What's weird about where you are staying - Thanksgiving 2024 edition

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Anonymous wrote:Last thing, I had never seen anyone store food in a cold garage until I got married. When MIL walked out with a pan of leftover turkey and put it on a cloth that was on the car hood, it blew my mind. And I don't care how cold it was, it bothered me that our food was sitting out in the garage with the cars and the lawn chemicals and boxes of books and broken garden tools.

And spiders. Don't forget the spiders. That is who lives in the garage.

If the food is in a sealed container, I don't really see what the issue is. Some of you are absurdly squeamish.

Boxes of books? WTH.

NP and surely you don’t understand. Garage food people cover the hood of the car with an old beach towel or dish towels, and then put casseroles, pies, etc. on there. There’s Saran Wrap or another dish towel over the top of the dish but definitely not sealed containers or anything like that!

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Civilized garage food people set up a folding table in the garage for the food 😤 What would great-granny have said about putting your food directly on the hood of your car???

Luckily for everyone spending their holiday up north this year, it’s a pretty cold Thanksgiving! Maybe the food will stay cold enough not to give everyone a foodborne illness.

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Anonymous wrote:Civilized garage food people set up a folding table in the garage for the food 😤 What would great-granny have said about putting your food directly on the hood of your car???

Luckily for everyone spending their holiday up north this year, it’s a pretty cold Thanksgiving! Maybe the food will stay cold enough not to give everyone a foodborne illness.

My grandma had a tablecloth just for the car hood. And my grandpa would wash the car the day before in anticipation!

(Doesn’t everyone? No…?)

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Anonymous wrote:My mom proudly told me on Monday that she just finished cooking the turkey so she can re-heat it for us Thursday.

I feel your pain. I am looking at a frozen turkey sitting on the counter. It was fully defrosted LAST YEAR and then REFROZEN when a contingent family did not make it up from the twin cities. This is an 18 pounder. Early tomorrow morning, crimes against nature will be committed in order to finish the thawing. This is one of many attempts on our lives that have/will occur this Thanksgiving. I’m going to go eat a snickers bar and have a Bloody Mary. They don’t believe in food allergies or food safety here, but they believe in large supplies of junk food and nobody monitors your drinking. #winnng

RED PLASTIC BIN IN THE FREEZER LADY PLEASE COME BACK

No, no, no, no, NO. Tell you don't have children who will be eating that killer turkey!

There are children here but none on my watch will eat the Turkey. All of the sane adults work together to protect ourselves and the innocents. The perpetrators don’t get sick. I don’t know if they’ve evolved to have cast iron stomachs or if it’s the alcohol (I’m indulging, not judging, but they drink SO MUCH).

My mother is 97, lives in her home on her own and still drives. She's never had cancer, has normal cholesterol etc. She is a unicorn according to my internist, who doesn't believe she exists. She still gardens and does stuff on her own. She has never been a person concerned with eating healthy foods. She has always eaten a lot of vegetables and few sweets but she's Southern and loves her Southern food. She's never had a heart attack, heart issues, or strokes. She lives in the hot South. She leaves food out all the time. We just visited and she made sausage and biscuits several mornings and they sat out all day. We didn't realize and the first day, most of us had stomach issues. I'm pretty certain she has poisoned herself so many times with every possible food borne illness that it has killed anything that can kill her.

My mom is only 78 but is like this (and also a Southerner). She doesn’t wash her hands, leaves food out, eats old leftovers; licks the spoon, doesn’t stay away from sick people, etc. and never gets sick. There have been holidays when every single one of us catches a stomach bug, she is right in the mix without taking any precaution, and she is the only one who avoids it. My BIL says she’s like a cockroach.

This whole generation is like this. I virtually never saw my mother wash her hands. Even after using the bathroom. It’s pretty gross.

There is a theory that the increase in allergies is due to having a more sterile environment. Antidotes like these make me wonder if we’re the ones doing something wrong and these old ladies have the right idea.

Typhoid Mary got dozens of people sick becuase—even after she knew it was her getting people sick—she continued to not wash her hands after taking a dump. Stop being disgusting and wash your damn hands.

Most people don’t have typhoid. Stop being a germophobic press and chill out.

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Anonymous wrote:Civilized garage food people set up a folding table in the garage for the food 😤 What would great-granny have said about putting your food directly on the hood of your car???

Luckily for everyone spending their holiday up north this year, it’s a pretty cold Thanksgiving! Maybe the food will stay cold enough not to give everyone a foodborne illness.

My grandma had a tablecloth just for the car hood. And my grandpa would wash the car the day before in anticipation!

(Doesn’t everyone? No…?)

I can't believe this is a thing.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm new to my husband's family. First time staying at the in-laws. The main bathroom in the hallway does not have a doorknob. This is where I'm to shower and get ready with two other families.

I asked my husband if we could check into a hotel but he said it would hurt his moms feelings.

Girl, rubber door stopper. Fits in your purse. Amazon.com or hardware store or Target/Walmart.

