my son traveled 8 hours today to come home for thanksgiving. i was so surprised! i had been asking him for 2 weeks or more if he was coming home, and he always acted like he wasnt.. i was sad all day till he showed up at 6 pm! SO THANKFUL!!
Lots of family members will go home for Thanksgiving and/or Christmas. It’s a wonderful tradition. Everyone contributes to the meal. Families spend the day playing games, doing jigsaw puzzles, watching football on tv…and eating lots of food, all day! Great memories!
I work at a hospital, and we don't close for holidays. I've worked the thanksgiving night shift for the last 5 years. When my boss found out, he invited me to eat with his family for early dinner the last couple of years since I couldn't travel to see my family. It's really THAT important to us that you have someone to dine with. And its snowing today actually! I'm in the Northeast and woke to a divine winter wonderland.
I appreciate all you do out there. Especially with how many people try to deep fry turkeys. Thank you to you and your team at the hospital endlessly caring for the rest of us
Thank you for what you do. 24 years ago my baby was due right before Thanksgiving and I was worried I’d be in the hospital that day. She came early and I got to spend the day with family but I’m grateful that people like you would have been there for me.
ok I'm in Virginia (east coast) and now I'm jealous of all u guys in the NORTH east! I want some snow by Christmas . Today is our first really cold day and its still above what's needed for snow. No white white Christmas last year either. However this area is Unpredictable when it comes to snow. One year (198o or 81 I think) It snowed for the 1st time on the 1st day of spring and also we had a Blizzard. Different states are different cuz this country is so big. In Texas u can find EVER climate for desert (southwest to a place where the winters are pretty harsh (Northeast) America has everything from small Jungles (Florida) to deserts (Arizona). (Also Look up the Badlands of South Dakota and the Black Hills) To great Plains and all kinds of forests Up in the north east like Main and New Hampshire the winters are cold snowy and Harsher but down here where I live if we get 1 inch of snow> schools out. Good snows and white Christmases are rare! The western state of Wyoming gets lot of snow in the winter and although eastern Virginia rarely gets snow the Mountains (the Shenandoah Valley and Appalachian Mountains) are a different story! Then There is places like San Francisco in California where it is almost always somewhere in the 70s all year round I think Its almost never too hot or too cold, at least that is what I've been told. I never lived there, just visited it briefly in the middle of summer and in the evening I needed a sweater cause it went down to 70 in midsummer (I was a skinny kid who got cold easily) But it was like a comfortable 74 to 77 during the day. (I'm kind of guessing based on my memory of how it felt).
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles was made by 2 comedy greats Steve Martin and John Candy. They're a bit childish as adults but usually very wholesome. My mom's been very sick all year and we almost lost her a couple times early on in '24 which was scary. It's been a hard year but she was determined to cook for all of us to say thank you for taking care of her this year. We brought cookies over and brought boardgames over to play with my parents. She got o feel like a kid again. Very glad we got the opportunity to celebrate together and help one another out.
This sounds like such a nice evening together with your family just enjoying each other's company. 😊 I'm sure it did your mom good to be together like that, I hope she'll be ok. Warm greetings from the Netherlands. 🌷
Andre, you can absolutely celebrate Thanksgiving too! Share a meal with loved ones and be thankful for all the good things in your life and that's really all it takes. Yes, we have traditions when it comes to the menu, but nothing is really set in stone.
Thanksgiving to me is a celebration of the ability to have enough food for the family. It is a time to be Thankful that I live in America and that I have family and friends that I love dearly! Any celebration is whatever traditions you yourself decide to make and if you enjoy it, then you keep repeating it every year.
For Thanksgiving I normally travel approximately 500 miles (800 km). Last year I was caught in a huge snow storm on Thanksgiving while making the drive. By the time I got there, dinner was long over and nearly everyone else had gone home. But it ranks as one of my favorite Thanksgivings. I ate a cold dinner, which was still fantastic by the way, while my grandmother and I talked late into the night. I’m in my 30’s and that is the first time I remember ever having time, just the two of us together. I am so grateful my Grandma is still around.
One of my big regrets is not asking my grandma and grandpa more about their life. They grew up through the Great Depression, WWII, and so many changes.
My Mother is one of 10 siblings, all now in their 70s with grandkids of their own ... and we have 50-70 people at thanksgiving every year! We rent a hall because no one has a big enough house. We've been doing it like this my whole life. My mom and aunts each make a turkey (also a ham and sometimes a prime rib) and all the cousins make the sides and desserts. We buy takeout containers and, somehow, 50 people all still get plenty of leftovers. It's the best day. Happy Thanksgiving!
Around my house it's turkey for Thanksgiving, ham for Xmas, Maryland steamed shrimp for New Year's and ham again for Easter. When I can find it we swap out prime rib for Xmas. Thanksgiving leftovers tend to be turkey sandwiches (best when on buttered bread with a layer of mayo over the butter and a sprinkle of salt and pepper on that then slices of turkey breast). And since most people leave the dark meat for last I boil the bottom half down, remove the bones and dice the dark meat and make a big pot of turkey chowmein and feast again. Same goes for New Year's, I make about 10 lbs of steamed shrimp and next day the leftovers go to a big pot of Shrimp Creole. Halloween is another one, I give my kids and now my grandchildren black magic markers to decorate their big pumpkins instead of cutting them and the next day they get cut up into 1" chunks and cooked into a big pot of pumpkin stew with yellow corn, ham, onions in chicken broth. Nothing goes to waste in my house. Easter it's boiled up ham left on the bone until it falls off then diced, added to diced potatoes and onions and cooked in a pot of broth from the ham with butter and salt and pepper to taste, best ham hash ever. If you want to try the latest snack craze in America, take pepperoni slices like you would use on pizza and deep-fry them until crispy, best spicy chips ever. Thanksgiving is basically an Eastern US Native American harvest festival, and like most countries around the world harvest comes at different times of year based on the climate. Planes trains and autobiles is just one of the many comedy movies from the Saturday night live team. If you want to see a really great one, try and find one called "First Family" from 1980.
In America, we talk about “the holidays.” The holidays begin with Halloween at the end of October and we slide feet first into the New Year! Halloween, followed by Thanksgiving in November and then Christmas and New Year’s in December. Depending on your religion, there are other religious holidays in there, too, like Hanukkah. It’s a lot of celebrations all bunched together at the end of the calendar year. Old friends like to get together in the spirit of the holidays, especially when they have travelled a distance to come for the celebration. My favorite Thanksgiving side dish is dressing because it’s really the only time of the year when people make it, unless they’re making turkey again for Christmas. (My family always has ham at Christmas.) You can get pecan pie other times of the year, but not usually pumpkin pie. We are thankful for you, André, for bringing such joy and enthusiasm into our lives. 17
@ I can see your confusion. Dressing and stuffing are essentially the same thing. The difference is that you cook stuffing inside the bird, but you cook dressing in a separate casserole dish. There’s a health risk in cooking the stuffing inside the bird because it may not reach a safe internal temperature to cook it thoroughly since it was cooked next to raw meat [turkey, chicken, etc.). So I like dressing that was cooked separate from the bird.
@@wordnerd3same... though I make "stuffin' muffins," as I call them. Instead of a casserole dish, I cook it in a muffin pan. That way everyone gets a portion of crispy and soft stuffing! It works out really well if you ever want to give it a try. It's always a big hit in my home
Thanksgiving originated as a harvest celebration among Pilgrims and Native Americans in 1621, following a successful harvest in Plymouth, Massachusetts. It became an annual tradition in New England, blending gratitude and feasting. President George Washington proclaimed the first nationwide Thanksgiving in 1789, but it wasn’t until 1863 that Abraham Lincoln declared it a national holiday, set for the last Thursday in November, to unify the country during the Civil War. In 1941, Congress officially made it the fourth Thursday of November. Today, Thanksgiving focuses on family, gratitude, and, of course, food!
and there are all sorts of idiots here that will spout "none of that is true", even though one of my direct relatives at Plymouth Plantation wrote about it extensively. (copies of the documents can be found at the Plantation, originals are at The Smithsonian.) /edit, corrected spell check's grammatic change to my sentence.
Of course it's true. Only 54 Pilgrims and crew survived the voyage. Landing in November, they couldn't grow food until the next Spring. Meanwhile, several others died during the winter. Squanto taught the Pilgrims what crops to plant, and served as a translator. It's unknown what the seating arrangement was at the first Thanksgiving, but it makes sense that neighbors would celebrate the harvest. The Pilgrims and Pokanokets (renamed Wampanoags) lived as neighbors until the 1st generation died off.
@@richardcole3800That’s 100% untrue. The Wampanoag and pilgrims who made a partnership with each other kept their peace treaty for generations until a Wampanoag broke the treaty, and things didn’t work out well for them. Sincerely, an indigenous person in America. The comment I was replying to stated incorrectly that the colonists later harmed the indigenous peoples they were allies with. The poster deleted their comment after I posted this, but I am leaving it up to give a basic understanding to anyone who is unaware or has been misled.
@@richardcole3800”The Wampanoag treaty was broken by King Philip's War in 1675. The treaty was the first agreement between a Native American tribe and European colonists, and it remained in place for over 50 years. However, the treaty was eventually broken due to a number of factors, including: Broken promises As more agreements were broken and promises were unkept, Metacom, who succeeded Massasoit, launched an offensive to drive the English back.” “The peace established remained firm even during the Pequot Wars of 1636-1638 CE and was only finally broken with the conflict known as King Philip's War (1675-1678 CE) by which time Bradford, Winslow, and Massasoit were dead.” Why do you parrot lies when a simple search can educate you on the truth?
My 19 lb turkey is in the oven, baked beans are done, pasta salad and deviled eggs just finished and put in the fridge. My ham is soaking in red wine, pineapple juice, Dr. Pepper, and brown sugar, will be baked in the morning. Cornbread stuffing is ready to bake. Mashed potatoes, mac n cheese, yeast rolls, and corn will be fixed in the morning. Oreo cake with caramel icing and peach cobbler for dessert. I am sipping a glass of Purple Toad Black & Bruised Red Wine! Happy Thanksgiving from Southeast Kentucky!!!
we do often eat way more on thanksgiving than Christmas. while many families do prepare an equally elaborate spread, i’ve seen just as many who prefer to order takeout, or do a simple brunch after presents, or even just throw christmas eve parties with cocktails and hors d’oeuvres. especially in recent years i’ve seen people treat christmas as more of a chill day to enjoy your new stuff and laze around with family and loved ones after a busy and often stressful holiday season. it also varies a lot by region and culture. on my moms side we spend christmas eve eating green chile and tamales, and on my dads side we do a traditional christmas ham
1. Yes we eat more at thanksgiving than Christmas LOL 2. cornbread dressing (not stuffing) - and it's my favorite dish 3. Sweet Potato Pie is my favorite dessert, no matter the day or time. 17. Die Hard is a Christmas Movie.
As a European, living in US, I can so understand the confusion on both sides; it is kind of really funny: All your points, completely clear and understandable from a US perspective, but quite confusing for most Europeans. Most food traditions that in America are associated with Thanksgiving, are in Europe a Christmas tradition (the turkey, the many sides, the having a big family gathering, the solemn atmosphere, the grateful introspection thanking the Lord for the blessings of the past year...all that Europeans do for Christmas. What we Europeans don't do at Christmas...have big loud parties or watch action movies, invite neighborhood...that is not associated with Christmas. We might invite the person that is otherwise alone, to join our Christmas celebration, but in general, otherwise Christmas is oriented towards family, and much more calm a holiday. Thanksgiving in the US way, is not really a thing. Now there are, at least traditionally, thanksgiving festivals or harvest festivals associated with particular churches and parishes. Those happen to celebrate the end of harvest, are held at the church, might involve bake sales, food stands, maybe even a carnival ride or some stands with games for kids, like ring-toss, etc. Depending how big your church is, that can be a big event, and everyone from the community attends. But most people in Europe are not involved with their church anymore, so such festivals become a bit more rare. A few places have transferred their tradition to the city or community, and so cities might have wine festivals, October festivals, which continue to be a thing, locally. They have been spread out over the whole summer and fall season, so some people go from festival to festival throughout the warmer season. Things have changed. But Thanksgiving as a family holiday, is not a thing....those traditions belong to Advent (which is a much bigger deal in lots of Europeans countries), and then Christmas.
Andre, I am thankful for you and your channel. I deeply appreciate how much you love the videos of America. I am a proud American and love my country. We have many problems but we also have a much to be thankful for. The very best to you and your family. Love from an old Arizona gal.
