I'm travelling to the Northern Wastes of Maine for a few days for turkey day festivities with the elder WHNs.
Enjoy your pies you fucking heathens!!!
Please don't burn the place down. Too much.
I like thanksgiving, because it's the only holiday that makes express what holidays are for in the first place: eating and drinking massive quantities in good company.
Wait, why are you guys celebrating Thanksgiving a month late?
Quote from: Remington on November 24, 2010, 01:47:47 AM
Wait, why are you guys celebrating Thanksgiving a month late?
Why do YOU celebrate it a month early?
Why do we only do it once a year?
Quote from: Remington on November 24, 2010, 01:47:47 AM
Wait, why are you guys celebrating Thanksgiving a month late?
What do Canadians have to be thankful for? I mean, c'mon, you're Canadians!
Quote from: Suu on November 24, 2010, 02:01:15 AM
Why do YOU celebrate it a month early?
Further North. They have to cull the bird herd sooner.
Quote from: Doktor Blight on November 24, 2010, 02:32:52 AM
What do Canadians have to be thankful for? I mean, c'mon, you're Canadians!
We're thankful that we're not Americans. Duh.
Quote from: Suu on November 24, 2010, 02:01:15 AM
Why do YOU celebrate it a month early?
Everything is frozen and dead by the end of October. It is currently -35C (-31F) here, plus ten degrees of windchill or so.
Edit: And it's going to stay that way until mid-April.
I have to cook one of my two thanksgivings this year.... :cry:
As a side note, this is last christmas... my boy's first one..
(http://imgur.com/Q4gQgl.jpg)
...he fucking loved that hat.
Quote from: Remington on November 24, 2010, 05:12:56 AM
We're thankful that we're not Americans. Duh.
This is why I support the idea of a North American Union.
a) No more Canadians
b) More Americans
...and of course:
c) No more teabaggers bitching about Mexicans taking our jobs
Quote from: Doktor Blight on November 24, 2010, 05:28:25 AM
This is why I support the idea of a North American Union.
a) No more Canadians
b) More Americans
:madbanana:
NO.
Quote from: Remington on November 24, 2010, 05:48:39 AM
:madbanana:
NO.
I think I should know better than you why I support the NAU, unless you have a better explanation, my good man.
Also I want to see a psychotically belligerent EU.
Blight,
wants things that won't happen
If we have a NAU, does that mean I can take my guns into the frozen north?
Quote from: Doktor Blight on November 24, 2010, 05:52:49 AM
I think I should know better than you why I support the NAU, unless you have a better explanation, my good man.
Also I want to see a psychotically belligerent EU.
Blight,
wants things that won't happen
We'd just tell all the teabaggers that the Federal Liberal Convention is held annually in Churchill (November 1st). Mobility scooters typically can't go faster than 6-12 kmph.
Quote from: Requia ☣ on November 24, 2010, 05:55:32 AM
If we have a NAU, does that mean I can take my guns into the frozen north?
It's not just your 2nd Amendment right. It's you're 2nd Amendment duty!
We shall help our annexed Canadian brethren show those upstart Quebecoises what's what and make them speak English.
Quote from: Remington on November 24, 2010, 05:58:34 AM
We'd just tell all the teabaggers that the Federal Liberal Convention is held annually in Churchill (November 1st). Mobility scooters typically can't go faster than 6-12 kmph.
:lulz:
GOBBLE-GOBBLE-GOBBLE
Quote from: Remington on November 24, 2010, 05:12:56 AM
We're thankful that we're not Americans. Duh.
Everything is frozen and dead by the end of October. It is currently -35C (-31F) here, plus ten degrees of windchill or so.
Edit: And it's going to stay that way until mid-April.
Where the fuck are you? Nunavut?
Last night it was about 20 degrees, and all I could think was "this is what space feels like." I was absolutely sure.
Cannot imagine -35.
"Mon pays,
Ce n'est pas un pays
C'est l'hiver.
Mon jardin,
Ce n'est pas un jardin,
C'est la neige."
I don't think I could live in so much snow, and I lived in snow for many years already (yes, So Cal mountains actually have (some) snow for about 5 months out of the year!).
