Day 232: Thanksgiving

Today is the Thanksgiving  holiday in the US.  In general I'm not in favour of importing (or exporting) holidays from one culture to another. Halloween for example is a bit like the American grey squirrel.  Since being introduced to the UK the grey squirrel which is bigger and more aggressive has been displacing (nice way of saying eliminating) the native English Red squirrel.  In the same way I feel Halloween is supplanting Guy Fawkes night in the UK because they happen around the same time (And yet the 5th of November Holiday is much more interesting than Halloween).  But I think I would make an exception for Thanksgiving:  its a family holiday where everybody gets together for a good home cooked meal, it falls on a Thursday so you get 2 days off, its not religious and there are no specific rules or activities (other than eating and cooking).  I'm happy to start a petition suggesting the replacement of the 8th of May holiday in France with Thanksgiving.