Yes the "kids" table became.the cousins table and was for people in their 20s to 40s still, lol like a folding table and kiddos got the coffee table and stools if they didn't fit on laps.or in high chairs..and the chairs are a mixed bag for sure!
I don't know if anyone else mentioned this, but the way it is 'supposed' to work is that stuffing was stuffed into a bird to cook and dressing is made in or on the oven. No bird required. So 'stove-top stuffing' is actually 'stove-top dressing' because nobody is going to cram that material into a turkey to cook.
This one is spot on. Especially the dressing/stuffing debate. My bf is from Alaska. He was used to STUFFING, in the bird. This Southern girl doesn't play that unless I have no choice (meaning I am helping cook in someone else's house). No, we'd be having DRESSING, I explained. He wasn't sure about that, he said, but he'd try it. One taste of my mom's dressing and he was converted. Now that we have been guests at a couple of other Southern homes, he is a changed man. He often does the big grocery trip for holidays (he is actually quite helpful and pretty good at the grocery shopping). Now he always reminds me to put down the ingredients for dressing.
Ok have to say to me they are the same thing. I make the dressing and for the ones that like it I put it in the bird making it stuffing, cause your stuffing the bird. Outside of that it the same thing just different place its cooked.
Kinda forgot one: Do not ask the cooks “what they are cooking for dinner” for the 2 days after thanksgiving. You will be eating leftovers and saying “thank you” for their hard work.
I have to share my “Country Crock” story! Back in the 1990’s my household went through a massive amount of County Crock margarine and of course we saved the empty containers. One of those I used to store random screws, nuts and bolts etc. One day I was replacing the mini blinds in the kitchen and had the country crock screw container out on the kitchen counter. Later that evening after dinner I put some leftover corn in an identical container. I got distracted by the kids and when I came back into the kitchen I quickly grabbed one container that I thought was corn and put it in the fridge, the other went in the junk drawer. A few days later I started to smell something funky in the kitchen. I looked and looked for where that smell was coming from. I finally traced it to the junk drawer. Thinking it was a dead mouse, I carefully opened the drawer only to find the country crock container that I thought held the screws bulging! I immediately realized what I had done and looked in the fridge. Sure enough the screws were in the fridge and the corn was in the junk drawer! Every time I see a country crock container I think of that corn….. Happy Thanksgiving in advance ya’ll!
Last year we hosted a friend from overseas and it was the highlight of my culinary life that she gushed about how our Thanksgiving celebration was just like what she'd seen depicted in movies/tv. That's it. I can die a happy woman now 😂😂😂
Oh My me too. I made a thanksgiving dinner for a friend from Romania . It was his first Thanksgiving Dinner . He was in aww of the food and the amount of food on the table.
My grandmom insisted the family come to her place for Thanksgiving. She lived a simple life, and lived in a small mobile home. So nobody could eat at the kitchen table, because it was loaded with food and most any flat surface available. There were people eating in the living room, the front and back porch, and a bed room. Those were the best Thanksgivings of my youth, because we were together and it made my grandmom happy.
Here’s another unofficial commandment Matt. Thou shall not interrupt the post-feast nap. Because those who live a ways away from Grandmothers house need that energy to stay awake on the drive home, especially the driver.
Also it's a fight to the death who gets to take their nap in Mawmaw's bed because that bed is always the softest coziest thing ever. The same witches that make Waffle House so healing enchant the beds of mawmaws everywhere
I learned all of this the hard way when I moved to South Carolina from California years ago. I swear someone should have prepped me on the transfer. At least a Visa would have helped. 2 different worlds in one Country. Bless my heart !!!😂😅❤
An aunt waaaay down the family line decided to tell my Nana that her banana pudding didn’t taste the same a few thanksgivings ago. My Nana slowly lifted her head from whatever she was preparing in the kitchen, turned around bright red and I haven’t seen that aunt since. More banana pudding for the rest of us 😋
My sister once deviated from the accepted sweet potato casserole recipe AND the potato salad recipe on the same Thanksgiving. My Mama never let her forget it - for 20 years! I'm the designated macaroni 'n cheese cooker (so proud) and when that same sister volunteered to make it 1 yr because I'd had surgery, Mama said "No. Your sister can sit down while she makes it. She makes the mac 'n cheese like me. I'm not taking any chances!" Um, thanks?! (My husband helped, bless him.) My Mama's been gone 5 years and I'd give anything to hear her praise my cooking...and fuss at my sister, hahaha! Happy Thanksgiving, y'all!
I make 5-10 pounds of mashed potatoes every year, skin on, loaded with butter. Gathering I go to is over 40 people normally, and half are teen/twenties boys.
