Happy Thanksgiving

As I already mentioned, I had my turkey last weekend, so while all of you are enjoying your turkey and cranberry sauce tomorrow, I'm not sure yet what my plans will be. But since I had my turkey already, I'm okay with that.

My sort-of funny Thanksgiving story is that, when I was in Arua, I was describing Thanksgiving to one of the trainers. I told him that it was a day to give thanks for everything we have, and originated with the first immigrants to the US who were happy to be alive. Then I began to describe the elements of a traditional Thanksgiving dinner. What is stuffing?

"Well, it's mostly breadcrumbs with some seasonings and usually you take all of the organs out of the turkey and you put the bread inside the turkey and you bake it. Then you take the stuffing out and you eat it."

As I explained this, I decided that the concept of stuffing is actually not very appealing if you really think about it. It's basically bread stuffed inside a turkey. It was obvious from the look I got from the trainer that this idea was really not something that sounded tempting to him.

Oh well. Just another American custom that won't catch on elsewhere maybe.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone. Have a slice of pie for me.