Come here if your in laws do weird crap at thanksgiving.

[Anonymous]

BIL brings all his junk mail, catalogs, and old magazines to go through at my house. We are talking armloads, months worth! Not a big deal except all my trash cans are overfilled now with this heavy paper. I mean, doesn't he realize that I now have to empty the trash cans? Well, he does now. I am asking for his help.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:BIL brings all his junk mail, catalogs, and old magazines to go through at my house. We are talking armloads, months worth! Not a big deal except all my trash cans are overfilled now with this heavy paper. I mean, doesn't he realize that I now have to empty the trash cans? Well, he does now. I am asking for his help.

I hope you mean “recycling bin,” PP. He’s very rude, but so are you if you aren’t prompting him to RECYCLE these items.

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Anonymous wrote:Re: MIL chicken. Cant believe so many of you are sticking up for MIL? I assume you’re ok with people double dipping then? Or sticking their grubby paws in the bowl of chips or crackers instead of using tongs? You people are wild.

You can break apart a rotisserie chicken with a fork and knives. I do it all the time to serve it to my own family. I would never tear it up like a raccoon unless I was the only one eating it.

You are missing a ton of meat that way. I don’t get what’s so confusing to you about clean hands. THEY ARE CLEAN. This is how you remove ALL the meat from a cooked bird.

NP. I don’t know about you, but when I serve a roast chicken or a roast turkey, my goal for the first meal enjoyed by my guests is not “get all this meat off the bone, now.” It is “I’m going to nicely carve and present more than enough meat for this particular meal.”

Then, later, I will wash my hands, remove all the meat from the carcass, and store it for future use. I don’t tear apart a chicken as my guests are waiting for dinner.

Well for starters, I don't serve company a store bought rotisserie chicken that cost $6 in the first place. But yes, when I do buy rotisserie chicken, we use every last bit. First, as carved chicken. Then we use breast slices for sandwiches the next day. Then we get the remaining meat off to use for soups and casseroles. Then we make stock. I'm not at all surprised though that young parents today slice some breast meat off and chuck the rest into the trash with their empty starbucks cups and Cava bowls.

Show me where I said a roasted chicken or turkey would be “store bought”? The point stands that whether you roasted it yourself or ordered it from catering or picked it up at Giant, you don’t mangle a bird right before you serve it. To guests OR just your family. You should properly carve and serve it. Later, with clean hands, you should continue carving and yes using your hands to pick the carcass clean. You don’t do kitchen dirty work when guests or even your family are waiting for dinner.

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What is wrong with a "store bought" roasted chicken or a turkey? What, are you people going out and hunting your own?

jfc

team op on this one. MIL's behavior is gross. You don't do that prior to serving a meal. cut it properly, it's not that hard.

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Anonymous wrote:Re: MIL chicken. Cant believe so many of you are sticking up for MIL? I assume you’re ok with people double dipping then? Or sticking their grubby paws in the bowl of chips or crackers instead of using tongs? You people are wild.

You can break apart a rotisserie chicken with a fork and knives. I do it all the time to serve it to my own family. I would never tear it up like a raccoon unless I was the only one eating it.

You are missing a ton of meat that way. I don’t get what’s so confusing to you about clean hands. THEY ARE CLEAN. This is how you remove ALL the meat from a cooked bird.

NP. I don’t know about you, but when I serve a roast chicken or a roast turkey, my goal for the first meal enjoyed by my guests is not “get all this meat off the bone, now.” It is “I’m going to nicely carve and present more than enough meat for this particular meal.”

Then, later, I will wash my hands, remove all the meat from the carcass, and store it for future use. I don’t tear apart a chicken as my guests are waiting for dinner.

Well for starters, I don't serve company a store bought rotisserie chicken that cost $6 in the first place. But yes, when I do buy rotisserie chicken, we use every last bit. First, as carved chicken. Then we use breast slices for sandwiches the next day. Then we get the remaining meat off to use for soups and casseroles. Then we make stock. I'm not at all surprised though that young parents today slice some breast meat off and chuck the rest into the trash with their empty starbucks cups and Cava bowls.

