Anyone Tired of the whole "Thanksgiving" Food Traditions?

"Accidentally" drop the turkey, then pull out the 10lb hamburger roll you just happened to bring along.

classic sitcom trope!

You are wicked, vile, and perverted in this area.

And as the expert on the wicked, vile, and perverted, you would know.

Your family should really learn how to cook. Turkey is delicious when done right. Same with the rest of the meal.

Let me guess, when given the choice between creme brulee and a grocery store fruit pie, you'd go with the latter?

Holy shit, I just noticed that that's racist smiley is racist as fuck.

creme brulee? What in holy hell is that?

The widely known secret is tenting the turkey breast with aluminum foil. Without tenting, the white meat gets done faster than the dark meat, so by the time you get the dark meat done, the white meat is over done and all dried out. The foil slows down the cooking of the white meat so the whole bird gets done at the same time.

Is it like a Boston creme pie? Because yeahhhh

I think that was the point...... I think muad was responsible for that, so....

I'll take dry turkey over one tasting like fish like I had in 2011.

If you hunt your turkey, you can kill it and season it at the same time.

Just to be clear, this wasn't for Thanksgiving. This was like last May.

How on Earth did that happen?

It was probably fried in old/used oil.

We do a jerk turkey for our thanksgiving which I love and while we do have you're traditional stuffing, cranberry sauce and mash potatoes, we also have ackee and salt fish, red herring bake, bammy, festival, jerk pork, oxtail, curry chicken/goat, and rice and peas

An oldie but goodie from WKRP in Cincinnati.

It wasn't even fried!

My SIL was cooking for the first time, and my only guess is that she must've thawed the turkey in hot water instead of room temperature, cuz it was the inner part that tasted more fishy than the outer part.

There' a reason my brother does 90 percent of the cooking.

My father in law cooks the turkey every year. He got his cooking knowledge as a cook in the National Guard in the 1950s so you can well imagine how that works out.

On the other hand he is brilliant at steak. But what I (and most of the family) absolutely hated was for several consecutive years he insisted on cooking "Turducken" (turkey, duck, chicken combined) for Christmas dinner.

Or as I called it "Upchucken"

My dad was a cook in the Army Reserve in the late 50s/early 60s and he still makes excellent food, whether it's for just a few people or for a house full.

The writers got that idea from the annual Yellville Turkey Trot festivities.

Is this your father in law?

No. My father in law actually bears a startling resemblance to the late actor Dennis Weaver. So much so that people used to come up and tell him how much they liked "McCloud".

They dropped turkeys again there this year. Can't say I'm a fan of the tradition. Seems both cruel and pointless.

There's nothing wrong with not having turkey on Thanksgiving. People should just eat whatever they want to for Thanksgiving! Me, I like the turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, stuffing, corn, other veggies, pumpkin pie, sweet potato pie, Dutch apple pie, etc et al for Thanksgiving Dinner.

But there's nothing wrong with having lamb for Thanksgiving instead! Or Cornish game hens! Or whatever floats your boat

Much as I hate that our whole family(ies) has (have) moved to other states (though not of consciousness), the one thing I'm thankful for is that I no longer have to suffer through family Thanksgiving - traveling (though it was usually only a few towns away), dealing with either Mary's relatives or my sister's (ex) husband's family... With Mary's first-gen Italian aunts, I could never eat enough to keep them happy (try telling Rosie Romanelli you're full after the first course of lasagne, when she then brings out the turkey and potatoes!). With my sister's inlaws - well, she married an idiot, and it was easy to see where he got it from, and their kids never didn't fight like Scottish clans.

So just Mary and me, a coupla turkey breasts, taters, cranberry sauce, watch an episode of Taxi while we eat. No muss, no fuss, just us. Bliss.

I like turkey, and so does most all of my family, so we do the traditional feast. That said, I would have no issues with doing a big BBQ or some other type of food if everyone was for it. I had a teacher in HS who always talked about how he'd host Thanksgiving for his big clan, and they always made dozens of cheeseburgers as the main course. Then he would have an extra credit question on his Final Exam: "What is the main course at {his family's} Thanksgiving?" Half the class inevitably got it wrong and said "Turkey" because they weren't listening.

Years later, my mom worked at the HS and got to know this teacher pretty well. Turns out, the whole Cheeseburger thing was total B.S.--the guy had a traditional Turkey/dressing/etc... feast, just like most everybody else. His extra credit question was just to see if the student had been paying attention or not!

Dude, you are an America hating commie just like your hero trump.