Thanksgiving Traditions That People Don't Understand

[user 53891]

Depends. There is mincemeat and faux-mincemeat. Both have a lot of spices. Both usually have apples, raisins, and often green tomatoes, and suet. My friend's wife makes one with venison that is out of this world.
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Hopefully those came out in the correct order. I did the best I could with screenshots of the photos of old recipes.

No matter.....I'll stick to turkey, dressing, giblet gravy, cranberry sauce, sweet potato casserole topped with melted marshmellows, corn, green beans, biscuits, mashed potatoes, and then the desserts, apple pie, pumpkin pie, cheese bars, and all home made!! Damn, now I'm hungry!

 

[LME]

I've used hog stomach for haggis because I couldn't find a sheep stomach. Was "sort of okay".
THANKSGIVING- stuffing in the bird or "stove top"?

In the south when a farmer killed hogs they took the hogs stomach and filled it with homemade sausage. I don't know the proper name but in my area it was called a ,"Tom Thumb" and don't ask me why?

 

[Eutycus]

Actually I haven't come across too many homemade stuffings or dressings that I didn't like, but the key word is "homemade".

 

[appalichian hunter]

In the south when a farmer killed hogs they took the hogs stomach and filled it with homemade sausage. I don't know the proper name but in my area it was called a ,"Tom Thumb" and don't ask me why?

We would also use a well cleaned bladder, stuff full of country sausage and sugar cured along and smoked along with the hams bacon sides and shoulders, sliced about 1/2 in thick with fried eggs and home fried yaters and biscuits with cream butter and cane syrup fine breakfast.

 

[BlackRock52]

I didn't know there was meat in mince meat.
Hog Maw- Pennsylvania Dutch thing.
Haggis- eat that in January (26th?) Robert Burns Day. The Haggis you eat with mashed rutabaga and mashed potato. A shot of Scotch washes it all down.
Stock- put it in ice cube tray so I have little individual cubes. Do the same thing with green salsa/chili

There isn't meat in mince meat anymore when bought at store. Originally had meat. Had a co-worker whose wife made her own mincemeat with venison. She would use it to make venison mincemeat filled cookies. They looked like little pasty's/small hand pies and they were awesome!! He always brought some to work the week after Turkey Day

 

[LME]

We would also use a well cleaned bladder, stuff full of country sausage and sugar cured along and smoked along with the hams bacon sides and shoulders, sliced about 1/2 in thick with fried eggs and home fried yaters and biscuits with cream butter and cane syrup fine breakfast.

You sound like our neigbor on the next farm to ours?

 

[appalichian hunter]

Some of you guys dont know what yer a missing when it comes to fine dining, the old ways are the best ways. Makes ya wanna lick yer eye brows.

 

[Eutycus]

We only use our living room once a year.My wife has her mother's table in there. It's great for sitting around the Thanksgiving Dinner but the table was made for a way bigger house. That room can get quite cluttered in a year's time. It's a major job cleaning up.

 

[Nor'Easter]

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.

I remember the first 'fake' one I ate. I'm thinking to myself - "WTH, the name is right but this ain't it"!

 

[RATROD56]

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

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.

From the time I was a kid on up until she passed away, my mother always made sure to bake me a mincemeat pie. I always ate it and told her how delicious it was. What she never knew was I HATE mincemeat pie. But, she put a lot of love into those pies, no way I would ever tell her I didn't like mincemeat.

 

[earlwb]

Wish I could shop there!! Here those birds are $8.49 each warm and $7.99 cold.

The secret is Costco or Sams Club. They seem to use the rotisserie chicken at under $5.00 as a draw to get people in the stores.

Some of the grocery stores that cater to the Hispanic folks like El Rancho, Fiesta etc also sell cooked chicken for lower prices too. But they may or may not marinate it and it may already be cut up into pieces.

But Costco still sells the huge pumpkin pies for $5.99 too. But only seasonal. I wind up gaining weight every year because of their big pies.

