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Happy lasagna day!

It seems that lasagna is the official turkey substitute. All the stores had lasagna noodles on sale this past week. I picked up 4 boxes at Stop & Shop for 79 cents each; that's less than half the regular price! So I wonder, those people who avoid eating turkey on Thanksgiving because they do not wish to actively celebrate the holiday, would they have to avoid lasagna as well?
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Anonymous said…
While there are many within the frum community who b'dafka do NOT celebrate Thanksgiving, there are many who do. (and there are those who compromise by "coincidentally" having a turkey dinner on friday night following thanksgiving, L'kvod shabbos. My family almost always celebrated Thanksgiving, (considering my parents are both Ba'alei T'shuva) for the reason that we owe a lot to this country, for being tolerant about allowing us to freely practice our religion without fear of persecution, and being, until very recently, a friend to Eretz Yisroel. Thanksgiving is a method of expressing our Hakaros Hatov to Hashem for giving us a place where we can be Jewish in peace.
If i remember correctly, turkey dinners as "tradition" for thanksgiving was started as an advertising campaign (by the Hallmark company?) around World War II.
November 27, 2009 at 11:50:00 AM EST
Ariella's blog said…
Interesting points, Yearight228. I remember hearing that Thanksgiving only originated as a holiday after the Civil War. But I never heard of the popularization of turkey beginning post WWII. That's also when the "A diamond is forever" slogan came out to popularize the "tradition" of diamond engagement rings and to discourage recycling diamonds from old jewelry. The campaign, set by De Beers, was very successful in keeping up the demand for new diamonds.
So is Ronzoni behind the popularization of lasagna for Thanksgiving now?
November 27, 2009 at 2:25:00 PM EST
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