Thanksgiving, a holiday deeply rooted in American culture, is celebrated in accordance with the applicable tradition and rituals. Closely related to the tradition of first immigrants, Thanksgiving does not undergo any fashions and fluctuations. Thanksgiving Turkey has to be big ( 19 lbs) to feed 20 people and to provide much more food than during the regular meal (Friends). Thanksgiving dinner without turkey and typical dishes does not exist, like “4th July with no pie”(Friends). By consuming and celebrating food, people show their appreciation for all they achieved due to their social and national affiliation.…
The first person I asked was Dezmyn Abbring, a student at Kankakee Valley, about how he would usually spend his Thanksgiving. Some things he said that were unique were that he goe down to Tennessee to visit relatives. Another would be that he usually watches sports while he eats Thanksgiving dinner with his family. When the Pilgrims and the Indians had their Thanksgiving, they didn’t…
Me and three of my friends surveyed each other and we talk to each other about are Thanksgiving traditions and what we do with our families and friends. We compared it with the traditions the early americans did and what we found was totally different from what happens now. One thing that was different they do not watch football, ride golf carts, go karts or anything like that. One thing that was similar was we spent time with our families and friends and something they did that we did not do was eat dinner with the Indians. Something else that was also similar was we have turkey,ham, stuffing, and pie and other foods too they also had cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes and pumpkin pie they also had vegetables like beans, lettuce, spinach,…
Grandma – Throng Sytha What were the common family forms within your family? (i.e. was the family a breadwinner/homemaker, single parent, divorced, remarried family etc.) I was the homemaker and my husband was the breadwinner. I took care of all of my twelve children and my husband worked in the farm. I did some of the farm work, but I was mostly taking care of the house.…
The act of volunteering allows us to not only provide a service to the community, but also to reflect on our everyday lives. Whilst volunteering at ‘Meals on Wheels’, an Australian non-profit organisation that provides meals for people requiring support, I delivered meals to recipients’ homes. Since ‘Meals on Wheels’ revolves around providing meals, it has led me to reflect on the everyday aspect of mealtime. Prior to learning about sociological theories, I took food for granted without thinking about society’s influence on the routines we perform at mealtime. As such, I will argue that the sociological theory of structural functionalism transforms my understanding of mealtime by first describing mealtime in relation to me, before applying…
Thanksgiving Myths There are many Thanksgiving myths but I’m here to talk to you about two of them. The first one is “Native Americans wore complicated headdresses.” Well the feathery headdresses you are thinking of are barely worn only on special occasions.…
The next morning we all get up and early around nine in the morning to finish all of the food and set up the dinner table. We usually finish everything around noon and then we are ready to eat. Many of our family members and friends from both sides of my family come over to eat with at my home. Before we eat, we pray and each of us announce what we are thankful for this year. We then all sit around the table and eat.…
Thanksgiving is a special day for our families, we have the opportunity to reunite in a place and have a celebration for all the good things life has given us. This year my family will celebrate Thanksgiving in Orlando. I will be going to Orlando 2 days before Thanksgiving to help my mom prepare and buy all the stuff for the dinner. I am going to go in my car so I will have to drive 3 hours and a half to Orlando that is one of the things I hate the most.…
Every year on Thanksgiving break I have gone to my grandparents house to stay for the week. For me this is important because my grandparents live a good ways away and I barely get to see them. This became a tradition when I moved away from where they live because that's when our other traditions ended like on wednesdays we used to meet somewhere and eat dinner but we can’t do that any more so we thought that Thanksgiving break is a good time to go see them because we have off school and they can get off work. The whole time we are up there we laugh cook and have fun together.…
The first thing we usually make is (of course) the huge, rounded, butterball turkey. Sometimes we add special spices like onions and herbs on the inside of the turkey. Then we bake it in the supper hot oven. My brothers usually watch the turkey being cooked, they describe it as you can see the turkey going from a really white color to a perfectly golden brown color.…
The rite of passage that is most significant to me is traditions. People have traditions or something that is passed down to them. In my family, we always have Thanksgiving and Christmas with our family. In some families, there are special items that are passed generation to generation. All families have something special they do together.…
My 3 cousins and grandparents came down to celebrate thanksgiving with us down here in North Carolina. So when the time came to go to the movies, everyone piled into the cars and we left. Once we got there we bought the tickets got some popcorn and drinks…
I also chose to write on this because I want to know how culture and traditions are incorporated at our thanksgiving dinner. I never noticed any of this because I’m so used to it always being the same like a routine at each dinner. The event took place at my aunt Maria’s home on November 24th…
We are each gone all day to either work or school, so once we’re all home we eat supper together and spend a couple of hours just relaxing and watching television or something. Family dinner has never been the kind of thing where children eat in their room and ignore the parents. My mom and dad have always insisted that we all eat together with the television off. After dinner, my mom and I clear the table and then we just spend time together. This is a ritual that I am grateful for.…
The shopping list I created for one week’s worth of meals consisted of two adults and two children age nine to eleven. As I created the shopping list which consisted of breakfast, lunch, snack, and dinner, according to the USDA, the cost of food was to be budgeted at $150.50 for thrifty plan and $197.90 for low cost plan. The prices for the items on my shopping list were from Stop and Shop. Though creating a healthy meal for the family is difficult, it involves planning and spending wise decisions in order to accommodate with the budget. Once the goal of the budget has been made, the difficult task comes when creating meals for a certain period of time.…