The current british government seems to hate America and free speach.. But as far as turkey day, I'm currently making the gravy for tomorrow and the corn bread is ready, its all about timing and cooking everything on time. I make jean piere turkey gravy, which takes about 4~6 hours and is meaty and warm with coniagc
Just finished preparing my cheese plate.. my polish kielbasa… may Irish bangers…. Got the bird in the oven…. Turnip carrots broccoli and mash…. But most of all I have my daughter home from NYC and my beautiful wife of 30 years. .. watching snow out my window.. watching Macys thanksgiving day parade and my high school football fame(42 years ago for me!)… and I also have my friend from Portugal who reminds us all what is good and what is beautiful…. We don’t always notice it as we go about our lives! Thanks!!!😊
We had 22 people at our dinner. All traveled from 30 minutes to 3 hours to get there. Our 5 year old led the blessing with the Lords Prayer. Cooked from 5 in the morning till 2 in the afternoon. (We still have leftovers in the fridge) Every year we set out small cards for each person to write what they are thankful for. We keep these in a jar and collect them for life. Being thankful for your blessings is foundational for joy and contentment in hard times. I truly enjoy your videos. You have a great countenance.
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. It's wonderful to be around the table with so many loved ones, no distractions of presents. Just love, joy and gratitude.
The beautiful thing about Thanksgiving is that you make a point to try and connect with family members and those that are close to you.The US is large, so people travel long ways to get to see their families sometimes. The food is a great thing, but its really about thanking God for all our blessings and all the freedoms we have in this great country.
What Americans eat on Thanksgiving depends on each family's cultural background. Pecan pie is an old southern dish where pecans are grown and harvested. There are some who believe that lobster was on the tables in old New England where the holiday originated. Roasted ham is one of the products of each year's harvest. Vegetables that are easily stored like potatoes are also on the table. Cranberry sauce originated in New Jersey was the brainstorm of a woman who collected all the scraps from the local harvest and stewed into delicacy that's either loved or hated. After the invention of flash freezing almost any vegetable was then available to augment the previous dishes.
We always did ham for christmas and turkey at thanksgiving! Our thanksgiving spread was typically turkey, cranberry sauce, biscuits/rolls, green beans or green bean casserole, stuffing (baked for crispy crunchiness) buffalo chicken dip, corn on the cob, mashed potatoes, gravy, roast asparagus or broccoli, and for dessert there was always pumpkin pie, cheesecake, pecan pie and sweet potato pie! ❤ if grandma felt fancy we got carrot cake too! Everyone is welcome to celebrate thanksgiving, just make all your family's favorite comfort meals, and gather together for a yummy meal and some board games or movies! After thanksgiving it was our tradition to clean up dinner and then decorate for christmas!
Yes, Andre. It snows in November and some times October. In fact, New Hampshire, where I live, there is a Winter Storm Warning. Where I am, in the southern part of the state, we are supposed to get 2 to 7 inches of snow and the northern part of the state is predicted to get 6 to 10 inches of snow.
I'm in northwest Pennsylvania. Right now, forecasts are calling for 1 to 3 feet of snow through Monday. Not really that much for 4-5 days lol. I'm sure you both know what I mean
@@ruthparker9756 Same here in the Lake George region of upstate NY. I've been getting Winter storm warnings all day. The snow is supposed to start around 2 AM and it's saying it could turn to a wet mix around 5 AM for a couple of hours, then back to snow. That usually makes for some heavy snow to deal with. (sigh)
An increasingly popular option is to buy the whole meal from a shop and reheat it, or even from a restaurant where you just take it home and eat. My favorite savory Thanksgiving food is stuffing (dressing) but really, I'm in it for the pie. I love both apple and pumpkin pie. My sister and I love about 50 miles apart (a little over an hour drive) and take turns hosting Thanksgiving. This year, we had 9 people at my house--my family of 4, my sister and BIL, our parents, and my cousin. Having grown up with tons of aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents for holidays, that seems small (but more people wouldn't fit in my house). I'd never heard of oyster dressing, either! We definitely eat more at Thanksgiving than Christmas. Christmas is also more varied; everyone has a traditional meal, but often it's not turkey. Growing up, my grandparents always made ham. Once my mother started hosting, the traditional meal became baked ziti (pasta bake). Now that my sister and I host, we do a brunch with traditional brunch foods.
Travel 12 hours from New Jersey to South Carolina. Traveling is great. We have comfortable vehicles and major great highways. To see your family and friends it is worth it. 😊
In Colorado it sometimes snows as early as September or October. Some people have turkey for both Thanksgiving and Christmas, but we like to have turkey for Thanksgiving and ham for Christmas.
Yeah, but northern Colorado has had snow in July. Even if it didn't last. So Colorado just starting winter in September or October is not strange to us. Not having winter start before Thanksgiving on the other hand, is a bit odd for Colorado.
My wife an I got stuck in Colorado springs few year's ago in a ice Strom on thanksgiving😮 but eagle inn and friends in Manitou springs was nice❤ beautiful this time of year❤
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday as an American. It is all about just family and loved ones getting together and sharing a meal and each other's company. No gift giving pressure, just truly enjoying the day together.
Thanksgiving... family, friends, and FOOD! No pressure about giving gifts,, which is nice. All you need to worry about is the chance of family drama (and for some, who's playing whatever football game). All the hard work of those of us that actually cook is rewarded when the after eating sleepiness sets in!! We are thankful for people like you who give us a fresh outlook on what we may take for granted!
I live in Virginia. My brother lives in Ohio. He and his family are driving 350 miles for 7 hours to come to my house for Thanksgiving. They will stay the night and leave the next day to go home. That is not uncommon although they usually stay an extra day or two.
I was gonna ask where in VA but I saw you said Fairfax Co. I lived in Springfield for most of my life until I moved to Cali a few years ago. Small world! I hope the winter goes easy on you and they actually salt and plow the roads.
Yeah, snow in November is rather common. Also, i remember several holoweens growing up where we went trick-or-treating in the snow and thats on Oct. 31st, so... yeah, we get snow in the USA around Christmas, Thanksgiving, and occasionally even holoween... and it generally keeps snowing into January... or sometimes even into February if you're unlucky...
In 2012, in New Jersey it snowed from September to May, swear to God. All the local TV news called it the Snowpocalypse! In my town we ran out of places to put the plowed snow. I remember calling my sister who lives in Texas and saying "it just won't stop snowing!" On most normal years I like to say " if you don't like the weather in Jersey, wait ten minutes, it'll change" our weather is all over the place. I remember many years growing up having to wear winter coats under our costumes on Halloween. Trick or Treating through the snow! I wore shorts outside today with no coat on and didn't feel cold until the sun went down. In November! It's crazy.
In Michigan, I recall it snowed 6 inches once on my mother's birthday, April 6. It varies year to year, but I once saw snowflakes falling in May--very unusual!
I'm cooking sweet potato casserole right now. It's really an excuse to get together with family and possibly friends, consume a ton of really good food, and then nap. It is important to give thanks and remember what is important. Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! Eat way to much and then some
Even growing up, the Thanksgiving table had more food than the Christmas one. Both had LOTS of food, but Thanksgiving has so many side dishes. And the leftovers are for days are I think part of the tradition.
I had direct ancestors who participated in the first Thanksgiving, in 1621. My 12th great-grandparents, William and Mary Brewster, were passengers on the ship "Mayflower" as members of the Pilgrims who settled at Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts. Thanksgiving has always been one of my favorite holidays.
Turkey, at least with my family (and my wifes) has always been a Thanksgiving meal. We grow tired of turkey and the leftovers including turkey sandwiches, so Christmas is usually a ham or rib roast, and here, on the west coast, it's crab season, that's my favorite option!
Same. We don't do turkey for Christmas. We'll do a crown roast of pork or beef tenderloin or prime rib, etc. I guess we've always associated turkey specifically with Thanksgiving. My husband's family has always had a formal dinner on New Years Day and that's almost always a huge baked ham and all of the sides.
We always have turkey on Thanksgiving, and sometimes a beef roast in addition. Usually, the following day, or that Saturday we cook our own turkey and have a smaller Thanksgiving. This year I went to a Thanksgiving party (a Friendsgiving) there was turkey and ham, then we are having a large Thanksgiving tomorrow, then a home Thanksgiving possibly Friday, followed by another Thanksgiving party (Friendsgiving) on Saturday where we will be eating Turducken.
If you happen to be alone on Thanksgiving, you will often get dinner invitations from friends (or even strangers occasionally!) 😊 But if you don't get a Thanksgiving dinner invite, there are still many restaurants that serve Thanksgiving dinner. If you are homeless, most "soup kitchens" (homeless-shelter type places), will also serve a nice Thanksgiving dinner 🦃🍽️
I think the best part about Thanksgiving is the generational thing. I've been going to the family feast since I was a baby. All those adults who made merry then are gone now. As we grew up, WE became the adults and a new group came into the family,. I will go to the dinner tomorrow as an old man and rejoice in seeing the young adults and their kids adding to the TRADITION. And yes, we will eat turkey. We eat prime rib at Christmas. (My nephew is a Cordon Bleu chef). We will eat, drink and make merry and be thankful we have each other, which is all we can ask and hope for. Best food? If I could get away with it, it would be Enchiladas!
I recall when one day I realized we are now our parents.. as parents age we become the grandparents.. many are gone now whereas as a child there were grandparents aunts uncles cousins.. I'm a grandma now! It's bizarre.. it's really bizarre looking at recent pics of my daughter and her hub.. they are nearing 40! Like how and when did time just get away from us.. one day you're going so fast working raising family next day is all gone
Thanksgiving meals vary depending on the state or region. But, the gathering of family and friends is the most common and important tradition that many love to honor. Back to the food: We always have turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, gravy and a variety of vegetables, both cooked and raw, then some pumpkin or apple pie for dessert. On Christmas we alternate between turkey some years and ham some years. On Easter, we always have ham. Oh, and since you requested it: 17 - Thank you for your content!
I'm a retired chef. For my entire adult life, from when I graduated cooking school until I retired, I cooked the Thanksgiving meal. And I absolutely got all of the cooking done in one day. Usually I had help. My favorite food for Thanksgiving, actually, was the next day leftovers. Cold turkey sandwiches are amazing. And yes, we're traveling about 60 miles to spend the Holiday with family. I live on the coast of Florida, and most of our families live in the central areas of Florida.
A lot of people will have a Christmas Ham and in a lot of Italian households they have the seven fishes, so Christmas meals can vary a lot, but most people will have turkey for Thanksgiving, not that everyone does but it is much more prevalent
Totally snows in the Autumn in the US northern states. I even had snow in my first month in Arizona, in November! Rare but it happens! What it's about: gratitude for our family, friends and whatever bounty we have, small or large. For those preparing it, it is definitely stressful and started, at the very least, 1-2 days before the actual holiday. Favorite food on this day, pumpkin pie. Yes, 27% of the US population travels during Thanksgiving. And I personally do eat more at Thanksgiving.
Let's not forget that Thanksgiving is a tradition that started because our native brothers and sisters helped the first european settlers survive the harsh winter back in the early 17th century (1622 I believe) and we have celebrated this act thru the past 400 years, thru wars, peace times, natural disasters and every sort of event that happened. It gave our boys hope when so far away from family in service of this country and a sense of rememberance that we owe a debt of gratitude to God for what He's blessed us with. EVERYTHING to give thanks to the Almighty for blessings granted to this great nation.
I think we eat really well on both Holidays. Most families have certain traditions exclusive to their individual family, but both days are full of food and family gatherings, games, and memories being made. If we know of people who are alone or far from home, we will invite them to share our meals and hospitality.
A Christmas goose used to be the most traditional feast in earlier times. Turkeys became more popular when turkey farms popped up, making turkeys more readily available. The reason: the feast used to be whatever the hunters of the family could find/provide, and geese were more plentiful than turkey in the plains and the west at that time of year.
13:00 My family is of Polish descent and every year we have homemade kielbasa and sweet cabbage with potatoes. Only time we have it cause it’s so time and space occupying. It’s my fave! American style? Sweet corn on the cob!
My mom’s maternal grandfather and Grt grandparents were from Czechoslovakia. Every Christmas she makes her Grt grandmother’s Potato dumplings with sauerkraut. If you talk her into it she’ll make them at different times too. I love them without the kraut, and just a bit of salt.
Y'all put cornbread in ur stuffing? I never even thought to do that. We use sourdough bread with my family in southern California. I might have to try that next year instead.
@suzz1776 No. We put cornbread in our dressing because there isn't a bird around large enough to hold enough stuffing for my family. We bake it in a large roasting pan, and by the time everybody gets a doggy bag to take home leftovers., it's just about all gone. Although we make many sides, I think dressing could be considered our favorite. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. You, too, Andre
Love seeing your reactions to American Craziness. Quick TLDRs for some things you asked during the vid. 1. We typically eat way more on Thanksgiving than Christmas, in fact its not uncommon to visit multiple house holds during Thanksgiving week (or cramming 10 house visits into one day) and eating yourself into a food coma the whole time. 2. We travel a ton in general (Continental US is massive ofc) but during Thanksgiving and Christmas we will easily drive a couple hundred miles without batting an eye at it. 3. Turkey is not always on every table for Thanksgiving (even though I lovingly call it Turkeyday regardless), depending on which region of America your in you can get venison, honey ham, ribs ect. Sometimes we alternate each year between Turkey and other options in my family, especially when we would know for instance, another dinner we are going to will in fact have turkey. in closing, Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours. Thank you for the joy you show over our American craziness, while we have our problems like any place does, it is so nice to be reminded of the good we have and bring.
