Thanksgiving day

THANKSGIVING DAY

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History

The Thanksgiving Day is a traditional celebration of the United States and Canada. In Europe, festivals were held before and after the harvest cycles to give thanks for a good harvest, and to celebrate after hard work with the rest of the community. Native Americans also celebrated the end of harvest .When the Europeans came to America it would be the first time, brought their own traditions (harvest festivals).

USA

Family Dinners

Most people in America celebrate this holiday with family gatherings in their homes where they prepare a feast. In many homes it is common to offer a prayer of thanks.

The traditional main course for dinner is a great roasted or baked turkey. This turkey is traditionally served with a stuffing made from cornbread and sage. It is traditionally served with jelly or cranberry sauce. Besides vegetable dishes are usually served like green beans, sweet potatoes and mashed potatoes with gravy; also usually served a variety of desserts, pie being the most popular pumpkin. It is also common to prepare the pecan pie and apple.

Parade in Manhattan Annually the department store chain Macy's makes a big parade through the streets of Manhattan, New York City, which attracts millions of people to the Broadway to see the huge giant balloons and witness performances by guest artists.

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Start shopping season

Most businesses and offices are closed on this day. Some stores, malls, restaurants and bars stay open. Next Friday is the party's traditional opening of the holiday shopping season. This day is known as Black Friday. Stores and shops all offer bargain prices.

CANADA

Canada Thanksgiving is a statutory holiday in most jurisdictions of Canada.

As a liturgical festival, Thanksgiving corresponds to the English and continental European Harvest festival, with churches decorated with cornucopias, pumpkins, corn, wheat sheaves, and other harvest bounty, English and European harvest hymns sung at the end of week Sunday Thanksgiving.

Although the Thanksgiving holiday actually on a Monday, Canadians can reunite for their Thanksgiving holiday on any day during the long weekend.

The foods that are traditionally served at Thanksgiving: roasted turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes with gravy, sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce, sweet corn, various vegetables and pumpkin pie. Thanksgiving in Canada is also often a time for weekend getaways.

Traditions as parades can be part of Thanksgiving in Canada. The Kitchener- Waterloo Oktoberfest parade is the parade of the Day of Action With best known in Canada and airs nationally on CTV. The Canadian Football League has a national television doubleheader, the Thanksgiving Day Classic. It is one of the two weeks in which the league plays on Monday afternoon, the other being the Labour Day Classic. Unlike the Labour Day games, the teams playing in the Thanksgiving Day Classic vary each year.