I am hostess extraordinaire this month, so we're deep-frying turkey and having all the usual trimmings plus boozie-booze tomorrow. Now if only my BACK would cooperate and quit seizing up with the little bit of chilly weather we've been having here (30-40'F temps at night is pretty cold for down here).
Quote from: Remington on November 24, 2010, 05:12:56 AM
We're thankful that we're not Americans. Duh.
Everything is frozen and dead by the end of October. It is currently -35C (-31F) here, plus ten degrees of windchill or so.
Edit: And it's going to stay that way until mid-April.
I actually wish I lived in the USA... but we had Thanksgiving first.
I'm thankful that despite the bullshit with the TSA, Canada and the US are still two of the freest countries in the world.
Oh, and its still well above the freezing point in Toronto... I'm also thankful for that.
Cold and rainly holiday for us here in the midwest. Not that we do anything besides stuff ourselves and watch football anyway!!!
Just doing the usual, turkey, taters, stuffing, pie...... need something green..... haven't decided yet.
Green bean casserole! DUH!
Quote from: Suu on November 24, 2010, 09:33:20 PM
Green bean casserole! DUH!
Is that the one made with something like Cream of Mushroom soup? Or different?
Fucking "French's" onions making me fart like a fucking Iraqui gas attack
Quote from: Hoopla on November 24, 2010, 09:34:23 PM
Is that the one made with something like Cream of Mushroom soup? Or different?
Yes.
It's like crack and it's absolute garbage food...which is probably why my mom never made it for us. However, every time I'm at someone else's house for Thanksgiving and they DO make it, it typically results in a feeding frenzy. Last year GS, his brother-in-law, his nephew, and myself got stoned off our gourds and accidentally the whole thing. Twice.
Quote from: Suu on November 24, 2010, 09:37:34 PM
Yes.
It's like crack and it's absolute garbage food...which is probably why my mom never made it for us. However, every time I'm at someone else's house for Thanksgiving and they DO make it, it typically results in a feeding frenzy. Last year GS, his brother-in-law, his nephew, and myself got stoned off our gourds and accidentally the whole thing. Twice.
Me too. It must have been created by Xenu.
I hate green bean casserole.....
I'd rather eat vomited grass. Hell same texture...
Quote from: Niamh on November 24, 2010, 10:08:46 PM
I hate green bean casserole.....
I'd rather eat vomited grass. Hell same texture...
Ok, now you've gone too far...
That is fucking Thanksgiving SACRILEGE.
I know I know but I just can't make myself eat it. Green beans are supposed to be crisp and still green, not slimy and milky and I can't help it I've hated it since I was a kid.
My kids love the stuff, I just get clammy and gaggy thinking about it.
I'll end up making it though, just sort of hoped someone might have a better suggestion I could try other than the regular green veggie side dishes....
Quote from: Niamh on November 24, 2010, 10:19:42 PM
I know I know but I just can't make myself eat it. Green beans are supposed to be crisp and still green, not slimy and milky and I can't help it I've hated it since I was a kid.
My kids love the stuff, I just get clammy and gaggy thinking about it.
I'll end up making it though, just sort of hoped someone might have a better suggestion I could try other than the regular green veggie side dishes....
What about root succotash?
I can't wait for the candied yams! :fap:
Quote from: Hoopla on November 24, 2010, 10:22:54 PM
What about root succotash?
What root veggies are green?
I do a parsnip, carrot, turnip and ginger mix that the kids will eat. Steamed, then lightly browned in butter mmmmm
Quote from: Niamh on November 24, 2010, 10:26:01 PM
What root veggies are green?
I do a parsnip, carrot, turnip and ginger mix that the kids will eat. Steamed, then lightly browned in butter mmmmm
Oh, sorry, I forgot about the green part.
Creamed spinach? Brussel sprouts?
Collared greens?
Quote from: Jenne on November 24, 2010, 10:39:13 PM
Creamed spinach? Brussel sprouts?
Quote from: Hoopla on November 24, 2010, 10:44:14 PM
Collared greens?
I was hoping for something "different" yanno? Eh, I'm going to end up doing green bean casserole (GAG)
Quote from: Niamh on November 24, 2010, 10:56:25 PM
I was hoping for something "different" yanno? Eh, I'm going to end up doing green bean casserole (GAG)
The Hulk, now GTFO.
