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do you have any non-traditional thanksgiving food traditions?

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home-made potato/cheese pierogies and kielbasa from the polish deli is pretty much a thanksgiving day mainstay for my family, ever since my mom was a kid growing up with her polish mom and a gaggle of aunts.
 
I am never able to have Thanksgiving at the right time due to work, so we will be celebrating this Tuesday.

Also the fact that I'm Scottish and my wife is an American probably makes our traditions a little unique.
 
Sauerkraut is traditional in MD(historically a German majority), but I don't know how far that spreads.
 
No turkey for my house this year.

Every year we make turkey and some years when there's enough people we'll make a turkey and get a Honey Baked ham and every time everyone eats more of the ham and likes it more so we just said screw it and just get ham now.

If it's really low key and just my wife and I we'll do something like steaks.
 
GagHalfrunt said:
Usually there's a lasagna for people that are not all that fond of turkey.
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that's our Christmas Eve dinner. hah.

my dad cooks once/year and lasagna is the only thing he can cook (not counting pre-packaged stuff like mac and cheese or throwing some spam on a frying pan)
 
Nope, only traditional stuff here (turkey, stuffing, gravy, mashed potatoes, mashed turnips, sweet potato casserole, brussel sprouts, asparagus, cranberry stuff, pies, etc).

My girlfriend's family, on the other hand, is totally non-traditional. All of the parents/aunts/uncles immigrated here in the early 80s. I tell her it's wrong and feel bad because she has never experienced thanksgiving as it ought to be (I realize this isn't PC to say but fuck PC).
 
loki8481 said:
home-made potato/cheese pierogies and kielbasa from the polish deli is pretty much a thanksgiving day mainstay for my family, ever since my mom was a kid growing up with her polish mom and a gaggle of aunts.
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Is that the one in East Milstone (I think)? Pretty funny, we do the same thing. We are not related right?
 
Bibble said:
Nope, only traditional stuff here (turkey, stuffing, gravy, mashed potatoes, mashed turnips, sweet potato casserole, brussel sprouts, asparagus, cranberry stuff, pies, etc).

My girlfriend's family, on the other hand, is totally non-traditional. All of the parents/aunts/uncles immigrated here in the early 80s. I tell her it's wrong and feel bad because she has never experienced thanksgiving as it ought to be (I realize this isn't PC to say but fuck PC).
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I'm not too sure that mashed turnips, brussel sprouts, or asparagus are considered traditional thanksgiving 'fixins', however, broccoli cheese casserole is definitely the best part of the thanksgiving meal with turkey dripping with gravy a close second. 🙂
 
My mother's side of the family has long held a tradition of seafood feasts for holiday dinners -- primarily T-day and Xmas. There's usually fresh dungeoness crab, beer-battered deep fried prawns, oysters, clams, and mussels. As much as one could eat.
 
loki8481 said:
home-made potato/cheese pierogies and kielbasa from the polish deli is pretty much a thanksgiving day mainstay for my family, ever since my mom was a kid growing up with her polish mom and a gaggle of aunts.
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That's supposed to be for Christmas! 🙂

Speaking of Polish tradition, we pass around an opwatek- which is an unlevened wafer. It usually has a picture of the Last Supper or something similar on it. Everyone breaks a piece off of everyone else's, eats it, and wishes them good will.

When I was young, I switched my opwatek with a piece of styrofoam (they look similar) and 3 people ate it. That incident is still spoken of in my family to this day.
 
loki8481 said:
home-made potato/cheese pierogies and kielbasa from the polish deli is pretty much a thanksgiving day mainstay for my family, ever since my mom was a kid growing up with her polish mom and a gaggle of aunts.
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I make pierogies once or twice a year using my mother's recipe. Bridgford's dough, hamburger-onion-egg filling.
 
My sister had the entire family over to her house several years ago. The turkey was taking a long time and several of my little nieces and nephews were getting hungry so she heated up some spaghetti from the night before. That was a big hit with the kids and they asked if she would do it the next year.

Now it is part of the festivities at whoever is hosting the meal. There is actually spaghetti and meatballs on the table as well as the traditional turkey and all the fixings.
 
Actually I am going to make what I made last year since it turned out to be a hit.

Basically it is a duck, stuffed inside a turkey, stuffed with my dick. Turfucken.
 
Indian food is the tradition. Curries of all types. And the family is as white as you get.

The grandparents spent most of their lives in India, and the parents were there until time for college.

I do a lot of the cooking now. I'm the middle son of one of the families, and I love to cook. I follow the recipes handed down from generation to generation to produce the food.
 
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