British "Thanksgiving" Ain't Got Nothing on America

This week will be my thirteenth Thanksgiving in the US. And in those years, one thing has become abundantly clear: Britain’s Thanksgiving ain’t got nothing on America!
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[@stevennelson9504]

When I hear "British Thanksgiving", I think they are celebrating the pilgrims leaving. "Hay, they are gone! Let's Party!

[@jaewok5G]

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[@katr7969]

😂🤣

[@bugvswindshield]

@@jaewok5G har har har!!! thats a good vid. Party on !

[@jonathanfinan722]

True, “Off you fuck, you joyless Taliban bastards. Don’t let the door hit your arse too hard on the way out. You might enjoy it”

[@raeperonneau4941]

Exactly!

[@sarahsays9583]

I'm British and I've celebrated Thanksgiving with my family for many years, and yes, I make a traditional 'American' meal, it can be done. Happy Thanksgiving everyone.

[@Al........]

Why?

[@JanetSmith900]

@@Al........ why not?

[@jamies641]

My cat was severely offended by whatever Kafka said. He started batting at my phone! 🤣

[@RosheenQuynh]

😂

[@cincocats320]

Yeah mine reacted too. I've never wanted to be able to talk cat more than I do right now 😹😹😹

[@RosheenQuynh]

@@cincocats320 That would be lovely!

[@TheJojo01902]

I love your content, but I absolutely adore your delivery! That slightly sarcastic, deadpan, and flummoxed British delivery is soooooo enjoyable. THANK YOU!

[@ZackHamlin1]

He seriously reminds me of Ricky Gervais

[@simontemplar3359]

you described it absolutely perfectly! I have been so happy to discover this channel!

[@bennett8535]

I'm an American living in Sri Lanka. It's really tough, but I manage to have a traditional Thanksgiving dinner every year. Some of the ingredients are brought over by me from the States (cranberry sauce and dried cranberries), but most of the basics can be searched out here. My Sri Lankan friends, even the ones with conservative tastes, enjoy the food. The hands-down favorite: green bean casserole. Me, I'm still a dressing fanatic. Happy Thanksgiving to you all!

[@LindaC616]

Same! stuffing is so my fav! Enjoy!

[@johnsymonstcu]

As long as I have my stuffing with cranberry sauce the rest of the meal is just a side attraction. 🤣 There is nothing better to have on the day after Thanksgiving than a sandwich made with turkey, stuffing and cranberry sauce. M'm mmm good!

[@LindaC616]

@@johnsymonstcu don't like cranberry sauce, but was talked into that sandwich at Barnes and Noble café a year or two ago, and it was better than I thought

[@melangellatc1718]

I go for juicy ham, a box of Kraft Mac and cheese and pecan pie... Mashed taters with butter and cheese ain't bad either. OH OH!! Booze. Lots of booze.

[@oltedders]

@@johnsymonstcu The stuffing has to be floating in a plate of gravy.

[@73005]

I lived in England until I was 15. Was very surprised when I came to the United States. Over the years I’ve really come to appreciate thanksgiving. It just kicks off the holiday season!!!

[@LJBSullivan]

I love being thankful for what and who you have around you. I am thankful for everything God has granted me. One of which is life.

[@spackar2720]

For me Halloween kicks off the holiday season. In America, we have Halloween in October and Thanksgiving in November. Therefore, I don't understand why some people in this country think that the holiday season starts in December and lasts only a month.

[@europademon]

Deep fried turkey. God bless 🇺🇸

[@samanthab1923]

Now that they want us to eat out of doors, it's finally safe to deep fry without setting the kitchen on fire 🔥

[@OlWolf1011]

Donald Hudson Dang! That's ALL you hadta say! 🍗

[@pennywells9824]

I've had deep fried turkey more than once. I'm just not into boiling something in oil that is so much better in flavor and more juicy when roasted in the oven.

[@ghostlyMostly1]

You damn right!!

[@undecidedgenius]

I have never had a good deep fried turkey...it is always better baked or smoked.

[@maryjennings4913]

Oh yes, Black Friday!!! It's the one day people get into brawls over store merchandise, just one day after gathering together to be thankful for what they already have!!!!!!

[@carlajenkins1990]

"The only thing I wanted was a plane ticket back to Britain."