Asparagus is always teh tasty. And it makes yer pee smell too!
Quote from: Suu on November 24, 2010, 10:58:43 PM
Asparagus is always teh tasty. And it makes yer pee smell too!
She's looking for something craaaaaaaaaaa-zaaaaaaay Suu.
Habaneros.
There ya go.
I am sorry if I came off that bitchy picky. We just eat a lot of green veggies. I couldn't think of anything.
They had some beautiful brussel sprouts at the store so I'm making those. Still have to make the damn casserole.
I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday!
I am fucking exhausted and I have a lot of cooking to do. Also, it just fully sunk in for me that my two autistic siblings are having Thanksgiving together. My thoughts, in succession:
1. Oh shit, I wish I could see this!
2. No no wait thank god I don't have to be there.
3. This is either going to be adorable and heartwarming, or a complete disaster.
You could always make a steamed veggie salad, Niamh. Or make the mushroom soup into some sort of fondue deal and dip in greenbeans and zucchini and rolled up spinach leaves. I did that once. Melted the mushroom soup with a few bags of shreddy cheese until it was nice and thick. Then used it like a fondue. Everything was going great until my cat knocked the pot over in one of her fly-around-the-house rampages.
But she came back and ate most of it while I was getting the stuff to clean it up, so apparently it was good. :P I have now come to believe this was part of her plan all along.
I've decided as of 5 minutes ago that I hate Thanksgiving. I hate cooking, I hate being social, and I hate the bullshit.
I'm baking the cookies and sending GS on his way without me. Fuck it. If the immigrants up the street can still have their barbershop with the bulletholes in the ceiling open, then I'm sure I can find work to do. Like my papers.
Aww.
I'm over it. And I have created life in the form of snickerdoodles.
Omg. I feel so full and 110% more patriotic.
Treating it like xmas, but instead of gifts... its rubbermaid containers of home cooking
I'm going to treat it like an eating tournament. That's what thanksgiving is supposed to be. Competitive feasting. That's what all holidays are supposed to be.
I got invited to a thing with some very smart, lovely people with some really tasty food and good conversation.
But my sister wanted me to spend it with her and her boyfriend so I'm here watching teevee because that's how they roll. It's a nice big samsung and I want to smash it into pieces.
Sounds like everyone is having a lovely Thanksgiving. Yay!
Mine hasn't started, which is the same as lovely, so far.
Ahh, that is crabby. Truth is, there's supposed to be a belated birthday cake waiting for me there.
We appear to be dragging ours out over the course of an extra day or two.
Months of feeding like a bird have left my stomach unable to stretch and accommodate more than one full plate of food :(
Undercooked turkey and cable television FTW!
I'm going to need a good solid hateshit sometime next week.
Liam has claimed one tiny piece of America, aka our flat, in the name of The Queen and planted the Union Jack outside as proof. Apparently, the English celebrate Thanksgiving by eating tacos and Thorntons chocolates, buying purple see-through laptops, preening their mustaches, and not doing any dishes.
You need to fill up the sink with nice warm soapy water, then threaten to dump his tea in there unless he does the dishes.
Quote from: Rumckle on November 25, 2010, 11:50:16 PM
You need to fill up the sink with nice warm soapy water, then threaten to dump his tea in there unless he does the dishes.
:lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
Consider it done!
I have a fridge full of leftovers. :banana:
Turkey, cheesy broccoli stuff, sweet potatoes, butternut squash, razzleberry dressing, and FUCKING GREEN BEAN CASSEROLE. I will have a delicious lunch tomorrow. Om. Nom. Nom.
Quote from: Alty on November 25, 2010, 11:17:08 PM
Undercooked turkey and cable television FTW!
I'm going to need a good solid hateshit sometime next week.
Oh that's the worst...Undercooked bird, that is. We had 2 of them. The amount of food at GS's aunt's house was record breaking.
Quote from: Bella on November 25, 2010, 11:38:31 PM
Liam has claimed one tiny piece of America, aka our flat, in the name of The Queen and planted the Union Jack outside as proof. Apparently, the English celebrate Thanksgiving by eating tacos and Thorntons chocolates, buying purple see-through laptops, preening their mustaches, and not doing any dishes.
