Thanksgiving Traditions That People Don't Understand

[nhmoose]

All the pies were homemade. My grandmother would make mince meat pie. Haven't seen that in ages. Miss those days.

Our family ALWAYS has a mincemeat pie for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Real mince-meat made from deer or moose, not the fake apple-raisin the stores sell.

 

[user 53891]

I'll take Cornbread stuffing any day over Oyster stuffing. Oysters, Yuk!

I love clams myself. Cornbread.....nothing like good cornbread!

 

[user 53891]

Just checked the price of fresh oysters here - $24 per pound. A double batch would cost more than the turkey. I’m afraid i’m gonna commit blasphemy, fellas… half dozen or so cans of smoked oysters in stove top mix. But at least i add chopped onions, sliced mushrooms, garlic and a couple of eggs, and then bake it. I’ll let the turkey watch.

Before the peasants riot, it’s better than the unthinkable alternative, which is (shudder) plain dressing!

Thanksgiving blessings on y’all!

don

Looked at a butterball turkey today...$49.00+!! Looked at a small goose...$125.00!! THANK YOU JOE BIDEN

 

[user 53891]

My wife is an excellent cook and baker! Apple pie, pumpkin pie, turkey, giblit gravy, cranberry sauce, sweet potato casserole, green beans, homemade stuffing, mashed potatoes, biscuits, croissants, home made bread.
BTW: I noticed in this day and age, does anyone else have a wife that actually cooks and bakes???

 

[Hawk54]

My wife is an excellent cook and baker! Apple pie, pumpkin pie, turkey, giblit gravy, cranberry sauce, sweet potato casserole, green beans, homemade stuffing, mashed potatoes, biscuits, croissants, home made bread.
BTW: I noticed in this day and age, does anyone else have a wife that actually cooks and bakes???

Thankfully my wife does. But she is old school.

 

[user 53891]

Thankfully my wife does. But she is old school.

Mine is also old school. I'm only allowed to open cans and jars in the kitchen, otherwise it's off limits to me, and that's okay because I hate cooking. Don't get me wrong, I can and will cook when necessary and when hunting with my boys.

 

[Hawk54]

Mine is also old school. I'm only allowed to open cans and jars in the kitchen, otherwise it's off limits to me, and that's okay because I hate cooking. Don't get me wrong, I can and will cook when necessary and when hunting with my boys.

My wife has pretty bad arthritis (runs in her family) in her hands so we share the duties. Our meals are a joint effort. I have become a pretty fair cook the last few years.

 

[user 53891]

My wife has pretty bad arthritis (runs in here family) in her hands so we share the duties. Our meals are a joint effort. I have become a pretty fair cook the last few years.

Well, I certainly am happy that you help her. Arthritis sucks. I wish her well.

 

[zimmerstutzen]

Looked at a butterball turkey today...$49.00+!! Looked at a small goose...$125.00!! THANK YOU JOE BIDEN

Darn Guy. Don't know where you are. Here in York PA, several places have turkeys for less than a buck a pound and we stopped at one place that had frozen turkeys for 47 cents a pound. We bought three yesterday. and two a couple of weeks ago. As Mrs. says, we can't buy dog food that cheap. Between the free turkeys from jobs and the ones we purchased, we have 9 in the freezer. My wife doesn't even like roast turkey. But the left overs make turkey pot pie, turkey BBQ, turkey corn soup, and we even make a fake Maryland crab soup using turkey. (all you smell and taste is the Old Bay seasoning, whether crab or turkey.) I take the small ones (under 14 pounds) and cook them in the smoker grill. But first inject them with cider that is starting to turn. Got the tangy sweet flavor, the acid to tenderize the breast and keep it moist. comes out like good BBQ.

Our local wegman's market usually has fresh goose this time of year. It was $125 last year. probably more this year. One regional chain out of Germany has a special Thanksgiving sale this week. Lamb was on sale for $19.99 a pound. I have never heard of having Lamb for Thanksgiving. (can't stand the smell of it and I even raise sheep)

 

[zimmerstutzen]

Mine is also old school. I'm only allowed to open cans and jars in the kitchen, otherwise it's off limits to me, and that's okay because I hate cooking. Don't get me wrong, I can and will cook when necessary and when hunting with my boys.

There is one thing worse than having a wife than can cook and won't. That is a wife that can't cook and does. cooking was so foreign to my ex wife that she needed a passport to enter the kitchen. Her idea of making eggs for breakfast was drop a pat of butter in a pan, add two eggs, put it on the stove and go take a shower. The house always stank from the food she ruined. Sometimes she would experiment with recipes. I came home to our anniversary dinner on our second anniversary. Seriously, marshmallow cinnamon chicken. How do you even keep from barfing. Do you force yourself to eat it just because? (Thankfully, my mother taught us all to cook to survive.) When we lived in Miami, I went out shrimping with a buddy, my share was nearly 30 pounds of shrimp. I steamed some and made cocktail sauce. Told her to try some. She bit into a shrimp and then spit it out. "somebody coated them with plastic"...........

 

[11th corps]

For the last decade after the feast I take my adult son/nephew/sometimes brother in law and great nephew to the gun range.
Most of them don't shoot any other time of the year.
One gun at a time, they follow my instructions.
Something I like forward to all year.

 

[Eutycus]

Didn't they have popcorn at the first feast?

 

[LME]

Looked at a butterball turkey today...$49.00+!! Looked at a small goose...$125.00!! THANK YOU JOE BIDEN

Prices of everything have gone through the roof! The only ray of hope I have seen is at our local ,"Food Lion" store, they had frozen turkeys for .29 a pound? I liked to have fell out of my chair when I read their ad in our local paper. I am wondering if someone made a mistake? The problem is my wife had already bought our turkey.

 

[toot]

It can’t be Thanksgiving without bananas split then Mayo spread over them and covered in crushed salted peanuts.

where did you get that from? ELVIS? oh! he liked peanut butter on them.

 

[toot]

Didn't they have popcorn at the first feast?

what do you think? I think that I know.

 

[toot]

Just had some at a Friendsgiving on Sat - topped with bacon and chopped green onion. Oh, yeah! Needed a little cayenne though. And maybe an oyster on top?

don

hot. on most items is where it is at!

 

[Billy Boy]

I'll take Cornbread stuffing any day over Oyster stuffing. Oysters, Yuk!

What is that green stuff inside a oyster?

 

[Loyalist Dave]

Pork Necks and Sauerkraut.

Can't have Thanksgiving without Pork Necks and Sauerkraut.

Dang! Don't shoot the fat dude with the really short haircut when he comes knockin' at your door..., it's just me looking for the pork and kraut....

LD

 

[Loyalist Dave]

My wife makes butternut squash pie, just like pumpkin but smoother and sweeter. Sweet potato is great too

Actually we ALL have had Acorn Squash pie, and few have actually had pumpkin pie... those that have had "pumpkin pie" at all that is...

The "pumpkin" filling most folks use is from a can. Libby's is #1. The pumpkin that is in that can is NOT a pumpkin..., it's a type of acorn squash that looks like a pumpkin. By the time anybody spotted the problem, that flavor of canned "pumpkin" had cornered the market, and most companies that followed HAD to use the same acorn squash because that was the flavor the bakers want.

SO if you've never had a pumpkin pie made from scratch from an actual pumpkin... you have never had pumpkin pie.



LD

 

[Boston Bill]

Apple cranberry pie!!!