I feel this whole heartedly 😂 I got out of the hospital the morning of Thanksgiving one year and my mama still made me make the Mac n cheese 😅 others volunteered and she said absolutely not!
I completely felt this comment. According to my brother's children I'm the only one allowed to make the turkey. One year my sister in law didn't make a pan of baked mac and cheese. The kids were in full revolt until I walked in with the pan of mac and cheese. I was told I saved Thanksgiving while they all side eyed their Mama the entire meal.
When I worked at a grocery store bakery, I loved the Thanksgiving shift. It was hilarious. People buying 20 lb frozen turkeys for 3:00 pm dinner and looking for long-gone pies and fresh baked rolls (actually baked the day before), and the lost souls asking- “How do you make mashed potatoes?”- while holding up a 10 lb bag of reds. Such fun.
I’m an old retired meat mgr. One of my favorite questions asked yearly was, “What’s the difference between a fresh turkey and a frozen one?” I always replied, “One’s colder than the other.”
Several years ago, my niece decided to get married, outdoors, in the mountains, on thanksgiving Friday. Thanksgiving, itself, to be celebrated on location. We both catered the reception and we also made thanksgiving meal for 120. While camping. Outside, camping, thanksgiving meal for 120. We deep fried 15 turkeys. Cast iron Dutch ovens everywhere. It was quite a spread, and an impressive achievement.
@@wheramiyeah, the curried sweet potatoes were not a big hit when I tried lol! And I tried to make real dressing lol. My family is very Yankee proud, I should have known I have only instant stuffing skills...
My mother made the best dressing you ever tasted. It was famous in the family (both sides!), everyone loved it, and everyone looked forward to it every year. Very sadly, she passed away a few years ago, but I am so blessed and grateful that one day a few years earlier, I asked her if she'd show me how to make it. We had a grand time that day, and it's one of my cherished memories with her. AND I ALSO KNOW HOW TO MAKE HER AWESOME DRESSING. I actually haven't made any in a while, and this video has reminded me that I need to do just that, very soon. Thanks Matt!
I grew up in Tampa where every Thanksgiving the British Navy assigns a one-week stopover for one of their naval vessels doing a tour of duty in the Caribbean/Bahamas. Every year the various ship crews would wait for the yearly schedule announcement to see who got the assignment. Locally the radio stations and newspapers would announce how to sign up to host 1 or more sailors/officers for Thanksgiving dinner and the sign-up list would fill up quickly. After a few years with a week of shore leave some of the men with families would arrange for them to fly over to spend the week so you might end of hosting a British family instead of just a sailor. Some of the sailors and families took the tradition of Thanksgiving home with them. Other days young women would hang out at places frequented by the sailors and try to talk them out of the caps...until the Royal Navy cracked down on penalties for "losing" their caps.
That is so cool! I was a military brat and we always hosted some of my dads airmen for Thanksgiving. It was a tradition that my husband and I continued for many years throughout our military careers.
I did sign up for Operation Homecoming (host an airman from the AF) when I was in tech school. It felt like home. Years later, I did the same for airmen from basic training from Lackland AFB.
My MIL taught me how to make a proper Southern Thanksgiving meal, including corn bread dressing and collards, before she passed away. No written recipes, you just have to remember it.
Agreed. If you need a recipe, you don't need to be making it. You learn it watching the older generation make it. Perfect it practicing on your family at home before " taking it on the road".
As the traditional bringer of thanksgiving collard greens (I tried to quit one year and the whole family text message yelled at me at once😂) I always look forward to meeting all the nice older ladies in the produce aisle to fill up my cart - they’re good cooking role models ❤
Number 10 is actually a hard rule at our house, but we say, "Whoever shows up gets fed!" We've hosted Marines who couldn't get back home for Thanksgiving, friends and relatives of friends and relatives, and people I still don't know. But everyone is welcome, and everyone gets fed. A lot. Like multiple turkeys, a ham or 2, and a duck.
I'm retired military and actually miss being able to host a bunch of youngsters who weren't able to make it home for Thanksgiving. Always so polite and appreciative, and it made my heart sing to always see a house full of people coming together to count their blessings. ❤❤❤
My family loves duck, but I would think it's more trouble than it worth for how many folks it'd feed? We add brisket when we need more meats, and I just saw some one suggest Salmon which sounds fun, I may have to try that. Bonus to salmon is you could cook up more fast when some one brings a +3 ;D
I guarantee you those Marines will defend you with their life now that you gave them edible food. You may not expect it, but they will never forget you and will come to your aid at a moment's notice, especially if y'all had any alcohol for them to drink.