[@MikinessAnalog]

Awesomely funny perspective (or as I pronounce it "sperpective" LOL)

[@nilus2k]

I think the brawling is mostly a legend and rarely if ever happens. I’ve been to Black Friday sales and even the Thanksgiving evening sales and sometimes they are frantic but never saw any fights. Glad that this year has forced stores to offer all there Black Friday sales, even door busters, online.

[@VeretenoVids]

@@nilus2k Just be glad you didn't live through the Cabbage Patch Riots of 1933. ;) At any rate, people have been killed in the stampedes to get into stores on Black Friday. I find it one of the more horrifying parts of our capitalist culture.

[@emmacat3202]

Honestly, I like going to Black Friday to see the brawls. It's so funny seeing morons lose their shit over junk.

[@randynelson2265]

I can see someone in your home knows how to take care if cast iron cookware.

[@3novembersky]

Please enlighten me how you take car of your cast iron. Anyone is welcome to give me tips and tricks

[@kandie3127]

@@3novembersky season it well & never ever wash it with soap, just rinse & wipe it out. There's a couple very basic tips.

[@Cjinglaterra]

@@kandie3127 The soap thing doesn't hold up as much with modern soap. In the days of lye soap, absolutely. Now, use it if you need to, but stick it back on the burner to dry immediately thereafter and apply a thin layer of oil or grease. Generally though some kosher salt and a paper towel will scour things nicely. You still want to oil it afterwards though.

[@ginatrombetto1931]

My thoughts exactly !! Love my Griswalds !!

[@jonathanfinan722]

@@kandie3127 First off it’s “ there are”, not “there’s”. Plural, you see. We learn that kind of thing in primary school in the UK. Secondly, there is nothing at all wrong with using soap on iron pots. As long as you don’t go at it with some kind of abrasive thing, like a wire wool scourer, you’ll be grand.

[@vixendoe2545]

Having my first Thanksgiving in my own home. Even have a turkey, thanks to my employer.

[@LindaC616]

Aw, nice! Enjoy!

[@vixendoe2545]

@@LindaC616 thank you. Have a happy safe Thanksgiving.

[@LindaC616]

@@vixendoe2545 thanks, it's not raining here. Will get outside, yay!

[@LindaC616]

@@vixendoe2545 I've only heard of the employer giving turkeys in countries outside the US

[@vixendoe2545]

@@LindaC616 Our employer has given us turkeys for holidays for years. I live in Maine.

[@WilliamViets]

My British friends tell me Thanksgiving is their favorite American holiday.

[@mantistoboggan5171]

they will tell you it's their favourite.

[@massmanute]

What, not the 4th of July?

[@jimjones8808]

No British people celebrate it.

[@amethyst5538]

It's the food, I was told. 😂

[@debuhrich4851]

My favorite too and I’m American.

[@otterinbham9641]

THERE IS NOT A DAMNED THING WRONG WITH FUNYUNS.

[@jaewok5G]

Funyuns are awesome … however, I don't ever need to see another Durkee French Onion for as long as I live

[@OlWolf1011]

Otter InBham 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@SwitchelSweets]

Put Funyuns inside or on top of your green bean casserole. Trust me on this 👍👍

[@KYoss68]

In my experience; the bags they put Funyuns in are not nearly big enough.... or full enough.

[@jaewok5G]

@hawkturkey meh, it's not the brand that's at issue

[@theMoerster]

Black Friday as an in-store 1-day event is circling the drain. As a retail manager going into his 25th Black Friday, I won't miss it when it has finally become irrelevant.

[@FluffieXStarshine]

I remember back in the 90s they called it green Friday

[@wordforger]

Yeah. A few trampling deaths prompted some stores to start it on Thanksgiving. And now people are moving to buying online more and more. I imagine that trend will only speed up with the pandemic going on.

[@chrisgoetz3816]

Am I the only one who tunes in for the cat?

[@58fcorley]

Kafka is so handsome.

[@thedreadtyger]

no.

[@edwardmiles6513]

Any beast named Kafka has my full attention. (Is the cat's nickname "K"?)

