Holiday Blog

By nypeach

November 10, 2008 8:34 AM | Link to this

I didn’t take the bag with the gizzards and stuff out of the turkey. I was young and grossed out by the thought of sticking my hand into the turkey, so I never checked to see if anything was in there. I know, i know…

By Aldo

November 10, 2008 8:45 AM | Link to this

This was one unbelievable Thanksgiving. My wife and I had been married for about 6 months and this was our first time having both sides of the family over for a dinner party. We were planning a menu to feed 17 people. Sometime during the early afternoon of Thanksgiving day my wife and I ate some psychedelic mushrooms just to take the edge off a bit. We started shooting tequila at 1pm. The shrooms were pretty potent and within a couple of hours we were in the backyard playing touch football with the turkey as a football. Heck, it never even got in the oven. We left it outside. I spent the next couple of hours trying to figure out what preheating the oven meant. Nevermind the fact that I had absolutely no idea how to follow a recipe or what dice, chop, render, saute, or grate was asking me to do. I spent the better part of the afternoon trying to figure out why the words on my recipes were floating around the inside of my house. We decided to do more shots and by 3pm we passed out. Our families arrived at 4:30 and when there was no answer at the door for 15-20 minutes my wife’s father walked around to the back of the house where he found the raw turkey lying in the backyard. They suspected fowl (hehe) play and called the police. The police broke in the house and found my wife and I passed out cold in the bedroom. They also found the mushrooms. We were awakened and arrested. All 17 of our guests were there in the front yard of our house while we were carted off to jail. 7 years later, my wife and I still spend Thanksgiving at Waffle House.

By lovelyliz

November 10, 2008 8:59 AM | Link to this

Ever tooked a turkey with the neck & giblets still inside?

By Jessa

November 10, 2008 9:26 AM | Link to this

I bake my potatoes the night before Thanksgiving for my mashed potatoes. One year I washed the potatoes, poked holes in them, and put them in the oven to bake. About an hour later we heard a loud POP from the kitchen and discovered that a potato had exploded. As we were taking the potatoes out, we had two more explode. My house smelled like french fries for the rest of the night. Funny thing is that it happened again the next year and my sister exclaimed, “Potatoes are done!” I stopped buying that brand, but I will never live down the exploding potatoes.

By MBN

November 13, 2008 3:52 PM | Link to this

When my sisters and I moved from Pennsylvania to North Carolina, we arrived in town the night before Thanksgiving with just our clothes, some blankets and each other. We were so tired from the drive down that we all decided to go shopping later in the day. Well, unbeknownst to us, all the grocery stores in Lumberton, NC closed early that night and were to be closed on Thanksgiving Day as well. Ooops! We had no food, no drinks except tap water and we were really hungry. We found a little market open but they had nothing but candy, cigarettes, booze, soft drinks, etc. So, for Thanksgiving Day in 1979, we had a “wonderful” feast of Hershey’s chocolate bars, vanilla wafers, Coke, Cheeze-Wiz and crackers. The day after Thanksgiving we ran to the grocery store as fast as my sister could drive. We hurried around the store grabbing things to eat and sometimes eating them as we ran! We never made that mistake again, I can tell you!

By MBN

November 13, 2008 3:59 PM | Link to this

Aldo: You are a moron.

By Aldo

November 14, 2008 2:18 PM | Link to this

Perhaps I am a moron MBN, but I would wager a bet that you chuckled at my story and if you believed it, then you are the moron. Once again, I have to ask myself..why can’t people just be nice? It was an attempt at humor but as usual, there is a rude person in every crowd, especially in a blog where most of the trolls hang out.

By suzisharpshooter

November 20, 2008 8:04 AM | Link to this

ALDO YOU MADE MY MORNING..I WAS FALLING OFF THE CHAIR LAUGHING! and you helped me where do i send the therapy check!!!?!!!!..this turkey day while at my MIL I’m going a few xtra glasses of wine & i am going to imagine your naked turkey flying around the back yard…i promise i will try not to get arrested!

kudos Suz in Pittsburgh