What are you having for Thanksgiving dinner?

Ned Flanders · Post by **Ned Flanders** » Tue Nov 20, 2001 2:08 pm

Is anyone having Spam?

Panther Blkct · Post by **Panther Blkct** » Tue Nov 20, 2001 4:55 pm

Originally posted by fable:
 it also looks so good in its strangely ridged, yellow and green original shape that I may adopt it as a pet, and we'll do without it for Thanksgiving. 

A pet?... Ever hear of this thing called... mold? I mean, yeah, a great pet for a few months, but then things get a bit hairy...

C Elegans · Post by **C Elegans** » Tue Nov 20, 2001 7:55 pm

A question from a culturally ignorant European

: Why is turkey the traditional food at Thanksgiving?

Sailor Saturn · Post by **Sailor Saturn** » Tue Nov 20, 2001 8:04 pm

Originally posted by C Elegans:
A question from a culturally ignorant European : Why is turkey the traditional food at Thanksgiving?

I'm just an ignorant American,

but IIRC, that's what the Pilgrims and Indians ate on the day that started this. Sadly, I'm not certain about this.

Edit: Okay, someone lock me up and throw away the key. I accidentally put "European" instead of "American."

@.@

[ 11-20-2001: Message edited by: Sailor Saturn ]

nael · Post by **nael** » Tue Nov 20, 2001 8:32 pm

yeah, first thanksgiving thing, plus, what other foul can feed so many people? ben franklin wanted it to be our national bird...thank god that didn't go through. it would suck to have our national bird so stupid that it drowns in the rain.

another side odd fact...pumpkin pie was introduced at the second thanksgiving feast. i saw this on jeopardy today.

C Elegans · Post by **C Elegans** » Tue Nov 20, 2001 9:28 pm

Thanks SS and Nael

ROFL at turkey as the national bird of the US

The eagle is somewhat more majestic in appearace.

Darkpoet · Post by **Darkpoet** » Tue Nov 20, 2001 9:56 pm

Originally posted by Gwalchmai:
This year, none of our relatives will be in town, and my mooching little brother has moved back to Colorado (for some Post-Doc position ), so it will just be the four of us. My wife, my three-year-old, and my seven-month-old. So we are pretty uninspired to make a real dinner. We thought we might just buy a turkey breast, but we couldn’t find one and opted for the smallest whole turkey we could find. I dread the thought of that carcass in our refrigerator for the next month, as we try to polish off the leftovers.

I normally make a good cornbread and sausage stuffing, but I’m thinking that it might not work so well this year. We might want a stuffing that’s a little more ‘normal’, so that it will be palatable to my little girl. My Mom always used to make a great oyster stuffing, but my wife shudders at the thought.

For the same reason, I won’t be making my usual Jalapeño Jelly Glazed Sweet Potatoes. Other than that, we will probably have the usual mashed potatoes and gravy, pickles, olives, and cranberry sauce.

What are you going to have? (Obviously, this question is only directed at those of you who will be celebrating Thanksgiving….. )

Grilled Salmon, wild green salad, shredded potato pancakes.

I hate thanks giving, what a useless holiday. Why should I give thanks to some land grabbing, indian murders. I say kill the pilgrims.

nael · Post by **nael** » Tue Nov 20, 2001 10:03 pm

Originally posted by Darkpoet:
Grilled Salmon, wild green salad, shredded potato pancakes. I hate thanks giving, what a useless holiday. Why should I give thanks to some land grabbing, indian murders. I say kill the pilgrims.

i'm okay with the indian murdering part (not okay, but agree), but to say the landgrubbing just plays into a stereotype that political liberals have tried to make us all believe which is SO untrue.
that whole crap about indians not believing in land ownership is a complete and total myth.
i gaurantee that there has never been an indian tribe that said, "well, let's go over here, the apache don't know what ownership is, so they can't own that land so let's go live there!"
the native american's so whole heartedly believed in landownership it is not even funny. i hate it when whitey gets blamed for screwing indians out of their land...killing them...yes...genocide...yes...stealing land...no.
NO!

Gwalchmai · Post by **Gwalchmai** » Tue Nov 20, 2001 10:55 pm

Originally posted by Darkpoet:
Grilled Salmon, wild green salad, shredded potato pancakes.

Sounds good, but one suggestion: make the shredded potato pancakes into ring-shapes. That way you have someplace to put the gravy!

Sailor Saturn · Post by **Sailor Saturn** » Tue Nov 20, 2001 10:59 pm

Originally posted by Darkpoet:
Grilled Salmon, wild green salad, shredded potato pancakes. I hate thanks giving, what a useless holiday. Why should I give thanks to some land grabbing, indian murders. I say kill the pilgrims.

There's only one flaw in your logic, boyo. Thanksgiving isn't about being thankful to the pilgrims. It's about being thankful for what you have in your life.