[@KS-cz9qc]

I would love it if we got a spin-off series where we follow the adventures and cuteness of the family cat. 🐱

[@kaseymeier5944]

My cat came running from another room when she heard Kafka. Lol

[@shellygoodwin9530]

We don’t have Thanksgiving at all in England - hoping you all had a lovely one across the pond xx

[@makelikeatree1696]

Thanks, Shelly. It was quiet, didn’t even spend it with my brothers family that lives 10 minutes away. We are being very careful, trying to get the numbers down.

[@Lindsay029]

HAPPY THANKSGIVING Everyone!! Gobble, Gobble!

[@LindaC616]

Same!

[@amandawolfe1054]

Oh Heavens, I’m 41 years old, and I haven’t seen Planes, Trains and Automobiles since I was a teenager, but I absolutely love it; now I’m going to have to go find that movie and watch it again. 🙂

[@lizh4933]

Make sure you also watch the original Boris Karloff narration of "How The Grinch Stole Christmas".

[@highlanderthegreat]

In the middle of the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln, prompted by a series of editorials written by Sarah Josepha Hale, proclaimed a national Thanksgiving Day, to be celebrated on the 26th, the final Thursday of November 1863.

[@TheWaterMarbler]

Omg I just watched Planes Trains and Automobiles the other day.

[@southernsmile5611]

'Home For the Holidays' is also an enjoyable Thanksgiving movie, although not as funny as 'Planes, Trains, and Automobiles'

[@LindaC616]

@@southernsmile5611 omg, yes. Watched it with a friend once, and the dinner scene made me say, "jeez, everyone is talking at once. This is like my family. " he said, "yeah, mine, too. It's why I don't go home for Thanksgiving anymore,."

[@KrissyFace]

Just ended a few minutes ago here 😀

[@judywright4241]

---I never knew that was a Thanksgiving movie! We’ve always watched ‘Miracle on 34th Street’. We are old enough to remember the kids loved it, became teens and made fun of it, to getting to be ‘Thirty Somethings’ and love watching it again😉

[@christelheadington1136]

I shall dine alone, on Turkey Breast medallions, with steamed vegetables, homestyle mashed potatoes & gravy,prepared by the chefs at Boston Market, (frozen food division). PLUS jelled cranberry sauce & pumpkin pie from Aldi.

[@MichaelSHartman]

Sigh, you're doing a lot better than me. Sounds like a nice dinner, and you didn't have to cook.

[@samanthab1923]

You'll be in our thoughts. Make the best of it so hopefully we can all see our friends & loved ones next year 🦃🙏🏻

[@christelheadington1136]

@@MichaelSHartman -That's the main idea, my family is pretty scattered, more so because- COVID.

[@LindaC616]

It's not all homemade, but it's plentiful, as Michael says, and therefore a blessing. My parents have both been gone a long time. I usually make myself one serving of something decadent, since I eat turkey, chicken and fish a lot. If the weather is nice, get outside, enjoy it

[@chiprbob]

I am going to dine lone as well since there will be no family get together due to Covid. I only have Thanksgiving day off so I'm having chicken thighs. I'm going to roast my turkey next week when I have Weds. and Thurs. off. Then it will be turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, and fresh spinach sandwiches for lunch for a few days. I'm going to make a pumpkin pie on Thanksgiving day as well.

[@daybreakwarrior]

I am in Albertsons, in the checkout line with the last of our Thanksgiving Dinner groceries for tomorrow. I loved your video! From this Native American to your family, nizhónígo Ahééh Hwiindzin adííłeeł (Happy Thanksgiving)! 🦃

[@nealkellytheoriginal]

Pokanoket/Wompanoag celebrated a cranberry festival (Thanksgiving) in October in which they gave thanks before a harvest and feasted after. Turkey, squash, corn, and cranberry were a part of Thanksgiving before the English showed up.

[@finned958]

I wasn’t taught in school about Thanksgiving being the harvest. It was more than that like the Pilgrims and Native Indians. Churches helped to make it about faith, family, and charity. Businesses made it about turkey, pies, stuffing, parades, and football. Happy Thanksgiving. I love the trifecta holidays at year’s end.

[@serenitypeaceandcomfort3669]

Churches didn't make it about faith.It absolutely historically WAS about faith. The Puritans were escaping religious persecution and arrived in the New World with the express purpose of worshipping in freedom. Read the Mayflower Compact. It tells you what their goals were.

