How is everyone celebrating Juneteenth?
 

Any special foods or celbrations? Any parties?

I put out American flags in honor of the 600,000 American soldiers that died so that we could have a "Juneteenth"

I also considered traveling to the highlands of New Guinea to inform the natives that WWII is over, and then declare it a national holiday.

Trolling on an afternoon………

No kidding, which is why I gave that response.:1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl:

Not trolling. Just proud that my great grandfather fought in the Union Army. We should celebrate today for thise that died so others could be free

I have a good friend, an artist, a tall, black very intelligent man, also who has been deployed 4 times to Afghanistan - our group of Hawaiian artists sent his soldiers canvases and brushes and paints to keep up their spirits in the desolation. They sent us pictures of what they painted. I think of Roger and his young family and celebrate for all the others like him.

You should be proud but that is why we have Memorial and Veterans day.

In honor of June 19 did have a hot dog with mustard and sauerkraut and feel very good about that.

June
 

Absolutely nothing.

Ay, chihuahua. I am partied out from Cinco de Mayo, Mother's Day and Father's Day and won't be up for another major celebration until Independence Day.

Are there foods associated with the holiday- like cookouts for 4th of July, turkey for Thanksgiving and ham for Easter?

Celebrations include picnics, rodeos, street fairs, cookouts, family reunions, park parties, historical reenactments, blues festivals, and Miss Juneteenth contests. Red food and drinks are traditional during the celebrations, including red velvet cake and strawberry soda, with red meant to represent resilience and joy.

We BBQed an aardvark and cracked open a Bud Lite.

I started a tradition of hot dogs with mustard and sauerkraut. What is more American than that.

Wish we could find a good recipe for bbq aardvark. All we do now is squirrel for the holiday plus the usual hot dog.

If I had a choice and were celebrating today I would go for some pork rib BBQ, scalloped potatoes, corn bread and collard greens with watermelon for desert as it is red representing resilience and joy plus I dearly love it! My mother was from Maryland and cooked some Southern dishes. She also made spoon bread and watermelon rind pickles which I relished! The only dish she cooked I passed on was okra.

Nothing better than pan fried okra

Oh Brother

Nice

That nonsense comes from AARP...

I asked my employee how they celebrate... They just said they relax and enjoy the long weekend...

Wild, you really know how to party.

Worked in my yard building a new walled landscaping bed and transplanting the sod I took out to another part of the yard. Peanut butter and honey sandwich for breakfast and a Culver’s hamburger for supper when I had to go to Lowe’s to get more material.

We thought they'd never end
 

what, no knish ?

What else?
 

Yummy!

Washed my car.

Worked so everyone in the govern could get another paid day off. I'll be glad when June is over.

Since its a Federal holiday I had it off from work. I wouldn't call it a special food, but we had leftovers. A very exciting day......

Full Marks!

I don’t celebrate Mother’s Day because my mother is dead.
I don’t celebrate Cinco de Mayo, even though I like Mexico and Mexicans, because I have no Mexican ancestry.
I don’t celebrate St. Patrick’s Day because it isn’t celebrated in Ireland.
I don’t celebrate Mardi Gras because I also don’t celebrate Lent or Ash Wednesday or Easter.
I don’t celebrate Hanukkah because I’m not Jewish.
I liked celebrating Washington’s Birthday and Lincoln’s Birthday, but I resent having them combined into one so we can have MLK’s Birthday as a holiday. There are several other presidential birthdays I’d be happy to celebrate, such as Teddy Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Lyndon Johnson, Grant. I’d also celebrate General Sherman’s birthday, if I could.
I don’t celebrate any pride days or weeks or months as I’ll leave them to those for whom they are appropriate.
I don’t celebrate Halloween because I think the dead are dead.
I don’t celebrate Kwanzaa, invented in 1966 after the Watts riots.
I don’t celebrate Juneteenth because I’m not part of the fourteen percent for whom it was created. I consider it a phoney holiday, but I’m happy to let people enjoy it peacefully.
I guess I’m not much for celebrations. On Fourth of July, Memorial Day, Veterans Day, I stay home and think about those who sacrificed for us all. I usually spend Thanksgiving on a beach in Mexico. I spend Christmas with some of my family in Denver. That’s really the only one where any celebration happens.
Bah! Humbug!

Holidays give you an excuse to overeat (or get drunk).

Why would you celebrate LBJ?

It means nothing. Another made up holiday to keep us distracted and clueless.

How about all the African Americans who died in the Civil War and all the wars since then and who built the White House!

So many negative and disrespectful comments…Juneteenth marks the date when the last slaves were told they were free. Incidentally that was two years AFTER the emancipation proclamation!

True, but only 2 months after the end of the war. The Emancipation Proclamation was a great act, but meant absolutely nothing unless the North won the war

The same way I have the last 60 years. Just another date on the calendar !

Don't you just love those great holiday food traditions?

While we’re on the topic of why we do certain things for holidays…,

https://youtu.be/qqjQQ5Y0Ii8

Historical reenactments? Sincere question, how would that go? My limited knowledge of Juneteenth is that three years after the Emancipation Proclamation, a group travelled to Texas and told the people that slavery was outlawed three years earlier. " Sorry for the delay, traffic and all."

Ahhh yes. My inlaws are from Maryland. Can you explain Oysters with Pork and Sauerkraut as a Thanksgiving offering. I'm happy top offer it to anyone else.

I spent it my first time visit with a cardiologist !:)

I liked the round knishes better. Do you recall something called the automart. Youd go in and there were walls of what looked like post office boxes but with glass doors. Put in the token and take out your dinner or desert. I think there were three large ladies (Triplets) who would sit next to each other and swing their legs on a billboard advertising it. They had great rice pudding and raisins. This would be in NYC.