Happy Thanksgiving one and all! Hope you are enjoying the big fat bird, the Butterball, with friends and family today. It is a time for thanks and giving, so let's step it up and do both.
I love Thanksgiving because it is a time of sanctioned overeating, and lets face it, we love food and eating. No guilt on Thanksgiving, just stuffing ourselves til our tummies pop out, Uncle Vince asleep with mouth agape in the worn Bark-O-Lounger in the corner while the in between pizzas are on their way to keep us going until the 2nd turkey is out of the oven for the "Fourth Meal" around midnight.
Taco Bell was so astute to coin that phrase, cause that really is what happens late at night at my friends Chicago family's home. A whole entire turkey meal with all the trimmings, after they have already picked apart the carcass of the first bird and then ate tons of pizza. Yahoo....gluttony at it's best, and approved as a national holiday. Why don't we just rename it EatingFoodDay or BeingAGluttonDay?
Where else on the planet, where people are starving daily....even here in the good old U.S of A many are without daily food....can they even dream of having not one, but two full-on turkey dinners with all the trimmings, and pizza in between in one night?! Reminds me of a King Henry the 8th movie I saw years back. Gluttony, I think that's what they call it.
But I guess that's our right as consumers. To spend our money on what we want at that whimsical moment, instead of giving some of that overabundance to others in need, as in the "Giving" part of Thanksgiving.
And we wonder why a hug percentage of Americans are overweight. Maybe we should just stop maligning those poor turkeys and start calling ourselves "Butterball"!
Enjoy the feast and thanks for everything.
