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I don't understand Thanksgiving without mashed potatoes.
Does.not.compute.
My ILs don't do mashed potatoes and have been downright rude about my offer to bring them. It's so bizarre to me. Thankfully my mom knows they do this, so she makes plenty of extra and makes sure I get them and her leftovers (because she's an awesome cook and MIL is awful). The years with the ILs my Thanksgiving comes later...
I don't understand Thanksgiving without mashed potatoes.
Does.not.compute.
They aren't something I even eat regularly outside of a holiday. I can't think of the last time I had mashed potatoes. And I like them! We tend to have a lot of veggies now that I think about it and an au gratin or homemade mac&cheese, but never mashed potatoes.
"Not gonna lie; I kind of keep expecting you to post one day that you threw down on someone who clearly had no idea that today was NOT THEIR DAY." ~dontcallmeshirley
You know, I've never seen mac and cheese and mashed potatoes on the same holiday table. So yeah, if you usually make homemade mac and cheese, I get why you don't think of mashed potatoes.
BUt a lack of damned gravy?? What the hell? Ain't no call for all that. How else are you supposed to deal with a likely flavorless, dried out bird? You just can't count on other people to make a yummy, tender turkey. There better be gravy on that table lest you fuck up.
You know, I've never seen mac and cheese and mashed potatoes on the same holiday table. So yeah, if you usually make homemade mac and cheese, I get why you don't think of mashed potatoes.
BUt a lack of damned gravy?? What the hell? Ain't no call for all that. How else are you supposed to deal with a likely flavorless, dried out bird? You just can't count on other people to make a yummy, tender turkey. There better be gravy on that table lest you fuck up.
Stores will be open if people will come and buy shit. That's as simple as it gets.
Fwiw I don't just get holidays off, not retail, and really my family works around it. If I can't have the actual holiday off we do dinner they say before/after or sometime close if those options don't work either. I honestly don't get what the huge hype about people that "need" the holiday dinner to be on the actual holiday. (If that's flameout I don't care.)
But I do agree wtf is thanksgiving without mashed potatoes/gravy?!?!
Stores will be open if people will come and buy shit. That's as simple as it gets.
Fwiw I don't just get holidays off, not retail, and really my family works around it. If I can't have the actual holiday off we do dinner they say before/after or sometime close if those options don't work either. I honestly don't get what the huge hype about people that "need" the holiday dinner to be on the actual holiday. (If that's flameout I don't care.)
But I do agree wtf is thanksgiving without mashed potatoes/gravy?!?!
The problem for my family is that a lot of people work retail. We can't reschedule Thanksgiving for another day because many of them will be working the rest of the weekend. It goes beyond that weekend too. They can request days off, but many times they are denied. It is unlikely everyone's request off would be approved on a day outside of the holiday season.
Worth it to you to take away what used to be a retail worker's ONE guaranteed day off during the year?
So if it wasn't for this, they would work 364 days a year?
All this hyperbole makes me skeptical of the cause. Also, not every worker celebrates Thanksgiving and/or Christmas, so the assumption that it is equally important to everyone grates.
You know, I've never seen mac and cheese and mashed potatoes on the same holiday table. So yeah, if you usually make homemade mac and cheese, I get why you don't think of mashed potatoes.
BUt a lack of damned gravy?? What the hell? Ain't no call for all that. How else are you supposed to deal with a likely flavorless, dried out bird? You just can't count on other people to make a yummy, tender turkey. There better be gravy on that table lest you fuck up.
I've seen it. But it was the year of the Ridiculous Thanksgiving where my brother and I and my SIL threw a combined families thanksgiving with our family and his IL's and we just made EVERYTHING rather than disappoint anybody.
so there were 2 kinds of potatoes, 2 kinds of stuffing, mac n cheese, a ham, a turkey, etc etc etc.
Stores will be open if people will come and buy shit. That's as simple as it gets.
Fwiw I don't just get holidays off, not retail, and really my family works around it. If I can't have the actual holiday off we do dinner they say before/after or sometime close if those options don't work either. I honestly don't get what the huge hype about people that "need" the holiday dinner to be on the actual holiday. (If that's flameout I don't care.)
But I do agree wtf is thanksgiving without mashed potatoes/gravy?!?!
Generally essential personnel who work holidays get their schedules far in advance and are able to easily reschedule a holiday. My family has done that. He'll, one year Christmas was in Fevruary because BIL was deployed. But retail workers can't generally request time off from Thanksgiving to New Years and have no predictability in their schedules in order to plan a different date with family.
eclaires you are hereby invited to my aunt's house for TG. We do potluck, and for some unknown reason Catholic guilt even makes some people bring 2 dishes. You have to be choosey because there just isn't enough room in the belly for it all. We get fun vegetarian options, like gourmet shit, not tofurkey, and we do get mashers AND Mac n cheese (my cousin's husband is black, so he brought us more good food). Although Xmas holds a slight lead because instead of a second turkey we get some yummy hunk of cow.
