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Randy: To you and all your respondants, Happy Thanksgiving. Here in SW Ontario, I couldn't help but think about you guys over the past few days. The company I work for grow cabbage, most of it going for cole slaw. We have 3 customers in Detroit. On Mon. morning I was in Toronto with a load of cabbage, (another customer) at 6 am my employers wife phones. She said, " We have you scheduled for customer 1 and 2 in Detroit on Tues. and a full load to customer 3 on Wed. Customer 3 can't wait until Wed., can you go to all 3 each day." Don't forget these guys all ordered extra last week. As it turns out I did a 53' trailer load to Detroit each day and two of these customers were afraid they may have to do some rationing with their retailers. If all food commodity sales are up as much as cabbage aka cole slaw, 30 hours from now all you guys will be able to do is groan. This Thanksgiving thing with you guys rather facinates me. Statistically it is the holliday that Americans do more travelling than any other. Here in Canada, we celebrate Thanksgiving in mid Oct. and most Canadians treat it as a kind of ho hum event. We tend to get more excited about Christmas or the mid May holliday. Christmas I can see, but that May holliday, I never got real excited about, always came in planting time, and left me working 18 hours per day. But Canadians, believe it or not, actually use that weekend to open up the summer cottage and let the black flies and mosquotos feed on them. This is just some of the differences I see between Canadians and Americans. As some of you may know, I grew up in Nova Scotia, 300 miles from the US border. We basically knew the difference was you guys threw the tea in Boston Harbour and told the British Crown where to go. Why the difference, I'll never know, most folks on this continant left Europe looking for a better life and fleeing opression. In Nova Scotia when we saw a US licence plate the folks were either a tourist or a relative. Now, living here in SW Ontario, we are in contact with Americans everyday, 300 miles from nearest other Canadian province. If we see a licence plate from another Canadian province the folks are either a tourist or a relative. I am open to suggestion of other differences, but that is as I see it. You guys and gals have a great holliday. Come the first of the week, all you need do to loose the added weight is cut back on bread and potatoes and cut out sweet foods. I lost 50 lbs. since March, just that way.
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