Anonymous
Post 11/16/2025 20:02     Subject: Odd, personal loves or dislikes about Thanksgiving
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Love: The years when it’s my family side extended family, and my siblings and I make the dinner with my mom in her kitchen in our hometown. After dinner, the sibs and occasionally a spouse or two will pile in my sister’s minivan, and we’ll just drive around our hometown, eating Twizzlers and drinking fountain sodas from our favorite gas station. We look at Christmas lights, but a lot about it is just random, “Didn’t Jake from swim team used to live there?”

Dislike: My ILs and my extended family’s expectation of rolls on the table. You’re telling me that mashed potatoes, dressing and corn casserole aren’t enough carbs, with maybe mac and cheese as well? It’s an embarrassment of carb-laden riches, the kind you don’t see every day. But some frozen yeast rolls are a must?

YES, rolls AND MAC AND CHEESE.


Why can’t these roll eaters just take a lovely piece of fruit and sit on the back porch steps with it? Honestly.
Anonymous
Post 11/16/2025 20:02     Subject: Odd, personal loves or dislikes about Thanksgiving
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Love: The years when it’s my family side extended family, and my siblings and I make the dinner with my mom in her kitchen in our hometown. After dinner, the sibs and occasionally a spouse or two will pile in my sister’s minivan, and we’ll just drive around our hometown, eating Twizzlers and drinking fountain sodas from our favorite gas station. We look at Christmas lights, but a lot about it is just random, “Didn’t Jake from swim team used to live there?”

Dislike: My ILs and my extended family’s expectation of rolls on the table. You’re telling me that mashed potatoes, dressing and corn casserole aren’t enough carbs, with maybe mac and cheese as well? It’s an embarrassment of carb-laden riches, the kind you don’t see every day. But some frozen yeast rolls are a must?


Dislike: People judging what other people eat on ONE FREAKING DAY that is all about food. Leave the roll eaters alone!


+1. People with disordered eating who whine about rolls on Thanksgiving.
Anonymous
Post 11/16/2025 19:54     Subject: Odd, personal loves or dislikes about Thanksgiving
Anonymous wrote:Dislike: people who start a thread with an interesting- sounding title only to gripe for the 1000th time that their side of the family is superior in every way to their ILs.

Love: people who can relax and enjoy the day without judging other people's likes and dislikes.


I guess you missed the part where I said “my ILs *and my extended family,*” but OK. I said it was odd and personal! It’s right there in the thread title!
Anonymous
Post 11/16/2025 19:52     Subject: Odd, personal loves or dislikes about Thanksgiving
Anonymous wrote:Love: The years when it’s my family side extended family, and my siblings and I make the dinner with my mom in her kitchen in our hometown. After dinner, the sibs and occasionally a spouse or two will pile in my sister’s minivan, and we’ll just drive around our hometown, eating Twizzlers and drinking fountain sodas from our favorite gas station. We look at Christmas lights, but a lot about it is just random, “Didn’t Jake from swim team used to live there?”

Dislike: My ILs and my extended family’s expectation of rolls on the table. You’re telling me that mashed potatoes, dressing and corn casserole aren’t enough carbs, with maybe mac and cheese as well? It’s an embarrassment of carb-laden riches, the kind you don’t see every day. But some frozen yeast rolls are a must?


Not everyone likes all those carbs. Maybe some people only like one of the three you mentioned. Maybe jiust like your "Likes" are your tradition, rolls are THEIR tradition.
Anonymous
Post 11/16/2025 19:51     Subject: Odd, personal loves or dislikes about Thanksgiving
Mac and cheese? Is this a regional thing? What region(s)?

Cheese and turkey gravy on the same plate? Wow.

Now my regional (south) thing is mashed white potatoes AND sweet potato casserole with marshmallows browned on top.

Anonymous
Post 11/16/2025 19:26     Subject: Odd, personal loves or dislikes about Thanksgiving
Black olives old school style and green olives with pimento. Must have on thanksgiving.
No need for salad. Total waste.
Anonymous
Post 11/16/2025 19:25     Subject: Odd, personal loves or dislikes about Thanksgiving
Dislike: people who start a thread with an interesting- sounding title only to gripe for the 1000th time that their side of the family is superior in every way to their ILs.

Love: people who can relax and enjoy the day without judging other people's likes and dislikes.
Anonymous
Post 11/16/2025 19:23     Subject: Odd, personal loves or dislikes about Thanksgiving
Love: not having to go to work/do school drop off. Just lounging at home.
Dislike: everything is closed unless you are traveling, and travel is usually a nightmare.
Anonymous
Post 11/16/2025 19:20     Subject: Odd, personal loves or dislikes about Thanksgiving
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Love: The years when it’s my family side extended family, and my siblings and I make the dinner with my mom in her kitchen in our hometown. After dinner, the sibs and occasionally a spouse or two will pile in my sister’s minivan, and we’ll just drive around our hometown, eating Twizzlers and drinking fountain sodas from our favorite gas station. We look at Christmas lights, but a lot about it is just random, “Didn’t Jake from swim team used to live there?”

