this is my 1st thanksgiving, expln 2 me how it works its like xmas but only ok right?

we dont have to get dressed up in pilgrim outfits or anything i assume

it is xmas without presents but more food

it is just like the methane harvest festival on your home planet

the uk-based thanksgiving celebration i'll be attending on saturday will be starting with a game of american football. how the fuck do i play american football.

step 1: get rly fat
step 2: run into another fat guy
step 3a: some guy throws the ball to another guy running rly fast
step 3b: some other guy tries to run in between the fat ppl running into each other

this is how we beat the communitsts btw. YOU'RE WELCOME.

watch 1 (one) wranglers advertisement tbh

Thanksgiving is cooler than Christmas. I actually feel the warmth and "giving" that comes with the day. Christmas? Not so much anymore.

basically I think you just have to listen to your relatives say racist things and choose how confrontational you want to get.
also make sure you get into a drunken political argument with an immediate family member before midnight, it's mandatory.

oh wait, i thought this was the "celebrating yr birthday with yr family" thread

First, the decorations are entirely different from xmas. For the red/green color scheme you must substitute a color scheme consisting of brown/orange. Santa, trees and mistletoe have no place at Thanksgiving. You must have gourds, taper candles, and turkey art made of multi-colored construction paper. Cotton batting doing stand-in duty as snow? Nope. Not appropriate until December.

You must eat traditional foods. It matters not what food that might be, so long as it has been eaten at every Thanksgiving anyone in that family can recall. It could be cottage cheese with ketchup. Alas, all too often it is yams with mini-marshmallows.

Lastly, there are no Thanksgiving songs. Instead there are prayers. However, you must not pray (aloud) for any other family member to suffer a heart attack and die. That would be gauche. Rather you must pray your fervent thanks for good health and good fellowship, then trail off into some harmless nonsense that shows you didn't give much thought to what you ought to say before you opened your mouth to start. Say "amen" once you have thoroughly botched it. People will be sincerely thankful you did.

So, if you have a nice family that you get along with, thanksgiving is awesome. Its a whole bunch of food, sports watching, beer-drinking and then you get to behold the absolute monster of a mess that the kitchen is... then everyone starts to feel a bit guilty cause usually only 1-2 people actually cooked all the food for whoever happens to be there, so everyone offers to help clean up -- some more sincere than others. After the kitchen is marginally cleaned up and the leftover food has been tupperware everyone returns to drinking and then eating desert. The traditional desert being pumpkin pie, but a lot of people don't like that shit so usually there's also a cherry and/or apple pie...

If you have a family you don't get along with its best to just go over to a friends house and have thanksgiving with them.

desert = dessert

goes without saying, my dear Viceroy

how to have a successful thanksgiving, get bent style...

-your relatives live 3,000 miles away and your extended family as a whole (mostly because of age/distance/death) doesn't really "do" thanksgiving anymore
-your significant other doesn't have a family thanksgiving either (similar reasons) and has no plans
-you make a turkey and a couple of well-considered side dishes and a store-bought pie, so you still have *plenty* of food but it's all killer, no filler
-you do most of the prep/cooking beforehand and relax on the day, while the bird cooks
-winner!

learning abt culture

Speaking of turkey-based art:

http://belladia.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/11/17/mayflyturkeyday.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YScYFRn7SAI&sns

bonnie tyler; no food yet

Do atheists celebrate Thanksgiving?

Sorry, I probably could have turned to Yahoo! Answers for that.

You must stare into your turkey opponent's face and realize what you have to do. Then you must do battle with your turkey opponent, ere he stab you with he beak. Then ye must feast upon your turkey opponent. Then ye wi hae experienced the holiday of Samhain.

Do atheists celebrate Thanksgiving?

in so much as they celebrate food, family and american football, yes

Get all your family to fill out a 20th Century Tracks Poll ballot.

Thanks, R.I.P.
http://multiculturalcookingnetwork.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/native_american_1.jpg

That picture is 1/2 blocked grey for me. Is it on anyone elses?

Its supposed to be a profile of a Native American.

It shows up fine for me.

i'm usually not too psyched for the classic tgiving foods but they were really goddamn good this year tbh

Do atheists celebrate Thanksgiving?

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For what it's worth, I thought Thanksgiving was a Christian Holliday up until I was like, 13

Heh, The accidental capitalization of the H and extra l make it look like I'm referring to a man named Christian Holliday.

it's okay to put ketchup on your turkey breast because, guess what, there's a reason why nobody eats turkey breast the other 364 days of the year

really? no one eats turkey sandwiches?

that's lunchmeat and made from salted turkey

nobody says "man some fresh baked turkey breast would really hit the spot right now, in fact I am going to start a new business called Kentucky Baked Turkey Breast, see you all in 5 years when I am swimming in my infinity pool"

^^ armenian

really? turkey sandwiches are not made from roasted turkey breast?

you're blowing my mind here

I will never match your knowledge of eastern european signifiers :( xxp

nobody actually enjoys eating a turkey sandwich, you do it because it's cheap to put in a sandwich and you slather mayo all over that sandwich because it sucks to eat

turkey meat in general is pretty bland, except for the occasional gamey darker parts

everyone knows this, yet 1/2x p/a we accede to the great lie

it's like, capitalism

u h8 turkey, duh xxp

nobody actually enjoys eating a turkey sandwich

well this i agree with--i never eat turkey sandwiches

dayo u mad

who among us has ever walked into a quality deli and been like "man, I could really go for a turkey sandwich right now, fuck a reuben, fuck a corned beef, turkey is king'

i love turkey sandwiches!

what is the poultry dish of choice amongst kabardins?