Show me where I said a roasted chicken or turkey would be “store bought”? The point stands that whether you roasted it yourself or ordered it from catering or picked it up at Giant, you don’t mangle a bird right before you serve it. To guests OR just your family. You should properly carve and serve it. Later, with clean hands, you should continue carving and yes using your hands to pick the carcass clean. You don’t do kitchen dirty work when guests or even your family are waiting for dinner.

I think PP is just referring to OP’s Costco rotisserie.

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Anonymous wrote:Mine get up early and run 5k with a bunch of other people. Weirdos.

We have about 40-60 people over at 9am for yoga and then brunch. Everyone leaves by noon, unless they've been invited for Thanksgiving dinner. Then around 3pm a new wave of people come for Thanksgiving.

Weird flex. What does this have to do with your in-laws (title of the thread)?

Sorry forgot to include that part. FIL watches the yoga. Like, from the window. As if it's a show.

First, I think I aspire to be you, yoga poster. Second, my father would 100% watch this from the window and talk about it for the entire weekend. And he'd interject comments about how yoga is great for maintaining your sense of balance or something similar. Somethig that never quite encompasses the entire, or most important reason for the thing you are doing, but this is his way of showing support.

My ILs, on the other hand, would openly make snarky comments and assumptions based on the yoga.

We are a family who do a 5K to feed the hungry on Thanksgiving every year- inlaws and us and all the kids (elementary/high school). So the yoga thing in a smaller group sounds cool.

The reaction to the yoga would be a combo of the two reactions in our family. I could see my dad sitting in a window, nebulously commenting repeatedly that it was 'healthy for you', watching as it would be interesting/bizarre to him- especially a group so large- he'd be like 'how did you capture this many loons and release them in one place'. My mother would pull up a chaise lounge right next those of us doing yoga and do funny voices/rename the moves to make us laugh. My 90s grandmother would be actively farting as she did yoga and tried not to laugh. My inlaws would be dutifully doing the moves and trying not to laugh.

Well, one thing we can all agree on is that from now on it's "the" yoga and not just plain old yoga.

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Those of you with a severe phobia of clean hands touching your food need Rx anti anxiety meds.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The family style is annoying because it dominates the conversation. Pass this, pass that. Don't the kids like green beans? We made this because we thought they'd like it. Aren't you hungry? This one eats and eats. You look like you're going to blow away. Could you pass that again?
The buffet - you line up, make your plate and eat it. Go back and get more if you want more. Talk about something more interesting at the table. And I don't even have an island, I use the induction surface as a serving area every night!

I don't usually mind family style but I can't get control over it with my family. My parents don't understand the concept of just passing in one direction. I try to conduct the rhythm "ok mom, pass the green beans around...No not to me, just take some and pass to your left... Mom, could you please take some salad and pass it on? No, mom, the rolls are coming around, I'm not passing them across the table to you. Now you have the salad, corn and the cranberries stacking up next to your plate, for the love of...yes, sorry nobody has passed you the turkey Aunt Mary, dad skipped you by passing every single item back the other way." My niece: grandpa, what, did you get the Uno reverse card or something????

My inlaws manage it flawlessly.

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Anonymous wrote:BIL brings all his junk mail, catalogs, and old magazines to go through at my house. We are talking armloads, months worth! Not a big deal except all my trash cans are overfilled now with this heavy paper. I mean, doesn't he realize that I now have to empty the trash cans? Well, he does now. I am asking for his help.

I hope you mean “recycling bin,” PP. He’s very rude, but so are you if you aren’t prompting him to RECYCLE these items.

I was going to put them in recycling but now I have the urge to burn them in the back yard.

[Anonymous]

The most annoying thing about big holiday dinners family style is that the table is so crowded. No one can get to anything, and there’s nowhere to put anything. Dishes passed around awkwardly. My ILs are stubborn and try to make family style happen even at other people’s houses. They can do what they please, but my SIL, BIL, husband and I finally just tell them to drop it when they try to insist on family style at our houses.

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Anonymous wrote:BIL brings all his junk mail, catalogs, and old magazines to go through at my house. We are talking armloads, months worth! Not a big deal except all my trash cans are overfilled now with this heavy paper. I mean, doesn't he realize that I now have to empty the trash cans? Well, he does now. I am asking for his help.