[@serenitypeaceandcomfort3669]

@TheRenaissanceman65 No actually going to jail was persecution and some of them did get jailed before getting to the New World.

[@baigandinel7956]

The Pilgrims were celebrating the English tradition regarding the harvest and feasting, after some difficult times. The presence of the food is not commercial in origin.

[@kerrischuh8000]

I was taught that after a hard winter in which the Pilgrims had to rely on the Native Americans for food to keep from starving, the Pilgrims had a huge feast in thanks to the Native Americans for saving them and for the bountiful harvest they had to get them though the next harsh winter.

[@vickiepine5566]

Thumbs up to the cat.

[@elainelytle9704]

His cat's meow woke my cat up and he looked around for a stranger. LOL.

[@jasonwagner5571]

Well Laurence, as an American born in Indiana, raised in California and who has a certain affinity for England, I sir say Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours. I'm not sure if I qualify as an Anglophile or not but I assure you I do appreciate most all thing British...and American. That includes you, your channel and your content so please keep up the great work and enjoy the holiday of thanks shared by many cultures. Cheers

[@barrydysert2974]

🇺🇸Here Here!!

[@UtopiaTX]

The last time I went home for Thanksgiving, it took me 8 hours to drive 210 miles. I stopped going after that and just created my own Thanksgiving feast at my house and invited friends. My non-American friends love this holiday and so have our foreign exchange students.

[@stardroplet9499]

“ ... parades in the UK will never be on this scale, unless they win the World Cup, but I repeat myself” 😆

[@cincocats320]

I was drinking my tea when he said the line and almost spit it out 🤣

[@mikesaunders4775]

I think he should have said England rather than the UK. If England ever win the World Cup again expect mass suicides in Scotland and Wales.

[@Shadowman4710]

@@mikesaunders4775 Scotland and Wales are very safe...

[@mikesaunders4775]

@@Shadowman4710 Good one.

[@markhh]

When I was a kid we used to call the Thanksgiving parade “the Macy’s Day Parade”. It never occurred to us that that was really weird !

[@LJBSullivan]

Macy's was the sponcer.

[@Fuzzy_Spork]

Ah, the old trick of using a sticky lint roller to "pet" your cat and stop the hairs at the source. Except that one time I tried to use one on my hamster just to see if it shed too... Don't ever do that. D:

[@annistar9693]

oh no

[@Fuzzy_Spork]

@hawkturkey The hamster stuck. I managed to pry her loose without hair loss. She made noises I've never heard a hamster make. I'm cursed for life.

[@BitterBetty76]

🤦😂

[@msg4925]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@katherinek2709]

Yeah don't do that. They use a similar adhesive to make sticky rodent traps.

[@Pooka_or_Puck]

The harvest festival sounds like it has roots in the ancient celtic British festival.

[@mitchellsmith4690]

Virtually every agrarian society has a har est festival, celt, norse. Saxon, roman....

[@revanelson8810]

🤣😂 “blood thirsty shoppers” at Target on Black Friday. Good thing the wife didn’t drag him to Walmart.

[@lyndabrown3402]

new haircut and shaved neck looks much better

[@shawnwales696]

He does seem to have put on a bit of quarantine weight, but to be honest, haven't we all?

[@be6715]

I can't believe that you called for the Lions to beat the Bears! Coming from Detroit, we got use to having two turkeys on Thanksgiving. One on the table, the other on T.V. Happy Thanksgiving!

[@SwitchelSweets]

Lol! Well you’re doing better than us here in Pittsburgh - our Thursday game got pushed back due to a covid scare. So as long as you score, you beat the Steelers on Thanksgiving! 😁👍

[@lilbatz]

Motor City Kitties never fail to disappoint. Go Bears!

[@HermanVonPetri]

The age old question: who would win in a fight between a lion and a bear?

[@be6715]

@@lilbatz I think you meant 'cubs', right? LOL!

[@scottfrench4139]

My best friend, a SoCal native who has lived 30 years in Seattle, is a huge Lions fan. Another friend, still in SoCal, has joined him in the fan club. We give them shit all the time about how awful the Lions are.

[@teacherofk1638]

In 2010 our son was studying at Leeds University in Northern England. We spent our “English” thanksgiving eating pizza and watching American football on Skye News. One of our best holidays EVER.

[@Al........]

