Americans Abroad

cessnaholly
cessnaholly Posts: 780 Member
edited October 5 in Chit-Chat
If you are an American overseas at Thanksgiving, what do you do? Do you celebrate with local foods at a resturant or with local friends or do you try to find a turkey and all the fixins (or however you would celebrate if you were home)? Just curious.

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  • Mexrose
    Mexrose Posts: 46
    Last year I was in Italy visiting my friends. They were all gracious enough to host a meal in my honor. We celebrated with amazing local food. It doesn't matter what you eat but who you share it with and I had a great time.
  • bregalad5
    bregalad5 Posts: 3,965 Member
    I was in Rome for Thanksgiving last year. We went to an American Steakhouse and indulged in some American food. They don't really do turkey there, that we could find, so just went with what we could.
  • nakabi
    nakabi Posts: 589 Member
    I would try to find a turkey and if you aren't able to, fix a chicken (or 2) and prepare a traditional Thanksgiving meal. My parents would always invite other expats and everyone would bring something. It was always fun to include some of the people native to that country who would like to come and have them bring some food that was traditional to them.
    Have fun!
  • britishstar41
    britishstar41 Posts: 140 Member
    I lived in London my senior year of college and our cafeteria served a Thanksgiving meal for all of the Americans. It was awful. haha! One of my roommates had a close childhood friend who was a London native and we went to his house to cook an actual Thanksgiving meal. It was such a disaster. We were trying to thaw the turkey in the bathtub... it was a hot mess. We ended up going out to a pub and eating British fare.
  • scarletleavy
    scarletleavy Posts: 841 Member
    I've been in Europe for 10 years now and I've stopped celebrating Thanksgiving for the most part. I just don't really feel American at this point anymore, so American holidays have kind of ceased to have meaning for me.

    We're having dinner at our favorite local restaurant on Thursday, but other than that nothing special.
  • grassette
    grassette Posts: 976 Member
    Forty years ago, I was a student in Cuernavaca, Mexico. My American friends decided to celebrate Thanksgiving and invited about 45 of us to attend. They spent two months tracking down all the traditional American food, travelling to the capital to find the rarest ingredients. And we sat down to a typical American feast. It was the taste from home. And it remains a precious memory.
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