ones that have crossed over to the mainstream. I suppose you could include Valentine's day but that is all about chocolate. Saint Patrick's day? Corned beef and beer. Mardi Gras? Booze and boobs.
Well, if you are going to hate Christmas, that is your prerogative... but I'm still going to wish you a happy one.
I think the only majorly 'christian' holiday we have here is xmas.
You could count Easter I suppose but that's basically chocolate eggs for the kids.
I can't think of any others off the top of my head.
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