Thanksgiving in the UK

My US family tradition has changed a bit over the years.... one set of grandparents live at the beach (Washington State) so I remember having fish for Thanksgiving a few times.    Always clam chowder the next day (with clams my grandma dug herself).

A few years ago at Christmas, my grandfather died (Christmas Eve).  We knew it was coming, so my grandmother talked one of her neighbours into BBQing ribs for everyone for Christmas.  Everyone liked it so much, I think it's carried over into Thanksgiving since then.   

I'm veg, so I usually get my own main and try to eat as much mash as I can.    I looooooove mash. 

DH and I don't really do Thanksgiving here since we're both vegetarian, but I do make pumpkin pie.    Probably my fav part of Thanksgiving- well, that and mash. 

I do enjoy Thanksgiving a lot. We always had/have tons of folks over from various walks of life -not just family- and that always made every year special and different and interesting.  Plus, awesome food and drink.    

I've done the gammit since moving to the UK almost 6 years ago - from cooking large Thanksgiving meals for my friends to have on the Saturday after - to going to the USA for the event - to making mysef a "wee Thanksgiving" meal- to doing absolutely nothing at all.  

I'm a huge fan of turkey, but one holiday season- I ended up having 9 formal sitdown turkey meals between Thanksgiving and January - between a few different Thanksgivings and many Christmas events -all pretty much the same types of food and that was a bit much.