Same with my family. My extended family were kind of jerks so growing up we rarely got invited to the extended family thanksgiving, so my dad and i would have our own thanksgiving and often invited people who had nowhere else to go, occasionally including homeless people, immigrants, or soldiers stationed nearby with no family in the state.
At 1:59, CHINET PLATES. Having spent many years trying to negotiate a quickly-disintegrating, cheap paper plate which never had a chance to stand up to the gooey, gravy soaked-meal, which then inevitably gives out (and embarrasses my hostess), I learned this lesson well. I've attended Thanksgivings with complete strangers, but I could always win the day by bringing my good supply of sturdy CHINET PLATES.
Yes! The table sitting is non existent😂 patio furniture, hoods of vehicles, steps outside, borrowed chairs from the church…..that’s a good Thanksgiving ❤️
Yep. Sometimes it's cold on Thanksgiving and sometimes it's so hot that with the inside cooking plus the heat, one can only stand to eat out on the porch! Done that a plenty of times!
Let’s not forget, the tailgate of your best friend’s truck, while higher than a kite, trying to eat a huge plate of dinner. 😆 sounds like a great idea!
Oh my goodness. I laughed so hard at this. It’s like you have been to my family’s dinner. We have a past thanksgiving that we call “dressingate!” The step grandmother (which no one liked) said that she would make the dressin. I show up and no dressin. Our thanksgiving revolves around Turkey and dressin. She said she didn’t like the way it came out and threw it out. I am not going to lie, I was about to cry. lol and with each family member we had to have the “nope, no dressin” conversation. We blessed her heart a lot that day. Lol After that, we only let her bring the store bought pumpkin pie. Lol
As a person from the Pacific North West who has family in the south that I have visited for Thanksgiving... all of this was accurate. Especially that Granny does whatever she wants... no questions asked lol
One time a cousin and I were goofing around, when all of the sudden great grandpa looked at us from his chair with a stern look and said, “Sientete.” I don’t know a lot of Spanish, but we settled down pretty fast. Never upset great grandpa. 😂
I want to take a moment to say a thank you for the communities who share their thanksgivings with those around them. Be it victims of natural weather, the kind old man next door, or whoever you decide. Southern Hospitality is, in my opinion, one of those commandments that is ingrained in us, and we're always happy to share.
Even the smallest Thanksgiving gatherings I've been to always have some random person or three that are not related--coworker, a neighbor, someone from the VFW, friends from church etc and that's what makes it special. Sometimes it happens around Christmas too. There's always enough food for another plate, so come on by!
Thank you for all the reminders about cooking and entertaining. Unfortunately, I do this now without my husband who died the day before Thanksgiving 6 years ago. It has been a solemn occasion for more than 50 years since my grandfather's passing as well. Thanks to this Southern group of people who keep me cheered up. I know I can laugh when I watch your videos.
Dressing does not go inside the bird, stuffing does. Dressing is cooked separate and does not usually include any turkey as an ingredient. Half of the taste profile of stuffing is the turkey fat the bread absorbs.
My momma's family is from New Orleans but she was born in St. Louis, MO and she makes "stuffing" but I'd put it up against dressing any day of the week. See, it's a stuffing that starts the night before the bird because it's gotta cool after you've sauted the celery, onion, and 3 kinds of sausage; seasoned the bejeezus out of just a bit broth to keep it while you; poured it over stale brioche hand-pulled by children that afternoon into cubes "just so big" before being toasted in an off but warm oven while the sauteing's happening; and mixed in the scrambled egg. I used to wonder how you could possibly put "suffing" in a box or try to make it for a week night... That being said, she will often cook extra on the side in a casserole dish for food safety, but ideally it gets basted with turkey juice while it's cooking.
I love your last commandment. My sister and I used to do Thanksgiving at my house and invite all our friends who didn't have another place to go that day. One year I was talking with a friend who had a bit of an ego problem, and the problem wasn't that his ego was too small. He was saying he didn't have a place to go on Thanksgiving because his mother was doing something and his sister was traveling, so I invited him to join us. He immediately asked, "Who's going to be there?" After I stopped laughing at what a jerk he was, I told him he probably wouldn't like the guest list.
God bless you, Matt Mitchell. This is spot on. The sad thing about the chair hierarchy? The only way to move up is...death in the family. Memories of Thanksgivings past make every year even more special. Thanksgiving mornings spent watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, staying out of the way of the kitchen work, that's a commandment addition.