I'm confused. This person thinks the PP should carry a rubber door stopper around with her? To somehow stop up the hole in the spot missing the doorknob? What?

Im also very confused by this response. Stuffing a sock in there would be easier.

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BIL let everyone know he was smoking turkey breasts this year instead of cooking a big turkey. Everyone conveyed agreement and excitement about this plan so we were surprised when my mother walked in with a full turkey. Nephew (15) asks, “Does that happen to be a Butterball?” My mom replies, “Yes” (although in all honesty he could have asked if that was a x, y or z turkey and she would have said yes.

Nephew then states, “Well that poor turkey may have been sexually abused. Actually, full on raped. I saw a video on how there was sexual abuse of Butterball turkeys at the factory. Here, let me show you the video.”

He repeated this a dozen times and tried showing the video to every one of us. The crazy thing is all the other kids (6th-11th grade) had already seen the video.

No one ate my mom’s turkey.

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This thread has been a little disappointing i was hoping for some real gossip from someone hiding in the guest bathroom posting crazy crap on here.

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Anonymous wrote:Civilized garage food people set up a folding table in the garage for the food 😤 What would great-granny have said about putting your food directly on the hood of your car???

Luckily for everyone spending their holiday up north this year, it’s a pretty cold Thanksgiving! Maybe the food will stay cold enough not to give everyone a foodborne illness.

My grandma had a tablecloth just for the car hood. And my grandpa would wash the car the day before in anticipation!

(Doesn’t everyone? No…?)

I can't believe this is a thing.

My mom puts battery-operated candlesticks on hers. It’s a thing. Or it’s just me and all my cousins posting here?

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Anonymous wrote:This thread has been a little disappointing i was hoping for some real gossip from someone hiding in the guest bathroom posting crazy crap on here.

At a friend’s on the west coast and we’re prepping to eat. The MIL opened a pomegranate in the dining room without asking just before we were all to sit down. The wall is covered in pomegranate splatter and there was a commotion and the MIL took herself for a walk and now no one knows what to do.

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Anonymous wrote:This thread has been a little disappointing i was hoping for some real gossip from someone hiding in the guest bathroom posting crazy crap on here.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:MIL refuses to buy foods that the kids like and then makes us feel terrible because our kids are bad eaters. I’m not talking about sugared cereal (gasp!) or spaghetti-os level “kid food.” She made beef stew last night and tonight we are having fish because she got a good deal at the store (and because SHE likes that). The house is a museum and no games of any kind left over from Ds and three sibs. I’m not even sure they were allowed to sleep in the house as children (I know the dog wasn’t).

I don't know about this one...I grew up having to eat the same "adult" food as adults and have my kids do the same. We don't do separate meals and that has expanded my kids palate.

We don’t do separate “kid meals” either and kids are really not particularly picky, but it’s like she goes out of her way to make the visit as unpleasant as possible and the food is one aspect of this. We are on “vacation” and I just don’t want to deal with kids who are grumpy because they didn’t eat (there is also a strict no snacks in the house rule). I’m just asking she meets the kids a smidge of the way with something like grilled meat and salad or really any kind of pasta.

Visiting family is not a vacation. I would buy snacks and order a pizza.

+1 if she’s spending the day making tons of food to feed everyone, she gets to decide what she’s serving. She’s not a short order cook! Bring your own canned pasta and microwaveable bowls! I have never hosted the large family Thanksgiving, but I have been to plenty and I cannot fathom ever demanding that the cook (it’s usually one primary person, even if others help here and there) prepare extra dishes on the side that they have no interest in serving. How appallingly rude. And yes, I have kids

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Anonymous wrote:Civilized garage food people set up a folding table in the garage for the food 😤 What would great-granny have said about putting your food directly on the hood of your car???

Luckily for everyone spending their holiday up north this year, it’s a pretty cold Thanksgiving! Maybe the food will stay cold enough not to give everyone a foodborne illness.

I’m the Midwest garage poster, and my parents always kept a folding table in the garage for the garage food! Never the wrong season for garage food. 🙃

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Anonymous wrote:My mom is a weirdo about having garbage in the garbage can. She will take things out of the garbage and take it to the garbage can outside. She goes to the outside garbage can no less than 5 times a day.

I'm the PP with the mom who doesn't allow anything that's not a Kleenex in trash outside the kitchen. Does she have an auxiliary trash bag hanging on a cabinet knob for trash in the kitchen that she deems urgent?

PP with the other weird garbage mom. I forgot to add - my mom is also a weirdo about the bathroom garbage cans. She is the same way as your mom. If it's not a kleenex she wants you to throw it in the main garbage can. I do not understand the constant garbage monitoring.

This is so wild to me! Clothing tag is not okay but runny snot is!?

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For years just us and kids with a traditional big turkey dinner. This year traveled to relatives where extended family altogether for first time in 10 years. For main dinner, went to restaurant that served a “family-style” ham and onions and green bean plate (no other choices). Stopping at White Castles now with kids before go back to house!