Happy Thanksgiving

We would like to wish all of those who read this blog a very Happy Thanksgiving.

The one Thanksgiving day that stands out is one that happened in about 1990.

I was working as a Ground School Instructor at Trans World Airlines. And that year I had to work Thanksgiving day. We had contract training with an airline from Sweden. And with almost all commercial eating establishments closed at least until evening. The other instructor and I talked to our wives and they agree to fix a Thanksgiving dinner for 20 people.

We had all the traditional eats, turkey, masked potatoes and gravy, cranberry sauce, rolls, salad, string bean casserole, pumpkin pie with whipped cream, etc...

This was the first time for those pilots from Sweden to experience this type of American food. Some were even skeptical of even trying some of the items (cranberry sauce). But everything was devoured.

But the most requested recipe was the pumpkin pie recipe! They had never tasted it before and the just couldn't get enough of it. So, Susan told them the recipe was on the back of the pumpkin can.

So that later that week I took quite a few of them to the local grocery store where each of them I took, bought at least 1 if not 2 CASES!

Once they got home they were going to have their wives make them pumpkin pie.

That year we got not only to share our special meal with them but a large part of our American culture. The Good culture part, sharing and caring for and with others no matter what nationality, color, religion.

May God Bless you and yours the Holiday season.