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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The only day I skip an appetizer is Thanksgiving.  The dinner food is the star. If you don’t offer a drink and app, does everyone sit down to dinner within 15 minutes of arrival? Potentially, your guests could be fed and gone within the hour.  I prefer an evening in my home to move a little slower.[/quote]

Do you have overnight guests? Or if people are arriving, how long do you wait before you serve dinner?

When my ILs host, we are overnight guests, and they don’t serve anything between breakfast (one muffin and one hard-boiled egg each) and don’t serve anything until 3 or 4 p.m. It’s awful.

When we host, we have a little breakfast, then set up appetizers as lunch around lunchtime; people can eat as much or as little as they want. Then we eat a proper dinner at 5 p.m.[/quote]

+1  Thanksgiving is actually the one time when I do two or three rounds of appetizers. [b] I don't do a big lunch and dinner is served at 3.[/b]  People start arriving at noon and that's the first round of appetizers.  Another round goes out at 1 or so, and the final round at 2.  [b]Basically by 2 there is enough of an appetizer bar that it makes up for no big lunch.[/b]  But Thanksgiving is a day of feasting and everyone is so busy, playing out in the yard or running around in the house, that it isn't like they aren't working off the calories.[/quote]

I'm confused -- so there IS a "not big" lunch in addition to three rounds of appetizers and dinner at 3? When do you serve this not-big lunch, 10am?[/quote]

Sigh.  Perhaps she serves an "early" dinner?  That's what we do.  Our regular dinnertime is 7:30 pm but on Thanksgiving it is at 3.  I don't get your condescension.  Are you normally so rude?  DP.[/quote]

NP. You don’t get to start a post with a condescending and rude “sigh” and then accuse another poster of being condescending and rude. [/quote]LOL.  Guess I struck a nerve.  Whatever.  You obviously are either in a foul mood or you're just normally a disagreeable person.  You're not worth responding to anymore.  Tootaloo.  [/quote]

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