[THON] Wanted: Your Non-Standard Thanksgiving Dishes
9In the @jouest household, all of Thanksgiving is an elaborate pretext for Leftover Thanksgiving Egg Rolls the next day.
Chop everything up, roll it in egg roll wrappers, and fry. Dip in cranberry sauce as you eat. You’re welcome.
Anyway, what’s at YOUR table on (or around) Thanksgiving that you won’t find in a Normal Rockwell painting?
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/showme a Norman Rockwell painting of Thanksgiving dinner except instead of a turkey there’s a reusable yellow grocery bag with “IRK” written on the side and random retail items inside.
@jouest Wow, the bot really got that right.
@jouest @Kyeh the people all look cheerful and happy and with haircuts and clothes from the 1950s.
@jouest @pmarin The forties, actually.
@jouest @Kyeh @pmarin
We toured the Norman Rockwell museum while we were in Stockbridge this autumn. Really enjoyed it.
I rarely celebrate thanksgiving but on the off years that I attend a Friendsgiving I usually make bacon wrapped jalapeño poppers.
I’m also a big fan of pig pickin’ cakes.
@kittykat9180
I love jalapeno poppers and bacon elevates anything!
But, what the heck are pig pickin’ cakes? 
@Lynnerizer a wonderful delight involving mandarin oranges and pineapple.
@kittykat9180
Sounds delicious, two of my favorites!
@jouest Thanks for the hint on your thanksgiving leftover egg rolls. I know that would be delicious because we’ve been doing something similar. My guy was having trouble eating anything hard or chewy. He took a grilled steak along with peas, corn and a couple other things and put it in the blender. He took the mush and made it into a wrap, we don’t fry. We used just a tiny bit of A1 steak sauce to dip and it was out of this world delicious! 🫛
Also, It reminds me of the concoctions I used to make when my jaw was wired shut for months! The blender was my best friend! Lol
@Lynnerizer sounds like an Aussie meat pie (tenderized meat and root vegetables in roux topped with mashed peas)
Though from personal experience, liquefied foods are best when freshly done; once they sit (and congeal), they are much less appetizing. This has been my experience with spaghetti and meatballs, ham sandwiches, and chicken noodle soup.
(Fresh off the stove Chef Boyardee, liquidated, isn’t bad; it’s like drinking warm V8. Microwave reheated slurry is like drinking V8 with lardy molasses; it might have been better heated and stirred on a stovetop so the ingredients are more evenly separated. The noodle soup was more chewy since this was fresh chicken thigh and not reconstituted dehydrated chicken. The sandwich, likely because I used a lot of mayo… Tasted like mayonnaise.)
@pakopako
You’re right about that stuff being best eaten right away! I wouldn’t eat those steak wraps as leftovers, they just weren’t the same!
I know this is different, not your traditional meal, especially 40 years ago. When I had to do a liquid diet I discovered peanut butter milkshakes! Dinner and dessert in one! OMG were they delicious!
Our non standard thanksgiving dishes ARE standard for us!
Syrian meat pies and chicken rice which is actually rice with ground beef, there’s NO chicken in it at all! It is actually a stuffing that my Lebanese grandmother always made but it wasn’t ever inside the bird. We still eat that at least once a month. Stuffed squash and grape leaves are also dishes that we’ll have on the table along with plain yogurt. Plain yogurt goes on just about everything I eat! 
Hummus and syrian bread makes the appetizer list always! I’m getting hungry just thinking about it, my stomach is actually rumbling! Lol 
@Lynnerizer All of that sounds delicious!!!
@Kyeh @Lynnerizer Do you deliver?
@Kyeh
Oh yeah it is! I wish I could send you a taste of everything!
@Lynnerizer oh damn
@jouest
What, too much?
After the rest of my family moved to Florida and before I started being invited to Thanksgiving dinner at other people’s homes because I don’t cook, my traditional meal was a bowl of Cheerios.
/showme a Norman Rockwell painting of Thanksgiving dinner where Cheerios is being served instead of turkey.
@mediocrebot I thought they were spaghetti-O’s
@jouest I would like that rather than Cheerios
We have chicken cordon Bleu as out entre because no one really likes Turkey and we have ham for Christmas
/showme a realistic group of children looking horrified when Dad cuts open the “pregnant” Thanksgiving Turkey and pulls out a fully cooked Cornish Hen that the kids think was it’s baby!
@mediocrebot HA!! PERFECT!! (except for the extra left hand which could just be someone else … maybe?) (I may or may not have done this myself)
We make Gołąbki, also called Piggies or just stuffed cabbage rolls. As a kid I hated them but now that I’m adult. I look forward to the Thanksgiving
@UnionLiz
Oh we call them glunkies and they’re delicious!
the last few years, Thanksgiving has been reservations at the Casino steakhouse not far from my hometown. However, with my mom moved closer to me, I’m cooking and my sister is visiting. At this point, I have no idea what I’m making other than the standard family chicken and dressing
Grandmas homemade sauce recipe w fresh pasta. Yum!!!
/showne Sicilian family at dinner having pasta
@tinamarie1974
So close…
/showme Sicilian family at dinner having pasta
@mediocrebot WHY DOES THIS LOOK FAMILIAR
@jouest @mediocrebot what did I do???
