Friday OT #2 - Avoid the Masses
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My family has switched things up the last couple of year and broke from the normal turkey and ham. It has been way better.
Last year we went Cajun with like 5 or 6 different types of Cajun chicken, fish and sausage, red beans and rice, corn, etc.
This year we’re doing a brunch, so I’m making homemade fried chicken and waffles and some other things.
Last year we went Cajun with like 5 or 6 different types of Cajun chicken, fish and sausage, red beans and rice, corn, etc.
This year we’re doing a brunch, so I’m making homemade fried chicken and waffles and some other things.
I used garlic cream of mushroom and it was delicious, wifes side of the family never had it before so we brought it there and they ask us to bring it back every year and we never have any left to take home. Also use the french cut onions, and drain the juice out of the can. I feel like a lot of people go wrong by just dumping the whole can in when cooking it.
My sister makes her own cream of mushroom soup. I don’t remember how she does it, but it’s incredible.
This was part of my family's Christmas Eve tradition growing up. We would go to evening mass, order a pizza and drive around looking a Christmas lights until it was ready. We opened family presents on Christmas Eve so the pizza made it easy to get to opening presents faster! But yeah, Godfathers is terrible now compared to what it was in the 90s.
My avoided food would also be the green jello stuff. My grandma makes hers with crushed pineapples in it. The flavor is ok but the consistency of getting a bite of stringy pineapple chunk with jello is vomit inducing. She lives in Arizona now and we don't do big family get togethers anymore but I've been told she still likes it enough to make it for herself for the holidays.
I will even eat it leftover and cold. And also love turkey. Need a cone of shame like my dog is currently wearing.
On a diet (creative cause doctor wants me to gain weight). Gets me out of MIL ruining perfectly good food with sugar.
Won’t have to smell the MILs damn lutefisk. I don’t eat it but I still get pill just smelling it
I....wut?
@Angie and I are very similar. No pumpkin pie (just mush) and no green bean casserole. (More mush)
My mother's Jello concoction that I actually like: Lime Jello, cream cheese, and a can of pears, I think she used the blender to mix it all up, and then chill in a bundt pan. So, the pears are there, but there's no chance of a stringy pineapple piece, like mentioned above. I mean, it's pears.
I can top your uncle. I had an uncle who has since passed on, who used to pile his food like that too, but he'd be even grosser. He lost his left hand in a combine accident when he was younger and he liked to take the stump of his left hand and and use it like a piece of bread to sop up all the gravy on his plate, then stick it in his mouth. He was a loud, brassy type and one memory that sticks out was one Thanksgiving when he held up his gravy soaked stump over his head and shouted, "best damned thing that ever happened to me. This is the handiest tool I have," and then shoved it in his mouth. I stayed with him and his wife one summer (they were childless) and he used to lick the syrup bottle around the neck after pouring and did the same with the ketchup bottle. Gross mfer.
I had another uncle on the other side of the family, also since passed on, who used to like to sit at the kids' table, where, coincidentally or not, they had also set the pies that had already been sliced, to cool. This uncle was the type who when he ate had big teeth and ate with his mouth open, so you could see his big teeth masticating his food. One Thanksgiving, us kids were racing our uncle to get done so we could have our choice of pie and everyone had their eye on one particularly large slice of pumpkin pie. Our uncle, seeing he was about to lose, stuck his thumb past his large teeth into his food-filled mouth, then pulled it out and stuck it in the middle of that piece of pie.
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I guess I don't have anything for Thanksgiving that I hate (although I never take a piece of the jello-pretzel-cream cheese thing that everybody else seems to love). I love the green bean casserole, the sweet potato casserole, the turkey (dark meat, yo), and the pumpkin pie.
Sorry, @Angie, you must be some sort of degenerate.
On the other hand, my MIL (who, as some may recall, typically will come down for 4-6 weeks at a stretch) has some...interesting recipes. Since the border with Canada is closed, she won't be coming down this year. So at least I won't have to deal with what she calls "chili" or things like that. I think she considers it a competition to get me to complain about something she has made (she likes to agitate people and start fights).
Sorry, @Angie, you must be some sort of degenerate.
On the other hand, my MIL (who, as some may recall, typically will come down for 4-6 weeks at a stretch) has some...interesting recipes. Since the border with Canada is closed, she won't be coming down this year. So at least I won't have to deal with what she calls "chili" or things like that. I think she considers it a competition to get me to complain about something she has made (she likes to agitate people and start fights).
Exactly what part of the jello-pretzel-cream cheese concoction do you not like? The Jello? I mean, I can sort of get behind that, in a vacuum. I don't eat it by itself unless I'm sick or something, either - but you put some strawberries in it, get the salt of the pretzel and the tang of the cream cheese? It's magic!
I had no idea there was a grass roots campaign against pumpkin pie until this thread.
Yes, my mom does the strawberries. I imagine we are talking about the exact same dish. It's just not for me. No particular reason why. I'm an oddball that way, I guess, because there's never any leftovers. I don't think I've had any in at least a decade, yet my mom always gleefully announces that she made it for me.
Back in the day, though I used to inhale it. Maybe I'm making caloric trades subconsciously.
That sounds like such an odd combo of food. I probably wouldn't touch it.
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If there was any way for somebody to self-identify as a terrorist, pumpkin pie hate has to top the list.
