OMG, she still brought the congealed salad

[nomad100]

MIL was supposed to bring a vegetable and rolls.  Easy right?  She showed up with some sort of biscuit instead of regular rolls, a corn casserole (which is what we were expecting), scalloped potatoes and the congealed salad molded fruit salad.

Best part?  She seemed surprised when we didn't have room on the buffet for all the extra stuff.  And she was all "oh, you made mashed potatoes?"

But DH and I congealed salad blocked her.    She said that we could serve it for dessert (whut?!?) so we just "forgot" to serve it since I had made a cheesecake.  No one needs jello and cheesecake.  

And I am still pissed I didn't get a fluffy roll and had to eat some dry crusty biscuit instead.  

[tacosforlife]

We didn't have mashed potatoes (very small gathering), but who talks smack about mashed potatoes?!

[nomad100]

Nov 26, 2015 20:58:51 GMT -5 mryrcn said:

What no pic?

Nope.  It never got un-molded.

Which takes me to head shaking that there is such a thing as a plastic mold for salads like this.

[nomad100]

Nov 26, 2015 21:05:16 GMT -5 tacosforlife said:

We didn't have mashed potatoes (very small gathering), but who talks smack about mashed potatoes?!

RIGHT!?! 

It was such a crazy moment.  

On the plus side, no politics talk.  Just a weird segway into abortion and adoption (bro and I are both adopted from pre-Roe v Wade days).

[Deleted]

Thanksgiving is a crap holiday with crap food and boring ass football.

I went to Maggianos. It was the first time I ever had a good meal for Thanksgiving lol.

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Nov 26, 2015 21:36:24 GMT -5 @eveer said:

Thanksgiving is a crap holiday with crap food and boring ass football.

I went to Maggianos. It was the first time I ever had a good meal for Thanksgiving lol.

Me thinks you need new people for Thanksgiving.

[nomad100]

Nov 26, 2015 21:36:24 GMT -5 @eveer said:

Thanksgiving is a crap holiday with crap food and boring ass football.

I went to Maggianos. It was the first time I ever had a good meal for Thanksgiving lol.

Oh how I miss Maggianos. Sigh. 

(I am assuming you are talking about the ones located in Chicago?)

[tacosforlife]

Nov 26, 2015 21:48:42 GMT -5 @ladydisdain said:

Nov 26, 2015 21:36:24 GMT -5 @eveer said:

Thanksgiving is a crap holiday with crap food and boring ass football.

I went to Maggianos. It was the first time I ever had a good meal for Thanksgiving lol.

Me thinks you need new people for Thanksgiving.

THANK YOU!

We don't watch football. But we make amazing food. My H made the most divine green bean casserole with fresh green beans and fresh mushrooms and shallots. I am super pumped to eat leftovers tomorrow.

Also, I've been drinking since 10:30 this morning - what's not to love about that holiday?

[sushi]

The native midwesterners at my table raved about my scratch green bean casserole (which I actually didnt cook long enough) and never made a peep about missing jello nastiness.

They said ive spoiled future holidays. :preens:

I do wish wed had music instead of toddler shows and sports, but im sure if reeve showed up that would be cured.

[fairygodmother]

My son and his gf hosted. Their green bean casserole included homemade fried onion topping. While delicious I Bye Felicia 'd them.in my head.

[sushi]

Nov 27, 2015 0:49:22 GMT -5 fairygodmother said:

My son and his gf hosted. Their green bean casserole included homemade fried onion topping. While delicious I Bye Felicia 'd them.in my head.

How can you say by to delicious?!

[redwino]

Congealed salad showed up on the table for the first time. We had about 50 people so I don't know who brought it but the kids were gobbling it up. It looked like jello and fruit only so not too offensive.

[dirtyred]

The concealed salad was a staple at all gatherings while my DH was growing up, and his sister continued the tradition. He truly doesn't understand why I refuse to make one. He also grew up eating salad on Thanksgiving. I often ask him what planet his family is from.

[ttt]

Nov 26, 2015 21:36:24 GMT -5 @eveer said:

Thanksgiving is a crap holiday with crap food and boring ass football.

I am pretty sure this is grounds for revocation of your green card.

[laurenpetro]

Why are the words "congealed" and "salad" in the same sentence?

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Nov 27, 2015 8:09:25 GMT -5 ttt said:

Nov 26, 2015 21:36:24 GMT -5 @eveer said:

Thanksgiving is a crap holiday with crap food and boring ass football.

I am pretty sure this is grounds for revocation of your green card.

lol I am a citizen now, so I am just as free and any other American to complain about "my" country.

Seriously tho - because I never celebrated Thanksgiving in the UK (obviously) I don't have even the slightest echo of a past excitement. You know, like even if you aren't celebrating Xmas you still have memories of it that give you that feeling. But for me, Thanksgiving is an absolute nothing.

When I was married, it meant going to the inlaws home, and while they were nice, the ex wife and I were the only atheist liberals and they were all christian republicans. I am not known for biting my tongue, but I did my best. The meal would consist of ham (why is that something to be excited about? Thats like getting excited about beans!) and beans (see previous sentence) and London Broil (which no one in London has ever heard of). London broil is when you get a lump of dead animal, and you cook the outside til its brown and the rest is blood held together with tendons. Served cold. Oh, sweet potatoes (potatoes done wrong) and "bread". This meal was then followed by a protracted game of hand egg on the TV (there is hardly any feet kicking a ball, and the ball is not a ball), a game where various overweight men dress in armour and then fall on top of each other for about 17 hours.