Bullshit, I had Thanksgiving today with a Brit, and he seemed to quite enjoy it. Then again, even a modest American meal is 20X superior to English cuisine.
Fortunately there was "Already Cooked!" ham and my own candied yams.
Next year I'm doing this and will have people over. No family though, fuck those guys.
I just wrapped it up with the traditional viewing of Nightmare Before Christmas. Because Christmas - Halloween = Thanksgiving.
FUCK It's a Wonderful Life, I need my annual Oogie Boogie fix.
I love Thanksgiving at Jake's house.
Not only do I have next to no responsibility, and there is next to no pressure, but also it's like a big happy crazy family. I get hugs from everyone and get a little tipsy. Mario is there (weird to be there with my new boyfriend, since I was there with him last year!) and his new gf, and my best friend, and everyone. Plus, Jake starts developing photos when the weather turns cold, so Thanksgiving is the day when we get to see the latest prints, so I got to see one of me from a shoot we did last winter when I was all bummed about my impending breakup with Mario. It's a fantastic picture!
Quote from: Suu on November 26, 2010, 03:50:22 AM
I just wrapped it up with the traditional viewing of Nightmare Before Christmas. Because Christmas - Halloween = Thanksgiving.
FUCK It's a Wonderful Life, I need my annual Oogie Boogie fix.
I came to that same classification decision a few years ago. I can't help it though, it just fits Halloween so well that I watch it every year.
Thxgiving was good for me too. People were throwing money at me because I had a birthday last week, we ate turkey, and I got to listen to a bunch of Normative Caucasoid Dialogue. It was awesome.
ETA: They discuss their jobs and the NY Times a lot. And "apps".
Quote from: Rumckle on November 25, 2010, 11:50:16 PM
You need to fill up the sink with nice warm soapy water, then threaten to dump his tea in there unless he does the dishes.
:mittens:
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on November 26, 2010, 04:27:26 AM
I came to that same classification decision a few years ago. I can't help it though, it just fits Halloween so well that I watch it every year.
I remember when it came out, and they released previews on the old Disney VHS tapes, I think for Aladdin, and you didn't really know what it was. It was the little boy opening his gift, and when his mom goes, "And what did Santa bring you, honey?" He pulls out the severed head and everyone screams.
Quote from: Suu on November 26, 2010, 03:43:16 AM
I have a fridge full of leftovers. :banana:
Turkey, cheesy broccoli stuff, sweet potatoes, butternut squash, razzleberry dressing, and FUCKING GREEN BEAN CASSEROLE. I will have a delicious lunch tomorrow. Om. Nom. Nom.
Oh that's the worst...Undercooked bird, that is. We had 2 of them. The amount of food at GS's aunt's house was record breaking.
Bullshit, I had Thanksgiving today with a Brit, and he seemed to quite enjoy it. Then again, even a modest American meal is 20X superior to English cuisine.
You called it! Liam loves a nice turkey dinner as much as anyone, but we've had a hellish week and neither one of us has had the time or energy to shop and cook, so we're planning to celebrate on Sunday, instead.
Liam's new outside kitty, Commander Wingnut, was savaged by dogs and had an emergency tail amputation on Monday. Wingnut's a mess, he's in constant pain, the house cats hate him and want to fight, Wingnut wants to eat the fish, and nobody's getting any sleep around here. To top it all off, I drove to SF to meet my daughter when she flew in from Germany on Weds, and we were stuck in holiday traffic for fuckign ever. Took us 2 1/2 hours to travel from the first 30 miles of the trip home. By that time nobody cared in the least if we ate turkey yesterday or not, so we postponed the whole shebang.
And lo there was much consumption of turkey and home baked goods. And lo there was much intestinal unhappiness. And on the fifth day we returneth to our hometh. And on this day we drag our sorry asses back to work.
We deep-fried our bird, and get this, we have 2 more turkeys defrosting in my fridge right now! My husband feels it necessary to use up that ginormous amount of peanut oil over and over to get his money's worth, I guess. But that's good because it's been like 7 years since I had turkey with my dad, so we'll be bbq'ing one for him in his honor on Saturday at his WELCOME HOME bash.