Glad to hear you liked the North, please tell your friends we don't talk like the queen and it's not near London!! LOL

[@svenska81]

Spent 3 years in England (30 years ago) and a group of a dozen ex-pats rotated hosting thanksgiving dinner. Getting pumpkin and cranberry sauce and a turkey a month before Christmas was a challenge, but well worth it. One of our friends walked in the door and burst into tears, because it smelled like thanksgiving. We had much to be thankful for, even so far from friends and family.

[@juliasaldana8815]

I'm an American living in the Netherlands and was shocked to find there are huge black friday sales here, even though of course nobody cares about Thanksgiving. Usually I host a big meal for american and american-curious friends, but of course no dice this year, so I just cooked for myself and then had the huge pleasure of making a sandwich with the leftovers for a dutch friend in my bubble who had "heard of a thanksgiving sandwich on Friends" and was gratifyingly impressed.

[@mayloo2137]

I'm in Calgary, Canada. I had a turkey sandwich with stuffing and cranberry sauce from Starbucks. It was good though I'm not sure how much real turkey meat it contained. I was glad though that the meat was in one piece, and not the deli turkey slices.

[@phineas117]

happy Thanksgiving Laurence!!

[@babsbylow6869]

If the Staypuffed marshmallow man showed, we know what to do. Don't cross the streams

[@bobbyhood101]

If you forget your family is the reason for the season , getting together and appreciating that you are alive and well for one more year! God bless you and yours!

[@nilus2k]

Well it’s 2020 so getting together over Zoom but your point still stands

[@diannelavoie5385]

Being thankful does have a deeper relevancy than usual this year. Take care of one another and be safe out there.

[@battra92]

Now we know that Lawrence is bigger than a bread box.

[@kaldo_kaldo]

Could be forced perspective

[@babiflufbal]

Your kitty gave me a chuckle. He seemed to enjoy his Thanksgiving.

[@bob_._.]

Sorry, Lawrence... the traditional Thanksgiving movie is Alice's Restaurant. It's specified in the Mayflower Compact.

[@nilus2k]

I wish they would have made a Die Hard set during Thanksgiving so that there would be no debate what the traditional movie of the holiday was

[@kimmcconnell3854]

Except for this year, when I drive home from MA to my parents in NY, we tend to hit Adams, MA where Alice's Restaurant is playing on the radio.

[@photone]

@@kimmcconnell3854 Heard it on the radio in Petersburg (Va) twice Thanksgiving Day...once on the way to T-Giving Dinner, once on the way home.

[@felixsafire]

You can get anything you want at Alice’s Restaurant-excepting Alice!

[@macylouwho1187]

We cook an absolute feast for Thanksgiving, of bat sh-t crazy proportions. A really big Turkey and glazed ham plus all the sides and desserts. Family and a few friends gather here, and the best thing about thanksgiving other than seeing family/friends…is the leftovers 😂. I buy aluminum tins to send home portions of everything with the guests so they can reheat and nibble the next day. They are the size of a cake pan that holds two boxes of cakes, roughly 13x9 I think. That’s what everyone takes home. Partly because I make so many different dishes that I need room to add in whatever the guest asks for. We also do Halloween and Christmas huge. Huge outdoor displays, lots of props, the traditional Christmas meal similar to Thanksgiving, but for Halloween it’s turned into a sort of town wide event people show up to. Last year we had people drive in from an hour away to attend. We dress up as characters, serve a giant cauldron of chili soup over the fire pit so people can take a hot cup of soup with crackers/spoon, we have self serve hot chocolate dispensers, self serve adult only fireball whiskey spiked apple cider with maraschino cherries in a dispenser (guarded so kids don’t get into it), treat baggies of candy/Halloween pencil/little toys and stickers for the kids, a CapriSun drink pack each to take home, and of course a spooky display and animatronics everywhere to enjoy. Last year I decorated the interior for Halloween and put out a display of homemade cupcakes for anyone who asked to go in and look (we have large picture windows so you can see inside).

[@angstandvexed]

I use to tell my friends in other countries about our Thanksgiving, I always felt it was a holiday everyone could enjoy, we all should be Thankful.