17! Definitely! My kids and I only have to travel about 20 minutes away to my parents' house this year, but one of my brothers will be coming from a few hours away for Thanksgiving, driving home, and then traveling again for Christmas! I've spent most of today getting the needed supplies to make 2 desserts and a side to bring. We generally bring a dish or two to share because it's a lot of work for one person, but my mom still cooks the turkey herself (my dad lifts it and cuts it into servings when it's ready). We definitely have more food at Thanksgiving than Christmas (but that's a big feast, too)!
you can argue about the origin, the modern reality is that thanksgiving is an annual family reunion where everyone has the same day off work, eats an ungodly amoun of food, and catches up on sleep
Nothing much to argue about regarding the origin. Thanksgiving celebrations were common amongst many cultures. The one we typically refer to in America involved the colonists and Wampanoag. The colonists and Wampanoag celebrated together, having had a mutually beneficial alliance based on the Wampanoag saving the starving colonists and the colonists protecting the Wampanoag from the Narragansett. The treaty lasted for 50 years until all the original people who agreed to the treaty passed on. It’s beautiful.
Deviled Eggs are one of my favorite Thanksgiving dishes. Yes, we traditionally sing in cars. Pre current media availability, families needed ways to keep the kids occupied on long car trips, so travel games & singing were common. In my family (5 kids), we would also get a huge stack of new comic books to share. After dark, you slept or sang - we would sing for hours, every song we knew.
For us, usually: Thanksgiving=turkey, Christmas Eve=seafood, Christmas= beef rib roast, new year’s=roast pork shoulder, Easter=spring lamb. We might also have ham at Thanksgiving and/or Easter. But none of this is written in stone and can change based on guests, etc.
This is an accurate description of the holiday main protein in usa. The sides vary a bit more depending on your family's cultural background and where you live.
Hi Andre! Yesterday we had 15 people- way down from the past Thanksgivings when we had 30 people. Dinner is at 3pm. Everybody brings a side and a dessert. Here in New Jersey, we don't see too much pecan pie. We think it is too sweet. We have pumpkin pies and apple pies. Back to dinner. As the host, I make the turkey, bread stuffing and gravy, plus the essential sides nobody else brought: cranberry sauce, sweet potato casserole, Italian stuffed mushrooms (we are from an Italian mother), stuffed shells (pasta shells stuffed with ricotta cheese mix), homemade bread, onion pies (husband is German), broccolini, dandelion greens, pork tenderloin, cheese and crackers, and beverages. The family and extended family brought a whole Serano ham, mashed potatoes, Brussels sprouts, shrimp cocktail, soup, a corn mix, corn pudding, mashed turnips, Italian stuffed cubanelle peppers, other things I can't remember what plus so many desserts. We all said Catholic Grace out loud and dug right in. The cleanup was a nightmare 😅 Afterwards, more people came for coffee and dessert. We sat around the table for hours just talking about everything. My son called us from Tokyo. He wants to come for Thanksgiving next year. It was a wonderful Thanksgiving! Everyone should experience American Thanksgiving!
Me two. Both of my adult children are deceased due to natural causes. I'm by myself so I'm having a TV dinner. It's all good. Happy Thanksgiving to all.
'Planes Trains and Automobiles' is a comedy classic specifically associated with Thanksgiving travel, the journey home to feast with your family. Edit: also, you cannot go wrong with pecan pie.
Both "Planes, Trains, & Automobiles" and "Goonies" are awesome, and totally worth watching! "Goonies" is definitely aimed more at kids, though, so definitely watch it with that in mind. Weather-wise: Saying "the weather in the US" is a lot like saying "the weather in Europe". It is drastically different across the country in the same way that weather in Portugal is probably not going to be like the weather in Poland. Yes, we do frequently have turkey on Christmas, as well, but the difference is that turkey IS the Thanksgiving meal, but for Christmas it's one of several traditional options like ham, goose, brisket, etc. Stuffing is my favorite at Thanksgiving. It's better with mashed potatoes. Pumpkin pie is my favorite (and generally the most traditional) of the desserts. I also love devilled eggs. "Seconds" means going back for more food after the first serving. Do we eat more at Thanksgiving than Christmas? That varies widely from family to family. Thanksgiving is a holiday that is traditionally centered around overeating. Christmas and Thanksgiving are, largely, on par with each other when it comes to eating, but the edge probably goes to Thanksgiving. All that said, Christmas tends to be a holiday that's given a lot more weight than Thanksgiving. People will usually skip Thanksgiving if it lets them go home for Christmas, but not the other way around.
October of 1993 we had 14 inches of snow. Thanksgiving is Turkey, Christmas and easter are ham. My sister is in norway, they do reindeer roast for Christmas.
Turkey for Thanksgiving, beef roast or ham for Christmas, then ham or lamb for Easter. But it's all price dependent. If roasts or ham are too high that year - then turkey will be on the table. Grocery stores offering free turkeys for x amount spent, means that sometimes we wind up with 2 free turkeys. So one stays frozen until Christmas. The rest of the meal is where we see the differences. Thanksgiving for us is mashed potatoes, dressing, green beans, sweet potatoes, pumpkin pie. There's no discussion around what's going to be on the table. If you're doing the cooking - this is what MUST be served because it is the tradition. We take it so seriously, that we had to have a family vote to change the dinner rolls from Pepperidge Farm to Kings Hawaiian. But Christmas is much more open to what the cooks that year want to make. Sometimes the weather is so dodgy - it's not worth spending the money on a Christmas dinner that might get cancelled for snow.....so we might order pizza, or the ever classic, Chinese food if the weather gives us an opening.
True ! And Kings Hawaiian go better for ham sandwiches. We usually do a turkey and a ham because theres a crowd to feed. I will add that sometimes extra people that will otherwise be alone are invited to eat and enjoy the festivities. The more the merrier ;-)
My mom used to make yeast rolls from scratch that were absolutely amazing. Japanese people have been convinced that all Americans eat Kentucky Fried Chicken on Christmas, so they all do that now to be like us. The marketing guy from KFC that pulled this off was a genius.
Basically in the early years our European produce wouldn't grow well and we were starving. The natives taught us to grow corn and melons. Boston Massachusetts loved their goods and huge variety of melons.. this drastically improved our food situation. The feast of Thanksgiving started when we had something to feast...
My family always has ham and augratin potatoes at Christmas. My favorite part of Thanksgiving dinner is cornbread stuffing ! The movie Planes, Trains and Automobiles is such a funny movie! Yes, it’s already snowed here in Indiana in November, lol. At our Thanksgiving dinner, each person lists something they are thankful for this year. 🦃
We're doing ham & au gratin potatoes today b/c it's only the 2 of us. Turkey & all the trimmings is this Sunday when more of us will be together. I just didn't want to be turkied out.
Muito obrigadinho, my friend. It warms my heart to see you having such a good time learning about my country. My mother is Portuguese, so I’m lucky enough to have family to visit over there. Portugal always stuns me with its beauty. Thank you for your reactions.
My favorite dishes are stuffing, sweet potatoes, and pumpkin pie with lots of whip cream. In the us, 'stuffing' and 'dressing' are used interchangeably but the technical difference is that stuffing is stuffed into the cavity of the turkey while it cooks and dressing is not stuffed. For my family, our Thanksgiving and Christmas meals are about the same size. Thanksgiving is always turkey and on Christmas, it's usually ham, but we sometimes make turkey. This Thanksgiving will be the first time in years where I am close enough to family that I don't have to travel but down the street.
I make most of the sides and pies the day before. The turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, and biscuits are made the day of Thanksgiving. We eat at 1 for lunch and then again whenever we get hungry for dinner.😅 We eat leftovers for almost a week!
So funny, Thanksgiving Evening and we just finished watching Planes, Trains and Automobiles. Every few years we watch it on this holiday. Not necessarily great for little kids, but a great message for adults and older children. Completely packages up all the things to be thankful for. Hope you watch it some day.
The singularly best food item on Thanksgiving is the gravy. It can go on, in and around anything on your plate. Andre, you seriously need to watch the Goonies. You will have a blast! HEEEYYY YOOUUU GUYYSS!!!
I cannot imagine a world without Thanksgiving man. It's so unique and has all these things that set it apart from other holidays. It's always in the end of fall/ beginning of winter fall so all the trees are sometimes bright pink, orange, and red. Perfect hoody weather where we are. The smell outside of fall is my favorite. Then the food. Always turkey, pumpkin pie, etc. The house always smells amazing and almost always football games on tv. Sometimes you get snow but here not usually til December. Nevrr know. Ps...Canada isnt a real place so there is no such thing as "canadian thanksgiving"
Finally seeing this episode. We had about 30 for our gathering. What is so special to me is seeing people who generally only get together as an entire family on this one holiday. A chance to show them how thankful I am to be part of their lives. My favorite food would have to be the stuffing; especially with cranberry sauce.
We lived in northern Vermont and had many snowy late Octobers that continued through until mid April. After 10 long cold winters, we moved south to North Carolina where schools close if there’s a possibility of snow. 🤣 ❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️
1969, I was 6 and in first grade. There was a song we sang,"Over the River and Through the Woods" at during the Thanksgiving holiday. And the "horse knows the way to carry the sleigh through the white and drifted SNOW. Implying there was snow by the end of November.
We have 17 people coming tomorrow for thanksgiving. We have been pre-making dishes for the day. I’m already tired and after thanksgiving dinner tomorrow we will even more tired. After dinner we will have card games and family visiting and desert. Loving on our grandkids and nieces and nephews. 🦃🍽🍁 Enjoy your day with your family and baby Sebastian.
@carolgrosklags8933 Nothing more midwest than remembering the year of a particular snowstorm. 😂 I grew up in Wisconsin and remember having snow on the ground during Halloween, though I would have been 5 in 1991, so no clue whether that storm affected where I lived.
It is not unusual for grocery stores before Thanksgiving to give out free turkeys to people that spend over $150 or so dollars at the grocery store. My mother gets one like this every year. It is also not unusual for people's employers to give them a free turkey before Thanksgiving. My brother's employer did this. So usually there are extra turkeys around the holiday.
“Planes, Trains, and Automobiles” is HILARIOUS. And the scene he’s talking about is one of the best in the movie 😂😂😂 Cranberry sauce is my favourite. We make it ourselves, so it’s not the canned, jelly stuff. And I know it’s just a sauce, but we really only eat it on Thanksgiving 🤷♀️ 17 :)
4:47 it snowed yesterday in New England! First snow of the season. And yes. I will be travelling by car a few hours to visit one side of the family....then after dinner visiting the *other* side of the family and getting there just in time for the tail end and dessert on their side. *Then* a few hours home....all in the same day. With a dog. And despite NOT hosting, we made 4 pies, 2 dozen cookies, and a mini-spinach quiche dish to share with everyone - took us all day.
Remember no turkey for your dog. I made the mistake of giving my dog a big scrap of turkey. She spent 3 days in a dog hospital with a pancreatitis on i.v.'s along with about 20 other dogs who ALSO were there because of turkey. It cost me $6,000 dollars. You might want to leave your pup home if you're gong to be back the same day. I would.
@forgottensage-o5o unfortunately, she's Hella skittish, we have no one else to watch her and we won't be back until late. But that actually is a very good reminder, I'll have to keep an eye on her. Thank you!
"It snows in October and November in USA?" Wellllll. Kinda... In my area of Kansas, we had a light snow today. Not even enough to stick on the ground. Lucky if it snows at all anymore. When I was a kid, it was common to see snow on the ground lasting from October to March.
15:32 these long-distance busses (usually like 1-6 hours each way) aren't considered "public transit" in the us. they're almost universally privately owned charter busses, and are seen similarly to planes and long-distance trains. they are considerably comfier, though, comfier than planes, and they're less bumpy than trains, so a lot of people prefer them for regional transit when cars aren't an option (or if they just don't want to drive them).
My favorite is the medley of flavors of all the dishes together. We generally have the turkey, some kind of green dish (like green bean casserole), a few starchy things (like potatoes, winter squash, any variety of stuffing), some other vegetable dish (featuring onions, or carrots, or cabbage), and something sweet/tart like cranberry sauce. We only take small portions of each, then if we are still hungry, we go back for seconds (a second helping of our favorites). Some families fill their plates to overflowing, but we have found it more satisfying to go back for seconds of the still warm food, rather than eating food that has cooled because we took so much to begin with. Finally, we have some kind of dessert like a variety of pie or custard or pudding. Every year we pick different side dishes and desserts to make to go with the turkey. And yes, we do eat more at Thanksgiving than any other holiday.
