canadian thanksgiving

canadian thanksgiving is having a regular thanksgiving like feast at a non-thanksgiving time of the year.
eating turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, etc. in march, or august: i know it is june, but turkey is delicious, lets have a canadian thanksgiving.
did you know that in canada they celebrate canadian thanksgiving in october?
first established in 1987 by canadian parliament in an attempt to prove that canada is a real country. today canadian thanksgiving is celebrated in one country (canada) by dozens of people.
no it’s not the real thanksgiving, it’s canadian thanksgiving.
n., urban g-y slang:

when you attempt to announce your coming out of the closet in a speech to your family during the holidays like a big drama queen, but no one hears you because they’re too drunk and/or too busy scarfing down turkey and pumpkin pie.
that was one h-ll of a close call, jeff. good thing it turned out to be a canadian thanksgiving, eh!”
held on the second monday of october in canada, the canadian thanksgiving is one of the few days where we get to lay off our usual diet of maple syrup and poutine in favor of turkey and stuffing.

thanksgiving in canada is quite interesting, because rather than each household being snowed in individually like the rest of the year, our entire family tree rides their polar bears to a select household’s igloo. we then talk about the leaf’s game while sipping on a nice, cold alpine beer.
canadian: so, this thanksgiving we rode our polar bears-
american: wait, the f***? it’s only october, dude.
canadian: you dumbo!! it’s the canadian thanksgiving!