A hunk o' burning Ravos 63,472 21
11/23/2009 01:42 PM

Are any of the dishes going to be haunted? Because that would be sweet.

A hunk o' burning Ravos 63,472 21
11/23/2009 01:43 PM

Or perhaps salty. I don't actually know what ghosts taste like.

Lobster With Gravy and Stuffing 18,572 33
11/23/2009 01:43 PM

Can't wait for the torture taste test to begin!

I remember going to my gramma's for the holidays, and one person always brought macaroni salad. NOBODY in my family likes it, but I was always forced to eat some. Peas are not good when cold, slathered in mayonnaise, and mixed in with olives and undercooked noodles. In my adult life, macaroni salad is banned from my house.

Straw potato casserole 98,023 37
11/23/2009 01:43 PM

Looking forward to the rest of the article!

The only thing I remember not wanting to touch was the cranberry "sauce."



My dad was the only one who ever ate it. I think one year my mom made it from scratch and she got looked at like she was a crazy woman. The next year it was back to the can-shaped stuff.

KChiki's Gravy & Mashed 'Tatoes! 128,446 98
11/23/2009 02:05 PM

Personally, I love can-shaped cranberry sauce! I like the homemade variety too, with the real cranberries, but nothing can really beat that jellied goodness!

Also, last year NO ONE in my husband's family brought mashed potatoes to Thanksgiving. NO ONE. I was appalled. I'm thinking about requesting a menu so I can bring them if no one else is going to do it.

Shell Belle 77,143 25
11/23/2009 02:10 PM

I'm actually in the process of getting everything ready for the tasting. The rest of the article will be up later this evening.

My kids are looking at me as if I'm marching them to their deaths.

Blood, Sugar, Shemp, Magic 22,222 17
11/23/2009 02:20 PM

Ha, that happend to me and my wifey too.

Most people in my family love the canned-jelly-like-mass also.

A few years we tried to introduce a cranberry compote to my heathen family.

Needless to say, they looked at us like we killed baby Jesus himself... No one but me ate it.

And they had the ordacity to get up and get a can of that...that canned crap, out of the pantry. Frosters.

Lobster With Gravy and Stuffing 18,572 33
11/23/2009 02:22 PM

I can't believe that they had the AUDACITY to do that to you.

Blood, Sugar, Shemp, Magic 22,222 17
11/23/2009 02:22 PM

You should of seen their heads explode, when I mentioned frying a turkey for Thanksgiving one year.

Blood, Sugar, Shemp, Magic 22,222 17
11/23/2009 02:24 PM

Hmmmm, I did misspell that didnt I?




Thank you for the correction.



































Spelling Nazi!

A hunk o' burning Ravos 63,472 21
11/23/2009 02:36 PM

My kids are looking at me as if I'm marching them to their deaths.

Well, are you? Either way, I guess we'll find out soon!

A hunk o' burning Ravos 63,472 21
11/23/2009 02:43 PM

If your kids are looking at you funny, you should tell them "We're having you...for dinner" then laugh maniacally.

Ghost of Chickens Past 286,634 61
11/23/2009 03:06 PM

My wife's family insists on having BOTH real cranberries and the canned shaped sauce. The can sauce has to retain the shape of the can to the table or it's not like the pilgrims ate it.

No one told me I was marrying the whole family or I might have re-considered.

Ghost of Chickens Past 286,634 61
11/23/2009 03:06 PM

My wife's family insists on having BOTH real cranberries and the canned shaped sauce. The can sauce has to retain the shape of the can to the table or it's not like the pilgrims ate it.

No one told me I was marrying the whole family or I might have re-considered.

Bean 8,607 19
11/23/2009 03:40 PM

I refuse to make my kids eat yams. They are so similar to sweet potatoes that I refuse to even try. When my oldest daughter was a baby, everything was fine with her solid foods for a few months, and then suddenly one night she started throwing up. I figured it was a stomach bug, but made a mental note of what she had eaten for dinner.

A couple weeks later, I gave her sweet potato baby food again... and again we both spent the evening covered in orange puke. At this point I swore the stuff off, and the next time I talked to the pediatrician's office I told them about it. They were surprised, as apparently food allergies are usually indicated by a rash or something of that nature. So I gave it one more try, and what happened? Orange vomit. I refuse to even make the youngest one TRY sweet potatoes or yams.

A.C. with built in Horn of Plenty 6,348 4
11/23/2009 03:49 PM

I can't believe that they had the AUDACITY to do that to you.

He's in Texas now, so he spelled and pernounced it crectly.

