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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My mom proudly told me on Monday that she just finished cooking the turkey so she can re-heat it for us Thursday. :([/quote]

This right here is the kind of wacky I love finding buried in these threads among the house too cold/too hot, garbage police, and nobody is allowed to eat posts![/quote]

I’ve been haunted by wondering where the cooked turkey is stored. [/quote]

On the patio! It's cool enough. I mean people are whining and wearing sweaters INDOORS so it's definitely cool enough for a turkey outdoors. Logic. [/quote]

Are you in the Midwest[b]? When we used to go to my parents’ house for Thanksgiving, my mom would cook all this food a week or so in advance and then leave it in the garage if there wasn’t room in the fridge (and they had two huge refrigerators and a deep freeze….).[/b] I don’t think the garage was ever under 40 degrees. When the kids were little, we’d buy our own groceries and cook for them under the guise that they were too picky and needed their own food. We stopped going there for holidays around 7-8 years ago because the old food, cold house, uncomfortable beds, weird rules, etc got to be too much.

My dad has now passed away and my mom is in a small apartment. I was feeling sad that we didn’t have big family travel plans this year and wouldn’t all be together in their big house, but this thread is reminding me of how much we hated going to my parents’ for Thanksgiving! It was never the cozy Hallmark Thanksgiving that I’m picturing in my head—it was the Griswolds. [/quote]

OMG, my in laws do this. Not just for thanksgiving. MIL makes lunch at like, 5 am, and then she just leaves it on the stove (stove turned off) for 6-8 hours until lunch time. Stews, soups, meatballs, fish, porkchops, it doesn't matter. Then she reheats it until it is lukewarm. DH has asked her many times to put the food in the fridge, which she ignores because she says it will "ruin the flavor" and be "bad for the fridge" to put hot food inside. Last year, pregnant SIL convinced her to put the food in the fridge because of her pregnancy, which MIL grumbled about incessantly.

For thanksgiving, she makes a ton of food, more than anyone can possibly eat. She stores the leftover food  in the garage and then brings it out the next day at noon for lunch. Like 24 hours after it was first prepared. Nobody eats it of course, and people come up with the craziest reasons why they can't eat that lobster mac and cheese that was left out overnight. Everyone has told her to refrigerate things and she just shames and berates people for telling her that, so instead we all sit around inventing reasons why we can't eat it. It's our thanksgiving play.

Except not this year! As PP noted, it is sad not to be around the extended hallmark fam, but since we don't have that, it's better to be by ourselves and not in the big group o' crazy awful people.[/quote]

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