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It's my birthday!

And I want to talk about Thanksgiving, since every year I barely manage not to get my birthday on the same day.

I had this anthropology teacher who used Thanksgiving as an example of possibly the closest to universal practice in the US. Then he went on to talk about how aside from the Turkey and cranberry sauce, all the side dishes at Thanksgiving are usually informed by the company's tastes.

So in my house we have 3-cheese salad, vinaigrette (which is a Russian beet salad), white salad (hard to describe, but it's mostly mayo), herring, tomatoes and whole potatoes, no mashed. What kind of food is on your Thanksgiving table?

Happy Birthday! I'm amused by this "white salad" of yours, since I got a mental picture of it being a bowl full of mayo (with a few pieces of lettuce strewn in for good measure).

Not American myself, so I can't answer your question though.

Thank you!

I think there are some cold potatoes and peas in there as well, but you've essentially gotten white salad, yes.

Three-cheese salad sounds marvelous; what is in it?

Two different packs of mixed cheese, shreds of hard-boiled egg, and a lot of mayo. Also dill because my grandmother puts dill in everything.

Does your family have a Norwegian/Scandinavian background? The beets, herring, and white salad sound like stuff I've seen at a friend's holiday table & a lot of their traditions came from the Norwegian (and Lutheran) grandparents.

No we're very mixed Russian-Jewish, but my grandmother lived for a long time near the Baltic, so it's not surprising that the food would be similar.

Happy birthday anon!

Thank you! :D

This year I won't be eating or cooking turkey. It will be my first thanksgiving as a vegetarian (inb4 wank, this is relevant to the discussion).

I spent most of my time coming up with a meatless substitute for chicken stock that I can use in gravy and mashed potaotes... But really I don't know what else I'll serve. A lot of sides, I suppose.

Well if your not into tofurkey, I strongly suggest an eggplant-based dish, soup, and just in general stuff that's really filling. I think most of Thanksgiving is stuffing yourself, just about.

seriously - stuff a pumpkin; they are amazing stuffed with tomatoes and mushrooms and onions and and and. Make a great dish AND a lovely "centerpiece" so you have something to present to the table and to carve I'm not making much sense I'm a bit drunk but yeah vegetarian thanksgiving is awesome with stuffed pumpkin putting myself to bed now.

Happy birthday anon!

Thank you!

Thanksgiving dinner at my aunt's house was always my grandmother's spanakopita, turkey with two kinds of dressing (a bread dressing with sage and onions, and a meat and rice dressing with pignolia nuts and currants), ham, a green salad with my great-aunt's bacon dressing, hot rolls, a cranberry gelatin mold, creamed onions, stewed apples, pickled beets, mashed potatoes with giblet gravy, candied yams, and several kinds of pie--usually pumpkin, mincemeat and apple. They would put all the leaves in the table (which meant it had to be placed diagonally across the dining room in order to fit), and hive off the small children to the kitchen, and you would still have to crawl under the table to get out of the room. I miss those days.

I miss the days of the family and a bajillion guests showing up. We used to have the coolest kids table.

The food sounds amazing!

Happy Birthday, anon!

I'm having dinner with friends, but it's still pretty much what my family would have had in the old "big holiday dinner" days: turkey, dressing (cornbread this time), mashed potatoes, some kind of salad, cranberry sauce/relish, and various pies (probably sweet potato & pecan since we're in the southern US.) Since we're trying to get a few more vegetables in, we're also having whiskey glazed carrots and roasted brussel sprouts with hazelnuts. If my mom were still alive and hostessing, we'd have had one of those jello dishes incorporating Coca-Cola, cherries, little bits of celery, and pecans. I might also have to make my grandmother's ambrosia salad, just because.

Thank you!

Wow, your table sounds so different than mine, but still sounds really appealing!

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