UK - Celebrating Thanksgiving?
 

Recently on Coronation Street- the long-running British soap - it was said by several characters that Brits are beginning to have a Thanksgiving Meal on Thanksgiving Day (US) - that is more and more.

Any truth to that?

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-st...-a6749046.html

Well I guess it is so!

Celebrating getting rid of us, are they? I'd think, given Canada has a Thanksgiving, too, that they might adopt that date (in October) instead, being more politically connected. But I wonder why, at all.

I must lead a sheltered life as I've never known anyone except NA ex-pats celebrate Thanksgiving

And then there's Paris: http://www.thanksgivingparis.com/

It was on my list but I never got there. I think the focus is more ex-pats and the closet curious.

no.

Next question?

We DO celebrate Thanksgiving.

Every July 4

I guess soon that London will have a Thanksgiving Parade- Santa Claus et all - just like the clone of an American New Years Day Parade?

Nope, only time I have seen it is American restaurants (rib/BBQ places) catering to Americans.

Why would British people celebrate an American holiday like Thanksgiving???

I really hope not. It's bad enough that Halloween is becoming a monster imported from the US, without forcing us to eat turkey twice in a month. That is the height of cruelty.

Sadly the shops here are busy promoting Halloween and trick or treating. It is a completely alien concept here in the Netherlands, but commercialism will no doubt win, and the gentler, friendlier, but less commercial Sint Maarten (11 November) will suffer as a result.

Why would British people celebrate an American holiday like Thanksgiving???>

Probably what they said about Halloween too not long ago?

That's my question but on Corrie several characters said they knew people who were having Thanksgiving dinners - one asked 'they must be from the states, right - "no - they're from Lancastershire'

It seems this is mainly a restaurant trend - according to the Independent article I link to above - folks who work have no time for the laborious preps needed for an at home Thanksgiving meal.

ditto here, Hets. i barely remember anything about Hallowe'en from my childhood, then it was all about Nov 5th. now the supermarkets are full of ways to "celebrate" hallowe'en.

Doesn't seem like the right word to me.

P, American culture is aweinspiring or indeed awful as we say in the UK. It gets everywhere. I saw someone drinking coke at a meal recently. When these final barriers crumble we are all doomed.

We even have a black lives matter movement.

It really is very sad, almost as if there is some sort of globalisation thing going on.

Do I intend to celebrate the actions where the American natives helped the interlopers survive only to be rewarded by being slaughtered, sent on the walk of a thousand tears, driven into welfare dependency? Seems unlikely.

Maybe next time you celebrate Holocaust day, 27 Jan BTW, you should stop and think how much pain comes from Thanksgiving

If a 6th of the population is about to celebrate thanksgiving, then there should be about 10 million of them.
I'm not pretending I know that many people, but among my circle of friends, colleagues and acquaintances, what number are likely to participate in such an event.

Zero, Not a sausage, Bugger All.

I assume that Thanksgiving is the English harvest festival and harvest supper taken to the New World. Both still survive but are organised by churches.
The American halloween seems to be a combination of the British Halloween and mischief night.
Apple bobbing, biting at treacle scones and performing tricks in return for treats, have been replaced by begging with menaces.
Perhaps the killer clowns will do us a favour by making house calls a thing of the past and reviving Halloween parties indoors.

I've never heard of anyone except American expats celebrating Thanksgiving.

Halloween is becoming a thing here (Belgium), no doubt helped by the fact that November 1st is a national holiday. So October 31st is a good night for a party.

Canadians celebrate our version of Thanksgiving the 2nd Monday in Oct. It is to celebrate the harvest - nothing to do with pilgrims.

>>one asked 'they must be from the states, right - "no - they're from Lancastershire'<<

That's somewhere near Manchesterford, I assume.