What unusual thing must always be on your Thanksgiving table?

[Anonymous]

Cats (live).

[Anonymous]

Celery stuffed with cream cheese and olives

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Celery stuffed with cream cheese and olives

Read above

[Anonymous]

My mom always did a large relish tray. Gherkins, olives, celery, artichoke hearts and gardinera? Marinated vegetable.

Also dinner ended with a fruit bowl and a big bowl of nuts plus nutcrackers.

My husband always wants creamed celery.

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Anonymous wrote:Interested in people’s thoughts—What unusual thing must always be will be at your Thanksgiving table?

For me it’s a relish tray with black olives right out of can and celery stuffed (must be 1/2 of celery stalks with peanut butter and 1/2 with soft cheese). The cheese can vary —- pimento, pub cheese or other. My mom always did this for every Thanksgiving, Easter, and Christmas. That made it a “special” thing.

A family friend had to have gravy topped with sliced hard boiled eggs.

What is yours?

Olives/relish tray / stuffed celery is not that strange. I think all the moms / grandmas read about it in the same 50s magazine and it became fancy.

“Relish trays” are one thing (hate that term), but I have never seen peanut butter or “stuffed” celery on one of them. Plain celery? Yes. A dip in the middle of the tray? Sure. But peanut butter celery is…not part of a relish tray.

Not OP, but I grew up with stuffed celery on our relish tray too. Some with peanut butter, some with cream cheese.

+1 — and we called it a relish tray, too.

[Anonymous]

We always had deviled eggs as an appetizer. My husband is not a fan, so we do shrimp cocktail now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We always had deviled eggs as an appetizer. My husband is not a fan, so we do shrimp cocktail now.

Oooooh, deviled eggs. I wish I had made some now. Rats!!!! Oh, well. There's always next Thanksgiving. I've already started my menu list.

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Anonymous wrote:In my family, we all hate cranberry sauce but along the way we just all absorbed that it’s “supposed” to be there for thanksgiving, so it evolved into a tradition where we find the fanciest possible crystal dish, preferably on some kind of pedestal and plop an unopened can of cranberry sauce on top.

I love this tradition. Just imagining the dishes of varying heights vying for the fancy title.

It’s fun and we’ve had some interesting discussions about the exact definition of fancy.

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Anonymous wrote:We are French, and didn't have a Thanksgiving tradition until we came here. We discovered that cranberries are delicious, so usually have it as a sauce with whatever duck or goose or capon (turkey is too dry). Except today: I made cranberry curd tart. Miam!

This is great, and it's unusual to you! So glad you have embraced cranberries. They are so versatile. I made a cranberry orange tea roll before thanksgiving and used the leftover sweetened cranberries in my smoothies. Don't want to waste a superfood.

Just for you, click on this story at your leisure and have a good laugh with your amis and famille!
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[Anonymous]

My wife

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I don’t know if it’s unusual but for a few years now I’ve wanted to add some kind of pickled item and have never gotten to it. I’m not sure what the pickled item would be, but it would be nice to add some acidic brightness to the rich meal. The cranberry sauce does that, but it is sweet.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t know if it’s unusual but for a few years now I’ve wanted to add some kind of pickled item and have never gotten to it. I’m not sure what the pickled item would be, but it would be nice to add some acidic brightness to the rich meal. The cranberry sauce does that, but it is sweet.

I pickle a bushel of corn every summer and we have that. It’s fermented in a salt brine and has a wonderful and unusual flavor. It does work well with Thanksgiving, and it’s a open and dump in a bowl addition so super easy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Jello!

With cool whip, unless it’s orange jello

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Anonymous wrote:In my family, we all hate cranberry sauce but along the way we just all absorbed that it’s “supposed” to be there for thanksgiving, so it evolved into a tradition where we find the fanciest possible crystal dish, preferably on some kind of pedestal and plop an unopened can of cranberry sauce on top.

I love this tradition. Just imagining the dishes of varying heights vying for the fancy title.

It’s fun and we’ve had some interesting discussions about the exact definition of fancy.

I see that! There's traditional, and then there's oooh, I'm serving cranberry sauce in a skull or by a family of deer or in a glass shoe....

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Interested in people’s thoughts—What unusual thing must always be will be at your Thanksgiving table?

For me it’s a relish tray with black olives right out of can and celery stuffed (must be 1/2 of celery stalks with peanut butter and 1/2 with soft cheese). The cheese can vary —- pimento, pub cheese or other. My mom always did this for every Thanksgiving, Easter, and Christmas. That made it a “special” thing.

A family friend had to have gravy topped with sliced hard boiled eggs.

What is yours?

Olives/relish tray / stuffed celery is not that strange. I think all the moms / grandmas read about it in the same 50s magazine and it became fancy.

“Relish trays” are one thing (hate that term), but I have never seen peanut butter or “stuffed” celery on one of them. Plain celery? Yes. A dip in the middle of the tray? Sure. But peanut butter celery is…not part of a relish tray.

I'm sure if you haven't personally seen stuffed celery as a Thanksgiving appetizer (I also hate the term relish tray--we didn't call it that) then nobody eats it. At all.
https://www.boston.com/food/food/2014/11/24/celery-and-olives-dominated-thanksgiving-for-nearly-100-yearsuntil-they-didnt/

I mean, thanks for an article about old-ass food trends that no one uses?

Wow, what is wrong with you? Thanksgiving is about traditions. It's about old-ass food trends. Something has gone terribly wrong inside if you feel the need to respond with that bile on a thread about Thanksgiving.