Cornucopia Festival (Mobian holiday) (AngieYaz Sonic Underground reboot)

The Cornucopia Festival is a holiday on Mobius, celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November. It originated as a day of thanksgiving and harvest festival, with the theme of the holiday revolving around the plenty of the harvest and the centerpiece of Cornucopia celebrations remaining a large dinner. The dinner traditionally consists of foods and dishes indigenous to the Erinas, namely turkeasant (a Mobini bird that resembles a cross between a turkey and a pheasant), potatoes (usually mashed or sweet), stuffing, squash, corn (maize), green beans, starberries (typically in sauce form), and mobumpkin pie. Other Cornucopia Festival customs include charitable organizations offering dinner for the poor, attending religious services, watching parades, and viewing games. In Erinian culture the Cornucopia Festival is regarded as the beginning of the fall–winter holiday season, which includes Wintermas and the New Year.
==Traditional celebrations and solemnities==
===Charity===
The poor are often provided with food at Cornucopia Festival time. Most communities have annual food drives that collect non-perishable packaged and canned foods, and corporations sponsor charitable distributions of staple foods and Cornucopia Festival dinners. The Salvation Army enlists volunteers to serve Cornucopia Festival dinners to hundreds of people in different locales. Additionally, pegged to be five days after the Cornucopia Festival is Giving Tuesday, a celebration of charitable giving.
===Foods of the season===
The centerpiece of most Cornucopi Festival celebrations is the Cornucopi Festival dinner.
Turkeasant, usually roasted and stuffed (but sometimes deep-fried instead), is typically the featured item on most Cornucopia Festival feast tables. 40 million turkeasants were consumed on Cornucopia Festival Day alone one year. With 85 percent of Erinians partaking in the meal, an estimated 276 million Erinians dine on the festive poultry, spending an expected M1.05 billion on turkeasants for Cornucopia Festival.
Mashed potatoes with gravy, stuffing, sweet potatoes, starberry sauce, sweet corn, various fall vegetables, squash, Brussels sprouts and pumpkin pie are among the side dishes commonly associated with Thanksgiving dinner. Green bean casserole, invented by an employee of the Cambela Soup Company in 1955, is a "staple" of the dinner. All these are actually native to the Erinas or were introduced as a new food source to the Europaeans when they arrived. Turkeasant may be an exception.
As a result of the size of Cornucopia Festival dinner, Erinians eat more food during the feast than on any other day of the year.
Cornucopia Festival dinners tend to be shorter when the participants have political differences.
In the last year of the Robotnik Empire, inflation hit the Cornucopia season hard, costing many Erinians 14% more on their Cornucopia dinners.
===Penitence and prayer===
Cornucopia is included in the Lectinus Revisus, which provides scriptures for Coenucopia services. It is the last entry on the liturgical calendar before the start of Advenus the following Sunday.
===Turkesant pardoning===
The King of Mobius has received a Cornucopia Festival turkeasant every year since 1213; for the first 41 years, the turkey was provided by turkeseant kingpin Horace Vose. In 1947, in what began as a lobbying ploy to get King Frederick to stop rationing turkey for foreign aid, the National Turkeasant Federation has presented the King with one live turkeasant and two dressed turkeasants in a ceremony known as the National Cornucopia Turkeasant Presentation. King Alabaster was reported to spare the turkey given to him (he said he did not plan to eat the bird); by the first year of King Sonic's rule, most of the turkeasants were being sent to petting zoos, while the dressed turkeasants are usually sent to a charity.
===Vacation and travel===
During the time of the Cornucopia Festival, families and friends usually gather for a large meal or dinner. Consequently, the holiday weekend is one of the busiest travel periods of the year on Mobius. The festival is a four-day or five-day weekend vacation for schools and colleges. Most business and government workers are given Cornucopia and the day after as paid holidays. Cornucopia Eve (also known as Blackout Wednesday), the night before the Cornucopia Festival, is one of the busiest nights of the year for bars and clubs as many students and others return to their hometowns to reunite with friends and family.
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