 

[rdavidson]

The one thanksgiving I'll never forget, happened in a dar off place of dark green jungles, our team was so with some little people, who had once worked with American troops in WW2,
They made a feast for us of boiled game ****, buffalo tongues bits, and left over C- rats HAM and MOTHERs!! We laughed and hugged all and thanked the big spirit upstairs for living to see the sunrise, and have "family", friends such as these.

Hope y'all say a little prayer this one coming up for those who wear the uniform no matter what color

Love those Yards

 

[Brokennock]

I always liked the mincemeat pies my grammie would make with the recipes provided earlier, even the fake one,,, but that was still homemade. Her homemade faux-mincemeat was far better than the store bought stuff,,, though I did get some little tarts of it at an import store specializing in stuff from the UK in Newbury Port, MA. that was good, but not as good.
I liked the pies, but at some point she started making "squares," which were a layer of pie crust spread out on a rectangular baking sheet with low sides, mincemeat spread over that, another layer of piecrust dough on top, roll crimp the edges and bake,,, even better than the pie.....

 

[BlackRock52]

The secret is Costco or Sams Club. They seem to use the rotisserie chicken at under $5.00 as a draw to get people in the stores.

Some of the grocery stores that cater to the Hispanic folks like El Rancho, Fiesta etc also sell cooked chicken for lower prices too. But they may or may not marinate it and it may already be cut up into pieces.

But Costco still sells the huge pumpkin pies for $5.99 too. But only seasonal. I wind up gaining weight every year because of their big pies.

Unfortunately closest Sam's or Costco is around 3 hours away -- about 180 miles one way -- or about 20 gallons gas round trip!!

 

[babstooge]

Yup. Not just tradition here,,, part of family heritage. Mom's family os from the area, some family knows, or knew (many are no longer with us) some of the key players. Have a distant relative who is in one of the dort flat track racing scenes at the beginning of the movie that goes with the song. (Many folks don't know there is an Alice's Restaurant movie)
Used to have a brief visit with Alice at her place on Cape Cod each summer, don't get up that far into town anymore during my brief vacation.

"I didn't get nothin',, had to pay $50 and pick up the garbage."

in St. Louis at noon on Thanksgiving, KSHE radio broadcasts Alice's restaurant. A couple of years back they decided not to air it that year programmer was looking for a new gig two days later. 2017 in Rolla MO. we saw Arlo in concert the 50th anniversary of Alice's restaurant. Wow time sure flies

 

[516tcw]

The one thanksgiving I'll never forget, happened in a dar off place of dark green jungles, our team was so with some little people, who had once worked with American troops in WW2,
They made a feast for us of boiled game ****, buffalo tongues bits, and left over C- rats HAM and MOTHERs!! We laughed and hugged all and thanked the big spirit upstairs for living to see the sunrise, and have "family", friends such as these.

Hope y'all say a little prayer this one coming up for those who wear the uniform no matter what color

 

[516tcw]

If you eat well for Thanksgiving, thank a farmer. If you eat in peace with your family at Thanksgiving,
thank a veteran !

 

[Rancocas]

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.

We also sometimes had the oyster stuffing depending on which aunt or my Mother did most of the cooking that year. However, my Mother made a clam casserole that I absolutely loved, along with the turkey, or rarely a ham.
Growing up in southern New Jersey (another mid-Atlantic area) it became a family tradition that my Dad, uncles, and I would go small game hunting to get out of the way while the women cooked. Later, though, I got interested in girls and going to the Thanksgiving Day high school football games. I should have stayed with the hunting!
Now, some 60 years later, the women still cook, but I usually do the dishes and other clean-up after the big meal.

 

[user 53891]

If you're having a wonderful meal with family and friends, thank a farmer.
If your having a wonderful meal with your family and friends in peace, thank a veteran.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING

 

[Brokennock]

Later, though, I got interested in girls and going to the Thanksgiving Day high school football games. I should have stayed with the hunting!

Truth bomb here.