T Day we soon be upon us. T Day is Thanksgiving Day, of course. But, in most of the households, with which I am acquainted, it could also be designated Turkey Day. Oven roasted turkey will be the main course, on our table that day, along with dressing, mashed potatoes, gravy and cranberry sauce. I think I'll add cheesy corn, this year, and there will be a couple of dishes supplied by the guests. Dessert will be a couple of pies and maybe a cake, too. We'll have a regular feast.
A feast, it will be. Not up to Martha Stewart's (she's having 13 side dishes), but a feast it will be! She might be deep frying her bird, or perhaps just turning it on a Barbeque Spit. But, I betcha, Martha's serving turkey!
In spite of what we like to imagine, none of our current "traditional" dishes were served at those first Thanksgiving meals. Certainly not turkey or cornbread dressing, etc. Maybe a partridge or hawk, but not a pampered and plump Butterball. And, historically speaking the new immigrants did not serve pumpkin anything. Squash of some kind, probably, but not pumpkin.
So all this bird talk, got me wondering. What is a bunch of turkeys called? Most times of the year, we have several of the odd looking birds wandering around our back yard. They are pretty much everywhere, here in the Kansas City area. So I asked Alexa, what a group of them were called? She told me that wild turkeys were called a flock, but the Butterball kind (domesticated) are designated a rafter.
Continuing, because I have a bit of OCD, a bunch of Flamingos, is called a Flamboyant. That's interesting, and oddly appropriate, considering their color and they way they strut around.
Crows....a murder. Ravens....an unkindness. Very strange indeed.............
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We give thanks for all that God has given us. We are blessed.
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