I've made my gingered cranberry sauce, I'm about to start prepping the dressing, and I bought the mashed potatoes premade this year (don't @ me). Tomorrow I'll roast the giant sweet potato and the turkey legs (there's two of us this year, we're keeping it "small"), make the green bean casserole, heat the potatoes and finish the dressing. We already have a lot of dessert foods in the house from a previous event, so we'll save pies for Christmas this year.
@O2life I was commending you on all that you were doing and how you found a way to save time and said you were better than me because I wasn't cooking this year. I apologize if somehow you found this offensive. Please have a wonderful Thanksgiving filled with laughter, family and love.
@@dorothytucker9305 Okay. I misinterpreted your comment because you set up a hierarchy of working smarter being better than working harder, and then you said I worked harder than you (implying you are working smarter -- and therefore, better -- than me). I wasn't offended so much as perplexed why anyone would criticize someone else for cooking a holiday dinner instead of doing something "smarter". Glad to know that wasn't your intention. Hope your holiday was lovely.
@O2life I apologize it read that way. I literally meant don't beat yourself up you were doing great. I didn't cook this year. My mom died in Sept and I couldn't bring myself to. Finding ways to get everything on the table while keeping your sanity is always a goal for Thanksgiving. I congratulate you on getting it done and hope yours was amazing as well. Love and internet hugs.
Happy Thanksgiving Andre. I am originally from Cuba, have been here since 1961. My DNA shows that beside French 28% 46% Iberian, to my surprise, I am 26% Portuguese! My late husband was mainly, English, Scottish, a little Irish and Welsh. A great combination.
In the old days, Most gardens and fields are finished by October. But then mom has all the canning, drying, storing, of veggies and fruit to get done and put away for wintering in October and first part of November. Cow, pig, deer, bear, turkey, goose, is also killed, rendered, smoked, dried and stored for winter. Most all of that is done by the 4th week of November so we started having family and friends over for a feast to give thanks for all the bounty we had given to get us through the long hard winter.
Yes, when you think about Thanksgiving as our North American observance of the final harvest ("Harvest Home"), it starts to make a great deal of sense that Canadians decided on an earlier day for their national holiday than we did in the US!
Blessings to you! Nothing is better than seeing empty store parking lots, being together was family and sharing a feast to see that we need more days where our priorities are right. Life is short. Seeing new members and connecting with those we may not have with us long while sharing stories of those that may have already passed reminds us that God has been good and while work and political considerations are temporary, if we are all one in Christ, we can get through life together with the best yet to come.
I love these videos! It's so easy to forget how many crazy things we've grown up with or gotten used to in the US. Like the weather. Obviously as we see here, the number of different climates across our country due to altitude, latitude, plains verse the great lakes regions, etc. vary wildly! If you want to learn about our Holidays, make sure to spend it with a big American family where you can see the generational gaps, arguing, and everything that is opposite to what a peaceful & thankful holiday with family should be. There are some huge social differences between the generations.
My favorite dish is the stuffing because it is an old family recipe handed down generations from my great grandmother. I have taught it to my daughter along with our cranberry relish recipe. I am usually the one doing the cooking. I start 3 days in advance and generally make everything from scratch. I start off making the pies the 1st day and cornbread for the stuffing. Second day, I do all the prep work, like dicing onions, then brine the Turkey. I also make the cranberry sauce so it can sit in the fridge overnight which makes it better. Anything that can be preassembled and refrigerated until ready for the oven gets put together, like the candied yams and greenbean casserole. By the end of the evening, my bread dough is set up for a Bulk rise. The day of Thanksgiving, I start on the mashed potatoes, assemble the stuffing, start boiling giblets and turkey neck, and form the bread dough. After the Turkey is roasted, drippings are made into gravy, everything gets their turn in the oven with the bread being the final bake. Dinner is served between 2-4 PM and we graze for the next 6 hours. Everyone gets a container of food to take home. Thanksgiving is truly my favorite holiday. Every child in my generation is taught that the first Thanksgiving was celebrated with the Indigenous people, but we were so horrific to them. Actually, a Fall harvest celebration goes back even further in Europe. But, I prefer to celebrate it as the how it was originally established by Pres. Lincoln to be thankful for the end of the Civil War and reaffirmed by Pres. Roosevelt after WWII. A way to give thanks that we are healthy and alive.
@@hkiller57 Millennials all watched it on TV every year growing up. Zoomers maybe won't all have seen it, but families like passing this stuff on to the next generation.
I am Native American, Mexican, and Jewish. We cook a traditional Thanksgiving dinner but we also gather a few days before Thanksgiving. The women make about 500 tamales and we all take large portions home. The men just hang out and be men. The kids play. Its a great time and with tameles stocked in our houses, the women all bring a few dishes to the hosting home for Thanksgiving but we dont have to cook for 3 or 4 days afterward because we will also bring home portions of the feast. Its a nice break from cooking every day. The tamales and leftovers are delicious.
Just made an apple pie. Turkey in fridge I’ll get up early and start the dinner. Turkey gravy bread stuffing mash potatoes fresh green beans carrots cranberry sauce dinner rolls then apple pie with vanilla bean ice cream
One of my favorite memories is one particular Thanksgiving at my grandmother's house in southern Oklahoma. It was my grandmother, granddad, their four grown and married daughters (my aunts), their husbands (my uncles by marriage), and my dad (their oldest, and the only son), and their children (I was the oldest of the grandkids, at 11, and in descending order of age, there were my seven cousins, mostly boys.). The "girls" -- meaning my grandmother, her four daughters, and I -- gathered in the big kitchen putting together the big feast. Each of us had our specialties and distinct responsibilties. My grandmother handled the turkey roasting, one aunt was a specialist at making the dressing (Andre, it's "dressing" if it's baked as a separate casserole and "stuffing" if it's cooked inside the turkey), one aunt did the mashed potatoes and made the pan gravy in the roasting pan when the turkey was removed to the serving platter, one made the sweet potatoes, and the last of the aunts made the green bean casserole. Grandmother had made biscuits ahead of time, and had made one pie (hers was a pecan pie). The other aunts had each brought a pie with them (pumpkin, cherry, apple, and coconut cream). Grandmother had helped me, on the day before, to make the cranberry sauce from whole berries. Meanwhile, all the "guys" were in the living room, hanging out, watching football on TV and waiting for dinner. We had a long day, talking and visiting. Now it's more than 50 years later, and I still remember that particular Thanksgiving get-together as an especially warm memory. Now I'm the grandmother (at 77). I often do a lot of the cooking -- because I really enjoy fixing many of the dishes that my grandmother taught me to make. All of the "girls" who gathered in the kitchen that day are gone now, as well as my grandfather, my father, and all the uncles who were in the living room -- and about half the cousins. Time has changed the faces around our holiday table, and there's a whole new group of family members now, with me as the elder generation. But I always remember those special people on that occasion, and it's something I'm always extra thankful for. I tell stories about them to my grandkids, who are too young to have ever met them. To me, a gathering together of loved ones is what is so special about Thanksgiving, even if some of them are now only there in memory. There's a bit of sadness, of course, to this story, but I can truly say I'm so thankful to have shared those long-ago family gatherings with them, and grateful for those happy memories. That, to me, is the real meaning of Thanksgiving. It's part of the overall meaning of autumn and harvest that the time passes and the generations move on, but because I can tell their stories, the next generation of the family can share their memories as we have our own gatherings around the Thanksgiving table and this generation helps created the feast we can all appreciate and share. In my opinion, that's what it's all about, and that's why it's such a special holiday.
In Southern part of the U.S. we don't usually eat "Stuffing". We usually eat "Dressing". Stuffing is more of a Northern dish and is commonly cook inside the Turkey and mostly consists on break chunks, while Dressing is made from a cornbread base with bread crumbs, soaked in poultry broth and spices mixed up and baked in a casserole dish.
Stuffing is the best all the flavor of the turkey seeps into the stuffing.... I've had both, dressing was too dry but I will try again from someone else making it.
ive done in the turkey and out. its very different each way. i cooked it in this year (a few weeks ag) and didnt get the stuffing out completely, it ended up in the turkey stock of soup, and it was the best soup EVER.
Yeah the FDA has told us for a long time now not to put the stuffing in the bird. Darn them:) I am out west and have put mine in a casserole dish for a long time. Happy Thanksgiving!
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my son traveled 8 hours today to come home for thanksgiving. i was so surprised! i had been asking him for 2 weeks or more if he was coming home, and he always acted like he wasnt.. i was sad all day till he showed up at 6 pm! SO THANKFUL!!
What a lovely surprise!
I love this! I've done this before for my mom. Its always cool to surprise parents with simple things :) have a wonderful thanksgiving!
Oh how wonderful. Happy thanksgiving 🦃
Lots of family members will go home for Thanksgiving and/or Christmas. It’s a wonderful tradition. Everyone contributes to the meal. Families spend the day playing games, doing jigsaw puzzles, watching football on tv…and eating lots of food, all day! Great memories!
Whoever reported my TRUTH comment. You hate truth.
I work at a hospital, and we don't close for holidays. I've worked the thanksgiving night shift for the last 5 years. When my boss found out, he invited me to eat with his family for early dinner the last couple of years since I couldn't travel to see my family. It's really THAT important to us that you have someone to dine with. And its snowing today actually! I'm in the Northeast and woke to a divine winter wonderland.
I appreciate all you do out there. Especially with how many people try to deep fry turkeys. Thank you to you and your team at the hospital endlessly caring for the rest of us
Yep. People inviting coworkers who don't have somewhere else to go is pretty common.
Thank you for what you do. 24 years ago my baby was due right before Thanksgiving and I was worried I’d be in the hospital that day. She came early and I got to spend the day with family but I’m grateful that people like you would have been there for me.
I'm in the northeast too, neighbor! I just got rain with a couple of ❄️
ok I'm in Virginia (east coast) and now I'm jealous of all u guys in the NORTH east! I want some snow by Christmas . Today is our first really cold day and its still above what's needed for snow. No white white Christmas last year either. However this area is Unpredictable when it comes to snow. One year (198o or 81 I think) It snowed for the 1st time on the 1st day of spring and also we had a Blizzard. Different states are different cuz this country is so big. In Texas u can find EVER climate for desert (southwest to a place where the winters are pretty harsh (Northeast) America has everything from small Jungles (Florida) to deserts (Arizona). (Also Look up the Badlands of South Dakota and the Black Hills) To great Plains and all kinds of forests Up in the north east like Main and New Hampshire the winters are cold snowy and Harsher but down here where I live if we get 1 inch of snow> schools out. Good snows and white Christmases are rare! The western state of Wyoming gets lot of snow in the winter and although eastern Virginia rarely gets snow the Mountains (the Shenandoah Valley and Appalachian Mountains) are a different story! Then There is places like San Francisco in California where it is almost always somewhere in the 70s all year round I think Its almost never too hot or too cold, at least that is what I've been told. I never lived there, just visited it briefly in the middle of summer and in the evening I needed a sweater cause it went down to 70 in midsummer (I was a skinny kid who got cold easily) But it was like a comfortable 74 to 77 during the day. (I'm kind of guessing based on my memory of how it felt).
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles was made by 2 comedy greats Steve Martin and John Candy. They're a bit childish as adults but usually very wholesome. My mom's been very sick all year and we almost lost her a couple times early on in '24 which was scary. It's been a hard year but she was determined to cook for all of us to say thank you for taking care of her this year. We brought cookies over and brought boardgames over to play with my parents. She got o feel like a kid again. Very glad we got the opportunity to celebrate together and help one another out.
That is what it is all about, connecting, loving and showing our appreciation for each other. God bless your dear mother.
This sounds like such a nice evening together with your family just enjoying each other's company. 😊
I'm sure it did your mom good to be together like that, I hope she'll be ok.
Warm greetings from the Netherlands. 🌷
I just watched it the other day lol
Andre, you can absolutely celebrate Thanksgiving too! Share a meal with loved ones and be thankful for all the good things in your life and that's really all it takes. Yes, we have traditions when it comes to the menu, but nothing is really set in stone.
Our family prefers meatballs, rotisserie chicken, and ham to turkey. We are not fond of the taste of turkey.
@@marlenebenson9335 I agree about the turkey, sounds like you have a great meal on Thanksgiving!
Thanksgiving to me is a celebration of the ability to have enough food for the family. It is a time to be Thankful that I live in America and that I have family and friends that I love dearly! Any celebration is whatever traditions you yourself decide to make and if you enjoy it, then you keep repeating it every year.
Every family has a different tradition when it comes to Thanksgiving. That's the beauty of it.
Truth!
For Thanksgiving I normally travel approximately 500 miles (800 km). Last year I was caught in a huge snow storm on Thanksgiving while making the drive. By the time I got there, dinner was long over and nearly everyone else had gone home. But it ranks as one of my favorite Thanksgivings. I ate a cold dinner, which was still fantastic by the way, while my grandmother and I talked late into the night. I’m in my 30’s and that is the first time I remember ever having time, just the two of us together. I am so grateful my Grandma is still around.