I dunno. It just seemed like a terrible day to me lol.

[Deleted]

Ham and beans are both delicious, but neither are traditional Thanksgiving foods.

This Midwesterner thinks canned green beans are always gross, frozen are tolerable and fresh are delicious.

And why is fruit and jello offensive? I don't it really counts for the weird grossness that is congealed salad.

[sushi]

Nov 27, 2015 8:29:47 GMT -5 laurenpetro said:

Why are the words "congealed" and "salad" in the same sentence?

Or jello or snickers

[ttt]

Nov 27, 2015 8:46:12 GMT -5 @eveer said:

Nov 27, 2015 8:09:25 GMT -5 ttt said:

I am pretty sure this is grounds for revocation of your green card.

lol I am a citizen now, so I am just as free and any other American to complain about "my" country.

Seriously tho - because I never celebrated Thanksgiving in the UK (obviously) I don't have even the slightest echo of a past excitement. You know, like even if you aren't celebrating Xmas you still have memories of it that give you that feeling. But for me, Thanksgiving is an absolute nothing.

When I was married, it meant going to the inlaws home, and while they were nice, the ex wife and I were the only atheist liberals and they were all christian republicans. I am not known for biting my tongue, but I did my best. The meal would consist of ham (why is that something to be excited about? Thats like getting excited about beans!) and beans (see previous sentence) and London Broil (which no one in London has ever heard of). London broil is when you get a lump of dead animal, and you cook the outside til its brown and the rest is blood held together with tendons. Served cold. Oh, sweet potatoes (potatoes done wrong) and "bread". This meal was then followed by a protracted game of hand egg on the TV (there is hardly any feet kicking a ball, and the ball is not a ball), a game where various overweight men dress in armour and then fall on top of each other for about 17 hours.

I dunno. It just seemed like a terrible day to me lol.

LOL well, fair enough. But yeah you need better people and better food in your Thanksgiving! That sounds pretty awful.

[Deleted]

No congealed salad here, but my MIL did insist on bringing a ham. We all looked at her funny until she explained that her boyfriend wanted to bring it and she's pretty sure it was just a ploy for leftover ham.

[aurora]

@eveer, I'm with you on the American football, but I agree with the others who say you're clearly lacking a good Thanksgiving experience. With the right fun people who know how to cook the food well and sufficient alcohol, it is such afun holiday.

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Nov 27, 2015 9:46:01 GMT -5 aurora said:

@eveer , I'm with you on the American football, but I agree with the others who say you're clearly lacking a good Thanksgiving experience. With the right fun people who know how to cook the food well and sufficient alcohol, it is such afun holiday.

lol you are probably right. But its unlikely to be any time soon - the girlfriends family consists of her mother, who's nice but there is old friction, and thats it.

So i did thoroughly enjoy Thanksgiving this year, cos pasta and girlfriend and home lol. But I am unlikely to experience a proper thanksgiving meal in the near future!

[sushi]

No way, reeve. The modern way is to cut or family, drink lots, hang out with friends, and buy more booze for friends who can cook.

This is my who knows what year hostng, and the first with family, little fam.

[fumbalina]

For me ham is a Thanksgiving tradition. I grew up having ham, turkey, stuffing, potatoes, rolls, and sweet potatoes. I think it is probably because I came from a large family, so a turkey was not always enough meat and traditionally it had to be baked. Ham of course was also baked but took much less time.

[StrawberryBlondie]

Nov 27, 2015 8:46:12 GMT -5 @eveer said:

Nov 27, 2015 8:09:25 GMT -5 ttt said:

I am pretty sure this is grounds for revocation of your green card.

lol I am a citizen now, so I am just as free and any other American to complain about "my" country.

Seriously tho - because I never celebrated Thanksgiving in the UK (obviously) I don't have even the slightest echo of a past excitement. You know, like even if you aren't celebrating Xmas you still have memories of it that give you that feeling. But for me, Thanksgiving is an absolute nothing.

When I was married, it meant going to the inlaws home, and while they were nice, the ex wife and I were the only atheist liberals and they were all christian republicans. I am not known for biting my tongue, but I did my best. The meal would consist of ham (why is that something to be excited about? Thats like getting excited about beans!) and beans (see previous sentence) and London Broil (which no one in London has ever heard of). London broil is when you get a lump of dead animal, and you cook the outside til its brown and the rest is blood held together with tendons. Served cold. Oh, sweet potatoes (potatoes done wrong) and "bread". This meal was then followed by a protracted game of hand egg on the TV (there is hardly any feet kicking a ball, and the ball is not a ball), a game where various overweight men dress in armour and then fall on top of each other for about 17 hours.

I dunno. It just seemed like a terrible day to me lol.

Yeah, this is not Thanksgiving food.

You need a delicious grilled turkey with lots of gravy.

[msmerymac]

My grandmother used to make this awesome thing that had strawberry jello, whipping cream, marshmallows and strawberries. I really loved it. It didn't taste like jello.