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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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?[/quote]

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. [/quote]

“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.[/quote]

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/[/quote]

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

Don’t be a grump. I found it interesting

- not OP[/quote]

+1 - It was surprising how fancy and novel olives and celery (eaten raw!) were and that they have stuck with so many of us to this day out of pure tradition. And the part about not needing a servant for these palate cleansers-- well, what a relief! [/quote]

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