[@xr6lad]

Ummm given climates are in reverse in the Southern Hemisphere, hardly. It’s nonsensical celebration this time of year. Why would you be giving thanks for the last year and harvests as you enter winter when in the Southern Hemisphere your in the middle of spring/summer and right in the middle of ongoing harvest that will continue for 5 more months. But why let facts get in the way of an American - it’s the centre of the world.

[@mayloo2137]

I understand your comment. I treat my Canadian Thanksgiving and Christmas as a time to be grateful and thankful for what I have in a non-religious way.

[@MitsukiDiablew]

@@xr6lad Who said it had to be at the same time of the year, wtf? And there’s nothing wrong with being thankful for a good harvest, or eating well the whole year. Clearly you have a problem with an American merely suggesting something because they’re an American. Calm down with your hostility cause you’re the one coming off as a dick. And for some reason, the rest of the world is always the one to say that Americans consider themselves the center of the world when clearly you have never come to the states and met Americans because the majority don’t think that way 🙄🙄

[@willkittwk]

@@mayloo2137 then who do you give thanks to? Giving thanks implies a receiver.

[@sherryford667]

@@xr6lad Jeez, no one said you had to have yours at the same time as North America. On the other hand, probably just best to forget it. You don't really sound like the thankful type.

[@Maxid1]

Yes! The Thanksgiving travel nightmare!! I drove for nearly 5 minutes to get to friends house where I chose to spend the day. Spending it with family would be 2-3,000 miles so, you know the old saying, you can choose your friends but you can't choose your family. You know, I think I've been interpreting that saying wrong all these years...

[@emilyboeshart1609]

In 3 hours from now, my sister will announce her first pregnancy (and my FIRST NEPHEW) via ZOOM to my entire family and if that's not the best Thanksgiving ever, then I dont know what is. Happy Thanksgiving to everyone, both here and across the pond ♡♡♡

[@BomChickyBowWow]

Lawrence, it’s obvious you’ve learned the character of Americans like the back of your hand in your time here. You’ve figured out that the way to get us to tap on a video is to have the title telling us that something we have is superior to something else. Well done, good sir. You are a gentleman and a scholar.

[@Govthos]

The haircut is banging! Love it!

[@djdawson9206]

Damn that cast iron is well cared for keep up the amazing videos happy holidays

[@chrisgoetz3816]

Tudor Christmas looks awesome though.

[@samanthab1923]

Does look pretty!

[@margaretstutts4362]

We drove to north Alabama to spend thanksgiving on the farm of my grandfather and Memaw. Yes, we called her that. Four hours in the car on tiny county roads. Five of us. My brother usually ended up lying down and I’d end up on the floor. No car seats in the 70s. Lord I miss that time. Two local uncles and cousins. About 50 people total with children. We had a great time!!

[@PopleBackyardFarm]

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving.. this year we are having ham.

[@misterpig7739]

Is that a first for your family? In my family we’ve always had both ham and turkey at thanksgiving in both my mom and dads side of the family so I’ve always thought of it as normal.

[@sherryford667]

@@misterpig7739 Maybe explains your moniker?

[@brokenhippie134]

Happy Thanksgiving from a fellow Midwesterner!

[@quycksylver4822]

Kafka's such a big, gorgeous beastie

[@sschmidtevalue]

Years ago, I had a kitty the same breed as Kafka. I still miss her. She was a wonderful cat.

[@Sly-Moose]

Thanksgiving is actually my favourite holiday, since turkey stuffing is my favourite food. But I also like the fall(autumn) aesthetic.

[@Ladyfirst22]

~ For me thanksgiving weekend wouldn't be complete without listening to Arlo Guthrie's "Alice's Restaurant"...it STILL makes me giggle!! 😂😂

[@knightlife98]

Happy Thanksgiving to your Family and Friends, Laurence! Love and appreciate you, Brother!

[@marybethduke3263]

Happy Thanksgiving, Laurence, Tarah, and Kafka!

[@aaronwoodard1749]

I just hope you have had southern cornbread dressing. Nothing beats Thanksgiving dinner in the south!

[@jshepard152]

Keep the faith.

[@spiffyspits3605]

HAAAAPPPPY THANKSGIVING TO YOU BOTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@longschlongsilver7628]

My experience with harvest festival was that it was that day in primary school where every year, you'd give away tins of food you didn't want anymore so the school could donate it to some charity

[@jimbolt5170]

And then... there was the British friend of ours who wondered if our 4th of July celebration was called Thanksgiving. Think about it.

