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In recent years, we've started making homemade mac 'n' cheese on Thanksgiving day. Goes wonderfully with the rest of the spread. Not something I grew up with, but I'm glad we added it. I didn't think it was that odd, but many have said they've never had it on Thanksgiving.

Also, I grew up around a lot of Italians, and many made manicotti or ziti or whatnot in addition to the "usual" spread.

All of it got me thinking: Is there anything on your Thanksgiving table every year that isn't a typical Thanksgiving food? If so, what?

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My first Thanksgiving with my wife’s Lebanese family was an eye opener. I’m at the table and ready for what we expect on that day. Out it comes, all the humus and grape leaves and kibbi and Laban and tabouleh and pita and…. WTF??? What IS this stuff? I had never heard of most of it before! 

 

Eventually my dear mother-in-law brought in a bird. A very well cooked bird. (The next year my wife did the bird, and her younger brother asked why wasn’t all dry like he was used to it. 😂)

 

We are pretty traditional now, but if her family is in town Lebanese food will be in the house, if not at the table. 

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5 minutes ago, Augie said:

My first Thanksgiving with my wife’s Lebanese family was an eye opener. I’m at the table and ready for what we expect on that day. Out it comes, all the humus and grape leaves and kibbi and Laban and tabouleh and pita and…. WTF??? What IS this stuff? I had never heard of most of it before! 

 

Eventually my dear mother-in-law brought in a bird. A very well cooked bird. (The next year my wife did the bird, and her younger brother asked why wasn’t all dry like he was used to it. 😂)

 

We are pretty traditional now, but if her family is in town Lebanese food will be in the house, if not at the table. 

 

I drunk doordash this too many nights out of the year to want to see it on my Thanksgiving Day table. It's enough of a surprise to see it on my kitchen counter most mornings.

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12 minutes ago, BringBackFlutie said:

 

I drunk doordash this too many nights out of the year to want to see it on my Thanksgiving Day table. It's enough of a surprise to see it on my kitchen counter most mornings.


Probably give them a zero star rating too.

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1 minute ago, Logic said:


Probably give them a zero star rating too.

 

I walked out to meet them once and they looked at me and said, "dude. You're drunk." I said, "duh. That's why I'm not making food for myself. Now give me that."

 

 

....then I left them 0 stars.

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7 minutes ago, BringBackFlutie said:

 

I walked out to meet them once and they looked at me and said, "dude. You're drunk." I said, "duh. That's why I'm not making food for myself. Now give me that."

 

 

....then I left them 0 stars.


Hell hath no fury like an angry drunken door dasher whose nicotine device was confiscated at a sporting event.

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5 minutes ago, Logic said:


Hell hath no fury like an angry drunken door dasher whose nicotine device was confiscated at a sporting event.

 

How very……specific of you. Maybe a little history there? 

 

I’ve never used DoorDash or Uber Eats or any of that. I’ll have my pizza joint (who I recently learned is from Grand Island) deliver, but that’s about it. So it was a surprise when a friend called and said there was food at my door. I said, no, why would there be food at my door? Well, the last time he had been in that app he was at my house and left my address. He was clearly ashamed for us to see what he had ordered for himself. A stack of boxes of bar food piled as high as my knees! Mozzarella sticks, wings, potato skins, quesadillas, and any other crap you can think of! 

 

And he complains about his weight.  🤷‍♂️

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Up here in the wild woods of ole northern Quebec, it's tradition to have fish on Thanksgiving, so we would end up cooking up a big old salmon for the family to feast on.

I've since turned the tide for their way of thinking and getting more people up here turned onto turkey.........turkey's my absolute favorite.

 

Don't get me wrong, i love salmon, but i love turkey even more.

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1 hour ago, Augie said:

 

He was clearly ashamed for us to see what he had ordered for himself. A stack of boxes of bar food piled as high as my knees! Mozzarella sticks, wings, potato skins, quesadillas, and any other crap you can think of! 

 


Opening my door to find a stack of the foods you just mentioned -- which I didn't pay for or expect -- would be an absolute dream. Literal best case scenario in life.

As for the highly specific nature of my post to BringBackFlutie. Well....Let's just say the combined effects of a long day of tailgating, a bunch of homemade moonshine and jell-o shots, and a confiscated E-Pen made SOMEONE a grumpy and unreasonable drunkard, such that a perfectly well-delivered pizza at 11pm -- by virtue of not being visible to the compromised eyes of said drunkard despite its location exactly where it was supposed to be -- garnered an angry and unwarranted zero star rating on Doordash for the hapless delivery person who happened to draw the short straw on this unwinnable courier assignment.

TL;DR - drunks are jerks.

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Duck rather than turkey and sometimes eel.  Our family is very small and we can never finish the turkey and our dog will devour a duck carcass. 

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