Could you have a bonfire?

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Anonymous wrote:BIL brings all his junk mail, catalogs, and old magazines to go through at my house. We are talking armloads, months worth! Not a big deal except all my trash cans are overfilled now with this heavy paper. I mean, doesn't he realize that I now have to empty the trash cans? Well, he does now. I am asking for his help.

I hope you mean “recycling bin,” PP. He’s very rude, but so are you if you aren’t prompting him to RECYCLE these items.

I was going to put them in recycling but now I have the urge to burn them in the back yard.

Ha ha! Perfect comeback

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Anonymous wrote:Re: MIL chicken. Cant believe so many of you are sticking up for MIL? I assume you’re ok with people double dipping then? Or sticking their grubby paws in the bowl of chips or crackers instead of using tongs? You people are wild.

You can break apart a rotisserie chicken with a fork and knives. I do it all the time to serve it to my own family. I would never tear it up like a raccoon unless I was the only one eating it.

You are missing a ton of meat that way. I don’t get what’s so confusing to you about clean hands. THEY ARE CLEAN. This is how you remove ALL the meat from a cooked bird.

NP. I don’t know about you, but when I serve a roast chicken or a roast turkey, my goal for the first meal enjoyed by my guests is not “get all this meat off the bone, now.” It is “I’m going to nicely carve and present more than enough meat for this particular meal.”

Then, later, I will wash my hands, remove all the meat from the carcass, and store it for future use. I don’t tear apart a chicken as my guests are waiting for dinner.

Well for starters, I don't serve company a store bought rotisserie chicken that cost $6 in the first place. But yes, when I do buy rotisserie chicken, we use every last bit. First, as carved chicken. Then we use breast slices for sandwiches the next day. Then we get the remaining meat off to use for soups and casseroles. Then we make stock. I'm not at all surprised though that young parents today slice some breast meat off and chuck the rest into the trash with their empty starbucks cups and Cava bowls.

Oh, you’re one of THOSE. Settle down, MeeMaw.

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Anonymous wrote:Re: MIL chicken. Cant believe so many of you are sticking up for MIL? I assume you’re ok with people double dipping then? Or sticking their grubby paws in the bowl of chips or crackers instead of using tongs? You people are wild.

You can break apart a rotisserie chicken with a fork and knives. I do it all the time to serve it to my own family. I would never tear it up like a raccoon unless I was the only one eating it.

You are missing a ton of meat that way. I don’t get what’s so confusing to you about clean hands. THEY ARE CLEAN. This is how you remove ALL the meat from a cooked bird.

NP. I don’t know about you, but when I serve a roast chicken or a roast turkey, my goal for the first meal enjoyed by my guests is not “get all this meat off the bone, now.” It is “I’m going to nicely carve and present more than enough meat for this particular meal.”

Then, later, I will wash my hands, remove all the meat from the carcass, and store it for future use. I don’t tear apart a chicken as my guests are waiting for dinner.

Well for starters, I don't serve company a store bought rotisserie chicken that cost $6 in the first place. But yes, when I do buy rotisserie chicken, we use every last bit. First, as carved chicken. Then we use breast slices for sandwiches the next day. Then we get the remaining meat off to use for soups and casseroles. Then we make stock. I'm not at all surprised though that young parents today slice some breast meat off and chuck the rest into the trash with their empty starbucks cups and Cava bowls.

Oh, you’re one of THOSE. Settle down, MeeMaw.

It’s OK. We dropped her back off at Meadowlark Gardens a few hours ago.

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Anonymous wrote:BIL brings all his junk mail, catalogs, and old magazines to go through at my house. We are talking armloads, months worth! Not a big deal except all my trash cans are overfilled now with this heavy paper. I mean, doesn't he realize that I now have to empty the trash cans? Well, he does now. I am asking for his help.

I hope you mean “recycling bin,” PP. He’s very rude, but so are you if you aren’t prompting him to RECYCLE these items.

Recycling paper is actually often worse for the environment than creating new paper. Recycling is not actually that earth friendly save for a few items like metals