I can't wait to pig out tomorrow!

Chief: "It's time we take a stand against the white devil invaders who took our land and raped our women and killed our children! I call on all our red brothers to rise up! And I call on our oppressed black brothers, and Mexican immigrant brothers to join us in fighting white oppression and injustice! Together, united, when can make a stand!"

*assistant whispers something in Chief's ear*

Chief: "Oh...well...it seems we voted to kick all our black brothers out of the tribe, and now the NAACP and black America isn't too happy with us...and the Navajo Shadow Wolves that became trackers in the border patrol and the other ones who formed their own chapter of the Minuteman scared off the Mexicans..."

*sigh*

"So ah...what do ya say we just build another casino?"

Long story. My kids are going with my ex to her parents to thanksgiving, and I was invited and now my kids are begging me to come. Only problem is my mother in law will be there, along with her sister, their mother, and my ex-brother and law and his wife. None of whom like me and none of which are capable of just being civilized and not opening their fucking mouths and saying something mean and spiteful.

I'm not looking forward to it. I would love to get through the dinner without someone saying something just shitty and utterly nasty and mean spirited.

These are not good people. My ex and her sister can't stand to be around them either.

Is that what black people eat for thanksgiving?

I love collard greens. And candied yams - with marshmallows. Black-eyed peas I could do without. But maybe I have never have had them cooked right.

I mean, I love collards and lima beans, but I have had them cooked a few times in cafeterias and they were just nasty. So nasty I thought "When people say they hate lima beans, I never understood why...but now I know, this is why".

Collards are even better when you put some of that stuff that comes in the bottle full of little chilis and vinegar on them. I dunno what's it's called. But they have it all over the South.

We all agree that pumpkin pie is the absolute bomb, right?

With whipped cream.

It's simple...the following items have no business being served with a traditional Thanksgiving dinner:

Collard greens
Lasagna
baked macaroni & cheese
black eyed peas
rice

String beans are acceptable if served as a green bean casserole.

And finally, candied yams are just fucking nasty!!!

So what prevents you from blowing these assholes off and having your own holiday meal? Shit, I'd go without before putting up with someone like that.

Something called "children"....

Define "traditional"

Have you ever had them made with fresh (not canned!) yams ???

Pumpkin or sweet potato.

Yams are the one food my entire family agrees should not be served on thanksgiving or any other day. A forkfull of starchy sugar! MMM-MMM-NO!

that being said, my sister-in-law's green bean casserole is wonderful, it is in fact the only way I will eat green beans.

As for pumpkin pie, I strip mine it, 3 milimeters at a time.

Sweet potato shall be prepared with honey, pecans, and marshmallow and served as a SIDE dish, not dessert

Fresh yams! That's how we make it.

But Black Dove has got to be as white as Casper the Ghost.

Dude, at our Thanksgiving we have plenty of different foods. We use those extra large oval paper plates. The fancy ones. Big ass cups for soda and juice.

Anything less and its just another sunday dinner.

Oh yeah, sweet potato is good too.

At my gathering there wil be no mashed potatoes. Potato salad, yes.

And NO GREEN BEAN CASSEROLE!!!!

What do you have against a well-mashed potato? Potato salad?! Is this november, or July?

Nothing wrong with a good green bean casserole, but there damned well better be bacon bits in it.

And mashed taters should be required by law.

Dude, you would probably flip if I told you about the West Indian Thanksgiving meal.

It ain't Thanksgiving without mashed potatoes and green bean casserole.

You must be a commie!

No. I'm black.

You don't?

I am very tempted to just blow it off. I can't afford to make a whole dinner right now for my kids, and my house isn't equipped for it, but my kids will be at my parents for Xmas, so I could just have dinner with them in December.

But yeah, my kids are begging me to come. And my nieces and nephews have begged me to come since I haven't seem them in a while. And frankly, I'm shocked and surprised that I was even invited. That's highly unusual. (Maybe they are planning to kill me?)

And my kids see through all this crap. They see and know that these people are jerks, and even my nieces and nephews (by marriage) and even my ex's kids from her second marriage all really really like me, and I like them.

I know they are just kids, but their opinion means more to me because they refuse to be poisoned by all their extended family's crap.

And so if it gets bad I'll just leave. Stuff like this just furthers the opinion among my kids and their nieces and nephews and 1/2 siblings that these folks are real jerks, and I'm a pretty decent guy.

It may sound petty, but I'm not the one being a petty asshole and making a fool on myself in front of the kids.

Same thing to some idiots around here.

Shrimp and crab legs for Christmas dinner. You can only handle so much tradition.

Yes Uncle Albert, you're invited.

I won't be eating anything special tomorrow... My brother is going to his girl friend's family's dinner. My mother and her BF are going to his family's dinner. I'm working till 8pm.

We never did the whole thanksgiving dinner deal in my family when I was growing up, as our religion didn't allow the celebration of holidays.

We'd hold a big family dinner toward the end of November/beginning of December because that's when my grandmother would earn the free turkey from shop rite.

You're Jehovah's Witness???

And so it begins...

This will be the longest thread in WF history.

Was...

Ted's family didn't do Thanksgiving dinners when he was young but they do it now.


And without him.


Dang!!!

This thread is making me hungry!!

I can't wait to be a total glutton at Christmas. We're having a big extended family dinner, with various meats and tasty fodder

I'm bringing along roast pork -- shoulder cut from a local, traditional farmer (shoulder 'cause it has loads of lovely fat melting through the flesh making it sweet, tender and moist -- sod the calories and cholesterol) and fig stuffing for the side. Yum!

Various meats and tasty fodder?!

She's British... She can't help it. Just leave her alone.