What Does a West Indian Thanksgiving Dinner Consist Of?

Here's what I'm fixing for Thanksgiving...


A small turkey with turkey stuffing, giblet gravy, mashed potatoes, glazed carrots with squash, jellied cranberry sauce, and for dessert some apple pie and pumpkin pie. That's it... I usually kick out massive dinners with a plethora of different dishes but I'm lightening up this time.

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Come come now...

What part of the globe hasn't been bamboozled?  ::LOL::

What are they celebrating?

Who knows?  ::LOL::

Nobody has any idea what they're celebrating. It's just a pig out day.  ::LOL::
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Yes, because Bovine America needs more reasons to eat!

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West Indians planted and celebrated bountiful reaping of Crops .


Crop over is a famous Barbados festival and carnival 

                                                  http://www.barbados.org/cropover.htm#.VFpZMjTF_bM


Its origins can be traced back to the 1780's, a time when Barbados was the world's largest producer of sugar.

Likewise in the rest of the West Indies............
[/quote]Nothing with cane in it can be celebrated . Sugar cane was the reason for slavery in the Caribbean , Ever had your ass whupped with a wild cane.? In addition Cane killed Abel

Quote:Ever had your ass whupped with a wild cane.? In addition Cane killed Abel

hahahahaha!  good one Kwams...

Speaking of cane...me and Lilly and his brothers used to head across the trench cane cutting time. We would sit on the punt and eat cane till u can't move.  good ole days!

I was curious about this too, since the West Indies consists of a diverse mix of culture, flavors and traditions. I googled it and this article is what I found.

http://www.nytimes.com/1986/11/19/garden...rican.html

''Mashed turnips, bread dressing in turkey, cranberry sauce, apple pie -that's American.
Plantains and saltfish and red snapper are Caribbean.''

Oh maaaannn : I can taste that salt fish with boil & fry  :-*

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''Mashed turnips, bread dressing in turkey, cranberry sauce, apple pie -that's American.
Plantains and saltfish and red snapper are Caribbean.''

Oh maaaannn : I can taste that salt fish with boil & fry  :-*
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Ketch,

You never had an American thanksgiving dinner?

Canada thanksgiving came and gone since  October 13th : after the Harvest !

Americans as usual , late at November 27th !

Y'all give thanks after the food eat out 

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Canada thanksgiving came and gone since  October 13th : after the Harvest !

Americans as usual , late at November 27th !

Y'all give thanks after the food eat out 
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We celebrate the holiday on the day that it's set.

We don't know about any harvest.  ::LOL::

You must remember that the American public is ignorant about everything and states deliberately keep them that way.  ::LOL::

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We don't know about any harvest.  ::LOL:: 
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Based on the Obesity pandemic : y'all know how to EAT um out , though