No Pumpkin Pie Today

November 28, 2024, at home, Thanksgiving

My decades-long, personal tradition forbids me from eating pumpkin pie on Thanksgiving Day. Also included in my tradition is that I must eat pumpkin pie on Christmas Eve and/or Christmas Day. Actually, I allow myself to eat pumpkin pie on any date throughout the year, except on Thanksgiving Day.

Why? Because pumpkin pie is mentioned in the song "Sleigh Ride," which I considered to be a Christmas song when my age was in single digits in the 1960s. As an adult, I realized, I think in the mentally foggy 1990s, that in reality, this song technically isn't a Christmas song.

"Sleigh Ride" - Mitch Miller and The Gang

https://youtu.be/TWVSS-Fy6dc?si=jkyzfy2gGVuU2Oo3

Now at age 63, I am once again following my childhood tradition today (November 28, 2024) on Thanksgiving Day, as I have done every holiday season since the late 1960s. Of course, I will continue to follow my tradition during every future holiday season.

(My mother has often made pumpkin cakes around Thanksgiving or Christmas, which is like pumpkin bread but with chocolate chips and, on top, chopped walnuts and a sugar glaze.)