Catmandu

I gag just thinking about the creamed onions my Mom used to serve. They looked like stewed eyeballs, and probably tasted that way too.

Janey

One word: Turkey.

sadistikdreams

All the repetitive shit about, "So what're you doing with your life?"

AAAAHHHH! YOU DON'T CARE GRAMMA! GO HOME AND DRUG YOURSELF!

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quadro2000

The feeling I get after I've eaten too much food. I passed out one year.

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SaltPork

Not being allowed to watch the football games at my parents house. My father isn't a sports oriented person AT ALL. No sports, ever!! So, no Turkey Day football...sucks.

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DelayedReaction

Red Cabbage Casserole. It smells like some kind of toxic waste dump, and it tastes even worse.

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pig

casseroles. any kind. doesn't matter. the casserole is the outcome, over history, of: "shit jane, is all this stuff rotten? i guess we'd better throw it in a dish and hide it under some bread and cheese". amorphous tubs of pudding-like gelatin do not excite my culinary sensibilities.

and i'm pretty much anti-potluck anything. all those different people, with their different hygeine issues, bringing food that i'm supposed to not only eat, but relish?

icky icky foo

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animosity

My thoughts exactly. I mean I appreciate your concern... but I really dont.

thinktank

I could really do without the whole thing, i love grabbing a free meal now and then, but most of my extended family dont like me very much, and all they do is complain about the fact that i have tattoos, or complain about the fact that my ears are guaged to an inch, or complain about the fact that i dont go to a "real college." It's over the top dealing with some of these folks, my parents are kosher with it, but they cant leave it alone when i'm around

Janey

what did you expect?

thinktank

janey - was that directed at me, or elsewhere?

Blackthorn

*laffs my arse off* ... I have no idea why that's so funny to me but it is!...

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Samalie

Turducken

/shudder

ShaniFaye

cooking....anything

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Grancey

Tomato Aspic....the nastiest, most horrendous food item I've ever been guilted into partaking of, year after year. Sorry, mom. It was just gross.

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McG

Turkey - Stuffing. Its all bad!

Destrox

Cleaning up....

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goddfather40

cranberry sauce, especially the canned shit that always ends up on the table

and to think I like cranberry juice

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maleficent

I made cranberry sauce this afternoon -- much better than the canned crap.

Not Necessarily In Order:
1. Brussel Sprouts
2. Cleaning Up After Dinner
3. Going around the table and saying what we're thankful for
4. My sister and hearing about how wonderful she thinks she is
5. My mother asking about who I'm dating (and funny, my response that I'm having casual sex with Hells Angels bikers never goes over well,but yet, she asks every year)
6. Someone getting drunk


I truly detest family holidays... I shudda gone to the islands.

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CinnamonGirl

All the time in the car...it's not as bad as Christmas, but still annoying. My parents are divorced, so that automatically doubles the gatherings...and now that I'm married, they're doubled again. *sigh* I miss being able to kick back at stay at ONE HOUSE all day.

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cheezhead

Black Friday

Ustwo

Cranberry sauce.

Who the hell eats that crap.

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Stiltzkin

Relatives forcing smiles and pretending to get along. This happens again during Christmas.

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MSD

Me.


As for my family gathering, I'm going to use pepper spray on every person who asks if I have a job yet. I hope not too many ask, because I need to save some to put on my mashed potatos.

Ustwo

SICK!

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Shirtninja

My aunts turkey. I dont know how you can ruin a turkey that badly and still have it look presentable, but she manages to do it every year.

maleficent

Sacrelig... Come to NJ - I made a bunch this morning, and it's damn good... not the stuff you get out of a can...

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oblar

worst part... smelling the wonderful food hours before you can eat any of it.

this year i wont have to worry about it though since I am not heading home for thanksgiving, but overall that is the worst part

as far as cranberry sauce that stuff rocks! *grin*

present_future

Yeah, no doubt. Except it's not so much my grandparents as my nosy aunt and uncles. Just because I go to a liberal arts school does not mean I'm not getting a good education!

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Stiltzkin

I like cranberry sauce, crutons, stuffing, and everything else that everyone loves to hate because they all have sticks up their butts... ahem... I mean, because they have different views from mine.



(please note the satire, although I really do like cranberry sauce and all that)

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BenChuy

The lack of alcohol at my wife's parent's house. They are morman and so the cooking is also very bland and filled with jello. Here is hoping that the conversations don't get TOO uncomfortable...

guthmund

I especially like the sucking sound it makes when it comes out of the can and slaps down onto the dish. Mmmm Mmmm good.

I usually go to two or three Thanksgivings over the holiday. Different families and everybody wanting to do their own dinner. What I've discovered is that someone always brings the gelatin. Always a homemade "experiment." Usually some screwed up flavor with random bits and chunks of a various fruit that never, never compliment the gelatin flavor itself. Kiwi-mango blue coconut vibe with bits of pineapple, bits of orange and celery for texture. Celery?

Everyone always says something nice about and takes a bit, but they never eat it. I usually help with the cleanup and the funky flavored jell-o is always left behind.

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lpj8

Things I love about Thanksgiving:
Turkey with my inlaws
Ham at my parents
Pumkin Pie
Watching Thanksgiving football with my dad while the food is being prepared
Playing golf with my dad the day after Thanksgiving
and oh yeah,
Pumpkin Pie

Suave

Haha my grandma gets so funny when she's drinking. Well, conversations are also uncomfortable and akward, but funny none the less.

MSD

Well, you know that we liberals have something wired wrong in our brains. Maybe it also affects taste buds?

Bill O'Rights

The look of sheer panic and terror on my sweet wife's face as I wash the china after dinner. I broke a cup in 1997, and it cost $45.00 to replace. I still, to this day, hear about it.

My brother-in-law's famous Durkee onion casserole.

Ruining a good bowl of candied yams with...marshmellows.

Oh, and by the way, I love cranberry sauce.


(Seriously, does this even look like a $45.00 cup?)

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Stick

What is thanksgiving for and why is turkey, cranberry, pumpkin etc associated with it?

Suave

Honestly? Yes.

omega2K4

I could do without the whole holiday altogether.

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StormBerlin

I second black Friday... retail blows. I also do not like turkey too much. It's kinda dry. We always have honey ham and fish for thanksgiving... wacky europeans....

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