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And the turkey is drier than the Sahara!
Is there anything worse than attempting to force down bite after bite of overcooked turkey?
You reach for your glass after every… single… forkful, but then you’re full of liquid after ten minutes! And God help you if there isn’t enough gravy!
Thanksgiving can be stressful enough with out culinary errors complicating matters, right? There are so many things that we have to contend with..
- The sheer magnitude of work it takes to produce a quality feast.
- Unruly, impatient kids who can’t wait to sit at their table – and fling food at each other!
- Annoying relatives you see once a year – and that’s too often!
- The inevitable critique from the mother-in-law – on every detail!
- The clean-up process – that makes you want to cry!
Canadians like myself get to enjoy Thanksgiving before our Yankee cousins, so I suppose we can consider ours a “dry run”.
I just hope it doesn’t become one in a literal sense.
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A belated Happy Thanksgiving to you. I forgot you had Thanksgiving this weekend. I have to agree with you about the turkey. It can be so good or so awful.
There’s no middle ground, is there?
Thanksgiving is the worst holiday for me. Slave over a huge meal, deal with annoying relatives, clean the whole mess up. And then to add insult to injury , we are supposed to be thankful for this. ***sigh***
It can drain you emotinally, can’t it?
Happy Thanksgiving Canuck. This is one meal I don’t miss, but give me Grandma’s mashed potatoes and call it a party!
Sounds good to me!
And Happy Thanksgiving right back at you!
Horribly overcooked turkeys so often seem to result from the pursuit of crispy skin. I say forget the skin, if the bird is dry I don’t want it anyway!
Makes sense to me…
There is a movie I watch every Thanksgiving and it has become a tradition for me. It takes the edge off. It’s called “Home for the Holidays” and damn it if it doesn’t nail the experience – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113321/
Cool tradition!