The Thanksgiving holiday was supposed to be celebrated originally in October (as Canadians do). During the Great Depression it was decided that it should be celebrated in November to get people to spend money to stimulate the economy between Halloween and Christmas.
Happy Thanksgiving
Perhaps a few lucky individuals can make a tron out of their mashed potatoes! Shades of Close Encounters of the Third Kind :)
Chris
The trouble with Thanksgiving is that it leaves those of us on the other side of the water utterly bemused. Or maybe it's just me. I'm now trying to think of something we celebrate that does the same in reverse. Various bank holidays whose origins are lost in the mists of time? Hogmanay (north of the border)? Mystifies us southerners, so God knows what Americans make of it. :-)
Andy T.