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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is there a rule for what one can and can’t bring to holiday meals at inlaws houses? This will be year 10 for them hosting Thanksgiving. I miss more southern style Thanksgiving foods that I grew up with desperately.  Anytime I ask what I can bring, I’m told “just yourselves.” For a while I decided they were just being polite and I brought items anyways. Some items were met with scorn or even worse not served on Thanksgiving (I was told they’d enjoy it better the next day for lunch), but my pie did become a staple and I know they look forward to it yearly.

Something really small that I’ve been craving is canned cranberry sauce (the sliced kind). Everyone raves about my MIL’s cranberry recipe though, so I don’t want to compete with her. I also would like red wine, but was told that they don’t like red wine and they served me a moscato instead when I brought red. [b]Am I being rude bringing things I want to eat or should I just accept that I can’t have any control over the menu? 
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When my brother first starting going to his ILs for thanksgiving, he was bummed not to have the Ritz Cracker Stuffing, that we grew up with and he LOVES. So after a couple years he started bringing a small pan with his ILs blessing. Over the years the various relatives tried it and now he has to bring enough for everyone! [/quote]

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