Calling All Thanksgiving Enthusiasts
5This crowd seems pretty ‘meh’ about this week’s holiday. Perhaps we’ve curated a certain kind of audience…
But is anyone genuinely stoked about what’s to come?? Tell us what you’re all about, enthusiastic participants! (Both of you.)
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The turkey breast I’m picking up from the local BBQ place later this afternoon.
@blaineg smoked mine this afternoon. Was delicious!
Okay, I’m out
I generally enjoy the banter, wit, and sarcasm that comes with one of @jouest 's posts, but since I’m not stoked…,
(Health care, so always worked or was on call or whatever, at least a part of the weekend) (family wise, only child, with a singleton of my own who doesn’t live close as we long ago decided to make our own ‘holiday’ times as it saves money and when she was little I was generally working)
Oh, time for a tale
When she was in high school, they were supposed to write an essay about a family holiday tradition. I didn’t like it because I felt it was christian focused with the way it was assigned.
She took it on with her usual brand of letter of the law. She wrote about the year that she and my partner of the time made tacos on 12.25 and brought them to the hospital where I worked and fed not only me but the intern who was working that day. She said that it’s not what you eat, or how you decorate, or what you believe, it is how you act and when she brought in food to go with her essay, she brought in hamburgers.
Can you tell I love her to death.
@Cerridwyn Oh, that’s wonderful - I got a little teary-eyed!
@Cerridwyn
You Done Good as they say locally!
@Cerridwyn
It’s people like you and your daughter that make our world colorful! What a beautiful daughter you’ve raised!
Heck yeah, it’s a cooking (and drinking) holiday, I get to hang out and eat food all day!
First Thanksgiving I have had off in years. I would like the holiday more if turkey was good. Steak and/or ham is the way to go. Pork chops are a good backup.
@yakkoTDI My family’s not hide-bound about traditions and this year my sister came up with a change that we’re all happy about! She suggested roasted chickens from Costco since they’re juicier than turkey. Neither my brother and I are keen on all the work of cooking a turkey, so that’s what we’re going to do! (Our mother quit making the turkey years ago; she’s small and said lifting that heavy bird was too much for her, and now she doesn’t cook at all.)
@Kyeh @yakkoTDI had staters spatchcock me a bird
@Cerridwyn @yakkoTDI Do they cook it too?
@Kyeh @yakkoTDI no they do not. Stater Brothers is a regional grocery chain out here and distinguishes Itself by having certified butchers on staff at all times. And then they have other people underneath apartment but they work under the supervision of the manager who has worked there at least 2 years and done to work to get certified. So they’ll do like the old school place was a custom cut your meat for you if you need it
@Cerridwyn @Kyeh @yakkoTDI
@Cerridwyn @yakkoTDI Sounds like a great store!
I like Thanksgiving… It’s essentially Christmas without being too commercial.
@OnionSoup I don’t think the physical stores are doing the open-on-Thanksgiving “black Friday” sales anymore. In the past, K-mart was doing them, but there’s just one store left in the 50 states now – and it’s a downsized store.
@narfcake @OnionSoup I’m just glad I’m no longer doing black Friday retail work
Growing up in a French family ANY excuse for a big meal with lots of food and wine and family and friends is great.
Growing up in StL we had a tight community of French ex-pats that were more ‘family’ to me that my actual relatives in France since I saw them WAY more often.