Then the desserts. At least pumpkin, apple and a third pie. One year I put six desserts on my plate. That hurt.
It's actually made me appreciate TG with the ILs because I can have a full serving of stuffing without saving room for butternut squash lasagna.
You know, I've never seen mac and cheese and mashed potatoes on the same holiday table. So yeah, if you usually make homemade mac and cheese, I get why you don't think of mashed potatoes.
BUt a lack of damned gravy?? What the hell? Ain't no call for all that. How else are you supposed to deal with a likely flavorless, dried out bird? You just can't count on other people to make a yummy, tender turkey. There better be gravy on that table lest you fuck up.
I learned later that they had made gravy earlier in the day, but someone dropped it and then my dad got mad and refused to make more.
Post by ChillyMcFreeze on Oct 2, 2014 9:17:53 GMT -5
My cousin is the most ADHD adult I have ever encountered, and he also works in food service so he's a compulsive cleaner. One year, as soon as the turkey came out of the oven and onto the cutting board, he washed the pan. No drippings for gravy. It was the worst Tgiving ever. I'm still mad at him about that.
You know, I've never seen mac and cheese and mashed potatoes on the same holiday table. So yeah, if you usually make homemade mac and cheese, I get why you don't think of mashed potatoes.
BUt a lack of damned gravy?? What the hell? Ain't no call for all that. How else are you supposed to deal with a likely flavorless, dried out bird? You just can't count on other people to make a yummy, tender turkey. There better be gravy on that table lest you fuck up.
My family does mac n cheese AND mashed potatoes. Unfortunately my aunt can't make ones that don't taste like cardboard so it is a sad, sad day. But I come from a family where everything on the table is some shade of brown/cream.
My MIL doesn't have mashed potatoes or Mac n cheese. Because she's the worst.
Her carb side offering is her nasty ass dense wet bread she refers to as stuffing. She blends it all together before baking so there's no chunkiness or texture to it and it's just heavy, dense bricks of grossness. She makes some corn recipe that's not terrible, and that's about the nicest comment I can make about her TG meal.
The funny thing to me is that she acts like everyone is horrible for not coming to her house, that her menu is excellent and everyone else is crazy. It's like an alternate reality.
Oh and the worst thing they do? They eat at noon and then eat leftovers at 6. Leftovers of five dishes made in mass quantity and she acts like this is a pleasant and wonderful TG meal and tradition.
If you don't have mashed potatoes, what do you put the gravy on? :?
I mean sure, you can put it on the turkey and the stuffing. But a creating a indent in your mashed potatoes and filling it with butter and gravy is the true highlight of Thanksgiving.
I can't say that I've ever par took BF, and I do feel that BF infringing on thanksgiving is getting out of hand.
I will say out of all of these changes one I do like is Cyber Monday.
@helenabonhamcarter I think NewEgg.com does some great electronic deals. can't say for sure if Ipod will be one of their cyber monday deals but it's something to consider.
My MIL doesn't have mashed potatoes or Mac n cheese. Because she's the worst.
Her carb side offering is her nasty ass dense wet bread she refers to as stuffing. She blends it all together before baking so there's no chunkiness or texture to it and it's just heavy, dense bricks of grossness. She makes some corn recipe that's not terrible, and that's about the nicest comment I can make about her TG meal.
The funny thing to me is that she acts like everyone is horrible for not coming to her house, that her menu is excellent and everyone else is crazy. It's like an alternate reality.
Oh and the worst thing they do? They eat at noon and then eat leftovers at 6. Leftovers of five dishes made in mass quantity and she acts like this is a pleasant and wonderful TG meal and tradition.
Oh and the worst thing they do? They eat at noon and then eat leftovers at 6. Leftovers of five dishes made in mass quantity and she acts like this is a pleasant and wonderful TG meal and tradition.
We do the eat early and munch on leftovers later thing too, but the food is good. Lol
Oh and the worst thing they do? They eat at noon and then eat leftovers at 6. Leftovers of five dishes made in mass quantity and she acts like this is a pleasant and wonderful TG meal and tradition.
We do the eat early and munch on leftovers later thing too, but the food is good. Lol
If the food is good and there's a wider variety, it makes much more sense! But when it's five items that are totally unappetizing it blows my mind, lol.
My MIL doesn't have mashed potatoes or Mac n cheese. Because she's the worst.
Her carb side offering is her nasty ass dense wet bread she refers to as stuffing. She blends it all together before baking so there's no chunkiness or texture to it and it's just heavy, dense bricks of grossness. She makes some corn recipe that's not terrible, and that's about the nicest comment I can make about her TG meal.
The funny thing to me is that she acts like everyone is horrible for not coming to her house, that her menu is excellent and everyone else is crazy. It's like an alternate reality.
Oh and the worst thing they do? They eat at noon and then eat leftovers at 6. Leftovers of five dishes made in mass quantity and she acts like this is a pleasant and wonderful TG meal and tradition.