Being Thankful

Whether You Like It Or Not

This post shall reveal Berle’s popular Thanksgiving dinner. Well, it’s popular according to at least three readers who have said it’s an excellent idea. The definition of popular is often an opinion.

The holiday season is here whether we like it or not. We don’t decide when it begins. That’s up to retailers. In the United States, they have products bulging out behind the Halloween displays, just waiting to burst as we near the 31st of October. If some of it does leak out in view of the general public, we will scream, and it will scuttle back into hiding.

The major retailers would put out Christmas stuff in September if we bought enough of it to justify its occupancy of valuable space. In fact they did try to do that. They put it out earlier and earlier until it was determined that right after Halloween is the sweet spot.

It used to be right after Thanksgiving, hence Black Friday. Imagine that. Imagine a world where there was less than a month of stores jammed with Christmas crap. It now seems like a sort of utopia.

But I’m focusing on Thanksgiving today. Rather, I’m focusing on Thanksgiving in the United States. Canada has already had theirs, those lucky bastards. Ours is jammed up too close to Christmas if you ask me (psst…nobody asked me).