Well kids, I am the official Granny that cooks for 30 family members every year from scratch. Every word is true, but in my home (was raised Old World Southern!) we wouldn't be caught dead using paper products at Thanksgiving! To this day, I would set fine china, crystal, and silver out with a floral arrangement and candles in the. I have a full set of china for every holiday! I cooked for a solid week in prep. but this year, I am ill and not able to do it. Everyone said they wanted to go to someone else's house so this year, I am not cooking. Just doesn't feel right. But your video made me smile. Happy Thanksgiving Yall.
Spot on! I have received the honor of making the dressing each year, using my grandmothers recipe. It calls for THREE different kinds of cornmeal, which can only be found at IGA or Piggly Wiggly in Alabama or Georgia, just for the cornbread!
LOL my great grandmother would ONLY use cornmeal from a Piggly Wiggly in Lumberton NC. That's where she bought her liver pudding too, in natural casings. Once or twice a year someone would drive her there and whoever else in the family wanted to go.
You are so right about the Cornbread dressing. It’s taken my wife 40 years to perfect the Cornbread dressing…and yes it’s more important than the Turkey !!!
When we went to my nanny’s the adults gots the chairs in the kitchen and in the game room if there wasn’t any more get the brown chairs or stools the kids got the black seats under her little tables we would pull them up to the little table in the living room or the floor
We kids ate at the kitchen table at mammals house. That's where the extra food was piled in the center so it was better than the dining room with the adults. No one to limit your intake of dessert either. 😊
This year I have officially moved up to elder. I am glad about getting a good chair, but sad that there is only one person left on the family older than me. I'm only 64!
I am physically disabled making me unable to prepare a large dinner from scratch. Last year I was thrilled to host my nephew and his family. They came all the way from my home state of Alabama to have Thanksgiving with us in Texas. So, for the first time I used Cracker Barrel’s catering service. It was all a very good experience, but I had forgotten to order dressing.😱 It was already Thursday morning and of course absolutely no time to make any dressing myself. So, I wondered if the stuffing mix could be converted to dressing. I googled my question and VOILA! There was a recipe for the conversion. I tried it and it turned out acceptable. I hope I don’t have to repeat that experience of forgotten dressing again, but accidents do happen. If you ever find yourself in a similar situation, remember this conversion trick and remember: the moisture level of the batter will determine the moisture texture of the dressing-make sure you add enough broth, but not too much. Anyway, the disaster was averted, we had dressing and a wonderful thanksgiving! I thoroughly enjoyed this segment! HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!! THANK GOD!! AND ROLL TIDE!!🙏✝️🕊️🐘❤️‼️
I like to go to the grocery store the day before Thanksgiving. It’s like a scavenger hunt. I help the people who have a list made by Mom or Grandma find the stuff. They don’t even know what it is so they don’t know where to look for it.
We saw you in the Little Debbie bakery store today stocking up on merch. We should have said hello but didn’t want to bother you with your family. My wife and I both work at Little Debbie and enjoy your content. Take care!
Having a full-on Thanksgiving at our Egg Bowl tailgate this year for about 13 people so we'll all be sitting in camp chairs: Smoked ham, oyster dressing, regular dressing, green bean casserole, baked beans, fried okra, corn, peas, potato salad, rolls and who knows what else. Doing shrimp and grits the night before while the prep work is ongoing. It'll probably take a week to clean up the kitchen after this. But, it'll be worth it!
@thomasflynt1764 : Heck YES - we do Oyster Dressing too. A must have for the whole family with the same recipe from over 75+ years. Made by loving hands, and comes with wonderful memories of those who have earned their wings. Hallelujah! ❤
My cousin in-law (RIP) was a chef from Austria. He made the most AWESOME oyster dressing for one Thanksgiving dinner. I'd never eaten anything but homemade cornbread dressing, and it blew me away!
agreed I can't think of one thing that belongs on a Thanksgiving table that should have raisins in it. Granted I think that applies to anytime of the year 😂but especially Thanksgiving
As my dad always says ‘don’t be putting those bugs in the cookies!’ … or anything else for that matter. I always have to translate for friends that don’t understand raisins = bugs 🐜
Whoever likes the dish the most, makes it. If you can't cook, you're learning. I demolish a full loaf of monkey bread every year, somewhere around 15-16 my granny asked me to make two, she couldn't move her hands like she used to for the prep, and she wanted me to have a full loaf to myself that year, for my birthday. So i did. I ain't never seen my granny prouder than when everyone complimented that monkey bread, said it was the best they'd had, and she got to tell them i made it.