[@richardm3023]

No. 4th of July is the day we go out in our yards and shoot guns at stuff.

[@chrisgoetz3816]

@@richardm3023 I live in South where that's every holiday.

[@michelleevans5531]

In our state of Texas, we do fireworks. The guns are shot off thankfully in the distance from our house, New Year's Eve and early morning hours the next day.

[@michelleevans5531]

We live in a rural town. I love it!

[@thatsroughbuddy1040]

@@chrisgoetz3816 Same.

[@spconrad9612]

We have a Spanish exchange student w us this year and we look forward to her enjoying the day w the entire family. Happy Thanksgiving all.

[@win1776]

OMG, planes, trains and automobiles is like my favorite holiday movie. I watch it every Thanksgiving.

[@Alemao14735]

My wife, bless her heart, is preparing our Thanksgiving meal, as we speak. We live in the Yucatán and its moderately difficult to get the required food. I descend from 4 Mayflower passengers, who were a working class bunch; Rogers and Hopkins families. This is our 399th - 400th Thanksgiving Day meal.

[@archaeologyteensyoungadult4477]

Farm thanksgivings cannot be beaten...the amount of food is incredible...

[@jimgreen5788]

Laurence, our family has broccoli casserole, rather than the green bean variety, though I realize this of no consequence whatsoever. The other reason for this comment is that this morning on my favorite radio station, I heard my first Christmas song of the season--Rock Around the Clock. Have you heard it? Lastly, for a number of years, the Macy's parade was joined on 1 of the networks by segments of it and 3 other parades--the Eaton's in Toronto, the Mummers parade in Philadelphia, and the Aloha parade in the Honolulu suburb of Waikiki.

[@trickygoose2]

When I was at Primary School in the UK in the late '70s, harvest festival was a day when we had an all-school assembly and we all brought in an item of food (usually canned) which was donated to a local care home.

[@nemo227]

Laurence, I keep hoping that you'll spend a lot of time in California, the whole coastline, the north with the giant forests and Mt. Shasta, the many giant redwood forests, the below sea level areas of Death Valley, the great zoo in San Diego and Escondido, and the vast central valley farms where almost everything can be grown.

[@tj_2701]

Day after thanksgiving I have to watch the only Friday game for Iowa Hawkeye football against Nebraska. 😁

[@melangellatc1718]

For what it's worth, in normal pre-covid times, Thanksgiving day is the slowest air traffic control day in the US. It was the last day I worked (last year) before I retired after 28 years and 6 days.

[@MarleneMeier]

The real Stay Puffed Marshmallow Man....lol...I love Planes, Trains and Automobiles 😄

[@jasonlescalleet5611]

You mentioned the Macy’s parade, but don’t forget the other Thanksgiving tradition, that follows immediately afterward-the national dog show! I am very much a cat person, but I love to watch the dog show, and go “doggie!” like a 3 year old. Too bad the labs and goldens never win, though.

[@maxpowr90]

I think we're overdue for another Laurence sports quiz. I think he should try to guess another of the Big 4s sports team names. I think NHL would be fun.

[@joannakennedy6005]

Larry we British don't celebrate Thanksgiving, every year you go on about it!

[@hagen3457]

I heard 'outer state' when you said 'out of state' and now I can't stop thinking of the new hit horror sci-fi movie, "They Came from OUTER STATE!"

[@happycactus]

The song Alice’s Restaurant Massacre by Arlo Guthrie. Classic Thanks Giving Song.

[@craigchastain7016]

WXRT 93.1 FM in Chicago, Illinois will play “Alice’s Restaurant” at noon and 8pm on Thanksgiving! Or stream it now from somewhere...But XRT is fun!

[@cherrydrop4534]

I live in England, I never met anyone who does thanks giving here - we don't even understand it 🤣.. Oh harvest festival doesn't seem to happen anymore - my kids have never heard of it.

[@charlesjames1442]

2003, my daughter called me weeping that she couldn’t fly home from Savannah for Thanksgiving. It was Tuesday afternoon and I was on vacation. I told her that I would see her the next morning about 8am and would drive her home to central Illinois; about 1000 miles. An hour later, her 19 year old brother and I were on the road, drove all night, fed her breakfast in Pooler, jumped back in the Ford and had her home that Wednesday night just before midnight. She caught a flight back on Sunday.

