@catem07 I have not tried deep fried turkey, although I would imagine that it's better than roasting the whole thing in the oven. I never host Thanksgiving dinner, so I don't really have a choice as to what is served.
The only foods I really like from Thanksgiving is the green bean casserole and the cranberries. DH's family does NEITHER. I don't have any love for turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, pumpkin pie...ICK. I do love the dinner rolls, though...
Ironically, Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday because fall is my favorite and I love getting to be with my whole family.
I love Thanksgiving... only 3 more weeks for this Canuck Foodwise, I'm all about the turkey (dark meat only and deep fried is better), mashed potatoes and gravy, pumpkin pie and devilled eggs... yum. I could totally pass on the stuffing and cranberries and we generally just do steamed veggies with butter rather than casseroles. DH's family does cabbage rolls and a couple other ukranian dishes... no perogies tho
Add me to the list of tamale-eaters at Christmas. I'm not Hispanic, but I grew up in San Antonio, so it's definitely a must that time of year. We will sometimes swap and do fajitas instead of tamales, but I promise you, tamales will be consumed.
I'm jealous of everyone celebrating Thanksgiving! I work in online retail and the days leading up to Black Friday are the busiest of the year. So I've worked many T-givings and having zero breZk means we can't travel back east to see family. We've done low key Tgivings with friends but it's not the same.
@BeachMommy2B One of my first dates with DH was going to see Supersize me. The next day I called him and said the movie made me crave McDonald's and asked him if he wanted to meet me there for lunch. To this day he says that's when he knew I was the one!
@neseattlite I always feel bad for people who work in retail around the holidays. Especially now that stores feel the need to be open on Thanksgiving day!
Mine is going to kinda spring from the comments on this thread, but I 100% prefer halloween to thanksgiving. Like, holiday-wise, Halloween is my shit. Then Christmas, then New Years, and then I guess Thanksgiving can fall in line toward the end.
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Ironically, Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday because fall is my favorite and I love getting to be with my whole family.
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Baby 3 - June 2015
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