When I was a noob to hosting, I remember setting the "tv perfect" Thanksgiving table brimming with crocheted pumpkins, a sunflower arrangement I put together myself, my late aunt's china, glittering crystal glasses that I hand polished...with gloves...to avoid fingerprints. The family arrived, did not even venture in to the formal dining room, went straight into my cabinets, pulled out the plastic cutlery and paper plates, and ate on the couches. NEVER again did I ever attempt a nice table. Even though it kills my soul inside, every year, it's random computer chairs (even though there are literally formal dining chairs), and paper and plastic.
Right? It's more like an exchange. I bring ten pounds of mashed potatoes; I leave with some mashed potatoes, dressing, green bean casserole, turkey, gravy, and a slice of Aunt Susan's apple pie if there's any left by then.
@@wordforger exactly! My family is part Thai and they treat everything, even religious festivals, like potlucks and just about everyone brings a big platter of something, then everyone grabs a little of everything from the leftovers to take home. You'll see people showing up to temple functions with plastic bags and tupperwear along with the food they brought.
One day before Thanksgiving as I am cooking everything in sight (besides what I had cooked the day before) my husband asked me what was for dinner. I turned but before I could say anything, our teenage son answered "Heck, Dad, even I know this a "fix it your dang self day." Then added that he knew the number to pizza hut.
its crazy how some stores start selling Christmas stuff before Halloween. Last year my dad and stepmom had christmas lights up AND on for thanksgiving.
We always had a large table that had two leaves to it and could accommodate up to 15 people. The chairs were old and had seen better days but they all matched. The room was tight, the people were boisterous and the table was set with fine china and great food. No one brought anything, we cooked everything ourselves and no one was required to clean up after bringing in the plates and things to the kitchen. We didn't require guests to raise a finger in our home, even if they are family. My husband and i would split the menu and the things that could be done ahead of time were taken care if the day before. We were up early and we did the cooking together, which was so much fun. It was our time together as part of our holiday tradirion. Now, our daughter is grown up, my parents are seniors and too busy traveling. His mom has since moved out of state. Its now just the two if us. We still cook together and sit down for a quiet thanksgiving at home.
@@YeshuaKingMessiah We wanted our guests to feel relaxed, not stressed out or worried about what to bring. Too many people stress out about having to cook and if their food is good. Who wants to be doing dishes when you're full and sleepy? We quickly packed things away and put everything into the fridge to be taken care of later. It was more fun to catch up and socialize and besides there weren't many left overs. It's quiet now, but we have demanding jobs and we're older, it's hard to try to keep up the energy levels. My parents are in their 80's and they go south for the winter (leaving around October), and my mil has a year or less so she can't travel out of state. So it really is nice to do low key holidays. Sometimes, we get a guest or two but it's nice without the noise. It's not sad, it's life as I knew it growing up. Once the grands passed on holidays became quiet, until the next generation picked it up again. When our daughter has her own place or her cousins do then holidays will become boisterous once again. I think big celebrations are for the young. It's harder to travel as we get older. Driving at night is hard and the excitement/noise levels are too much.
That was a good one. The dressing commandment…amen! I was born, raised, and live in the West but my family, both sides are from the South so I was raised like a misplaced Southerner, lol. I never trust anyone with the dressing because most of these people never ate cornbread dressing until they come to my house.
Oh Darlin, your what we call a Transplant! You can take the Southerner out of the South but you cant EVER take the South out of the Southerner! Happy Thanksgiving Darlin!
Don't forget the elders with the new joints get the chairs with the arms, or else we are stuck at the table and will never be able to leave it again for any reason.
As a Kroger employee, I definitely agree with number 3. I have heard many horror stories from my coworkers about customers coming in at last minute and complaining about us not having enough Stove Top stuffing mix (1. That's not real dressing. And 2. Our location isn't the only location in Little Rock. )
@@LittleRockVol I worked at Walgreens back when it was the only store open on Thanksgiving day and Christmas day, and it was WILD. I'd get people coming in asking for last minute things like onions--not french fried in a can, but like whole ones. LOL
Prepare to be hugged... Against your will... (Thanks for the giggle!) My family gatherings were always small compared to most. In the north we have stuffing and I believe most of us put gravy on it. Maybe I was "spoiled", but our "table gatherings were always that "ideal image" you mentioned... If we did watch football, it was always the pro games. (Brady and Bellicheck spoiled us rotten! Alas, all good things come to an end...)
Every year I (jokingly) suggest to my husband that I try a different way of doing the turkey. Every year he looks at me with the biggest, saddest, eyes and says "Well. If you want to. I think your normal one is great though......" My dressing recipe will never change, though. That's Grandma's recipe. We had to translate it from German, and then decipher what she really meant. It gets baked in a giant turkey bag, in a turkey roasting pan. Because there's no other dish that it can fit in.
