Ahh, okay. That doesn’t sound too bad. I think it’d be weird without the interpersonal family drama though. Someone at Thanksgiving has to get their feeling hurt until Christmas at the black or Hispanic Thanksgivings I’ve been to.
That’s only one table of food for every twenty people. Speaking from a Jewish perspective, that ratio is the inverse of what it should be.
Except for what I expect to be a difference in food this sounds an awful lot like a Sicilian thanksgiving. Right down to the descriptions of the people involved.
A Thanksgiving pot luck sounds so weird, man. I feel like Thanksgiving is about classic staples, and people showing up to a Thanksgiving with random stuff is just...weird.
depends on where your people are from. if your relatives are from the south, the food will be incredible but the company will be intolerable. my granny was from mississippi, which makes my dad’s thanksgivings better as leftovers if you don’t want to hear about kneeling for the anthem and other old white man gripes.
I don’t buy turkey, and I’ve never liked it. I’m here for the side dishes and pies.
I second Hokes. Who has only one meat and one dessert? Better get some ham and at least two cakes, two pies, and something for the diabetics up in this piece
I won’t go too much into the food because it makes me sad. There are two competent cooks in the family, but the food lacks soul and love for what is going on (if that makes sense, and I apologize for sounding too maudlin). They just want things to be trendy and just like out of a broolyn based magazine. Oh one year,…
I once left Arab Thanksgiving early to make it to a White Thanksgiving and it is the single biggest regret of my life. For real. At least 5 tables of spread (not counting the dessert or drinks tables) and ~100 people in attendance compared to a congealed green bean casserole as 4 people ate in silence on a couch…