Well your getting that again
Write or record your Gran's stories down to pass along to your kids/relatives. It'll be nice to have in the future. Trust me.
One of my big regrets is not asking my grandma and grandpa more about their life. They grew up through the Great Depression, WWII, and so many changes.
@@robinmitchell4721 that’s an incredible idea
We call that the silver lining…so happy you cherish your time with your grandma. I’m sure it meant the world to her too.
My Mother is one of 10 siblings, all now in their 70s with grandkids of their own ... and we have 50-70 people at thanksgiving every year! We rent a hall because no one has a big enough house. We've been doing it like this my whole life. My mom and aunts each make a turkey (also a ham and sometimes a prime rib) and all the cousins make the sides and desserts. We buy takeout containers and, somehow, 50 people all still get plenty of leftovers. It's the best day. Happy Thanksgiving!
lucky you and your family..must be beautifully loud with lots of laughing
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles is hilarious. John Candy was a Canadian (and American) treasure.
we rewatch it every year
Every year! It's awesome
I’m watching now, again! 🤣
It's the best!
I just finished watching it.
Turkey is more common for Thanksgiving. Ham is more common for Christmas. But this also depends on what State your in and family traditions.
We've opted for prime rib.
We have both
We usually have both for thanksgiving and ham for Xmas
Never had ham for Christmas. That may be a regional thing. Turkey for Christmas in New England, I think. Ham for Easter.
Around my house it's turkey for Thanksgiving, ham for Xmas, Maryland steamed shrimp for New Year's and ham again for Easter. When I can find it we swap out prime rib for Xmas. Thanksgiving leftovers tend to be turkey sandwiches (best when on buttered bread with a layer of mayo over the butter and a sprinkle of salt and pepper on that then slices of turkey breast). And since most people leave the dark meat for last I boil the bottom half down, remove the bones and dice the dark meat and make a big pot of turkey chowmein and feast again. Same goes for New Year's, I make about 10 lbs of steamed shrimp and next day the leftovers go to a big pot of Shrimp Creole. Halloween is another one, I give my kids and now my grandchildren black magic markers to decorate their big pumpkins instead of cutting them and the next day they get cut up into 1" chunks and cooked into a big pot of pumpkin stew with yellow corn, ham, onions in chicken broth. Nothing goes to waste in my house. Easter it's boiled up ham left on the bone until it falls off then diced, added to diced potatoes and onions and cooked in a pot of broth from the ham with butter and salt and pepper to taste, best ham hash ever.
If you want to try the latest snack craze in America, take pepperoni slices like you would use on pizza and deep-fry them until crispy, best spicy chips ever.
Thanksgiving is basically an Eastern US Native American harvest festival, and like most countries around the world harvest comes at different times of year based on the climate.
Planes trains and autobiles is just one of the many comedy movies from the Saturday night live team. If you want to see a really great one, try and find one called "First Family" from 1980.
In America, we talk about “the holidays.” The holidays begin with Halloween at the end of October and we slide feet first into the New Year! Halloween, followed by Thanksgiving in November and then Christmas and New Year’s in December. Depending on your religion, there are other religious holidays in there, too, like Hanukkah. It’s a lot of celebrations all bunched together at the end of the calendar year. Old friends like to get together in the spirit of the holidays, especially when they have travelled a distance to come for the celebration.
My favorite Thanksgiving side dish is dressing because it’s really the only time of the year when people make it, unless they’re making turkey again for Christmas. (My family always has ham at Christmas.) You can get pecan pie other times of the year, but not usually pumpkin pie.
We are thankful for you, André, for bringing such joy and enthusiasm into our lives.
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What is dressing? I'm in Oregon and dressing would be something that goes on salad and you eat it everyday...
@ I can see your confusion. Dressing and stuffing are essentially the same thing. The difference is that you cook stuffing inside the bird, but you cook dressing in a separate casserole dish. There’s a health risk in cooking the stuffing inside the bird because it may not reach a safe internal temperature to cook it thoroughly since it was cooked next to raw meat [turkey, chicken, etc.). So I like dressing that was cooked separate from the bird.
@wordnerd3 thank you for the explanation! I get it now!
@@wordnerd3same... though I make "stuffin' muffins," as I call them. Instead of a casserole dish, I cook it in a muffin pan. That way everyone gets a portion of crispy and soft stuffing! It works out really well if you ever want to give it a try. It's always a big hit in my home
@ oh, that sounds awesome! What a great idea! The crispies are always the best part.
Thanksgiving originated as a harvest celebration among Pilgrims and Native Americans in 1621, following a successful harvest in Plymouth, Massachusetts. It became an annual tradition in New England, blending gratitude and feasting. President George Washington proclaimed the first nationwide Thanksgiving in 1789, but it wasn’t until 1863 that Abraham Lincoln declared it a national holiday, set for the last Thursday in November, to unify the country during the Civil War. In 1941, Congress officially made it the fourth Thursday of November. Today, Thanksgiving focuses on family, gratitude, and, of course, food!
and there are all sorts of idiots here that will spout "none of that is true", even though one of my direct relatives at Plymouth Plantation wrote about it extensively.
(copies of the documents can be found at the Plantation, originals are at The Smithsonian.) /edit, corrected spell check's grammatic change to my sentence.
Of course it's true. Only 54 Pilgrims and crew survived the voyage. Landing in November, they couldn't grow food until the next Spring. Meanwhile, several others died during the winter.
Squanto taught the Pilgrims what crops to plant, and served as a translator.
It's unknown what the seating arrangement was at the first Thanksgiving, but it makes sense that neighbors would celebrate the harvest. The Pilgrims and Pokanokets (renamed Wampanoags) lived as neighbors until the 1st generation died off.
@@richardcole3800That’s 100% untrue. The Wampanoag and pilgrims who made a partnership with each other kept their peace treaty for generations until a Wampanoag broke the treaty, and things didn’t work out well for them. Sincerely, an indigenous person in America.
The comment I was replying to stated incorrectly that the colonists later harmed the indigenous peoples they were allies with. The poster deleted their comment after I posted this, but I am leaving it up to give a basic understanding to anyone who is unaware or has been misled.
@@richardcole3800”The Wampanoag treaty was broken by King Philip's War in 1675. The treaty was the first agreement between a Native American tribe and European colonists, and it remained in place for over 50 years. However, the treaty was eventually broken due to a number of factors, including: Broken promises
As more agreements were broken and promises were unkept, Metacom, who succeeded Massasoit, launched an offensive to drive the English back.”
“The peace established remained firm even during the Pequot Wars of 1636-1638 CE and was only finally broken with the conflict known as King Philip's War (1675-1678 CE) by which time Bradford, Winslow, and Massasoit were dead.”
Why do you parrot lies when a simple search can educate you on the truth?
@humanbeing1168 i really glossed that over and should refresh my facts before I text,my apologies. A decendant of a 1600's European in North America.
My 19 lb turkey is in the oven, baked beans are done, pasta salad and deviled eggs just finished and put in the fridge. My ham is soaking in red wine, pineapple juice, Dr. Pepper, and brown sugar, will be baked in the morning. Cornbread stuffing is ready to bake. Mashed potatoes, mac n cheese, yeast rolls, and corn will be fixed in the morning. Oreo cake with caramel icing and peach cobbler for dessert. I am sipping a glass of Purple Toad Black & Bruised Red Wine! Happy Thanksgiving from Southeast Kentucky!!!
Sounds great...what time do I need to be there?
Yum!
sounds like you are cooking for the whole state.
Can I come over? 😊
I'll be there with KG-xt4oq
we do often eat way more on thanksgiving than Christmas. while many families do prepare an equally elaborate spread, i’ve seen just as many who prefer to order takeout, or do a simple brunch after presents, or even just throw christmas eve parties with cocktails and hors d’oeuvres. especially in recent years i’ve seen people treat christmas as more of a chill day to enjoy your new stuff and laze around with family and loved ones after a busy and often stressful holiday season. it also varies a lot by region and culture. on my moms side we spend christmas eve eating green chile and tamales, and on my dads side we do a traditional christmas ham
1. Yes we eat more at thanksgiving than Christmas LOL
2. cornbread dressing (not stuffing) - and it's my favorite dish
3. Sweet Potato Pie is my favorite dessert, no matter the day or time.
17. Die Hard is a Christmas Movie.
Our Christmas and thanksgiving dinners usually are similar amounts of food and yes Die Hard is definitely a Christmas movie.
As a European, living in US, I can so understand the confusion on both sides; it is kind of really funny:
All your points, completely clear and understandable from a US perspective, but quite confusing for most Europeans.
Most food traditions that in America are associated with Thanksgiving, are in Europe a Christmas tradition (the turkey, the many sides, the having a big family gathering, the solemn atmosphere, the grateful introspection thanking the Lord for the blessings of the past year...all that Europeans do for Christmas. What we Europeans don't do at Christmas...have big loud parties or watch action movies, invite neighborhood...that is not associated with Christmas. We might invite the person that is otherwise alone, to join our Christmas celebration, but in general, otherwise Christmas is oriented towards family, and much more calm a holiday.
Thanksgiving in the US way, is not really a thing. Now there are, at least traditionally, thanksgiving festivals or harvest festivals associated with particular churches and parishes. Those happen to celebrate the end of harvest, are held at the church, might involve bake sales, food stands, maybe even a carnival ride or some stands with games for kids, like ring-toss, etc. Depending how big your church is, that can be a big event, and everyone from the community attends. But most people in Europe are not involved with their church anymore, so such festivals become a bit more rare. A few places have transferred their tradition to the city or community, and so cities might have wine festivals, October festivals, which continue to be a thing, locally. They have been spread out over the whole summer and fall season, so some people go from festival to festival throughout the warmer season. Things have changed. But Thanksgiving as a family holiday, is not a thing....those traditions belong to Advent (which is a much bigger deal in lots of Europeans countries), and then Christmas.
The Long Kiss Goodnight is also a Christmas movie :)
"Dressing"? Were the heck are you from? It's either Stuffing or Filling, never dressing.
Die Hard is definitely a Christmas movie 🎄🎁
Andre, I am thankful for you and your channel. I deeply appreciate how much you love the videos of America. I am a proud American and love my country. We have many problems but we also have a much to be thankful for. The very best to you and your family. Love from an old Arizona gal.
oh ty so much
The current british government seems to hate America and free speach..
But as far as turkey day, I'm currently making the gravy for tomorrow and the corn bread is ready, its all about timing and cooking everything on time. I make jean piere turkey gravy, which takes about 4~6 hours and is meaty and warm with coniagc
@@RAYROTHSTEIN66 British Government doesn't hate America they just hate the incoming Administration.
Bro react to "Goji center"what if bloop exist in real life😅@@european-reacts
Just finished preparing my cheese plate.. my polish kielbasa… may Irish bangers…. Got the bird in the oven…. Turnip carrots broccoli and mash…. But most of all I have my daughter home from NYC and my beautiful wife of 30 years. .. watching snow out my window.. watching Macys thanksgiving day parade and my high school football fame(42 years ago for me!)… and I also have my friend from Portugal who reminds us all what is good and what is beautiful…. We don’t always notice it as we go about our lives! Thanks!!!😊
We had 22 people at our dinner. All traveled from 30 minutes to 3 hours to get there. Our 5 year old led the blessing with the Lords Prayer. Cooked from 5 in the morning till 2 in the afternoon. (We still have leftovers in the fridge) Every year we set out small cards for each person to write what they are thankful for. We keep these in a jar and collect them for life. Being thankful for your blessings is foundational for joy and contentment in hard times.
I truly enjoy your videos. You have a great countenance.
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. It's wonderful to be around the table with so many loved ones, no distractions of presents. Just love, joy and gratitude.
Stuffing…with gravy. DA BOMB.
All my husband cares about
unpopular opinion: stuffing tastes better without gravy
@@dead-claudiastuffing just tastes good
@@dead-claudiamaybe the gravy you have isn't good? 🤭
same, with mashed potatoes a close second
The beautiful thing about Thanksgiving is that you make a point to try and connect with family members and those that are close to you.The US is large, so people travel long ways to get to see their families sometimes. The food is a great thing, but its really about thanking God for all our blessings and all the freedoms we have in this great country.
What Americans eat on Thanksgiving depends on each family's cultural background. Pecan pie is an old southern dish where pecans are grown and harvested. There are some who believe that lobster was on the tables in old New England where the holiday originated. Roasted ham is one of the products of each year's harvest. Vegetables that are easily stored like potatoes are also on the table. Cranberry sauce originated in New Jersey was the brainstorm of a woman who collected all the scraps from the local harvest and stewed into delicacy that's either loved or hated. After the invention of flash freezing almost any vegetable was then available to augment the previous dishes.
We love pecan pie here in Minnesota.
You should totally watch The Goonies!
That is one of my and my sister's favorite movies.
The goonies is a great movie and several of the cast members have gone on to be quite famous.
Yes, it is a classic that I first saw as a child and have seen hundreds of times and never tire of it.