Holy…! That is a shit ton of stuffing! I hope you have a platoon of Navy seals fresh off of a mission to feed all of that too! 🤣 please have a happy Thanksgiving, if you were able to celebrate this year. 🫂
My wife is from upstate New York and we had been married several years before she was introduced to a southern Thanksgiving. Kids were playing on hay rolls, we were shooting the latest gun purchases, etc. She thought she’d married into the Clampetts.
I actually just hope that he enjoys himself. I know that some people, who are expected to be funny, get tired of being "on" at family get-togethers. (I'm not funny enough for people to expect me to be funny).
I met my best friend of almost 35 years now due to commandment 10. He'd been kicked out of his house and had no where to go on thanksgiving so my family brought him in to share our table and a warm place to sleep. That was 1991. We've been through everything together since then.
The one thing I looked forward to every year, for as long as I can remember, was my Gami's cornbread dressing. The best tasting food I've ever eaten. This'll be our 2nd thanksgiving without her and even though my aunt's comes close, it's just not the same.
Preach, Matt, Preach! Went to Thanksgiving at my aunt's house in Mississippi one year. My mother followed protocol and brought what she said she would, but my cousin tried to upstage my big mama(grandma) by not only making the turkey but baking a sweet potato pie. Ain't seen her since.
williambanks2223: I can remember a few years back we had some of my husband's family from out northwest, and they were just bound and determined not to like sweet potato pie. We told them that was okay because we had pumpkin, apple and several varieties of cakes in addto the sweet potato pie. I told my husband later that I was glad they didn't "like" it - I barely got a sliver of the last pie because they ate it all. Everything else was eaten, too. I did a 28 lb turkey and a 24 lb ham and all the other usuals of a Southern Thanksgiving. My sister and I were cooking for several days, but it was a great dinner. Unfortunately, my health won't let me do that anymore, and miss it.
My grandparents and my parents both had a really big dining room table with matching chairs. Our family Thanksgiving when I was a kid actually did look like a Norman Rockwell Thanksgiving.
When we got too many to sit at the table, my dad bought a HUGE piece of plywood and set it on top of the regular table. You learned not to lean on the table, and if everyone had to shuffle their way around it, at least we all had a seat!
Matt, you forgot. . .YA GOTTA HAVE GOOD GRAVY TO GO OVER THE DRESSING!!!! One year my sister invited us to her house for Tday. She cooked a turkey but had some jars of store bought gravy sitting there ready to be microwaved… and I almost fainted. She had loads of pan drippings and I offered to make gravy for her. She ended up racing to her bedroom in tears because I had insulted “her cooking.” Good grief, we had some drama but we also had some delicious homemade gravy to cover that dressing and dry white meat. Good gravy can fix a Chinet platter full of miscues. Happy Turkey Day!
Nailed it!!! I added a chocolate bourbon pecan pie in one year…ten years ago! Haven’t heard the end of that yet. I just remind my husband that I’m the cook and if he doesn’t like it, he can cook. That’ll NEVER happen! But I haven’t made one since. Too bad, it was awesome.
That's a shame, a chocolate bourbon pecan pie is the perfect dessert. There used to be a restaurant called Mimi's Cafe that had a chocolate chip pecan pie on the menu. It was delicious. The last time I ate there I was told they took it off the menu. I never ate there again, it was the single best dessert I had ever had at a restaurant and I just couldn't stand to sit in there knowing it was gone lol.
You nailed it! My Aunt Lou and Uncle Billy (siblings) had an annual argument about how much sage goes in the cornbread dressing. We looked forward to it.
And to avoid the dressing from being allegedly on the dry side, use chicken stock or broth instead of water...and put TWO sticks of butter just to be safe. The bacon or sausage protocol is for another time...or now (See section on Family Recipe Secrets and Hacks in your Southerner's Handbook)😃🤣🤤🍗🍁@@sid2112
"Those things are too dang small" That's why we have large wooden plates/trenchers we use for thanksgiving instead. they're like 2.5 times the size of a normal place and they look real nice. A real pain to clean up afterwards, but when everyone is able to plate up all the greenbean casserole, potato salad, and fruit salad they want on top of a slab of turkey meat AND salmon, everyone agrees its worth it.
Salmon, that's a new one, may have to try that. We have brisket when we have enough family over we need to stretch the meats (I refuse to try to cook a bird more than 18 lbs, because it will not cook properly without a commercial oven) But we also have a few extra sides/substitutions, like cheese covered broccoli, beans, mash potatoes instead, and strawberry/banana jello salad which should not be counted as a side, but it's a salad so it's not desert! Only pies for desert..... ALL the pies: Pecan, molasses pumpkin, open-top apple with strussel, cherry, and lemon meringue.
