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"This Thanksgiving \u2014 sorry, this Hanukkah \u2014 something amazing is happening. Nov. 28 is the first day of Thanksgiving and Hanukkah, and it\u2019s the first time in history the two holidays fall on the same date. It also won\u2019t happen again until the year 79,811 \u2014 another 77,798 years from now. Thank an annual drift in the Jewish calendar.\nMove over, Festivus. The Internet has a new holiday obsession. Make room for \u2014 wait for it \u2014 Thanksgivukkah.\nWhile this holiday doesn't roll off the tongue quite as easily as \"Festivus,\" it has nevertheless made a major splash on the Internet without the use of a 13-year-old Seinfeld episode. Fruitcakes and possibly the government shutdown might last another 2,500 generations, but most of us certainly will not. Thus, Jewish and non-Jewish Internet users alike are seizing the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to mark Thanksgivukkah.\nOn Reddit, Thanksgivukkah discussions have popped up on both r/TodayILearned and r/Judaism throughout the past few weeks. Unsurprisingly, redditors have been brainstorming recipes that combine the traditional tastes of each occasion.\n\"Three words: Sweet Potato Latkes. Heck, even I'm getting excited at his prospect and I'm not even from the US. However, there is something rather ironic to simultaneously embrace a holiday about quasi-national liberation, and mix it with what is, essentially a celebration of colonialism,\" redditor tamaravel said.\n\"I'm making cranberry sufganiyot (round jelly doughnut typically consumed on Hanukkah)\" redditor KrunchyKale said.\nGive it a month before these concoctions ultimately wind up on the subreddit r/shittyfoodporn.\nOn Kickstarter, 820 donors raised over $48,000 to fund the creation of a 3D-printed Thanksgivukkah centerpiece: the Menurkey.\nThe Menurkey combines the traditional Thanksgiving turkey with the nine-candle menorah of Hanukkah. It is the brainchild of 9-year-old Asher Weintraub, whose family plans to sell both ceramic and plaster editions of the decoration.\n\u201CWe have a lot of demand for the plaster edition, and we\u2019re likely to make a couple of thousand of those. The ceramic edition is very limited, so we\u2019ll probably only produce about 500 of those,\u201D Asher's father Anthony told HyperVocal.\nWhile the Menurkey looks like it'd be an excellent breakthrough in self-cooking food, it is unfortunately not edible. Even if it were, it'd probably be sacrilegious to consume it.\nNo one has come forward to say exactly how the second day of Hanukkah, which typically signifies \"ascension,\" will gel with Black Friday. Perhaps we will see an extremely deep discount on dreidels or Mel Brooks movies for everyone who crowds the local mall at 3am.\nImage: Kickstarter, Anthony Weintraub"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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