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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thanksgiving is my absolute least favorite holiday. Better holidays- Christmas, Easter, valentines, 4th of July, Halloween, NYE, Memorial Day (bbq!)

I really can’t think of one good thing about it. Pressure to travel with screaming kids nonstop, squished into a house, terrible food (and I mean TERRIBLE. There’s not one spice present in the food on the Thanksgiving table I go to), cold and often snows and I have no control over any aspect of the holiday. It’s the worst. Maybe the pie I make is good (honestly the other pies are terrible). I can’t cook or bring dishes because we travel so far in advance. Turkey is cooked several days before Thanksgiving, then sliced and heated up again in the oven. I’m an adventurous eater and I find most of the food inedible. Kids whine nonstop about the food too which makes for a lot of extra battles with the kids (they won’t eat and then they’re hungry. If we make them eat, they fight us and whine. Can’t win). It’s completely joyous compared to all the other super fun holidays with incredible food. I actually really like Turkey, but properly basted, stuffed and sliced on the middle of the table while everyone watches. [/quote]

I know the thread is about why people like it but I like answers like this. 
The food is terrible. Can we all agree that the food is terrible. [/quote]

I guess you or your family can’t cook? How is everything terrible?[/quote]

There is a reason turkey isn't eaten much around the globe. It get way too dry, even with basting and stuffing and whatnot. If you had a tiny turkey, maybe... but here they sell you huge ones for large dinner groups, and those are invariably nasty because they need to spend more time in the oven.

A really good alternative is capon, which retains more moisture, but Americans don't seem to run to capon. Duck tastes different, but it's another great poultry alternative.

Don't forget that the first Thanksgiving foods involved shellfish, fish and no pastries (because no butter or wheat flour).

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