Wouldn’t you like to expose your newer readers to some of your earlier posts that they might never have seen? Or remind your long term followers of posts that they might not remember? Each Friday I will publish a post I wrote on this exact date in a previous year.
How about you? Why don’t you reach back into your own archives and highlight a post that you wrote on this very date in a previous year? You can repost your Friday Flashback post on your blog and pingback to this post. Or you can just write a comment below with a link to the post you selected.
If you’ve been blogging for less than a year, go ahead and choose a post that you previously published on this day (the 25th) of any month within the past year and link to that post in a comment.
This was originally posted on November 25, 2011 on my old blog.
Turkeys and Crabs
Who knew? I suppose that having spent the majority of my 65 years back east (with very brief stints in southern California, Dallas, and Chicago) contributed to my perception that the traditional Thanksgiving dinner across America always involves turkeys. (I’m not talking, for the most part, about those who attend Thanksgiving dinner, but about the main course.)
This year, though, my wife and I are in San Francisco for Thanksgiving and I’ve learned that in this city by the bay, it’s the Dungeness crab, not the turkey, that apparently serves as the Thanksgiving entrée of choice. Sadly for San Franciscans, according to this article in the San Francisco Chronicle, Dungeness crabs are scarce this year.
“Looks like the Bay Area will actually have to eat turkey this Thanksgiving,” the Chronicle article warned. That’s because crab processors are unwilling to pay a penny more than $2 per pound for crab, while the crab fishermen are unwilling to accept anything less than $2.50 per pound.
And so the crab fishermen are not out there catching crabs — at least not Dungeness crabs. Who knows what kind of crabs they are catching now that they have all this free time?
Anyway, this is good news for Dungeness crabs and bad news for turkeys. Hmm, I guess this year the President won’t be granting, in the annual White House tradition, a pardon to a particular Dungeness crab. Oh wait, that presidential pardon is exclusively for turkeys.
I hope everyone had a very pleasant Thanksgiving.
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“Who knows what kind of crabs they are catching now that they have all this free time?” LOL! 🙂
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Hahaha, “… Thanksgiving dinner across America always involves turkeys. (I’m not talking, for the most part, about those who attend Thanksgiving dinner…)”; loved your flashback!
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Thanks, Irene.
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Here in FL the big thing is Stone crab but the nice thing about that is they take the claws but throw the crabs back, as the claws grow back. It sustains the population. Who eats the bodies anyhow? Well, I do but still..
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I wouldn’t mind crab over turkey any day. I am trying a flashback, but it has no mention of turkeys, crabs, or Thanksgiving, in fact is is a day off the mark. Thank you for the prompt though.
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Not a memory of my writing, but writing to remember:
Black Friday Special: Howard Zinn & Voices …
November 25, 2022
#DemocracyNow
This year marks 100 years since the birth of the historian Howard Zinn. In 1980, Zinn published his classic work, “A People’s History of the United States.” The book would go on to … change the way many look at history in America. ….
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Mary Grabar, The Influence of Howard Zinn’s …
[at the] National Leadership Seminar
[2 y ago at Hillsdale College ]
Ironically, if one links
over to their Imprimis, they
question our purpose with Ukraine.
To analyze the speaker’s book and claims and
point of view on Zinn’s history, one would have to
duly compare sources, to which she alludes in the talk.
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