I finally get nak's joke :(

wish i knew :( xp

who among us has ever walked into a quality deli and been like "man, I could really go for a turkey sandwich right now, fuck a reuben, fuck a corned beef, turkey is king'

i have. your challenging opinion disgusts me. turkey is great.

infinity pool!

turkey sandwiches are a lot nicer than corned beef (thats like pastrami right?) by the way

imo the public opinion of turkey would be much improved if people made them more than once a year and figured out how to cook them without drying out the breast meat

my mom would roast turkeys or turkey breasts pretty often when i was growing up and she was feeding 7 boys on a budget, still pretty good

the way to cook it without drying out the breast meat is to stick sticks of butter in between the breast and the skin, which seems to me to be an indicator that turkey is fundamentally flawed

turkey sandwiches are fine and normal!

corned beef hash is like next-level awesome!

adding butter doesn't actually keep the meat from overcooking and even prevents the skin from getting crisp

smdh

what is the proper way of roasting a turkey breast

1-800-BUTTERBALL #protip

brine the turkey, dont over cook it, its dope

thanksgiving is amazing, the 4th of july is amazing, the superbowl is amazing; america has the best holidays, sry the rest of the world

^^^^

have fun with guy fawkes day IDIOTS

roast turkey is fucking delicious

i eat tofurky year round

look what's really fucked up is that dayo is suggesting that KETCHUP is okay on thanksgiving and i think if anyone even SUGGESTED it at any thanksgiving i have ever attended, the world would be aghast. salt, pepper, gravy, GET REAL.

also i'm finally beginning to understand the reason ppl like professional sports, and it has a lot to do with neutral places of meeting between new or distant relatives.

all I'm saying is that turkey breast is such an abhorrent food that adding ketchup would be an improvement

that is utter bullshit.
however i am of the opinion that ketchup is ONLY okay for french fries and home fries. so i can understand that we disagree. u probably put ketchup on yer hotdog or eggs too u disgusting savage.

put ketchup on my egg noodles tbh

dayo lying to himself and god itt

srsly, THANKSGIVING LEFTOVER SANDWICH DAY is the best holiday of the year fuiud

god is dayod

cant sleep

too full

when i am too full, that is all i can do

no it hurts. i think this is what western decadence pheels like

welcome to thanksgiving, u american now bro, congrats

This was not my first thanksgiving, but I did have my 1st pumpkin pie A++ would eat again. Which is good cos we've got loads of it in the fridge.

I for one am all for the americanisation of british culture if it means we can have double christmas like you lot do. I wd even watch the staccato rugby if it didn't start in the middle of the night.

http://th153.photobucket.com/albums/s238/rosebbudsattic/th_THREEPAIRTHANKSGIVINGSOCKS003.jpg

^^ v. poor attempt to commercialize Thanksgiving

Yes, if you have to tell the consumer that those are ADULT SOCKS you've got worries yeah yeah, you've got troubles whoa whoa...

I'm going to two dinners this weekend - one with a turkey (which needs to be cooked breast down for at least half its stay in the oven to not dry out DUH) and one with pork shoulder. I'm doing an assembly line of PUMPKIN PIE and WILD RICE STUFFING today.

which needs to be cooked breast down for at least half its stay in the oven to not dry ou

QFT

white bread, leftover turkey, lettuce, black pepper, mayo.

no mashed potatoes, no credibility

i have an uncle who puts ketchup on everything. like, he pours heinz in his dr. pepper

thanksgiving is amazing, the 4th of july is amazing, the superbowl is amazing; america has the best holidays, sry the rest of the world

those are my least favorite holidays. i only like halloween and new year's day. i would like arbor day, also, if it encouraged people to wear eyes wide shut masks, but that hasn't happened yet 'round these parts.

and by "these parts" i mean lower pennsylvania and not my genitals, natch

and by "natch" i mean "naturally" and not the soviet-based ilx posting machine

del maybe you are not american, let me ask you a question, do you rinse the soap off dishes before putting them away, also tipping how do you feel abt it

euros eat soap? how gauche. i get all my extraneous minerals from fruity pebbles and fiberglass insulation, dawg

next level^

(which needs to be cooked breast down for at least half its stay in the oven to not dry out DUH)
i did this for the first 25 min.
also, basting is key.

dudes breast down, basting do not make that much of a difference, theres a chemical reaction causing moisture to be evacuated from the bird, it doesnt pool in near the bottom and you cant put it back in - brining and not over cooking are the best solutions - you can also disassemble the turkey beforehand so as to be able to cook the diff parts to their idea doneness but thats sort of no fun

heres a post re brining in excruciating detail http://www.seriouseats.com/2009/11/the-food-lab-turkey-brining-basics.html

pheel like this has gotten sort of technical and past intro level kindof too fast a bit

cook the breast 'til it's right. nobody like the other parts anyway. make turkey salad with them.

yeah anyone knocking turkey breast has not had a brined turkey

pheel like this has gotten sort of technical and past intro level kindof too fast a bit

― plax (ico), Friday, November 26, 2010 5:01 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

can safely assume you are posting from soviet russia

backing it down to a beginner's level:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41rAlg4uJ7L._SL500_.jpg

why are we still talking about thangiving? it is over guys move on

We are still in the penumbra of Thanksgiving Day.

Oh I'm just envious of everyone's leftovers (I don't have any this year).

day after = relatives gone, frig full of food, football on TV = true spirit of thanksgiving

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOjSRoxc6mg&feature=youtube_gdata_player