On Thanksgiving, thank Jesus for your meal

[edhopper]

This is Jesus

[MrWowWow]

1. Why?

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Why not just be thankful that you had a successful harvest, and just link that success to YOUR skills as a farmer ? Is your given name Jesus? That may have been my initial misunderstanding of your post. If you are named, "Jesus," good on you! Congratulations for a successful harvest. If you are praising the biblical Jesus, I cannot and will not congratulate you nor comment about your belief system.

[edhopper]

2. Not sure what

you are saying?

[Bobstandard]

3. Jesus essential for successful harvest so ...

Why not be thankful that Jesus and Maria and all the other field workers were here this year to help provide food for our table.?

[MrWowWow]

19. Ha! Ha! Ha!

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[Bobstandard]

20. That's a low quality troll right there

You may well have just said “Wuh? Wuh? Etc”.

[wolfie001]

50. Nothing Wow about that Mr.

[PatrickforB]

34. Yes, I am afraid that I must call you out for being an obvious troll. Enjoy your stay here on DU. n/t

[GiqueCee]

57. Let's hope it's a short stay...

... I've encountered several like him recently. Rude and belligerent troublemakers all.

[Walleye]

4. Jesus is a common name in Mexico. Pronounced Hey soos

[GiqueCee]

5. Because a "successful harvest"...

... is wholly dependent on people like Jesus (Hay-soos, to the terminally obtuse) to do the harvesting.

[liberalla]

38. I will add *intentionally* obtuse!

Jeez

[Celerity]

9. sigh

[LudwigPastorius]

28. Wow, WowWow.

[Dock_Yard]

8. Aren't you jumping WAY past the OP's point??

Migrant workers are responsible for getting a huge proportion of our food goods from farm to table. Shouldn't we be thankful for that?

Isn't that all the OP meant to communicate?? [and playing on religinuts' repetitive phrase, which is deserved]

[Jk23]

12. There really seems to be a double standard. We don't celebrate farmworkers becasue they pick crops

We celebrate them because they are willing to work for next to nothing. Everyone is always saying how much food prices would rise without them. Well, maybe food prices should be higher to support a proper standard of living for all that live in America no matter what thier status.

I am sorry the OP seemed cruel and tone deaf against those we exploit for our cheap Thanksgiving dinner.

[edhopper]

14. Did I say any of that?

Did I say anything about low costs or low wages?

Or are you just upset I made a joke about Jesus?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

18. Your whole approach with the OP is positive. The exact opposite of jk43's post. . . . . nt

[JoseBalow]

27. Ya, that explains the over-the-top reaction and accusation

Butthurt For Jesus

[Dock_Yard]

15. Okay ... I didn't get OP's cruelty or that he was exploiting anyone

But I guess that's what makes us all unique from each other, we each process the same inputs differently.

Happy Thanksgiving!

[Joinfortmill]

41. That was clearly not the intent...I think you know that.

[Cirsium]

13. Exactly!

Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!

Yeah, people loved eating that cheap cotton and tobacco back in the day.

The immigrant workforce in the US is an example of Labor moving across borders to seek higher wages. The alternative it to lock workers into lower wages in their home country.

[Joinfortmill]

42. Did you mean when the Japanese bombed?

Not sure what eating cotton refers to.

[Dock_Yard]

44. "Germans" ref: John Belushi line in movie "Animal House" ca 1979

[Joinfortmill]

45. Oh, ok

[Cirsium]

48. Cotton

Cotton was the main crop in the slavery economy in the US. It was a tongue in cheek response to a post that has been removed. It said something like slavery = the OP because people like cheap food.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

17. There is a problem, but neither CWII nor DoneOld are equipped to solve it. So Please don't shit on Jesus; thank him.nt

[BidenRocks]

35. That's Jesus.

Biblical Jesus would be referred to as JESUS CHRISTO, among others.

It's a play on names, ya know? Humor?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

36. Obviously I know. Thank the person. Perhaps you didn't read the removed post I responded to (not the OP)

I don't have time for a majority of Xtians or their doG. I was responding to the political quarrelling of the removed post.

