Happy belated thanksgiving/friendsgiving! Hope everyone is having a great weekend!
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My father in law does and they are amazing
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Bonfire day makes me so happy that it still exists.
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We don’t normally celebrate failure. Bonfire night is a celebration of failing to blow up parliament.
Some light reading for you @fishmongerjoe 
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Yes, true the holiday began by celebrating the wrong outcome, but today I think people take a more… nuanced view of antiheroes
The English celebrate the battle of Hastings in East Sussex with Hastings week in October. I’d say that celebrates both failure (on the part of the Anglo Saxons) and the wrong outcome.
I think we are seeing a pattern here with English holidays.
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I didn’t know that. I mean the French won which obviously meant English food got slightly better for a while 
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Indeed. It is said that the British became great sailors because of the taste of their food…
Thanksgiving seems very positive though - they give thanks to John F Kennedy for riding all night to free the slaves 
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That’s hilarious. @Ed
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I’m familiar. Personally I find the story of boxing day to be more depressing.
I would cut a fool for a Yorkshire pudding, and not English but I make Welsh meat pie about once a month. On the whole though, you’re not wrong about that.
Bangers & Mash, fish and chips, many various pies (and mash), full brukkie, there’s a lot to love.
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