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Mountains Magpie
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-11-26/thanksgiving-takes-off-in-australia/6977804?WT.ac=statenews_nsw
| Quote: | If you have lamented the growing popularity of Halloween in recent years, get ready to complain some more.
Thanksgiving seems to have taken off in Australia, with turkey farmers reporting a surge in sales in the lead up to the occassion.
The feast falls today and is the biggest holiday of the year in the United States.
John Watson processes 30,000 turkeys at his free range farm in South Australia each year.
He estimates that interest in Thanksgiving Down Under has trebled in the past five years.
Mr Watson said turkey once ruled supreme in Australia just twice a year — at Easter and Christmas — but not anymore.
"A few years ago it was just one or two turkeys and it just came and went and we didn't really think too much of it. But now I reckon it's taken the place of Easter," he said.
"We used to sell quite a few whole turkeys at Easter time, now Thanksgiving would be a bigger boost for all the turkey growers in Australia."
Halloween 'bigger than Valentine's Day'
While the origins of Thanksgiving have no relevance outside the United States, that has not stopped its spread.
American style bar Bridge St Garage in Sydney's CBD is hosting a Thanksgiving feast tonight in honour of the holiday.
"It's become more culturally accepted ... to go to these kind of Americanised events, whether it be Super Bowl or play-offs for basketball, NFL, anything like that," said Bridge St Garage manager Frej Bergman.
"Thanksgiving specifically, we've had people ringing off the hook trying to get in for tonight's dinner."
Other restaurants contacted by the ABC said they too booked out well in advance.
"Halloween as well was a crazy night," Mr Bergman said.
"We have a variety of different Americanised events that are becoming more popularised."
Bridge St Garage is running five sittings in total, and 140 people are booked in for the first one tonight.
Co-owner and executive chef Oscar Gorosito said interest in American holidays is growing globally.
"Right now Halloween is bigger than Valentine's Day. That worldwide growth will affect the market in Australia," he said.
"Super Bowl, for us in this restaurant, is bigger than Melbourne Cup."
But while the American influence continues to grow, Mr Bergman said it would not be the death knell for Australian culture.
"I think it's going to grow, but I hope it doesn't grow too much and take over too much," he said.
He said Australian culture is already fun, but American culture is like "a cousin you see every now and then" that can jump in and out of people's lives. |
Think I'm gonna puke 
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Halloween I can get as it's not actually an American thing but has European roots, even though the yanks commercialised it.
Thanksgiving is purely a USA thing. Celebrating Thanksgiving in Australia is just deadset dumb.
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noticed a lot of online retailers on the 'Black Friday' bandwagon too
anything to make a dollar |
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Tannin 
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Fk'n wankers. Should be stripped of their citizenship and have multiple made-in-China basketballs humanely inserted into their rectums with a large hydraulic ram. The only problem I foresee with this policy has to do with the difficulty of determining which end of the idiot contains the rectum.
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^ This 
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Um it's called a "thang" not a thing!
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David
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Eh. For most Americans it has nothing to do with pilgrims, people just like an excuse to get together and eat turkey. People construct their own meaning. Lighten up!
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| David wrote: | | Eh. For most Americans it has nothing to do with pilgrims, people just like an excuse to get together and eat turkey. People construct their own meaning. Lighten up! |
Wow, love it! Awesome response xx
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Tannin
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Personal question. Do you wear a thang?
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| Tannin wrote: | | Personal question. Do you wear a thang? |
Not on my twang, but sometimes on my twoes
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Tannin
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Oh! Nice return of service that player!
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ronrat
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Thailand had Loy Krathong last night so the Yanks kept to themselves. Greg Norman was criticiized for missing n Australian Open for it but he then, quite rightly,pointed out his wife and kids were.
The Addams family movie speech by Wednesday as a Native American at thanksgiving was an absolute classic.
There are enough yanks in Sydney to justify a few themed restaurants doing it. We don't spew over Ramadan or Greek Easter.
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Tannin
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| ronrat wrote: | | We don't spew over Ramadan or Greek Easter. |
No. But there is no reason to expect that the Greeks or the Ramadudes will shove the damn things down our bloody throats the way the Septics already did with dozens of other things and will with this one too if we don't look sharp with the basketballs and the large hydraulic rams.
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ronrat
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| Tannin wrote: | | ronrat wrote: | | We don't spew over Ramadan or Greek Easter. |
No. But there is no reason to expect that the Greeks or the Ramadudes will shove the damn things down our bloody throats the way the Septics already did with dozens of other things and will with this one too if we don't look sharp with the basketballs and the large hydraulic rams. |
Why would the yanks ram it down our throats. They think we are next to Germany.It's just a bit of marketing, probably through twitter, and a few dickheads in Sydney who want to be seen there. I lived in Caulfield North and the only kids "trick or treating: were jewish kids trying to make a few lollies. I put up a sign saying "Only pork scratchings here" and they didn't bother me. I would be more concerned about the idiotic TV content being copied in Australia.
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