That Nasty-Ass Thanksgiving Banquet

[figmo]

I was watching the so-called "Food Network Live" event this morning, only to find out that it wasn't "live" but had been pre-taped the day before. The special is usually entertaining to watch because it's one of the few times you get to see some of these food experts interacting in the same room in real time. This year's main four were especially

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[admnaismith]

I'm with you on the cranberry sauce and the pumpkin pie. That's why I don't eat them. All the more for people who like it.

I also make mashed potatoes that are the consistency of potato salad, only with gravy instead of potato salad stuff. Now, my mashed rutabagas, *those* are pasty, but spiced. I make stuffing with oysters.

There's enough good about this menu that I've been known to do a Thanksgiving dinner in the summer or spring now and then. In part because if you roast a turkey on Sunday, you can lunch on the leftovers for the following week.

The point is to feast on what you like, not on what everyone else says people eat that day.

[figmo]

I never understood why venison never made it onto the Thanksgiving menu.

[teddywolf]

De gustibus. I actually like turkey, and would eat it year-round if the stores carried fresh ones year-round