@mediocrebot @tinamarie1974 @jouest–is your family Sicilian?
@jouest @Kyeh @mediocrebot @tinamarie1974 not enough garlic
@jouest @Kyeh @mediocrebot @pakopako @tinamarie1974
I always have thin spaghetti so the spaghetti looks so thick!
I zoomed in to make sure it was actually spaghetti! 
I was really surprised to discover that oyster dressing isn’t standard.
Back when I hosted a couple Thanksgivings, someone asked for my recipe.
-Dressing
-Chicken broth
-Canned oysters
-Butter
You’re welcome.
@brainmist I made oyster stuffing once, I enjoyed it! The rest of the dinner guests, not so much…
Maybe this
I have no trouble guessing why this is on the clearance rack at Walmart locally!
BTW… Anybody know if Jelly Belly did their traditional Thanksgiving dinner jelly beans this year?
anybody try this Ramen? Anyone willing to??
@chienfou If it was super cheap I’d try it. I bought the Jones Thanksgiving soda 6-pack one year & took it to work. As you can imagine, some flavors were much better than others.
@Kyeh .
I would have shipped you one if I thought you’d like it!
@chienfou @Kyeh I am willing to try it. Go ahead and ship me one.
@chienfou
Well, I’m not sure I’d like it, but I’m usually up for trying things if they’re not TOO outlandish!
@Kyeh @yakkoTDI
There were 2 there when I took the pic 2 days ago. If there are any left I’ll pick them up…
I did get this a couple of these though:
Haven’t tried them yet.
@chienfou @yakkoTDI Thanks - I won’t be too disappointed if they’re sold out, but trying it might make for a fun story! That one you did get might be okay - you’ll have to let us know.
@chienfou How do I anti-star this?
@pakopako
do like me and LEAVE it in the clearance rack!!!
@Kyeh
Had the Turkey ramen just now while working at the ER this evening. Not bad overall. Had carrots and peas in it and the sauce ended up very gravy-like. All in all 60 cents well spent.
@chienfou Pretty great for 60 cents!
@Kyeh @yakkoTDI
INCOMING…
Stand by for an unofficial review of these items from my personally selected
mehtizenslab rats.@chienfou
It arrived!
I just had a late lunch of this exotic product.
Here’s my report!
Okay! This wasn’t terrible - it was a bit too sweet and had an artificial quality to it. It reminded me more of something like butternut squash soup, really. Kind of a grainy texture to the sauce. I had it with some Sriracha sauce, and finished the bowl. Thanks for the chance to try it - it was fun!
@chienfou Amended header that I was too late to swap in:
@Kyeh
Thanks for being the
guinea pigproduct sampler. Glad you had the intestinal fortitude to try it! Also glad my package arrived intact. Enjoy!@chienfou Thanks for the opportunity! I guess I can say that I’ve had pumpkin spice ramen, essentially.
@chienfou @Kyeh I was going to try one this morning but the water department turned off the water for a couple hours. I will report back once I have had a chance to try them.
@Kyeh @yakkoTDI
@chienfou @yakkoTDI–is your water still turned off?
@chienfou @Kyeh No. Work and other food has to come first. Mainly the crock pot of soup I was in the process of making when I discovered the water was off. Threw my day all out of whack.
Bananas and cream - it’s just sliced banana, sour cream, sugar to taste.
Apparently my family is like the only family that eats this because I’ve never heard anything other than “wtf” when I mention it
it is a comfort food for me. We would have it with something like a tuna sandwich or sardines with cream cheese on an English muffin (which also turns heads).
This is a regular food for me, but i think bc it’s from a core childhood memory, I like to have it when we are all together at Thanksgiving.
@roachy All those things sound good to me! (I’d add very thinly sliced onion to the sardines.)
@Kyeh @roachy
I’d sub Greek yogurt for the sour cream. We often do smoked salmon with smoked cream cheese on “everything” skinny bagels from Aldi.
@chienfou @roachy I would love that. I really like smoked salmon and having smoked cream cheese as well sounds amazing.
@chienfou @Kyeh oh smoked cream cheese does sound good. i love all of it. I’m an adventurous eater, but these foods just sound like home to me. We moved from NY to the SE USA when I was a teen and it’s just not common to eat here. I love good that brings you somewhere when you take a bite
@Kyeh @roachy
Living in Central Alabama I’m grateful for the local Aldi stores. They have a lot of foods available (at reasonable prices) that were hard to come by before they came.
@Kyeh @roachy
We’ve been swapping out the turkey for a Kentucky legend ham. Works for the people that don’t care for turkey and is a nostalgia thing for someone in the house (they grew up in Kentucky).
Someone in one of my teams today said that after moving to America and being introduced to Thanksgiving she took one of her traditional fall dishes and put a Thanksgiving twist on it. Her creation: Carrot halwa pie.
Think a sweet potato pie but it’s carrots cooked with milk, sugar, ghee,and cardamom with some nuts. I really want to try this.
@djslack That does sound good - is it Indian?
@Kyeh yes, it is!
@djslack I hope you’ll report back if you try it!
Grilled cheese
It’s especially good made with the cheese bread that someone usually makes
I make peanut butter pie every Thanksgiving upon pain of death! My children have threatened my very life if I stop making that or my sour cream mashed potatoes.