Monday, October 09, 2006

Bok, Bok

So much more than a mis-spelling of "Book, Book"

It is a truth universally accepted that a family during the festive season must be in want of good telly. Fortunately, the folks at Shaw (Canadian digital provider) have come up with the ultimate solution for Thanksgiving (which is today if you're in Canah-diah): Turkey TV. All day long, lucky lucky Canadians celebrating the holiday can tune in and watch a turkey being roasted. Live. (Just the filming, not the turkey, one hopes) With occasional basting. There is even the roasting of vegetables and the stoking of fires. Most festive indeed.

Moi? I got to watch the little plane move slowly over a digital map of England, the North Sea, Belgium, Germany and the Czech Rep. Not a golden brown roasted parsnip in sight. Not even a baguette, since the gastronomes on the incoming flight from Milano had scoffed the lot. I was offered a "snak-pak" as a substitute, but refrained on the grounds that the spelling would give me indigestion.

But I am thankful. Mainly and rather selfishly, I'm thankful that I don't have to get on another plane for four whole days. Even a floatplane. I'm on bended knees with gratitude that for the last couple of trips I've come out good well hunting in the charter flight/cheap airline seating roulette, and ended up at one end of a row graced by an unoccupied middle seat and a non-psychopathic neighbour with progressive ideas about hygiene at the far end (now I've gone and done it…) Then there's the business of the rediscovered, unsquished mocha brownie extravaganza at the bottom of my carry-on bag. And of course, I'm also thankful for the usual: family, friends, sentience, fruit, opposable thumbs, the recent dvd release of season 2 of Green Wing.

So happy thanksgiving to those who celebrate it today, even if your turkey is only virtual (and by that, of course I don't mean turkey twizzlers). And happy advance thanksgiving planning to those south of the 49th parallel who have to wait another month(?) but may even be looking up pumpkin pie recipes as I type. In case anyone's wondering, I'll be having eggs tonight. But I might decorate them with a drumstick-shaped splodge of hot sauce.

3 comments:

Bob & Muffintop said...

Congrats on the sane seatmates. Huzzah for ah..modern hygene. Squished mocha brownies beat 'snak paks' hands down. Coffee trumps all though. How about coffee & brownies?

Those of us living s of the 49th will celebrate on 23 Nov. Am currently mapping out cooking schedule. Candied sweet potatoes, oh my. LOL ;)

Kate said...

There is a television station in New York City that broadcasts a fire--you know, a fireplace with flames--all day Christmas.

EvilAuntiePeril said...

Sadly, the hygeine let me down on the last trip, bwm. And the world is now brownie-less until I have time to bake. But oh my. Sweet potatoes. Mmmmm...

kate r, don't quote me on this, but I suspect shaw.tv kicked off the christmas fireplace first, too. It gets cold in Edmonton, apparently.