[@craigchastain7016]

JUST got done watching Planes Trains and Automobiles moments ago. Don't forget Scent of a Woman, Dutch, The Ice Storm. All suitable right now and suitable for pie and Bourbon, cider, fireplaces and trying to be happy before Chicago and Northwest Indiana turns to big city on the frozen prairie.

[@jvblhc]

Hey, Lawrence (I hope I spelled your name right), thanks for all of your witty and funny videos. Having been out of work since late March, I wound up spending many a day watching You Tube, and your videos always brought a smile to my face. May you and your family, and you cat, have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

[@LindaC616]

That's rough, I'm sorry. Hang in there a bit longer.

[@ubertod427]

Scott's ODDySEEy does a great job telling the historical story of Thanksgiving in the U.S. in his latest video "First OFFICIAL National Thanksgiving". Great video Lawrence!

[@standinthegsp6858]

Lol, only people who have cats know how thankful we should be that a cat only lets us live in our own house. 😂 Don’t forget the days I made up names fo after 30+ years in retail: the terrible “blue Thursday” --the day retail workers are forced under threats of job loss if they don’t work thanksgiving day; “gray Saturday”--day after Black Friday; & “red Saturday”-because after working so many hours everything hurts & if one more customer says “But it’s in the ad!” You need restraining. 😉 lol

[@normanhairston1411]

One abandoned Thanks Giving tradition, since forever, the Lions played the Bears on Thanks Giving day. That ended around 1981 when the NFL both added games and started to rotate who played.

[@richwood2741]

Not bad. He only had to sit there for an hour and 2 minutes to record a 9 minute video. The clock on the coffee maker was super fun to watch.

[@autumnwishes8364]

I was watching the clock too lol....

[@skrenos]

Shows you the editing and retakes that had to be made... and when clips get out of chronological order.

[@mercywalschek2695]

I'm up at 4:30 (which is insane) watching a man from England talk about an American holiday and promote his cats KZbin channel. No, I didn't put any whiskey in my coffee.

[@Svensk7119]

Does anyone else remember when they didn't call it Black Friday? It used to be The Day After Thanksgiving Sale. The day after Christmas also used to be the biggest retail day here.

[@mrexists5400]

I have family in louisiana, and they go all out, 6 turkeys, 2 baked traditionaly the other 4 deep fried. crawfish boil and gumbo as well. and they usually have a bonfire at night

[@crescentmoonchild4031]

Love your aqua mint color coffee toaster tea kettle on counter! I have the toaster and coffee maker love it

[@samanthab1923]

Very retro matchy matchy 😀

[@LindaC616]

@@samanthab1923 Tara's choice, I'm sure

[@eakinj]

I just discovered this channel for myself tonight and have been binge watching videos for a couple hours. I am really enjoying the humor and his take on things. PS: Pumpkin pie is gross. There I said it.

[@cmhughes8057]

Thanksgiving is about more than the food and football and parades, it is about family and getting together (even if this year that is via zoom) and truly being thankful for all we have. Having it at near the end of the year is a good thing, helps one forget the shorter days and way less sunlight. Plus, one can turn on the holiday.... no wait those go on after Halloween the Christmas lights (the actual Christmas outside decorations go up after Thanksgiving though).

[@donnajernigan5821]

We have dressing in the South, not stuffing. Happy Thanksgiving from South Carolina!

[@christinewark9914]

Happy Thanksgiving to Lawrence, his wife, and all his viewers. 🦃🌽🥕🥗🥧

[@LindaC616]

Right back atcha! Enjoy the day!

[@Karina-jm2oe]

Lol I thought you were actually in the kitchen!

[@dawnofapril3055]

I do appreciate you saying "If the real Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man returns.", as if Ghostbusters was a documentary.

[@rrondawalters2253]

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles...great movie!

[@hildetipton2274]

April in Pieces Home for the Holidays 2 more Thanksgiving movies for you.

[@ggstrauss]

Yes to Kafka channel!

[@edrudicil7296]

Happy Thanksgiving from Anderson, Indiana😊

[@bobgall6764]

The Detroit Lions....winning on Thanksgiving...I love your satire.