Odd, personal loves or dislikes about Thanksgiving

[Anonymous]

Dislike/hate:

When a certain relative insists upon making certain items and makes a healthier (read: horrible) version. ICYMI: you can’t make mashed potatoes with just a tiny bit of butter or salt. And we want green bean casserole on thanksgiving, not your naked veggies.

When certain people insist upon leaping up from the table to start doing dishes. Leave it be. Just relax and enjoy visiting with family.

Gravy from a jar. Yuck.

Likes:

Spending time with family. I enjoy my own family as well as my in-laws.

Dressing up.

A gorgeous dining room with the fancy china and a legit feast.

An amazing spread of desserts.

[Anonymous]

I love Thanksgiving! It’s my favorite holiday, and my favorite part is sitting down to a delicious meal with loved ones and chatting about all the things.

My dislike is my MIL not letting me clean up for her despite her spending the whole time complaining about how hard it is to clean up. Then sit down and I’ll do it! Happily!

I also dislike the travel. That’s a necessary evil to see family.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Love: The years when it’s my family side extended family, and my siblings and I make the dinner with my mom in her kitchen in our hometown. After dinner, the sibs and occasionally a spouse or two will pile in my sister’s minivan, and we’ll just drive around our hometown, eating Twizzlers and drinking fountain sodas from our favorite gas station. We look at Christmas lights, but a lot about it is just random, “Didn’t Jake from swim team used to live there?”

Dislike: My ILs and my extended family’s expectation of rolls on the table. You’re telling me that mashed potatoes, dressing and corn casserole aren’t enough carbs, with maybe mac and cheese as well? It’s an embarrassment of carb-laden riches, the kind you don’t see every day. But some frozen yeast rolls are a must?

I don't get twizzlers. They taste like plastic nothing to me. And be grateful all you have to complain about your in-laws is their rolls

[Anonymous]

I like stuffing a lot.

[Anonymous]

Another thread???? There are already like a gazillion threads about Thanksgiving on Off list. and more threads in Foods forum about foods made or not made on Thanksgiving

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mac and cheese? Is this a regional thing? What region(s)?

Cheese and turkey gravy on the same plate? Wow.

Now my regional (south) thing is mashed white potatoes AND sweet potato casserole with marshmallows browned on top.

Our family is southern and serves mac and cheese on Thanksgiving.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Love: The years when it’s my family side extended family, and my siblings and I make the dinner with my mom in her kitchen in our hometown. After dinner, the sibs and occasionally a spouse or two will pile in my sister’s minivan, and we’ll just drive around our hometown, eating Twizzlers and drinking fountain sodas from our favorite gas station. We look at Christmas lights, but a lot about it is just random, “Didn’t Jake from swim team used to live there?”

Dislike: My ILs and my extended family’s expectation of rolls on the table. You’re telling me that mashed potatoes, dressing and corn casserole aren’t enough carbs, with maybe mac and cheese as well? It’s an embarrassment of carb-laden riches, the kind you don’t see every day. But some frozen yeast rolls are a must?

YES, rolls AND MAC AND CHEESE.

Why can’t these roll eaters just take a lovely piece of fruit and sit on the back porch steps with it? Honestly.

And perhaps a snifter of brandy while they’re at it?

[Anonymous]

Love: Day after turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce and mayo sandwiches on white bread.

Tolerate: The actual turkey on Thanksgiving.