Thanksgiving Traditions That People Don't Understand

[Muzzle57]

Any of y'all ever get the turkey's wishbone?

No, but I always take the neck and gizzards. To me those are the best parts of the turkey.

 

[Centurion]

I could live on raw oysters and raw clams. Been known to eat a raw sea scallop also.
I wonder how scallops would be in turkey stuffing?

Not enough…

 

[Magungo1066]

What Thanksgiving traditions do you have that others don't understand or know of? We always have oyster stuffing with our turkey. A few pints of good fresh Chesapeake oysters get mixed in with the stuffing and baked in a pan. I think it is a mid-atlantic regional thing. When we talk about it people look at us like we are crazy, but it sure is good and my mom talks about her grandmother making it.

I was born on the Eastern Shore of Maryland and we never once had Thanksgiving without oyster stuffing when I was little. Now I make it every Thanksgiving and my fellow New Englanders think I am insane. I love the stuff. We also commonly have manicotti and antipasto as well, but that is an Italian thing.

 

[Magungo1066]

I've wondered how the cranberries got started way down here. They sure aren't a "Southern" thing, but I like them. That and pumpkin pie too.

I don't know about the rest of the South but Virginia used to have quite a bit of cranberries. Rarer now but I still stumbled upon a few hiking around the Shenandoah Valley

 

[Centurion]

It’s already been mentioned but another favorite of mine is deviled eggs. I started making them myself last year, since everybody that made them is gone. They turned out ok.

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

 

[ppb]

It's just the wife and I this year for Holidays.
Our daughters and their families are far enough away that Holiday travel becomes a serious undertaking and at times, cost prohibitive...
So this year the two of us will be dining on Cornish Game Hens with the appropriate side dishes and a Mincemeat pie. (She most likely will bake a pumpkin pie also, just for fun...) Yumm!

 

[senseisugarbear]

I Love Oyster dressing, But OUR tradition is all the GUYS take the little ones that are big enough to walk out bird hunting in the morning. It is beautiful to see Great Grandpa walking with his great grand daughter. @ 2:00 dinner,@3:00 Nap time.......Be Safe>>>>>>>Wally I forgot to mention that I only have 1 Bachelor Son and can't BUY A GRAND BABY. I'm so envious of my brothers that have great,great Grand babies.......Wally

me

 

[Old Oak]

After a meal of apple wood smoked turkey and pork ribs, sitting down with the kids and making several batches of Pizzelle of different flavors.

 

[Slow_Hand]

Pork Necks and Sauerkraut.

Can't have Thanksgiving without Pork Necks and Sauerkraut.

Yup, same here as a side dish, smoked pork neck simmering in a pot of Sauerkraut on and off for 2 days and served with a few slices off a pork butt and Bohemian dumplings.

 

[Kentuckyjed]

Take about 8 seasoned up Cornish game hens on a rotisserie over a slow cooking maple, oak, and peach wood fire. With all the trimmins too, and a few adult beverages. Around noon here in Kentucky we all dial our radios in to 93.3 WDNS to listen to Alice's Restaurant which has been an old tradition for many years. Long damn song but a good one.

 

[Nobody85]

We always have cornbread dressing. Not crouton “stuffing “. Couldn’t be giblet gravy without the whites of a hard boiled egg or two chopped up in it as well! My great grandmother used to do it. She told me it had been done that way around here since before the fall of Atlanta. The women usually stay up late making desserts the night before, but the men wake up early to get the turkey started. Once prepped and in the oven, it’s small game hunting until late breakfast or early lunch. We’d stay out all day but my wife gets sideways with me when I’m “ant-social “ while family is over. Usually have Thanksgiving around 3:00, cover leftovers on the counter and take a nap. I sure do look forward to it. I hope y’all have a good Thanksgiving however you do it!

 

[Hawk54]

That was a little before my time there, didn't get there until 1977. I guess it didn't do well in DC and closed.

I had White Castle cheesburgers and fries last week. Yum!

 

[Kentuckyjed]

I had White Castle cheesburgers and fries last week. Yum!

Sounds like a gas!!!

 

[zimmerstutzen]

PA Dutch make stuffing with mashed potatoes and sausage (and spices and celery etc. Tradition at our house as well as some relatives was spiced apple rings. Apple Dumplings, with ice cream and caramel sauce. for dessert. On my mothers side, the holidays were the only time of the year that she made Date Nut bread. really dark brown with molasses, moist with dates and big chunks of nuts. The date nut bread was never servd with butter, always softened cream cheese.

Thanksgiving was a day that the men and boys went small game hunting. came home around 1.pm and cleaned game, washed up, etc. dinner was always 2 pm. As we kids grew older and got jobs, many stores were open half days on thanksgiving. (They were still closed Sundays back then.) I worked 8 to 2 pm at the local 5 and 10 store. My sister worked at some big box place the same hours

 

[Hawk54]

PA Dutch make stuffing with mashed potatoes and sausage (and spices and celery etc. Tradition at our house as well as some relatives was spiced apple rings. Apple Dumplings, with ice cream and caramel sauce. for dessert. On my mothers side, the holidays were the only time of the year that she made Date Nut bread. really dark brown with molasses, moist with dates and big chunks of nuts. The date nut bread was never servd with butter, always softened cream cheese.

Thanksgiving was a day that the men and boys went small game hunting. came home around 1.pm and cleaned game, washed up, etc. dinner was always 2 pm. As we kids grew older and got jobs, many stores were open half days on thanksgiving. (They were still closed Sundays back then.) I worked 8 to 2 pm at the local 5 and 10 store. My sister worked at some big box place the same hours

I can remember when everything was closed on Sundays.

 

[kje54]

I had White Castle cheesburgers and fries last week. Yum!

I'm glade you enjoyed it.

 

[zimmerstutzen]

There's am odd thing that I have been noticing around here. Most of the services selling pre-made Thanksgiving day dinners include mac and cheese as a side dish. The thought of pasta on Thanksgiving was totally alien where I grew up but seems to be becoming a norm, like the green bean casserole.

 

[Buckskinquin]

What Thanksgiving traditions do you have that others don't understand or know of? We always have oyster stuffing with our turkey. A few pints of good fresh Chesapeake oysters get mixed in with the stuffing and baked in a pan. I think it is a mid-atlantic regional thing. When we talk about it people look at us like we are crazy, but it sure is good and my mom talks about her grandmother making it.

My mothers sister always made scalloped oysters for Thanksgiving, my Dads favorite dish! Up State NY south of Buffalo.

 

[kje54]

There's am odd thing that I have been noticing around here. Most of the services selling pre-made Thanksgiving day dinners include mac and cheese as a side dish. The thought of pasta on Thanksgiving was totally alien where I grew up but seems to be becoming a norm, like the green bean casserole.

I grew up all over (military brat) and I don't remember ever having mac & cheese at Thanksgiving.

 

[nhmoose]

Where in Gods name did you find a White Castle in DC? I lived there for 35 years and never saw one until I went south into NC once with some friends.

Boston area had many, kid I went to grammar school with parents owned the one in the city I grew up in.