It is Thanksgiving weekend here in Canada, which apparently does not match up with the same holiday/celebration in the U.S. Either we were keen to jump the gun here in Canada, or our turkey marketers felt it might be advantageous to cull the herds (flocks?) well in advance of our neighbours to the south. Either way, it has nothing to do with any of the historical features of the season in America - but we didn’t put much thought to coming up with a better name.

I do get an image of early Canadians watching a romantic comedy filmed in Hollywood about the holiday, and a light bulb going off. After consulting a calendar and realizing that our corn and pumpkins would be primarily buried under three feet of snow later in the year, we moved up our version of the holiday, and now observe it in early October. We compensated by moving Octoberfest to December, Christmas to January, and Valentine’s Day to June. True facts! I’m not sure what happened with Easter, but that holiday moves around every flippin’ year anyway - who can keep track??

Well, I’m about to do my annual shaping of the Spam into a breast of turkey. With a couple of hot dogs for drumsticks, this is going to be yet another salivation sensation!

Chow for now! And Happy Thanksgiving, fellow Canucks....