In preparation for Thanksgiving tomorrow, I’ve prepared some questions along with my own answers for you to answer in the comment section.
1. Watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade on television. Yay or nay?
I’m a little in both camps. I recognize that it’s usually a total snoozefest and I hate those teasers like “Coming up! Garfield!” But if it’s on, I undoubtedly get sucked into it and end up watching the whole thing and wave to Santa through the TV. Shut up.
2. What is your favorite Thanksgiving side dish? You can’t say turkey!
My aunt’s stuffing. It’s homemade and it is so incredibly good. Like, I’m sure you think your stuffing is really good and that your family’s recipe is the best, but it’s not. Her’s is. Sorry!
3. What is your favorite beverage (alcoholic or nonalcoholic) to go with your Thanksgiving Day meal?
Apple cider.
4. Cranberry Sauce. Delicious tradition, or evil jello wannabe?
Delicious!
5. What is your favorite pie?
Apple. I mean, I’ll never turn away any pie, but apple is the tops. Warmed up with vanilla ice cream. Mmmm.
6. Match the following pies with the following toppings. Apple, Pumpkin, Blueberry. Reddiwhip, Cool Whip, Ice Cream.
Apple = Ice Cream, Pumpkin = Reddiwhip, Blueberry = Cool Whip.
7. Complete this sentence: The secret to a delicious post-Thanksgiving turkey sandwich is:
Meat selection. You have to pick the perfect pieces of meat, otherwise a bite into a line of fat halfway through will ruin the entire experience!
8. What is your post-Thanksgiving meal ritual? Don’t say pooping, you gross bastard!
Survivor. Normally it’s the annoying clipshow, but this year it’s an entirely new episode!
9. What is your favorite Thanksgiving Day themed movie or television episode?
Planes, Trains & Automobiles. Followed closely by the Thanksgiving Day play scene in Addams Family Values. “We cannot break bread with you.”
10. What are you most thankful for this year? You can only pick one!
Successfully completing a novel writing month thanks to my friend Meg who organized it and got our asses in gear!
Huh?
Yay Jere. Job well done.
John: Rhubarb can be very sour but that’s what makes it uber-delicious.
Ryan – Peppermint stick ice cream is great, but for me it’s more of a Christmas thing.
john/Enrico – I had epic battles with my mom over scalloped potatoes. I couldn’t leave the table unless I had two bites. It’s a wonder I’m still not sitting there.
And in the United States, yams are really sweet potatoes. But it’s not Tuesday, so that’s enough of that.
I’ve just realized something! I hate Thanksgiving!
Tam: My grandma had a big rhubarb patch when I was growing up, so I learned to love it even raw.
My parents flew in on Monday, which explains why I haven’t been around here that much since then.
Michelle M.: I think I bought it in order to bring the good part of Christmas here earlier.
Sitting for a brief break from the kitchen… with an effin dog show on tv, of all things. (Sorry Polt. K9s and I do not get along.)
Hope you all are having a fantastic Thanksgiving, or at least a wonderful Thursday.
1. Sometimes I watch the parade in the morning but this year I’m watching the Dog Show and all the football games (gasp!)
2. I agree, Mom’s stuffing without question.
3. water ( I know boring!)
4. Evil.
5. Specifically your Dad’s apple pies. It wouldn’t be Thanksgiving without his pies and Mom’s stuffing.
6. I usually stick with the whip cream on apple.
7. None.
8. Tonight I’m looking forward to relaxing with Rocket and watching Star Trek on Blu Ray!
9. Planes Trains and Automoblies and Pieces of April.
10. My wonderful family of course!
TwoPi: hey, others on here (Sassy josh) are felineophiles and I still love them, so you not liking dogs, while I don’t understand it all, won’t hamper my affection for you. Plus, you’ve got Godzilla, that may trump even dogs.
HUGS…
1. I didn’t see it this year, because I was sick. In past years we have had it on in the background, and I think that is where it is best.
2. I have to say stuffing, because it is something I rarely eat except at big holidays.
3. Wine, white probably. I missed that this year as well, since I was sick.
4. Delicious. Except I forgot to eat it this year.
5. Recently I have become a fan of cherry pie, lemon and blueberry as also good. My family always used to have apple pies, and we still do, but I think I got a little bored of them, so I like the variation of different kinds now.
6. I am not a topping (or bottoming, for the dirty minded monkeys out there) expert. I don’t even know the difference between Cool Whip and Reddiwhip, so I shall skip this question.
7. Meat selection is very important, but I also like crisp lettuce and yummy mayo on hearty bread.
8. This year it was watching Cool Tools on the DIY channel. I love tools and thinking about what I can do with them.
9. I can’t think of one, but I do recall finding PT&A absolutely hilarious when I first saw it.
10. Friends, both new and old.
SSC: I bought some Reddiwhip at the grocery this weekend. I hadn’t noticed it as a brandname before… but it was the only aerosol whipped cream available at the local market, when I was shopping for something to put atop pumpkin pie. It was okay, even if pumpkin isn’t my fave.
Chris D: Hope you are feeling better. Nothing adds to the unpleasantness of feeling yuck like knowing you’re missing holidays and time with friends and loved ones, instead of high stress times at school or work.
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