"Hay you guys!" "CHUNK"
Epic moment 😎
YES! This film makes an epic after Thanksgiving meal movie!
We always did ham for christmas and turkey at thanksgiving! Our thanksgiving spread was typically turkey, cranberry sauce, biscuits/rolls, green beans or green bean casserole, stuffing (baked for crispy crunchiness) buffalo chicken dip, corn on the cob, mashed potatoes, gravy, roast asparagus or broccoli, and for dessert there was always pumpkin pie, cheesecake, pecan pie and sweet potato pie! ❤ if grandma felt fancy we got carrot cake too! Everyone is welcome to celebrate thanksgiving, just make all your family's favorite comfort meals, and gather together for a yummy meal and some board games or movies! After thanksgiving it was our tradition to clean up dinner and then decorate for christmas!
my favorite bite of a thanksgiving meal is when you take some turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy all in one bite. it is literally heavenly.
Yessss!
Yes!
Totally Agree! When he asked that I thought "All of it together!" So glad I'm not the only one! 😅
Even better, put it all in a homemade roll. That makes it very portable.
The one thing that has changed is that I’ve discovered I like adding a tiny bit of cranberry into the mix (or including it in the stuffing)
Yes, Andre. It snows in November and some times October. In fact, New Hampshire, where I live, there is a Winter Storm Warning. Where I am, in the southern part of the state, we are supposed to get 2 to 7 inches of snow and the northern part of the state is predicted to get 6 to 10 inches of snow.
Same weather report for Vermont
I'm in northwest Pennsylvania. Right now, forecasts are calling for 1 to 3 feet of snow through Monday. Not really that much for 4-5 days lol. I'm sure you both know what I mean
@@ruthparker9756 Same here in the Lake George region of upstate NY. I've been getting Winter storm warnings all day. The snow is supposed to start around 2 AM and it's saying it could turn to a wet mix around 5 AM for a couple of hours, then back to snow. That usually makes for some heavy snow to deal with. (sigh)
I grew up in Laconia, NH, now in North Dakota. We got 4 inches of snow yesterday
I’m in South-Central Alaska. We get snow in October, though for much of the state first snows are in September & the last snow can be as late as May.
An increasingly popular option is to buy the whole meal from a shop and reheat it, or even from a restaurant where you just take it home and eat.
My favorite savory Thanksgiving food is stuffing (dressing) but really, I'm in it for the pie. I love both apple and pumpkin pie.
My sister and I love about 50 miles apart (a little over an hour drive) and take turns hosting Thanksgiving. This year, we had 9 people at my house--my family of 4, my sister and BIL, our parents, and my cousin. Having grown up with tons of aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents for holidays, that seems small (but more people wouldn't fit in my house).
I'd never heard of oyster dressing, either!
We definitely eat more at Thanksgiving than Christmas. Christmas is also more varied; everyone has a traditional meal, but often it's not turkey. Growing up, my grandparents always made ham. Once my mother started hosting, the traditional meal became baked ziti (pasta bake). Now that my sister and I host, we do a brunch with traditional brunch foods.
Travel 12 hours from New Jersey to South Carolina. Traveling is great. We have comfortable vehicles and major great highways. To see your family and friends it is worth it. 😊
In Colorado it sometimes snows as early as September or October. Some people have turkey for both Thanksgiving and Christmas, but we like to have turkey for Thanksgiving and ham for Christmas.
In 2020 it snowed on September 9th here in northern Colorado.
My meals for Thanksgiving and Christmas too, here in Oklahoma, where any snow on the ground would usually only be in the shade.
Yeah, but northern Colorado has had snow in July. Even if it didn't last.
So Colorado just starting winter in September or October is not strange to us. Not having winter start before Thanksgiving on the other hand, is a bit odd for Colorado.
My wife an I got stuck in Colorado springs few year's ago in a ice Strom on thanksgiving😮 but eagle inn and friends in Manitou springs was nice❤ beautiful this time of year❤
560 miles from Kansas city to front range Colorado❤❤
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday as an American. It is all about just family and loved ones getting together and sharing a meal and each other's company. No gift giving pressure, just truly enjoying the day together.
Thanksgiving... family, friends, and FOOD! No pressure about giving gifts,, which is nice. All you need to worry about is the chance of family drama (and for some, who's playing whatever football game). All the hard work of those of us that actually cook is rewarded when the after eating sleepiness sets in!! We are thankful for people like you who give us a fresh outlook on what we may take for granted!
I live in Virginia. My brother lives in Ohio. He and his family are driving 350 miles for 7 hours to come to my house for Thanksgiving. They will stay the night and leave the next day to go home. That is not uncommon although they usually stay an extra day or two.
Safe travels for them and have a lovely day!
South Boston VA ❤ here Happy Thanksgiving 🦃
@@Anthony-k7t And to you from Fairfax County.
I was gonna ask where in VA but I saw you said Fairfax Co. I lived in Springfield for most of my life until I moved to Cali a few years ago. Small world! I hope the winter goes easy on you and they actually salt and plow the roads.
Yeah, snow in November is rather common. Also, i remember several holoweens growing up where we went trick-or-treating in the snow and thats on Oct. 31st, so... yeah, we get snow in the USA around Christmas, Thanksgiving, and occasionally even holoween... and it generally keeps snowing into January... or sometimes even into February if you're unlucky...
In 2012, in New Jersey it snowed from September to May, swear to God. All the local TV news called it the Snowpocalypse! In my town we ran out of places to put the plowed snow. I remember calling my sister who lives in Texas and saying "it just won't stop snowing!" On most normal years I like to say " if you don't like the weather in Jersey, wait ten minutes, it'll change" our weather is all over the place. I remember many years growing up having to wear winter coats under our costumes on Halloween. Trick or Treating through the snow! I wore shorts outside today with no coat on and didn't feel cold until the sun went down. In November! It's crazy.
In Michigan, I recall it snowed 6 inches once on my mother's birthday, April 6. It varies year to year, but I once saw snowflakes falling in May--very unusual!
Nothing like having the Halloween costume you were so excited for be completely ruined by having to wear a winter coat and boots...
I'm cooking sweet potato casserole right now. It's really an excuse to get together with family and possibly friends, consume a ton of really good food, and then nap. It is important to give thanks and remember what is important. Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! Eat way to much and then some
And watch football!
I bet your home smells wonderful..❤
Even growing up, the Thanksgiving table had more food than the Christmas one. Both had LOTS of food, but Thanksgiving has so many side dishes. And the leftovers are for days are I think part of the tradition.
Our family shares Christmas breakfast so the menu is small and much lighter!
19:21 yes. we eat more at thanksgiving than christmas
I had direct ancestors who participated in the first Thanksgiving, in 1621. My 12th great-grandparents, William and Mary Brewster, were passengers on the ship "Mayflower" as members of the Pilgrims who settled at Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts. Thanksgiving has always been one of my favorite holidays.
Turkey, at least with my family (and my wifes) has always been a Thanksgiving meal. We grow tired of turkey and the leftovers including turkey sandwiches, so Christmas is usually a ham or rib roast, and here, on the west coast, it's crab season, that's my favorite option!
Same. We don't do turkey for Christmas. We'll do a crown roast of pork or beef tenderloin or prime rib, etc. I guess we've always associated turkey specifically with Thanksgiving. My husband's family has always had a formal dinner on New Years Day and that's almost always a huge baked ham and all of the sides.
Same. Turkey and sometimes also ham for Thanksgiving, rib roast for Christmas.
Lol here (Ohio) we have creamed turkey with toast the next day lol.😊
Ham for Christmas lol
We always have turkey on Thanksgiving, and sometimes a beef roast in addition. Usually, the following day, or that Saturday we cook our own turkey and have a smaller Thanksgiving. This year I went to a Thanksgiving party (a Friendsgiving) there was turkey and ham, then we are having a large Thanksgiving tomorrow, then a home Thanksgiving possibly Friday, followed by another Thanksgiving party (Friendsgiving) on Saturday where we will be eating Turducken.
@@bobbiejojackson9448you can freeze the turkey.
If you happen to be alone on Thanksgiving, you will often get dinner invitations from friends (or even strangers occasionally!) 😊 But if you don't get a Thanksgiving dinner invite, there are still many restaurants that serve Thanksgiving dinner. If you are homeless, most "soup kitchens" (homeless-shelter type places), will also serve a nice Thanksgiving dinner 🦃🍽️
19:26 yes we eat more on Thanksgiving then any other holiday!!
I think the best part about Thanksgiving is the generational thing. I've been going to the family feast since I was a baby. All those adults who made merry then are gone now. As we grew up, WE became the adults and a new group came into the family,. I will go to the dinner tomorrow as an old man and rejoice in seeing the young adults and their kids adding to the TRADITION. And yes, we will eat turkey. We eat prime rib at Christmas. (My nephew is a Cordon Bleu chef). We will eat, drink and make merry and be thankful we have each other, which is all we can ask and hope for. Best food? If I could get away with it, it would be Enchiladas!
I recall when one day I realized we are now our parents.. as parents age we become the grandparents.. many are gone now whereas as a child there were grandparents aunts uncles cousins.. I'm a grandma now! It's bizarre.. it's really bizarre looking at recent pics of my daughter and her hub.. they are nearing 40!
Like how and when did time just get away from us.. one day you're going so fast working raising family next day is all gone
Thanksgiving meals vary depending on the state or region. But, the gathering of family and friends is the most common and important tradition that many love to honor. Back to the food: We always have turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, gravy and a variety of vegetables, both cooked and raw, then some pumpkin or apple pie for dessert. On Christmas we alternate between turkey some years and ham some years. On Easter, we always have ham.
Oh, and since you requested it: 17 - Thank you for your content!
Our family always had turkey on thanksgiving. It's christmas that could be either turkey or ham. easter is always ham
I'm a retired chef. For my entire adult life, from when I graduated cooking school until I retired, I cooked the Thanksgiving meal. And I absolutely got all of the cooking done in one day. Usually I had help.
My favorite food for Thanksgiving, actually, was the next day leftovers. Cold turkey sandwiches are amazing.
And yes, we're traveling about 60 miles to spend the Holiday with family. I live on the coast of Florida, and most of our families live in the central areas of Florida.
A lot of people will have a Christmas Ham and in a lot of Italian households they have the seven fishes, so Christmas meals can vary a lot, but most people will have turkey for Thanksgiving, not that everyone does but it is much more prevalent
We have Christmas ham with bone in it we love honey ham no smoked but it's so good i get from Walmart
The feast of seven fishes is Christmas Eve. Christmas Day is more or less the same ham except it is proceeded by an antipasto and a lasagna.
Totally snows in the Autumn in the US northern states. I even had snow in my first month in Arizona, in November! Rare but it happens! What it's about: gratitude for our family, friends and whatever bounty we have, small or large. For those preparing it, it is definitely stressful and started, at the very least, 1-2 days before the actual holiday. Favorite food on this day, pumpkin pie. Yes, 27% of the US population travels during Thanksgiving. And I personally do eat more at Thanksgiving.
Let's not forget that Thanksgiving is a tradition that started because our native brothers and sisters helped the first european settlers survive the harsh winter back in the early 17th century (1622 I believe) and we have celebrated this act thru the past 400 years, thru wars, peace times, natural disasters and every sort of event that happened. It gave our boys hope when so far away from family in service of this country and a sense of rememberance that we owe a debt of gratitude to God for what He's blessed us with. EVERYTHING to give thanks to the Almighty for blessings granted to this great nation.
1621
I think we eat really well on both Holidays. Most families have certain traditions exclusive to their individual family, but both days are full of food and family gatherings, games, and memories being made. If we know of people who are alone or far from home, we will invite them to share our meals and hospitality.
A Christmas goose used to be the most traditional feast in earlier times. Turkeys became more popular when turkey farms popped up, making turkeys more readily available. The reason: the feast used to be whatever the hunters of the family could find/provide, and geese were more plentiful than turkey in the plains and the west at that time of year.
13:00 My family is of Polish descent and every year we have homemade kielbasa and sweet cabbage with potatoes. Only time we have it cause it’s so time and space occupying. It’s my fave! American style? Sweet corn on the cob!
❤this is the part of America I love...
My mom’s maternal grandfather and Grt grandparents were from Czechoslovakia. Every Christmas she makes her Grt grandmother’s Potato dumplings with sauerkraut. If you talk her into it she’ll make them at different times too. I love them without the kraut, and just a bit of salt.
I’m from Texas. My favorite part of Thanksgiving dinner is the cornbread dressing. And pumpkin pie. Then there is football on every channel. Enjoy!
This Texan agrees wholeheartedly!
Y'all put cornbread in ur stuffing? I never even thought to do that. We use sourdough bread with my family in southern California. I might have to try that next year instead.
