It's Turkey Time Again

[vovat]

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone reading this! This has never been one of my favorite holidays, perhaps because guys with weird hats exploiting the natives isn't as appealing as, say, the spirits of the dead walking the Earth, or a man in a red suit riding around in a sleigh drawn by caribou. I guess I prefer the holidays that are heavy on mythology to those that are focused on group meals. I do find it a little odd that I overheard so many people at the place where I do temp work asking others if they were ready for Thanksgiving. Come on, it's a holiday where you don't have to buy presents, hide eggs, choose a costume, or even buy heart-shaped boxes of chocolates. What's there to do to get ready, other than possibly cooking, which you can't really do ahead of time unless you want to defrost Thanksgiving dinner? Oh, well. I hope everyone enjoys their turkey, or whatever you eat instead of turkey.

Last night, bethje and I went out to Atlantic City, but we didn't do any gambling. We did, however, do something John Flansburgh has apparently never done, and ate at Hooters. It was an interesting experience, but probably not a place we'll go again. It was really loud in there, and I prefer a quieter environment for ogling women in skimpy outfits. {g} Incidentally, I have to wonder if the policy of only hiring girls with big boobs could count as discriminatory. I mean, there was that case back when I was in school of a woman filing a lawsuit to get into a military academy, and I have an easier time imagining someone wanting to be a Hooters waitress over someone wanting to go to a school where they get yelled at a lot. Anyway, the cheeseburger I had wasn't bad, but wasn't one of the better ones I've had, either.

Comments

[rockinlibrarian.livejournal.com]

You could try to tie Thanksgiving to some ancient harvest feast traditions to make it more mythical.

The thing I don't get about the "are you ready for thanksgiving?" question, which doesn't apply so much in real life as much as it seems to on commercials, is what's with the person hosting the feast cooking the entire thing and doing all the cleanup themselves? With all the family members involved in a large gathering, can't everyone pitch in one dish and certain other people take over cleanup? What kind of families are these? And with smaller gatherings, why make so much more food than necessary, anyway?

I suppose it's not discrimination since that's what Hooters is known for. If it was any other restaurant, it would be discrimination, but it's more just like a REQUIREMENT for working there. Kind of like if you apply for a general scholarship and you don't get it because of your ethnic background, it's discrimination, but if you apply for a scholarship specifically given to someone of a certain background that isn't yours, then you're just not following directions.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

You could try to tie Thanksgiving to some ancient harvest feast traditions to make it more mythical.

True, but they don't seem to be quite as much in evidence during the modern holiday as with some other days.

With all the family members involved in a large gathering, can't everyone pitch in one dish and certain other people take over cleanup?

That would make sense, but it's never seemed to be the case at any of the places where I've had Thanksgiving dinner. In fact, those places usually already had so much food that bringing in your own dishes would have been overkill. And Beth's family pretty much always makes too much food, even when it's not a holiday.