Good read for newer vegans: 10 Things I Wish I Knew Before I Went Vegan

Perhaps turkey week isn’t the best time to promote a healthy plant based diet, but here goes nothing.. Take a read to the link mentioned. So far as I journey deeper into a vegan lifestyle, everything on the list is true.. And then some.
Later I’ll find some good resources for people who want to maintain their health standards when they go from meat based to plant based.. After two solid weeks of being meet free I’m feeling detoxed and fresh, but had some moments where I upped certain vitamins to eliminate any possibility of deficiency.

The ultimate goal is to get your health through food. In our age it’s possible by weeding out he false prophets of GMO and fad foods..

There is a dilemma facing me this week. Thanksgiving. Will I eat turkey or not? I’m leaning towards the chance I’ll have one little morsel of tasty dark meat. Maybe. We will see. I can’t predict that at this time.

There’s a will? There’s a way.
Or whey.

Good read for newer vegans: 10 Things I Wish I Knew Before I Went Vegan

Where's Thanksgiving's Horror Movie?

INVERSE has a great question..
It may be the one holiday that merely gets satirical horror .. 

I think a good Pilgrim Zombie villain is in order.. Thanksgiving needs a bit of horror.

Maybe some short film makers will be up to the task that Hollywood has never been.

Gobble Gobble.

Where's Thanksgiving's Horror Movie?

Millions to Face Thanksgiving Travel Delays From Atlanta to NYC

Be warned. The biggest party night of the year may have some obstacles thrown at it by nature.

Millions to Face Thanksgiving Travel Delays From Atlanta to NYC

A lot of weather models are predicting THIS for Thanksgiving. The blue isn’t rain. As you’d expect when arctic air invades. This particular run is the European Model.

As for the chances of this happening? I’d still go with maybe..oh..a 20% likelihood.

Too much has to come together in a perfect manner to  make it snow big.

And to be honest, I’m not a kid anymore, so I really don’t care for snow when millions of people are traveling..

One thing so far this soon to be winter I have noticed: The 7 to 10 day forecasts have been completely misguided and inaccurate. Weather model runs are going nuts with the wrong forecasts..

A very wintry weather pattern is setting up across the United States.. A 'fun' time may mean a snowy time..

So says Henry Margusity from Accuweather..

Let’s hope we all get ‘home’ for Thanksgiving 2013

A very wintry weather pattern is setting up across the United States.. A 'fun' time may mean a snowy time..

Big Turkeys Are Harder To Come By This Thanksgiving - CBS Minnesota

Your bird may be smaller this year. If you eat less, think of the bright side: You won’t be as tired.

Right?

Big Turkeys Are Harder To Come By This Thanksgiving - CBS Minnesota

HEADS UP!

This model represents a possible scenario for Thanksgiving/Black Friday next week…

Turkey topped with snow? Maybe.

Happy Hallow’s Day.

RELAX. IT’S OVER.

ALL HALLOW’S EVE has ended.. Trick or treat night ended up being rainy for little Ayden.. the dark side of the night actually became intensified—it was like the ancient Celts were right .. I felt a thin vale slowly lifting for a bit as the wind and rain poured down over streets vaguely light by night lights and glowing orange Halloween decor.. But the night, as things go, is over. Quickly.. And now we march as a civilization into the other season. In America, Thanksgiving. And across the world; Christmas. Santa Claus is putting away the Halloween mask and warming up the sleigh.. His slave labor camp is going into high gear.. Elves’ breaks are stopping. Hope he put the suicide nets outside of the North Pole. 

Onto Christmas we go, world! 
For better or worse.

So much for Presidential Pardons! Barack Obama pardoned the turkey named Peace last year. We find out now that he was euthanized.

So much for Presidential Pardons! Barack Obama pardoned the turkey named Peace last year. We find out now that he was euthanized.

I would say this is the best meal of the year..Seriously great food, great family, great fun.. Great thanks.

Sure, we have this silly notion that Thanksgiving is about Pilgrims and Natives sitting at a table enjoying a meal. That may have happened but it wasn’t until Abraham Lincoln that this whole thing even became a national holiday, and that was after a big social campaign to have him do it during the Civil War. And yes, some even think there is a much darker and more sordid history of Thanksgiving than one portrayed in history books. We do know there is a pretty rough section of history large not told to young aspiring students in school. America’s government often (and still often does) treated Native Americans with contempt.. White landowners didn’t have their land until a trail of tears forced original settlers off of it. That is the dark history of this nation. One that cannot be ignored.

But we really cannot change much of that now. can we?

At this point we can only make sure the turkey is cooked and the filling isn’t raw. I don’t mind lumpy potatoes.

History is something open for debate often..

So all debate aside, all untold history of sketchy pilgrim and Native American dinners ignored, why is it really that Americans eat like gluttons and sit for hours watching large men in stretch pants knock into each other?? Well, it’s all because of Sarah Hale. She wrote the letter than saved Thanksgiving and convinced Honest Abe to name it a day. There must have been a big brain in that large forehead, Sarah.

Without it, today would just be Thursday and most Americans would be stuck in the weekly grind .. Instead now we will gain 10 pounds, pass out in our sloth, and wake up early to be rude to each other at stores at 3am. The American way.

From the age of 16 until about a year and a half ago, I worked either full time or part time in the restaurant industry. I took a sabbatical from the profession since I had a full time job and a second full time job as a dad since 2011. Nonetheless, tonight was always a night of greatness in my restaurant recollection.

Pies. Lots of pies. 

The smell of turkey roasting in the oven in the restaurant kitchen. 

Setting tables up for reservations.. Making certain enough seating was available..

The magical ‘setup’ hours were fun times, in my memory.

Not like Mother’s Day. I despised worked Mother’s Day for a number of reasons—not because I hate Mother’s Day itself but more because I can’t stand the notion that so many kids see their moms once a year and their choice on that productive day is to take Mother to a busy restaurant with bad service and cold food. How lame.

But Thanksgiving? I always loved waiting tables on Thanksgiving. There was something fun about it.. something ‘holidayish’.. 

I am jealous of those who get to smell the wafting aroma of pies in restaurant kitchens across the United States tonight.

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AMERICA COMES HOME FOR THANKSGIVING 2012

A vegetarian guide to Thanksgiving

A vegetarian guide to Thanksgiving

Are you like me..?

For your sake I hope you’re not. But if you are even slightly like me you are angry that stores are opening early for Black Friday..

It’s black Thursday. Which is Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving day/night is now turning into a shopoholic wonderland. 

Even though families will still be sleeping off a big session of overeating, some in the family may have to cut the cranberries short and head for the mall to sit and watch buffoons and materialistic menaces dubbed ‘shoppers’ make for the entrances and race for good buys. While dinner plates are still being washed, some in the family will have to venture for the most dangerous place on earth: In the middle of two largeMarge type persons fighting over a sale. 

They used to have to do this on Black Friday.

This year stores are opening early. Very early. Like ………Thanksgiving evening early.

A little ridiculous in my book.

I know it’s a recession.. and the economy is woeful.. and we need money.. and companies want sales.. But not giving employees just that time to celebrate thanksgiving with family? Instead forcing them into their jobs even earlier than ever?

I say bah humbug. Of course it’s not the season yet to say that. But it’s coming quick. Thanks to stores forgetting about why Thanksgiving is a pretty darn cool day, even earlier.