If you don't care for Turkey you just have to embrace the sides. Stuffing (with sausage), mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, hash brown casserole, squash casserole, freshly baked rolls, macaroni and cheese. Smother as much or as little of that as you want with brown gravy. add a freshly tossed salad with olive oil and vinegar and a fruit medley for color. Then top that off with a slice of pecan pie. you can say that's not elite but that would make you a fucking moron. edit: forgot the cranberry sauce but that is not something I get too excited about. still smack a little dab of it on the bird for the hell of it.
You can substitute crawfish tails with a container of shucked raw oysters. Also, I typically just use conecuh cajun sausage for the whole thing rather than it + hot sausage.
I'm with Hank Scorpio on this. Thanksgiving is a trash holiday. Probably bottom 3 for me. I've been lucky to skip it the last 4 years and I'm glad to not be bothered with the sub-par meal.
I don't necessarily dislike ham, but it is my least favorite meat....which is why EASTER is easily the worst holiday meal.
tell me how you've never had good ham without telling me also, eat lamb I'm a poet but didn't know it
I’m doing Cornish game hens this year. We only have 4 people, and it’s kind of fun for everyone to get their own bird.
Similar. Rarely fix it, but like deli-sliced for the occasional ham sammy. The noble pig has many better parts.
It recently came to my attention people think Mac and cheese is a Thanksgiving dish. I suppose I understand the hatred for the holiday spread (unfounded) if you are serving Mac and cheese as a side. It has no business near a Thanksgiving table and it’s embarrassing it’s there. Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. Perfect time of the year.
trash the food but a trash holiday? eating a lot of food, watching football, and no gift expectations makes it one of the best
Eat what you like. Drink what makes you feel good. Enjoy family and friends while having time off from work.
Of course it is. Pilgrims and a Native American tribe, I forget which one, jointly invented mac & cheese in the early 1600's.
He not wrong though. Day in and day out, ham is better. Yes, a smoked turkey leg is better, but a ham goes so hard in so many different ways that it's versatility wins.
More awkward: walking around like Captain Caveman with a smoked turkey leg at a carnival or game or walking around like Homer Simpson with a ham hock .
Think I might just co-op this thread Hank Scorpio you're have the taste buds of a toddler. And the mind of an infant
If you want to make authentic Native American mac and cheese, you'll need a Sioux chef to prep everything for you. Spoiler
My palate is refined to not accept bland garbage. You're also talking to a multi-time bar trivia champion, buddy!
While I do like turkey, my kids do not. Making duck breasts for the wife and I and pigs in a blanket for them. Can't wait until they start to eat real food. I'll go so goddamn hard.
Mac and cheese is great, why would anyone give a shit if it’s served? don’t take any if you don’t want it. Jesus some people love to be miserable for no reason
Saving this for my Thankful for March Madness feast where we prepare a feast to watch the games. Going to smoke a few turkeys to rub it in the haters’ faces that turkey is 1) in fact delicious and 2) not exclusive to Thanksgiving. Grazing on leftovers through the evening and that late night sour dough sandwich has me hard thanking about it.
Simi-related. My entire life, for some reason, I have been absolutely repulsed by the term "fixins.". I don't know why but anytime someone says it, it's worse than nails on a chalkboard for me. I'd rather sit at the dinner table with someone explaining in great detail about their anal discharge that was so obviously happening in that exact second than listen to someone say, "give me all the fixins"