Savvy buyers know Black Friday can be one of the best days of the year to find terrific bargains, but not all items are such great deals. In order to better your experience on that infamous shopping day, here are some things you may want to avoid purchasing, along with when you may be able to score the best deals on them.
The animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, better known as PETA, does some good work, but it’s the organization’s more absurd stunts that often make headlines — and this one is a prime example.
Citing the suffering of turkeys during the Thanksgiving season, PETA sent a letter to the mayor of Turkey, Texas and asked him to change the town’s name to the tofu-based meat alternative “Tofurky” instead.
If you're like most Americans, your Thanksgiving dinner table will include at least a few basic items — turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce and the like. But have you ever thought about why we eat those foods on Thanksgiving? Or, for that matter, why turkey is called “turkey”?
In order to answer these hard-hitting questions and maybe even give you some interesting small-talk for the table, here are the stories behind the traditional Thanksgiving foods.
Turkey fryers can be dangerous, and if you’re not careful with them your Thanksgiving could end in disaster. If you don’t believe us just listen to your friend William Shatner, who shot this cautionary tale of a turkey fryer gone awry for State Farm Insurance. Watch what happens when Capt. Kirk meets Thanksgiving below.
Thanksgiving is a week away, but you can see several of the new floats that will grace the 85th Annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade right now courtesy of ‘Today.’
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Thanksgiving is fast approaching, but while you may be mulling dinner preparations and seating charts and such, don't forget about the kids. They'll need something to do, especially since children who are normally in school will be home for the holiday.
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It’s time once again to give thanks, and what could we be more thankful for than awesomely ridiculous dog costumes? Oh, and the ridiculous, er, passionate owners who take Thanksgiving so seriously, they dress their canine friends up to celebrate the harvest. Here’s ten photos of dogs that just (Plymouth) rock.
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November 10, 2011 Thanksgiving means family, food and football, but not necessarily in that order! This year it's going to cost you more to serve up that Thanksgiving feast this year. In fact, a LOT more!
