Thanksgiving is a holiday that cancel culture has been targeting even before the pandemic. It became very apparent at this time last year that all culture, even down to the family level was being attacked when they targeted Halloween and Christmas. The news is telling us not to even celebrate this Autumn harvest festival and feast with our family...just stay at home as a paranoid, antisocial losers eating takeout and watching movies.
I like to keep the parts of tradition that make sense, such as celebrating feast, harvest, thanks and abundance, while discarding the unnecessary parts like feasting on a factory-farmed bird when we're already over-fed on factory-farmed mammals. This sunny and colourful Thanksgiving, I was thankful to walk to the Farmers Market (where most people take off their masks and smile) with my family, and pay cash for a locally grown piece of produce and roast it for dinner.
It felt like a real experience again, one that humans have been having for thousands of years - gathering local produce for a harvest feast! It makes sense, it's real, it's a part of us. And being able to walk, pay cash, and ignore the Covid bullshit for a minute was great.
The squash smells good! Let's eat!!
It does, indeed! Some baked potatoes would go great, but we already ate a few pounds of those in the form of delicious hash browns for breakfast to power our trip to the Market, haha! I love calling it that. I was too tired to make pumpkin pie, so that cheezecake will have to be pie-like enough with its crumble on the bottom.
Winter squash are indigenous to North America and were introduced to the Europeans during colonization. Many Natives of North America probably had a harvest festival at this time and feasted on squash. We say the media's version of reconciliation is bullshit, and what we should really do is be inclusive, learn about history, and eat squash instead of turkey or ham on Thanksgiving. Oh, also, we say call it Danksgiving because there should be cannabis harvest and edibles involved!
!LUV acorn squash! Excellent choice
Mmmm same here! And I would !LUV to see an "after" photo of that squash, all cooked and steaming .... drool....
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happy thanksgiving to you both!
we don't celebrate it here although i'm grateful :D
nice butter squash :) is it with cane sugar & cinnamon?
probably not canna buter :P