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Next Thursday! And it is fabulous.

Well, have fun! What's the most fabulous thing about it?

- Tons of food
- It's on Thursday, so you get a whole long weekend to celebrate it (ideally)
- Everything is autumnal and wintery and nice
- It's not Christmas so there's not so much the insanity and intensity and pressure that comes with Christmas, mostly just a lot of food and hanging out with family and loved ones
- Seriously there is a lot of delicious food

It's the best holiday.

Hah, food is good. But I come from a family that uses pretty much every holiday or birthday as an excuse for food...

See, I'm a super picky person when it comes to food, so Thanksgiving for me is:

5+ hours of cooking food I'm not going to eat
2+ hours of sitting around a table looking at food that I'm not eating
2+ hours of washing dishes and storing food that I didn't eat

One year, a car hit a local power line and our whole street lost power for the day. No one could cook anything, so we all just sat around and relaxed. BEST. THANKSGIVING. EVER.

Woahhhhhhhh that stinks! Yeah, I can imagine the holiday would be less enjoyable in that case. I suppose there isn't any way you can shift the menu a little closer to your tastes?

Okay, so I admit, I've gotten a bit better at being a fly on the wall. Cooking still starts between 10am-noon and goes until 4pm-5pm, but I think I've finally been able to make the argument that I don't eat most of what's getting cooked, so I take care of the biscuits... and setting the table... and they'll usually try to rope me into a couple of other things, but I am so terrible and slow that they usually take the ingredients straight back and do it themselves.

It's also helped that my sister got married three years ago and her mother-in-law comes over now is a SUPER HUGE cook. Like a "get out of the kitchen, I'll do everything myself" cook.

Which is good and bad, because it's less work for me, but at the same time she's even less cognizant of my eating habits than my family is.

I tend to eat non-gravy turkey, biscuits, and corn (when I was little, I didn't even eat the turkey). That is my thanksgiving. Usually we have about 12+ other dishes. So... yeah.

2+ hour conversations are okay. 2+ hour clean up still sucks though.

I think cushla hit just about everything :D For my family personally it's our biggest holiday, where we see some people we don't typically see at any other time, so that's the real reason I love it. The food is also truly lovely. And I don't even like the turkey much, so that's how good the rest of it is!

What else do you usually have, besides turkey?

Mashed potatoes for sure, which is basically as universal as turkey. Green beans, cranberry sauce, and either stuffing or dressing - my grandmother from the north/Midwest states makes stuffing while my southern grandmother makes dressing (MUCH tastier). Usually some dinner rolls, there's always ham but I don't care for it, and some other kinds of casserole like broccoli. My mom always makes a dessert-type casserole made with apples and cranberries and a cobbler sort of crust. And then for dessert there has to be pumpkin pie, sometimes apple pie too, and though it's not unique to Thanksgiving, my southern grandmother always has her amazing chocolate pound cake. I'm sure I'm forgetting something, but you get the idea :)

Sounds pretty awesome :)

what's the difference between stuffing and dressing? I mean dressing like you put in a turkey, not the kind you put on salad. I thought they were the same thing, it's just a regionalism like hero/hoagie/sub/grinder etc.

Technically I believe they're names for the same dish, but the two in my family are so different I can't consider them the same. The stuffing is served in a bowl like mashed potatoes and looks like a crazy mess, while the dressing resembles corn bread in a pan and is eaten in neat squares or wedges like it's quiche or something.

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