It certainly has its roots in a really bad place (Columbus day even more so) but your average white people Thanksgiving isn’t a bunch of people cheering the slaughter of Native Americans. Most of us are too ignorant to even know it happened. We just gather with family and watch football. No one even talks about the…
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My dad has molds of pilgrims and he pours butter in them. Every thanksgiving we get a pilgrim to behead and spread on cornbread. We like the big meal and he tells stories from both our cultures.
Yeah, no.
Mindy + Cocaine= OTP
I’m forkin’ cool with 13 eps a season; all killer, no filler.
It’s not necessarily just aboutthe turkey, but it is definitely about the turkey piled onto a plate with stuffing and mashed potatoes, with gravy poured over everything. It’slike a package deal. The other sides, like cranberry sauce, are more of a formality.
I don’t think it’s a source of intrigue, but if you have family like some of the more backwards parts of my family, it’s like they just discovered homosexuality existed on Thanksgiving Eve...erry damn year. The worst is when they say things like “you know that ol girl she hangs with...but she’s good people.” As if…
Now seems like a good time to re-post Megan Amram’s legendary food puns:
This is true, but Uncle Jim Bob in the three-piece suit at least doesn’t evangelize to you about the greatness of Donald Trump.
This show is 100% top notch comedy writing (which is saying a lot, I think, for a network show) and super clever with a bevy of talented actors. If Shur can keep delivering surprises (and I think he can) I’m pretty happy about this one.
Not kidding about the mashed potatoes. We made 5 lbs a few years back for “friendsgiving” and my friend’s wife, who is skinny and was about 20 years old at the time, joked that she was going to eat the whole bowl. At least we thought it was a joke ... until she took 2 or 3 servings and then finished off the rest of…
White person chiming in: the quality of White Thanksgiving is HIGHLY dependent on the quality of the family and the personalities involved. I personally prefer small Thanksgiving with my immediate family, including Mother who can cook like no one’s business, mostly because her mother CAN’T cook and so someone had to…
The choruses were literally written for people to yell to (Diane Warren, who helped them with their songwriting, is also largely responsible for the juggernaut that is Aerosmith).
We’re a mix. Some of us have African tribes, others are from Mayan, Aztecs and American Indian. Not to mention the Chinese and Japanese immigrants. There’s also some that believe they are 100% Spanish. It’s a large wonderful mix. I crack up when I see those 23 and me commercials with Hispanics saying they’re…
Anyone who supports Pete Rose and also invokes the character clause is kindly invited to fuck right off. I have no dog in this fight, but I super-despise this kind of intellectual disconnect.
See, there is a great guide above for us but there is no corresponding guide to White Persons Thanksgiving (or, as it could be called, Not Quite As Good Thanksgiving).
All I can tell you is that the whole “First Thanksgiving” nonsense is a recent affectation. It’s how schools celebrate Thanksgiving, because they don’t know any better. It has nothing to do with the actual holiday that is celebrated. I strongly recommend studying Sarah Hale and Abraham Lincoln to understand what the…
White Thanksgiving doesn’t suck so much as it is really, really inconsistent.
Black Thanksgiving has nothing to do with the colonization and genocide of Native Americans.