Ghost of Chickens Past 286,634 61
11/23/2009 03:50 PM

I just found out the two weren't the same thing.

UnderSpiced Rum 101,398 77
11/23/2009 03:56 PM

For some reason my mom always brings turnips to the dinner. I have no idea why - she just peels them, boils them and then mashes them. No seasoning, nothing. Just a boiled mushed mess. It tastes awful, but I always have a spoonful, because, well, it's tradition!

We have can-shaped cranberries here, as well as the whole-berry stuff. Though, the whole-berry ones come out of a can as well.

I've been making Thanksgiving dinner for my extended family for 14 years, and it wasn't until last year that we had real stuffing. My family was partial to the Stove-Top boxed crap. I remember trying to make my own when I first started hosting, but it caused a near-riot, so I was forced to return to the ghetto stuffing. Anyway, I finally told them to Frost-ing bring their own if they wanted, but I was making REAL stuffing. I don't know why I didn't do it sooner - my family is poor and no one would ever sacrifice the $1.39 to make a box for themselves when they could eat my version for free. So, they all ate it and they liked it. At least, no one dared to bitch about it to my face, anyway.

Whistler P. McManus 186,130 44
11/23/2009 04:04 PM

I like to make fresh cranberry sauce, with burst but otherwise intact berries. The rest of my family likes the can. So we have both. My kids love mashed potatoes, as do I, but my wife will not eat "foods that go plop." So she gets boiled or baked potatoes.

The first year I brined the turkey, everyone reacted as if I had lost my mind. My mother's turkey has always had the consistency of balsa wood, and I was surprised at the resistance to changing that tradition. Now everyone wants to make sure that I'm making the turkey, and the brining is a completely accepted part of the preparations.

Now was anyone else thinking that Shelle's kids look like their asses are on the front?

Pants 14,252 17
11/23/2009 05:12 PM

Kids Taste Test:


I prefer blacks kids; I think they have richer flavor than white meat.

Cyco A-Maize-ing Ivan 11,330 11
11/24/2009 08:16 AM

I smoked a turkey once for the family one year and all I could hear was bitching about how "undercooked" it was (the smoke gives the white meat a pinkish color). I told them "I spent 6 hours drinking beer and cooking that turkey and this is the thanks I get" just like my hormonal grandma would. I don't know if the guilt or the fact that I was drunkenly waving around a carving knife, but they ate that turkey, oh yes they Frost-ing ate it.

Now no one asks me to make anything for Thanksgiving, which is what I'm thankful for. Frost them.

A hunk o' burning Ravos 63,472 21
11/24/2009 09:17 AM

So, they all ate it and they liked it. At least, no one dared to bitch about it to my face, anyway.

They were afraid that if they said anything, next year they would find a mysterious onion sliver in their stuffing.

Blood, Sugar, Shemp, Magic 22,222 17
11/24/2009 03:35 PM

Speaking of nasty Thanksgivng food...

Let me share my family's Holiday dressin' recipe.

I will leave out the quanties of each ingrediant so no one can steal it a make a fourtune.


Chicken hearts and livers.
Celery.
Onion.
Margarine.
Bread, Cubed.
Sage.
Black Pepper.
Chicken stock if necessary.

Grind up the hearts, livers, celery, and onions together. In a large pot, melt the margarine. Add the meat and veggies to the pot. Cook and stir till done. Turn off heat. Add the bread and sage and pepper. You have to add the bread then stir the add more bread then stir, and so on.

If its too dry add some stock. If its too wet add more bread.



Most of my blood relatives love it.

As do I.

Those out side the family fall into one of two catagorys.

1. They say its nasty, untill they try it then the love it.

or.

2. They cant stand the smell of or the sight of the dressin'. And will never ever try it.




Lately I've changed the recipe to a healthier and less gross meat. I subsituted pork loin for the organ meat. It taste about the same.

Thud 68,517 19
11/24/2009 05:04 PM

Chicken hearts and livers.
Celery.
Onion.
Margarine.
Bread, Cubed.
Sage.
Black Pepper.
Chicken stock if necessary.

Sage? With or without chair?

Matheline 9 4
12/21/2009 04:02 PM

I am french, so for thanksgiving, we traditionally eat smelly cheese, as usual.

Shell Belle 77,143 25
11/25/2010 10:00 AM

Shameless bump for anyone who hasn't read it.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Dianerda 57,835 109
11/25/2010 10:14 AM

I don't know how I missed it last year, but this was a new thread for me. Thanks Shell!