Do you observe Thanksgiving?

[Paul Farquhar]

I was surprised to learn just now that corn, for example, does finish getting harvested a lot later than I thought:

Corn as in maize? That might explain the discrepancy, since it’s not historically a European crop. However, some is grown round here where I live, and that was harvested two months ago. All the fields are empty now, apart from some pasture for horses, and the lavender bushes.

 

[Cadence]

Corn as in maize?

Yes, going back to edit that in now.

I was also surprised how much it varies from state to state.

 

[Richards]

We had our Thanksgiving brunch yesterday, on Thanksgiving Day. I'm hoping to have our Thanksgiving dinner tonight. If not, then perhaps tomorrow.

Johnathan

 

[Clint_L]

I'm Québécois and the lady I was talking about studied with me at Concordia University in Montréal. A lot of Ontario anglophones study in Québec because it costs less than in their own province.

There are many cultural differences between the primarily French-speaking majority and the primarily English speaking minority in Québec. We are far from being culturally assimilated into the ocean of English speakers of North America.

/end derailing.

I hope you didn't take my comment as minimizing the cultural distinctions - that was not my intent. If so, I apologize.

I'm from BC but I lived in Ontario (Kingston) for a few years and didn't notice much difference between how Thanksgiving was observed there as here.