{"id":19416,"date":"2024-11-28T09:41:30","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T09:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/?p=19416"},"modified":"2024-11-28T09:41:30","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T09:41:30","slug":"prime-minister-admits-canadian-thanksgiving-a-hoax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/?p=19416","title":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Admits Canadian Thanksgiving A Hoax"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>OTTAWA, Ontario \u2014 Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau, after weeks of controversy from a leaked private phone conversation, held a press conference Sunday admitting that \u201cCanadian Thanksgiving was a hoax all along.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the official government statement, the holiday was created in the 1940\u2019s by the Big Pilgrim industry in the United States as a way to expand the Thanksgiving holiday market to Canada. During the conference, a visibly emotional Trudeau stated that for decades the industry \u201cpoured money into creating a fake holiday like we pour gravy on poutine.\u201d He apologized for the leak, saying that it was not his intention to keep this \u201cshocking revelation from the public\u201d, but that, \u201cI had just learned about it myself and was grappling with how best to present it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Canadian Thanksgiving is approximately an 8 billion dollar industry worth about 6 billion dollars.<\/p>\n<p>Various opposition MP\u2019s have called for Trudeau to step down over the scandal, dubbed \u201cThanksgateing\u201d in the press.<\/p>\n<p>Calgary resident Alberta Kolds said the news was upsetting. \u201cAre you telling me we didn\u2019t always pour maple syrup on turkey? This is causing me to question my Canadian-ness, eh?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Though Canada did have existing harvest festivals before the \u201840s, the current version of the holiday shares only its name with American Thanksgiving, where little pilgrims came together to make Big Pilgrim.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Some of the biggest historical differences are in the traditional holiday foods. \u201cIt turns out that Canadian mashed potatoes, which are made of cheese curds, were originally made from cooked and crushed vegetable tubers,\u201d says Professor of Canadian History at the University of British Columbia, Pete Peterton. \u201cIt is still unclear what the Americans make theirs out of, possibly cotton candy, as they occasionally cover it in marshmallows\u2026. And the idea of a turkey being the traditional fowl is nonsense. It was, of course, Canadian goose.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>                    <!--begin code --><\/p>\n<p>                    <!--end code --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr style=\"border-top: 2px solid #ccc; margin-top: 20px;\">\n<p><em>Source: <\/em> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/politics.einnews.com\/article\/764522487\/9AXNDy5Q3uvOmDLL?ref=rss&amp;ecode=kmfm9fDbRbj4OPCJ\">politics.einnews.com\u2026<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA, Ontario \u2014 Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau, after weeks of controversy from a leaked private phone conversation, held a press conference Sunday admitting that \u201cCanadian Thanksgiving was a hoax all along.\u201d According to the official government statement, the holiday was created in the 1940\u2019s by the Big Pilgrim industry in the United States as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}