No turkey, please

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Anonymous wrote:People can expect what they want. That doesn’t mean it will happen.

But you should at least let them know before.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Honestly, Thanksgiving meals vary widely in different parts of the country/cultures.
In the south, smoked ham is traditional, with collard greens. In the west, seafood. I’ve personally never encountered Mac and cheese or green bean casserole at Thanksgiving, but some seem to think they are essential. Some do pumpkin, some do sweet potato. I’ve been served Cornish hens instead of turkey.
I’m not sure it’s a realistic expectation to assume you are going to get a set menu with specific items.
I’m glad my family embraces lentil loaf. Turkey is going to be expensive this year, with its flu hitting turkey farms.

Gross.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We prefer ham for Thanksgiving. For 20 yrs we've gone to my ILs and they always have a ham and a turkey and my kids would only eat the ham. Now we do it at our house and I don't even bother with the turkey.

Yep way to go than wasting a turkey

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Assuming you may celebrate Easter, which of course you may not, but if you do, what do you then serve on Easter? Ham on Thanksgiving and ham on Easter is a lot of ham, and it does tend to play against the special nature of each dinner if each dinner is the same.

how can ham on Thanksgiving and ham on Easter (4ish months later) be too much ham?

Besides, it’s lamb on Easter.

Eww, no.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Honestly, Thanksgiving meals vary widely in different parts of the country/cultures.
In the south, smoked ham is traditional, with collard greens. In the west, seafood. I’ve personally never encountered Mac and cheese or green bean casserole at Thanksgiving, but some seem to think they are essential. Some do pumpkin, some do sweet potato. I’ve been served Cornish hens instead of turkey.
I’m not sure it’s a realistic expectation to assume you are going to get a set menu with specific items.
I’m glad my family embraces lentil loaf. Turkey is going to be expensive this year, with its flu hitting turkey farms.

Gross.

Most people eat with the same people each year so it’s not like a total surprise. The family recipes and traditions are sort of the point.

[Anonymous]

You all actually eat foods that are prepared in your family or friends' homes? Are they cooks? Are foods edible or questionable? Clean? Veg items not on non-veg and cooked in same pans? Why doesn't everyone eat at own place and go over to one house (the "host") to eat restaurnt or store bought foods, have wine or coffee, and catch up on the year? Could save the host work from trying to figure out turkey or no turkey how large of a turkey. Etc..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No, because the point of Thanksgiving isn’t turkey, but the giving of thanks. Any food will do for this.

Exactly. Thank you!!

[Anonymous]

There are only 4 of us - a picky younger child and a vegetarian older child. I invited friends (a couple) and told them we don’t do turkey.(We often roast a chicken instead but not always. We are heavy on salads and sides.)

They didn’t seem bothered by that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thanksgiving without a turkey? If you are invited to someone's over Thanksgiving, do you expect to be served turkey? Will the kids miss out on Thanksgiving if there's no turkey?

We’ve had several with no turkey. Even my meat loving kid didn’t miss it.

[Anonymous]

So, did we survive without a whole turkey this year??