@suzz1776 No. We put cornbread in our dressing because there isn't a bird around large enough to hold enough stuffing for my family. We bake it in a large roasting pan, and by the time everybody gets a doggy bag to take home leftovers., it's just about all gone. Although we make many sides, I think dressing could be considered our favorite. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. You, too, Andre
Love seeing your reactions to American Craziness. Quick TLDRs for some things you asked during the vid.
1. We typically eat way more on Thanksgiving than Christmas, in fact its not uncommon to visit multiple house holds during Thanksgiving week (or cramming 10 house visits into one day) and eating yourself into a food coma the whole time.
2. We travel a ton in general (Continental US is massive ofc) but during Thanksgiving and Christmas we will easily drive a couple hundred miles without batting an eye at it.
3. Turkey is not always on every table for Thanksgiving (even though I lovingly call it Turkeyday regardless), depending on which region of America your in you can get venison, honey ham, ribs ect. Sometimes we alternate each year between Turkey and other options in my family, especially when we would know for instance, another dinner we are going to will in fact have turkey.
in closing, Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours. Thank you for the joy you show over our American craziness, while we have our problems like any place does, it is so nice to be reminded of the good we have and bring.
17! Definitely! My kids and I only have to travel about 20 minutes away to my parents' house this year, but one of my brothers will be coming from a few hours away for Thanksgiving, driving home, and then traveling again for Christmas! I've spent most of today getting the needed supplies to make 2 desserts and a side to bring. We generally bring a dish or two to share because it's a lot of work for one person, but my mom still cooks the turkey herself (my dad lifts it and cuts it into servings when it's ready). We definitely have more food at Thanksgiving than Christmas (but that's a big feast, too)!
you can argue about the origin, the modern reality is that thanksgiving is an annual family reunion where everyone has the same day off work, eats an ungodly amoun of food, and catches up on sleep
Nothing much to argue about regarding the origin. Thanksgiving celebrations were common amongst many cultures. The one we typically refer to in America involved the colonists and Wampanoag. The colonists and Wampanoag celebrated together, having had a mutually beneficial alliance based on the Wampanoag saving the starving colonists and the colonists protecting the Wampanoag from the Narragansett. The treaty lasted for 50 years until all the original people who agreed to the treaty passed on. It’s beautiful.
And watches football
Deviled Eggs are one of my favorite Thanksgiving dishes. Yes, we traditionally sing in cars. Pre current media availability, families needed ways to keep the kids occupied on long car trips, so travel games & singing were common. In my family (5 kids), we would also get a huge stack of new comic books to share. After dark, you slept or sang - we would sing for hours, every song we knew.
For us, usually: Thanksgiving=turkey, Christmas Eve=seafood, Christmas= beef rib roast, new year’s=roast pork shoulder, Easter=spring lamb. We might also have ham at Thanksgiving and/or Easter. But none of this is written in stone and can change based on guests, etc.
This is an accurate description of the holiday main protein in usa. The sides vary a bit more depending on your family's cultural background and where you live.
5:38 turkey just for thanksgiving we have ham for both thanksgiving and Christmas
Same here
My family usually has roast beef (or maybe steak or brisket) for Christmas.
Hi Andre! Yesterday we had 15 people- way down from the past Thanksgivings when we had 30 people. Dinner is at 3pm. Everybody brings a side and a dessert. Here in New Jersey, we don't see too much pecan pie. We think it is too sweet. We have pumpkin pies and apple pies. Back to dinner. As the host, I make the turkey, bread stuffing and gravy, plus the essential sides nobody else brought: cranberry sauce, sweet potato casserole, Italian stuffed mushrooms (we are from an Italian mother), stuffed shells (pasta shells stuffed with ricotta cheese mix), homemade bread, onion pies (husband is German), broccolini, dandelion greens, pork tenderloin, cheese and crackers, and beverages. The family and extended family brought a whole Serano ham, mashed potatoes, Brussels sprouts, shrimp cocktail, soup, a corn mix, corn pudding, mashed turnips, Italian stuffed cubanelle peppers, other things I can't remember what plus so many desserts.
We all said Catholic Grace out loud and dug right in.
The cleanup was a nightmare 😅
Afterwards, more people came for coffee and dessert. We sat around the table for hours just talking about everything. My son called us from Tokyo. He wants to come for Thanksgiving next year. It was a wonderful Thanksgiving! Everyone should experience American Thanksgiving!
I'll be having thanksgiving alone, so I am thankful for your kind words 😊
Me two. Both of my adult children are deceased due to natural causes. I'm by myself so I'm having a TV dinner. It's all good. Happy Thanksgiving to all.
@@deborahasher176I also lost two children, and will be having a TV dinner. I wish you good health and happiness 😻
Happy Thanksgiving to both of you!
Happy Thanksgiving and may it be peaceful and enjoyable for you.
Very sorry, Happy Thanksgiving to you both as well.
'Planes Trains and Automobiles' is a comedy classic specifically associated with Thanksgiving travel, the journey home to feast with your family.
Edit: also, you cannot go wrong with pecan pie.
Use the recipe in Max Miller's cookbook. Not too sweet.
Or cherry, or minced meat pie.
The pies,are previously cooked. Everything else is done on Thanksgiving day. The whole family is involved.
Part of it was filmed an hour from me.
PT&A is a great movie.
Both "Planes, Trains, & Automobiles" and "Goonies" are awesome, and totally worth watching! "Goonies" is definitely aimed more at kids, though, so definitely watch it with that in mind.
Weather-wise: Saying "the weather in the US" is a lot like saying "the weather in Europe". It is drastically different across the country in the same way that weather in Portugal is probably not going to be like the weather in Poland.
Yes, we do frequently have turkey on Christmas, as well, but the difference is that turkey IS the Thanksgiving meal, but for Christmas it's one of several traditional options like ham, goose, brisket, etc.
Stuffing is my favorite at Thanksgiving. It's better with mashed potatoes. Pumpkin pie is my favorite (and generally the most traditional) of the desserts. I also love devilled eggs.
"Seconds" means going back for more food after the first serving.
Do we eat more at Thanksgiving than Christmas? That varies widely from family to family. Thanksgiving is a holiday that is traditionally centered around overeating. Christmas and Thanksgiving are, largely, on par with each other when it comes to eating, but the edge probably goes to Thanksgiving.
All that said, Christmas tends to be a holiday that's given a lot more weight than Thanksgiving. People will usually skip Thanksgiving if it lets them go home for Christmas, but not the other way around.
October of 1993 we had 14 inches of snow. Thanksgiving is Turkey, Christmas and easter are ham. My sister is in norway, they do reindeer roast for Christmas.
Ahh yes....the Bizzard of 93....
April of 2017 we got 12 to 16 feet of snow for a week.
@@elliottscott6179 Wow!
Turkey for Thanksgiving, beef roast or ham for Christmas, then ham or lamb for Easter. But it's all price dependent. If roasts or ham are too high that year - then turkey will be on the table. Grocery stores offering free turkeys for x amount spent, means that sometimes we wind up with 2 free turkeys. So one stays frozen until Christmas. The rest of the meal is where we see the differences. Thanksgiving for us is mashed potatoes, dressing, green beans, sweet potatoes, pumpkin pie. There's no discussion around what's going to be on the table. If you're doing the cooking - this is what MUST be served because it is the tradition. We take it so seriously, that we had to have a family vote to change the dinner rolls from Pepperidge Farm to Kings Hawaiian.
But Christmas is much more open to what the cooks that year want to make. Sometimes the weather is so dodgy - it's not worth spending the money on a Christmas dinner that might get cancelled for snow.....so we might order pizza, or the ever classic, Chinese food if the weather gives us an opening.
True ! And Kings Hawaiian go better for ham sandwiches. We usually do a turkey and a ham because theres a crowd to feed. I will add that sometimes extra people that will otherwise be alone are invited to eat and enjoy the festivities. The more the merrier ;-)
My mom used to make yeast rolls from scratch that were absolutely amazing. Japanese people have been convinced that all Americans eat Kentucky Fried Chicken on Christmas, so they all do that now to be like us. The marketing guy from KFC that pulled this off was a genius.
Basically in the early years our European produce wouldn't grow well and we were starving. The natives taught us to grow corn and melons. Boston Massachusetts loved their goods and huge variety of melons.. this drastically improved our food situation. The feast of Thanksgiving started when we had something to feast...
17 Andre, where *I* grew up, it could snow in September! So, no, Autumn is more of a suggestion, not a hard fact in a lot of places in the US.
My family always has ham and augratin potatoes at Christmas. My favorite part of Thanksgiving dinner is cornbread stuffing ! The movie Planes, Trains and Automobiles is such a funny movie! Yes, it’s already snowed here in Indiana in November, lol. At our Thanksgiving dinner, each person lists something they are thankful for this year. 🦃
We're doing ham & au gratin potatoes today b/c it's only the 2 of us. Turkey & all the trimmings is this Sunday when more of us will be together. I just didn't want to be turkied out.
Muito obrigadinho, my friend. It warms my heart to see you having such a good time learning about my country.
My mother is Portuguese, so I’m lucky enough to have family to visit over there. Portugal always stuns me with its beauty.
Thank you for your reactions.
My favorite dishes are stuffing, sweet potatoes, and pumpkin pie with lots of whip cream. In the us, 'stuffing' and 'dressing' are used interchangeably but the technical difference is that stuffing is stuffed into the cavity of the turkey while it cooks and dressing is not stuffed. For my family, our Thanksgiving and Christmas meals are about the same size. Thanksgiving is always turkey and on Christmas, it's usually ham, but we sometimes make turkey. This Thanksgiving will be the first time in years where I am close enough to family that I don't have to travel but down the street.
I make most of the sides and pies the day before. The turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, and biscuits are made the day of Thanksgiving. We eat at 1 for lunch and then again whenever we get hungry for dinner.😅 We eat leftovers for almost a week!
So funny, Thanksgiving Evening and we just finished watching Planes, Trains and Automobiles. Every few years we watch it on this holiday. Not necessarily great for little kids, but a great message for adults and older children. Completely packages up all the things to be thankful for. Hope you watch it some day.
The singularly best food item on Thanksgiving is the gravy. It can go on, in and around anything on your plate.
Andre, you seriously need to watch the Goonies. You will have a blast! HEEEYYY YOOUUU GUYYSS!!!
I cannot imagine a world without Thanksgiving man. It's so unique and has all these things that set it apart from other holidays. It's always in the end of fall/ beginning of winter fall so all the trees are sometimes bright pink, orange, and red. Perfect hoody weather where we are. The smell outside of fall is my favorite. Then the food. Always turkey, pumpkin pie, etc. The house always smells amazing and almost always football games on tv. Sometimes you get snow but here not usually til December. Nevrr know. Ps...Canada isnt a real place so there is no such thing as "canadian thanksgiving"
Finally seeing this episode. We had about 30 for our gathering. What is so special to me is seeing people who generally only get together as an entire family on this one holiday. A chance to show them how thankful I am to be part of their lives. My favorite food would have to be the stuffing; especially with cranberry sauce.
In Maine it's not unheard of to have a snowy Halloween, early snow is pretty common in the northeast!
We lived in northern Vermont and had many snowy late Octobers that continued through until mid April. After 10 long cold winters, we moved south to North Carolina where schools close if there’s a possibility of snow. 🤣 ❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️
In Utah, it has snowed in October before. Specifically on Halloween a few times.
Shark I've never been to Maine,! I'm looking to immigrate so may not get to Maine till after a foreign country?
Cheers from downeast Maine🙂 youre sure right. Nevah know. Happy Thanksgiving an i hope you folks have a great time. God bless yah bud
1969, I was 6 and in first grade. There was a song we sang,"Over the River and Through the Woods" at during the Thanksgiving holiday. And the "horse knows the way to carry the sleigh through the white and drifted SNOW. Implying there was snow by the end of November.
We have 17 people coming tomorrow for thanksgiving. We have been pre-making dishes for the day. I’m already tired and after thanksgiving dinner tomorrow we will even more tired. After dinner we will have card games and family visiting and desert. Loving on our grandkids and nieces and nephews. 🦃🍽🍁
Enjoy your day with your family and baby Sebastian.
That's a big gathering, hope you and your family have a wonderful Thanksgiving
Thank you so much 😊 we had a big meal, games and desert. Beautiful and blessed day.
I'm from Minnesota. One Halloween we received 36 inches of snow!
I think you're talking about 1991 😀
@carolgrosklags8933 Nothing more midwest than remembering the year of a particular snowstorm. 😂 I grew up in Wisconsin and remember having snow on the ground during Halloween, though I would have been 5 in 1991, so no clue whether that storm affected where I lived.
And a month later, we got another 2 foot of snow on Thanksgiving.
I went out sledding with the kids before Thanksgiving dinner.
1991 right? It was the last year I went trick or treating. We lived in Richfield at the time.
Yep! 1991. My husband tells this story every Halloween!
It is not unusual for grocery stores before Thanksgiving to give out free turkeys to people that spend over $150 or so dollars at the grocery store. My mother gets one like this every year.