[Dock_Yard]

7. Oh ... THAT Jesus, with J pronounced like H? In that case, sure!

[electric_blue68]

16. I figured that that was what was meant.

[JoseBalow]

29. Not necessarily

[irisblue]

10. Visual puns might need the sarcasm emoji next time.

[live love laugh]

24. Wowwww ... some don't seem to WANT to "get it" no matter the emoji.

[irisblue]

25. Tis true

[Tanuki]

43. This version of the meme works better:

[Attilatheblond]

11. Jesus is also my favorite grocery store clerk

A fine, caring gent who always helps his customers, even though the store is ALWAYS understaffed and therefore he is always overworked.

[634-5789]

21. And a donationto the United Farm Workers would be a great boon!

https://ufw.org/

[634-5789]

22. ...and read about their movement and product here:

https://ufw.org/organizing/ufw-labels/

[TomSlick]

23. If your theology allows, pray for Jesus and his kin.

We depend on Jesus and others like him. May they all have an undisturbed new year.

[Groundhawg]

26. Even under the current circumstances there is a lot to be thankful for

[David Boyle]

30. Thank you Jesus!

[markodochartaigh]

31. Picking strawberries is about

as hard on the back as picking saffron.

If anyone wants to learn more about farm workers, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers is a great place to start.

https://ciw-online.org/

[bluesbassman]

46. Back in the early 80's I lived in Salinas California for five years.

My apartment was San Juan Grade Road. Across the street it was still lettuce and cauliflower fields. On the west side of Hwy 101 towards Prunedale where it started to get a little more sloped were the strawberry fields. I remember driving past those fields at harvest time and people literally lived in cardboard boxes set up under trees in gullies next to the fields. Worked sunup to sundown until the harvest was over, and then either moved over to another crop, or moved on to another town. Hard, hard life, but they did it because it was better than what they had come from and the natives in Salinas sure as hell wouldn’t do that work.

[markodochartaigh]

47. Our cousins all lived in the Bay Area.

I remember those fields. And there were often fruit stands. I remember really large artichokes ten for a dollar in Watsonville.

[bluesbassman]

49. Oh yeah, and deep fried artichoke hearts at the Giant Artichoke in Castroville! YUM!

I weep a little when I look at the gawd awful things that pass for artichokes in the stores here in Texas.

[markodochartaigh]

55. On my old phone somewhere

I have a picture of artichokes at the HEB in Corsicana. They were on a non-refrigerated table by the onions. It looked like a dried flower display. Which it was!

Back in the 70's, when I was in junior high, in Amarillo I worked at a grocery store. The produce manager had probably never eaten any vegetable besides potatoes, and sweet potatoes. He kept throwing avocados out as soon as they began to turn dark. I asked if I could have them. We had a lot of avocados until I got my next job.

[Hekate]

32. Gracias, Jesus y Maria, agriculture in California would hardly be able to exist without you...

Unless the Orange Monster’s ecological, economic, and social policies align with Sarah Huckabee’s to create a whole new generation of poor white Dustbowl refugees.

[wackadoo wabbit]

33. That's a wonderful meme!

Thanks for posting it.

[DFW]

37. Jesus is one of my good friends

Written "Jesús" and he lives in Madrid.

He probably doesn't even know what a cranberry is, though.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

52. Hey, he might not even know what a taco is.

When I visited Spain (decades ago), I don't remember encountering any Mexican or Tex-Mex eateries. The food seemed similar to other parts of Europe.

Obviously, they were culturally deprived.

[DFW]

54. Yes, Mexican food is not widely seen in Spain

Of course, you can contrast this with England. Their traditional food is uninspiring, so it’s no surprise they were open to an influx of foreign food, from Indian and Chinese from recent colonies to fast food chains from the USA. Spain has a rich tradition of local cuisines, and I can well imagine them to be less interested in what the outside world has to offer.

[twodogsbarking]

39. These fine people work harder every day than most people ever work even one day in their life.

[Joinfortmill]

40. Thank you for posting.

[MustLoveBeagles]

51. Yes

Thanks for posting.

[Red Raider 85]

53. Holy crap! And here, I thought Jesus never existed! You have proved me wrong, sir

[SWBTATTReg]

56. These produce workers enable the huge agriculture Markets in the US to function from day to day. Sure you may have

fancy tractors and such tilling the soil, plowing and planting, but in the end, it usually falls to workers in the fields to pick most of the crops, w/o damaging the more sensitive veggies/fruits. My great grandmother (lived in the Ozarks back then), back in the day, I am guessing about the 1930s or thereabouts, would actually annually to Colorado, to pick crops. So, this rich tradition does continue here in America.