For those who can't seem to keep up with special days, let me make a bit of a reminder: today is Thanksgiving in the U.S., a special day indeed for those celebrating. It's something that doesn't have much to do with Pokémon (apart from a particular celebratory instance), but as with past years - like last year and all posts of the past years referred then - I've always found ways of relating the special day to Pokémon. Now, the special day has always had its relations to food (it started out as a harvest festival, after all), so it becomes a fine topic to discuss on this day, along with the thankful spirit. In fact, it may be in the interest to be thankful for how Pokémon and food relations have developed.
With early Pokémon games, there wasn't much, if anything, to speak of regarding food and Pokémon. At least, food was understood to be there, but there wasn't anything special to really touch on. In subsequent games, though, there were more references to treats that both Pokémon and people can enjoy, like the Castelia Cone and the Malasada, the latter even directly taken from an actual regional treat. Now there is even a Pokémon game that is partly dedicated to food because of its theme: Café Remix deals with an eatery, and true to its spirit, it has food and even drinks galore for its customers to enjoy. Meanwhile, in the real world, there are now real Pokémon café installations where people can enjoy actual food with a Pokémon theme. With all of that, one can only feel thankful that food has made inroads into Pokémon.
Meanwhile, the actual (modern) celebration for Thanksgiving has its usual assortment of food, which nowadays might be harder to procure than in past years. But if that happens to be possible, it suffices to say that there is no other proper reaction than to be thankful. Though that harvest festival may have involved thankfulness in many other and different senses, being able to have food at all has to be a genuine expression of thankfulness. So too should be having Pokémon in all its different guises, including but not limited to the games. Of course, if it can and does involve food, then that seems to be a perfectly fine bonus.
A lot of things have changed in the past few years that it might sometimes seem hard to put food on the table or even get in a little leisure in the form of something related to Pokémon. Yet in either case, the matter isn't impossible, though it would be likely more difficult in some ways. It's when the matter is possible that gratitude is deserved for how that takes place, as the food sustains the body and Pokémon sustains at least a part of the mind. And as with past years, that hardly needs a special day to be reminded of... though today's really helps.
Keep on chowing down to survive, and Happy Thanksgiving to those celebrating.
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