Dislike: My ILs and my extended family’s expectation of rolls on the table. You’re telling me that mashed potatoes, dressing and corn casserole aren’t enough carbs, with maybe mac and cheese as well? It’s an embarrassment of carb-laden riches, the kind you don’t see every day. But some frozen yeast rolls are a must?

YES, rolls AND MAC AND CHEESE.
YUM!!!
Anonymous
Post 11/16/2025 19:09     Subject: Odd, personal loves or dislikes about Thanksgiving
Anonymous wrote:Love: The years when it’s my family side extended family, and my siblings and I make the dinner with my mom in her kitchen in our hometown. After dinner, the sibs and occasionally a spouse or two will pile in my sister’s minivan, and we’ll just drive around our hometown, eating Twizzlers and drinking fountain sodas from our favorite gas station. We look at Christmas lights, but a lot about it is just random, “Didn’t Jake from swim team used to live there?”

Dislike: My ILs and my extended family’s expectation of rolls on the table. You’re telling me that mashed potatoes, dressing and corn casserole aren’t enough carbs, with maybe mac and cheese as well? It’s an embarrassment of carb-laden riches, the kind you don’t see every day. But some frozen yeast rolls are a must?

YES, rolls AND MAC AND CHEESE.
Anonymous
Post 11/16/2025 19:07     Subject: Odd, personal loves or dislikes about Thanksgiving
Rolls on the table on Thanksgiving, of all days?!?!!!!! Please pass me the smelling salts!!!!!!!11
Anonymous
Post 11/16/2025 18:47     Subject: Odd, personal loves or dislikes about Thanksgiving
Anonymous wrote:Love: The years when it’s my family side extended family, and my siblings and I make the dinner with my mom in her kitchen in our hometown. After dinner, the sibs and occasionally a spouse or two will pile in my sister’s minivan, and we’ll just drive around our hometown, eating Twizzlers and drinking fountain sodas from our favorite gas station. We look at Christmas lights, but a lot about it is just random, “Didn’t Jake from swim team used to live there?”

Dislike: My ILs and my extended family’s expectation of rolls on the table. You’re telling me that mashed potatoes, dressing and corn casserole aren’t enough carbs, with maybe mac and cheese as well? It’s an embarrassment of carb-laden riches, the kind you don’t see every day. But some frozen yeast rolls are a must?


Eating twizzlers with soda is far more gross than the perfectly normal request of bread with dinner.
Anonymous
Post 11/16/2025 18:46     Subject: Odd, personal loves or dislikes about Thanksgiving
I love spending time with friends and family.

I don't care for the food that much, and I don't like sports games being on in the background.
Anonymous
Post 11/16/2025 18:44     Subject: Odd, personal loves or dislikes about Thanksgiving
Anonymous wrote:Love: The years when it’s my family side extended family, and my siblings and I make the dinner with my mom in her kitchen in our hometown. After dinner, the sibs and occasionally a spouse or two will pile in my sister’s minivan, and we’ll just drive around our hometown, eating Twizzlers and drinking fountain sodas from our favorite gas station. We look at Christmas lights, but a lot about it is just random, “Didn’t Jake from swim team used to live there?”

Dislike: My ILs and my extended family’s expectation of rolls on the table. You’re telling me that mashed potatoes, dressing and corn casserole aren’t enough carbs, with maybe mac and cheese as well? It’s an embarrassment of carb-laden riches, the kind you don’t see every day. But some frozen yeast rolls are a must?


Dislike: People judging what other people eat on ONE FREAKING DAY that is all about food. Leave the roll eaters alone!
Anonymous
Post 11/16/2025 18:28     Subject: Odd, personal loves or dislikes about Thanksgiving
Love: The years when it’s my family side extended family, and my siblings and I make the dinner with my mom in her kitchen in our hometown. After dinner, the sibs and occasionally a spouse or two will pile in my sister’s minivan, and we’ll just drive around our hometown, eating Twizzlers and drinking fountain sodas from our favorite gas station. We look at Christmas lights, but a lot about it is just random, “Didn’t Jake from swim team used to live there?”

Dislike: My ILs and my extended family’s expectation of rolls on the table. You’re telling me that mashed potatoes, dressing and corn casserole aren’t enough carbs, with maybe mac and cheese as well? It’s an embarrassment of carb-laden riches, the kind you don’t see every day. But some frozen yeast rolls are a must?