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Default Civic Holiday dinner

On Tue, 6 Aug 2019 02:54:24 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
> wrote:

>On Monday, August 5, 2019 at 8:06:07 PM UTC-4, Dave Smith wrote:
>> I wasn't very hungry and had little interest in dinner. We had been out
>> to Canal Days in Port Colborne and we had shwarma for lunch. It was
>> piled high with chicken and miscellaneous extras. I was ready to take a
>> pass on dinner, but my wife suggested that we could use up a bag of
>> shrimp that was in the freezer as a nice,light dinner. We put the
>> shrimp in a bowl of water to thaw while I made a marinade of lemon
>> juice, olive oil, lots of garlic, a dash of Worcestershire sauce, some
>> ketchup, salt, pepper, hot sauce and parsley. I put the shrimp in to
>> marinade for about and hour, then stuck them on skewers. I had a roll
>> and some salad with it. It was fantastic.

>
>"Civic Holiday" is such a bland descriptor. Did it used to be called
>something else?


Christmas is called "Non-denominational Holiday" in Canada.