It is also not unusual for people's employers to give them a free turkey before Thanksgiving. My brother's employer did this. So usually there are extra turkeys around the holiday.
My son’s employer (Costco) gave him a free turkey. It is in the oven right now. We have sometimes received free turkeys from various sources.
We got _two_ free turkeys because we split our grocery purchase across two different days. We're kinda not sure what to do with the second one XD
“Planes, Trains, and Automobiles” is HILARIOUS. And the scene he’s talking about is one of the best in the movie 😂😂😂
Cranberry sauce is my favourite. We make it ourselves, so it’s not the canned, jelly stuff. And I know it’s just a sauce, but we really only eat it on Thanksgiving 🤷♀️
17 :)
4:47 it snowed yesterday in New England! First snow of the season.
And yes. I will be travelling by car a few hours to visit one side of the family....then after dinner visiting the *other* side of the family and getting there just in time for the tail end and dessert on their side. *Then* a few hours home....all in the same day. With a dog.
And despite NOT hosting, we made 4 pies, 2 dozen cookies, and a mini-spinach quiche dish to share with everyone - took us all day.
Remember no turkey for your dog. I made the mistake of giving my dog a big scrap of turkey. She spent 3 days in a dog hospital with a pancreatitis on i.v.'s along with about 20 other dogs who ALSO were there because of turkey. It cost me $6,000 dollars. You might want to leave your pup home if you're gong to be back the same day. I would.
@forgottensage-o5o unfortunately, she's Hella skittish, we have no one else to watch her and we won't be back until late. But that actually is a very good reminder, I'll have to keep an eye on her. Thank you!
"It snows in October and November in USA?" Wellllll. Kinda... In my area of Kansas, we had a light snow today. Not even enough to stick on the ground. Lucky if it snows at all anymore. When I was a kid, it was common to see snow on the ground lasting from October to March.
15:32 these long-distance busses (usually like 1-6 hours each way) aren't considered "public transit" in the us. they're almost universally privately owned charter busses, and are seen similarly to planes and long-distance trains.
they are considerably comfier, though, comfier than planes, and they're less bumpy than trains, so a lot of people prefer them for regional transit when cars aren't an option (or if they just don't want to drive them).
We have Turkey on Thanksgiving and Prime Rib roast on Christmas.
Have a great Thanksgiving my friend.
I'll take Prime Rib over Turkey any day
For me, Thanksgiving is Turkey, and Christmas is Beef Wellington!!
Wishing everyone a "thanks"giving!
"Fank you, my friends" 😊
My favorite is the medley of flavors of all the dishes together. We generally have the turkey, some kind of green dish (like green bean casserole), a few starchy things (like potatoes, winter squash, any variety of stuffing), some other vegetable dish (featuring onions, or carrots, or cabbage), and something sweet/tart like cranberry sauce. We only take small portions of each, then if we are still hungry, we go back for seconds (a second helping of our favorites). Some families fill their plates to overflowing, but we have found it more satisfying to go back for seconds of the still warm food, rather than eating food that has cooled because we took so much to begin with. Finally, we have some kind of dessert like a variety of pie or custard or pudding. Every year we pick different side dishes and desserts to make to go with the turkey. And yes, we do eat more at Thanksgiving than any other holiday.
As the Civil War was ending Lincoln urged people to celebrate Thanksgiving nationwide. He greatly expanded its significance
I didn't know that! I guess we do learn something new every day.
I've made my gingered cranberry sauce, I'm about to start prepping the dressing, and I bought the mashed potatoes premade this year (don't @ me). Tomorrow I'll roast the giant sweet potato and the turkey legs (there's two of us this year, we're keeping it "small"), make the green bean casserole, heat the potatoes and finish the dressing. We already have a lot of dessert foods in the house from a previous event, so we'll save pies for Christmas this year.
Work smarter not harder. We are going out this year so you worked harder than me. My lips are sealed. 🫡
@@dorothytucker9305 What an odd thing to say. I like cooking. Do your own thing, and I'll do mine.
@O2life I was commending you on all that you were doing and how you found a way to save time and said you were better than me because I wasn't cooking this year. I apologize if somehow you found this offensive. Please have a wonderful Thanksgiving filled with laughter, family and love.
@@dorothytucker9305 Okay. I misinterpreted your comment because you set up a hierarchy of working smarter being better than working harder, and then you said I worked harder than you (implying you are working smarter -- and therefore, better -- than me). I wasn't offended so much as perplexed why anyone would criticize someone else for cooking a holiday dinner instead of doing something "smarter". Glad to know that wasn't your intention. Hope your holiday was lovely.
@O2life I apologize it read that way. I literally meant don't beat yourself up you were doing great. I didn't cook this year. My mom died in Sept and I couldn't bring myself to. Finding ways to get everything on the table while keeping your sanity is always a goal for Thanksgiving. I congratulate you on getting it done and hope yours was amazing as well. Love and internet hugs.
Happy Thanksgiving Andre. I am originally from Cuba, have been here since 1961. My DNA shows that beside French 28% 46% Iberian, to my surprise, I am 26% Portuguese! My late husband was mainly, English, Scottish, a little Irish and Welsh. A great combination.
We got three inches of snow yesterday where I live and even more in the mountains to the west of us.
In the old days, Most gardens and fields are finished by October. But then mom has all the canning, drying, storing, of veggies and fruit to get done and put away for wintering in October and first part of November. Cow, pig, deer, bear, turkey, goose, is also killed, rendered, smoked, dried and stored for winter. Most all of that is done by the 4th week of November so we started having family and friends over for a feast to give thanks for all the bounty we had given to get us through the long hard winter.
Yes, when you think about Thanksgiving as our North American observance of the final harvest ("Harvest Home"), it starts to make a great deal of sense that Canadians decided on an earlier day for their national holiday than we did in the US!
Blessings to you! Nothing is better than seeing empty store parking lots, being together was family and sharing a feast to see that we need more days where our priorities are right. Life is short. Seeing new members and connecting with those we may not have with us long while sharing stories of those that may have already passed reminds us that God has been good and while work and political considerations are temporary, if we are all one in Christ, we can get through life together with the best yet to come.
Planes, trains, and automobiles is hilarious. I try to watch it every Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving, Andre. ❤🦃🍗
From Wisconsin!
I love these videos! It's so easy to forget how many crazy things we've grown up with or gotten used to in the US. Like the weather. Obviously as we see here, the number of different climates across our country due to altitude, latitude, plains verse the great lakes regions, etc. vary wildly!
If you want to learn about our Holidays, make sure to spend it with a big American family where you can see the generational gaps, arguing, and everything that is opposite to what a peaceful & thankful holiday with family should be. There are some huge social differences between the generations.
The Goonies is a fun movie. Give it a try.
Would be interesting to watch his reaction, but I know editing for copyright can be difficult.
“Do you eat more on Thanksgiving or Christmas?”
Bro. . . If you play your cards right, Thanksgiving leftovers will last until Christmas!!
So true. 😄
My favorite dish is the stuffing because it is an old family recipe handed down generations from my great grandmother. I have taught it to my daughter along with our cranberry relish recipe.
I am usually the one doing the cooking. I start 3 days in advance and generally make everything from scratch. I start off making the pies the 1st day and cornbread for the stuffing. Second day, I do all the prep work, like dicing onions, then brine the Turkey. I also make the cranberry sauce so it can sit in the fridge overnight which makes it better. Anything that can be preassembled and refrigerated until ready for the oven gets put together, like the candied yams and greenbean casserole. By the end of the evening, my bread dough is set up for a Bulk rise. The day of Thanksgiving, I start on the mashed potatoes, assemble the stuffing, start boiling giblets and turkey neck, and form the bread dough. After the Turkey is roasted, drippings are made into gravy, everything gets their turn in the oven with the bread being the final bake. Dinner is served between 2-4 PM and we graze for the next 6 hours. Everyone gets a container of food to take home.
Thanksgiving is truly my favorite holiday. Every child in my generation is taught that the first Thanksgiving was celebrated with the Indigenous people, but we were so horrific to them. Actually, a Fall harvest celebration goes back even further in Europe. But, I prefer to celebrate it as the how it was originally established by Pres. Lincoln to be thankful for the end of the Civil War and reaffirmed by Pres. Roosevelt after WWII. A way to give thanks that we are healthy and alive.
We ALL know about "planes trains and automobiles".
The older crowd maybe, i bet I can find plenty of millennials and zoomers who dont
@@hkiller57 Millennials all watched it on TV every year growing up. Zoomers maybe won't all have seen it, but families like passing this stuff on to the next generation.
@@O2life im a millenial and have only seen it once and that was a few years ago, most of my friends havent seen it either
@@hkiller57I was born in ‘91 and I’ve been watching it since I was at least 5.
deviled eggs, sweet potatoes with marshmellows and pie are the best of the meal
I am Native American, Mexican, and Jewish. We cook a traditional Thanksgiving dinner but we also gather a few days before Thanksgiving. The women make about 500 tamales and we all take large portions home. The men just hang out and be men. The kids play. Its a great time and with tameles stocked in our houses, the women all bring a few dishes to the hosting home for Thanksgiving but we dont have to cook for 3 or 4 days afterward because we will also bring home portions of the feast. Its a nice break from cooking every day. The tamales and leftovers are delicious.
Just made an apple pie. Turkey in fridge I’ll get up early and start the dinner. Turkey gravy bread stuffing mash potatoes fresh green beans carrots cranberry sauce dinner rolls then apple pie with vanilla bean ice cream
Born and raised in WI.. The john candy part is hillarious!! Polka!!
Im from Wisconsin. Most of the men were gone at Thanksgiving. Deer camp. So Thanksgiving was all ladies and old men and kids.
One of my favorite memories is one particular Thanksgiving at my grandmother's house in southern Oklahoma. It was my grandmother, granddad, their four grown and married daughters (my aunts), their husbands (my uncles by marriage), and my dad (their oldest, and the only son), and their children (I was the oldest of the grandkids, at 11, and in descending order of age, there were my seven cousins, mostly boys.). The "girls" -- meaning my grandmother, her four daughters, and I -- gathered in the big kitchen putting together the big feast. Each of us had our specialties and distinct responsibilties. My grandmother handled the turkey roasting, one aunt was a specialist at making the dressing (Andre, it's "dressing" if it's baked as a separate casserole and "stuffing" if it's cooked inside the turkey), one aunt did the mashed potatoes and made the pan gravy in the roasting pan when the turkey was removed to the serving platter, one made the sweet potatoes, and the last of the aunts made the green bean casserole. Grandmother had made biscuits ahead of time, and had made one pie (hers was a pecan pie). The other aunts had each brought a pie with them (pumpkin, cherry, apple, and coconut cream). Grandmother had helped me, on the day before, to make the cranberry sauce from whole berries. Meanwhile, all the "guys" were in the living room, hanging out, watching football on TV and waiting for dinner. We had a long day, talking and visiting.
Now it's more than 50 years later, and I still remember that particular Thanksgiving get-together as an especially warm memory. Now I'm the grandmother (at 77). I often do a lot of the cooking -- because I really enjoy fixing many of the dishes that my grandmother taught me to make. All of the "girls" who gathered in the kitchen that day are gone now, as well as my grandfather, my father, and all the uncles who were in the living room -- and about half the cousins. Time has changed the faces around our holiday table, and there's a whole new group of family members now, with me as the elder generation. But I always remember those special people on that occasion, and it's something I'm always extra thankful for. I tell stories about them to my grandkids, who are too young to have ever met them. To me, a gathering together of loved ones is what is so special about Thanksgiving, even if some of them are now only there in memory. There's a bit of sadness, of course, to this story, but I can truly say I'm so thankful to have shared those long-ago family gatherings with them, and grateful for those happy memories. That, to me, is the real meaning of Thanksgiving. It's part of the overall meaning of autumn and harvest that the time passes and the generations move on, but because I can tell their stories, the next generation of the family can share their memories as we have our own gatherings around the Thanksgiving table and this generation helps created the feast we can all appreciate and share. In my opinion, that's what it's all about, and that's why it's such a special holiday.
In Southern part of the U.S. we don't usually eat "Stuffing". We usually eat "Dressing". Stuffing is more of a Northern dish and is commonly cook inside the Turkey and mostly consists on break chunks, while Dressing is made from a cornbread base with bread crumbs, soaked in poultry broth and spices mixed up and baked in a casserole dish.
Stuffing is the best all the flavor of the turkey seeps into the stuffing.... I've had both, dressing was too dry but I will try again from someone else making it.
ive done in the turkey and out. its very different each way. i cooked it in this year (a few weeks ag) and didnt get the stuffing out completely, it ended up in the turkey stock of soup, and it was the best soup EVER.
Yeah the FDA has told us for a long time now not to put the stuffing in the bird. Darn them:) I am out west and have put mine in a casserole dish for a long time. Happy Thanksgiving!
My favorite thanksgiving food is our family's 140 year old stuffing recipe. It is delicious and it connects us to our ancestors in a tangible way.