I’ve been doing Southern Thanksgiving my whole adult life. The “welcome everyone” rule is so true! I’ve had Thanksgiving worth more non-family than family over the years! If you don’t have a place to go for the holiday, you are welcome at my house!
We have similar rules for Cheusok (Korean thanksgiving), but you are observing this holiday for three days. If you aren’t cooking, helping with prep, or bussing food to whatever space is available, you stay out of the cooking area or you will be trampled and shoved around. Your plate or bowl will never be empty for more than 5 seconds before another mountain of food is plopped on. You will have enough butane canisters and charcoal to run an army for several months or you will run out and may god help you if you run out. Depending on the size of the gathering you will consume at least one large animal or a quarter of a large farm. Either way you will eat very well for three days straight.
You may as well break the other nine if you refuse to watch the Egg Bowl. We (Mississippi State & that other school) are your Thanksgiving entertainment, like it or not.
You forgot the couch rule! Elders get the seats first pick The Adults get what’s left The pets sit in whatever spot is open And the kids get the floor or pull out the camping chairs and sit around the couch
pets sit on laps if they fit, next to the kids if they dont. Just be careful because most dogs are willing to try and fitting on your lap even if they weight as much as grandma.
This is the best one ever. Informative but so funny. As an Aussie I’m really excited about getting hugged against my will. Shall I bring the Solo cups?
Growing up all we had was canned cranberry sauce, and I could stand it. But my uncle married a Cajun, and she introduced me to homemade cranberry sauce. Buddy it’s so good!
I'm half southern (full southern family that still lives in the south, but I was born and raised in the north). I'm amazed how many of these "commandments" were instilled in my as a child and have made their way into my own home.
Thank you for this advice. My family and I just moved to the south a few months ago. Things are very different from where we came from. Although nobody has invited us to Thanksgiving, nor do we have family to go be with, I'll be sure to remember this list should we suddenly find ourselves at somebody else's Thanksgiving.
@cnsohm This has got to be the coolest thing to ever happen on the internet. Risky since we don't know each other, but really cool. We're in west Florida. So far west that an accidental wrong turn puts us in Alabama.
@@domin8ssthere's a restaurant where you're at that is kinda like cracker barrel. There are/were only 2, one in Missouri and one right there in Alabama. It's been so long. I want to say it begins with a B. Brandons or something like that. Got it, it's called Lambert's. Home of the throwed rolls. So much fun and really good food.
Florida might be differently southern but most of these rules apply, there just may be more for Florida…they’re different, they have a genuine mix of everyone and that’s just different.
I'm a Tennessee-raised girl who moved to Indiana a few years ago, and I bring the South to my midwestern family's Thanksgiving. I bring my sweet potato casserole topped with pecans and brown sugar and my cornbread dressing. The Midwest is all about hugs, too, but nobody makes good dressing or sweet potatoes. I love my midwestern family, but they don't understand some foods the way I was raised to understand them.
My Mother was a stuffing Mother(from Idaho). My Parents were a mixed marriage(she from Idaho and he from WV). Me? Born and raised in Tennessee. I'm a dressing person. I had to find/eat dressing at my friends house and EVEN at school! When I was old enough I would make own(thank goodness).
If your goodbyes don't take over an hour and you haven't hugged and kissed everyone at least twice your not doing it right.😂 My family knows I'm a hugger and it's not a quick hug and a pat on the back, I want the to know they are loved and I hold them close to my ❤❤❤
@@alperdue2704 Your right!!! That's a good extra 30 minutes of everyone saying Bye, Goodbye, so glad you could make it and then more goodbyes and blowing kisses.🤣🤣🤣🤣 I'm a good southern (SoCal) girl and these things matter. Have a wonderful and blessed Thanksgiving and gooble till you wobble!! 🦃
My cousin and my mom got into it one Thanksgiving and within about 3 seconds Grandma had already come from the other side of the house with a "NOT IN MY HOUSE, NOT ON THANKSGIVING. FIGURE IT OUT OR GET OUT." I had never seen grandma yell before that and never want to again. And the last rule is definitely true, every year we have someone be it a veteran friend of my grandpas who talks to nobody and sits in his room with him all day then disappears or the psuedo family that just shows up every year because they have nowhere else to go. Its Thanksgiving and grandmas door is always open on thanksgiving.
