Thanksgiving day is celebrated on the 4th Thursday of November in US, is similar to the Sankranthi festival celebrated in India - thanking god for a good harvest.
For this day more than 50 million turkeys are slaughtered and processed to fed America. But there is one lucky turkey (hmm..). Every year the the National Turkey Federation presents the US president with a turkey (specially trained to interact with him and the other VIPs) as a thanksgiving gesture. As a show of kindness, this turkey is granted the presidential pardoned and sent to (oops!!!) "Frying Pan Park" or to (wow!!!) Disneyland to spend the rest of its life.
I guess the fate of this bird is much better than the people of Iraq and Afghanistan where every day his army kills countless number of innocent people.
For this day more than 50 million turkeys are slaughtered and processed to fed America. But there is one lucky turkey (hmm..). Every year the the National Turkey Federation presents the US president with a turkey (specially trained to interact with him and the other VIPs) as a thanksgiving gesture. As a show of kindness, this turkey is granted the presidential pardoned and sent to (oops!!!) "Frying Pan Park" or to (wow!!!) Disneyland to spend the rest of its life.
I guess the fate of this bird is much better than the people of Iraq and Afghanistan where every day his army kills countless number of innocent people.
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Well talking about Thanksgiving .... the most endearing thing to me about it is ...........the Turkey.
Almost every other serial on Star World has a big roast turkey on the table. Looks very delicious and reminds me that I got to order one (a small one though) from the local Deli Express which specializes in Turkey (or Vaan-koli as they call it here).
Happy Thanksgiving!!!
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