Traditions

What foods are you excited to eat for Thanksgiving?

“I want to have all the famous Thanksgiving foods, like turkey, stuffing, and cranberry sauce, because I have never had it.”

What makes you excited to eat these?

“I’ve heard a lot about it. I’ve heard about it in English class during this time of year in Sweden. We learned about Thanksgiving and why they celebrate it and it just feels like it’s such a cozy and nice tradition.”

Riko Uehara

What foods are you excited to eat for Thanksgiving?

“I’m excited about eating turkey because Turkey is not so common in Japan.” Is there a holiday in Japan that is similar to thanksgiving?

“No, because we don’t have any religions in Japan so there aren’t many holidays.”

Shea McNellis

What do you do for Thanksgiving?

“I go to my aunt’s house and we have a lot of food like turkey, dark Turkey and white Turkey and the white ones health ier and we have cookies, sugar cookies. We have sweet potatoes with marshmallows on the top. We all go to eat and pray together and we thank the cooks and talk about what we are thankful for.”

What’s your favorite food that you have at Thanksgiving?

“Cheesy corn. So it’s like you get a bunch of corn in a crock pot. You’ve been going to cream cheese and like there’s like a bunch of different cheese and it’s like creamy, cheesy corn.”

What do you do for Thanksgiving?

“My husband’s family comes to town from LA. His sister lives in LA with her kids and so they come to town. When I was growing up though, my mom’s family would always come to town. That was like the time that we could hang out with my cousins.”

What’s your favorite food for Thanksgiving?

“My favorite food for Thanksgiving is my grandmother’s corn casserole.” Australia