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Submitted by paz_mp on Thu, 12/04/2008 - 14:37

american day sillyamerican day sillyNYU did Thanksgiving for us, and it was wonderful. Since my boyfriend came to visit for these past two weeks, we rented a furnished apartment to stay in while he was here. I wanted to do my own Thanksgiving...I was excited about planning it, etc., and I even asked Ben to bring cranberries from the States (since they don't have them here). So I suppose I was happy but also a little sad when I found out NYU was going to have one for us. Of course, I could have skipped NYU's, but they were planning it, it was free, and it just made more sense to go to theirs. Also, as I mentioned in another post, the NYU staff here does everything really wonderfully, so it would be silly to miss it. Even so, before the big day I was still sort of grumbly about not having my own. What this is all leading up to is that NYU's was very spectacular, with excellent food, much better than anyone could have expected, and I even brought my own cranberry sauce. I think it's important to mention that turkeys, and typical Thanksgiving food are not in any way normal or easy to find in Buenos Aires. I think the staff had to hire a special turkey guy to get hold of some turkeys. They definitely went out of their way, and it turned out delicious.I know Thanksgiving is really pretty bad and evil and fake in its roots, and I don't mean to ignore this, but I also think it's nice to have a really American holiday, which is for everyone, not just people of one religion or another, or one group or another. Sure in a lot of ways this is silly and tacky, but I'll always enjoy any celebration of food.

Paris too

Submitted by sloane on Sun, 12/07/2008 - 10:14.

Whole turkeys and pumpkin pie aren't really normal French foods. It was funny at the NYU Paris Thanksgiving dinner to see what they did with "traditional foods" to make them French; my favorite was gravy with cranberries in it.

Thanks to NYU

Submitted by steve on Sat, 12/06/2008 - 15:58.

Well it was sure nice hearing that NYU came though with a tasty Thanksgiving for you.  It's not easy cooking for so many people.  You should send the Study Abroad office back in New York a note about how successful the dinner was and encourage them to keep it up for next year.  BTW, what's so evil about the roots of Thanksgiving?  Are you referring to the genocide of the Indians, or is there something about the origins of the holiday itself that is a problem?

the evil part :)

Submitted by paz_mp on Mon, 12/08/2008 - 17:20.

Hi, and yeah I'm referring to the genocide, and also the pretty story that is taught to little kids which is almost completely false.
I like to think we've sort of appropriated Thanksgiving or something, like we can enjoy it today as our own wonderful food festival, but at the same time remember that the original story is fake and an intense sugaring of history/false account.
It's still really fun, I just think it's important to remember this.