Preach, brother! 😂 On the dressing, my mom usually made three. One for stuffing the turkey, and two (one with oysters, one without) as sides dishes. Then there was the home made cranberry chutney with orange peel & pecans, spiced (or pickled) peaches, green beans, etc..! Then there were the years we had ham too-she’d make this sweet mustard sauce that definitely made you use your roll to sop the extra up! 😋
We had the cranberry orange peel chutney too, and also spiced peaches (soaked in brandy for weeks). Grew up in NJ, was always glad my Mom was from the South.
I was so proud of myself this year for southern thanksgiving. I remembered my own to go containers to both friendsgiving and my family thanksgiving. I have nobody else’s country crock, Tupperware, glassware, or utensils to wash and return in 6 months when I finally remember again. I’ve achieved this twice in my life completely lived in the South. I’m 36. Proud I tell you!😅
Happy Friday Matt. Another possible commandment when dipping the turkey in the deep fryer stay far away when it is dipped or be prepared for a hospital stay when you receive 3rd degree burns from the splatter oil.
My Thanksgiving meal is already planned...a ribeye and some fries, and maybe some dressing if I decide to get fancy. CC that for thanksgiving supper. Jesus is good.
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Wait, wait. We have always had a "kids' table", even at non-holiday meals. It's a card table surrounded with whatever old folding chairs we can find.
With part of it butted up to a couch. :)
And that card table is at least 20 years older than the oldest kid, and may or may not be able to stand up on it's own.
And “kids” is always very loosely defined. I was in my 30’s before I graduated to the adults’ table!
Yes the "kids" table became.the cousins table and was for people in their 20s to 40s still, lol like a folding table and kiddos got the coffee table and stools if they didn't fit on laps.or in high chairs..and the chairs are a mixed bag for sure!
Us too!
I don't know if anyone else mentioned this, but the way it is 'supposed' to work is that stuffing was stuffed into a bird to cook and dressing is made in or on the oven. No bird required. So 'stove-top stuffing' is actually 'stove-top dressing' because nobody is going to cram that material into a turkey to cook.
If you're cooking ON the oven, you're cooking on the stove.
"A good cornbread dressing is piece of art and a labor of love"
Preach Matt!!! AMEN!!!
AMEN
We call it stuffing and we spend a lot of time on it. Using stove top would be a sin. You put dressing on salad.
@@sigsin1 Dressing is also what was just described. Not just for salad.
Dressing is one of the most wonderful foods on the planet!
I have never had dressing since my grandmother died
This one is spot on. Especially the dressing/stuffing debate. My bf is from Alaska. He was used to STUFFING, in the bird. This Southern girl doesn't play that unless I have no choice (meaning I am helping cook in someone else's house). No, we'd be having DRESSING, I explained. He wasn't sure about that, he said, but he'd try it. One taste of my mom's dressing and he was converted. Now that we have been guests at a couple of other Southern homes, he is a changed man. He often does the big grocery trip for holidays (he is actually quite helpful and pretty good at the grocery shopping). Now he always reminds me to put down the ingredients for dressing.
Ok have to say to me they are the same thing. I make the dressing and for the ones that like it I put it in the bird making it stuffing, cause your stuffing the bird. Outside of that it the same thing just different place its cooked.
I like the fact he at least asks (& follows, I'm sure) the dressing ingredients list. Along with all the other shopping. 👍
Kinda forgot one:
Do not ask the cooks “what they are cooking for dinner” for the 2 days after thanksgiving. You will be eating leftovers and saying “thank you” for their hard work.
And those meals made with the abundance of leftovers are usually awesome.
And those meals made with the abundance of leftovers are usually awesome.
And those meals made with the abundance of leftovers are usually awesome.
Pie for breakfast on Friday!
A week! That’s how long the leftovers last!😅
I have to share my “Country Crock” story! Back in the 1990’s my household went through a massive amount of County Crock margarine and of course we saved the empty containers. One of those I used to store random screws, nuts and bolts etc. One day I was replacing the mini blinds in the kitchen and had the country crock screw container out on the kitchen counter. Later that evening after dinner I put some leftover corn in an identical container. I got distracted by the kids and when I came back into the kitchen I quickly grabbed one container that I thought was corn and put it in the fridge, the other went in the junk drawer. A few days later I started to smell something funky in the kitchen. I looked and looked for where that smell was coming from. I finally traced it to the junk drawer. Thinking it was a dead mouse, I carefully opened the drawer only to find the country crock container that I thought held the screws bulging! I immediately realized what I had done and looked in the fridge. Sure enough the screws were in the fridge and the corn was in the junk drawer! Every time I see a country crock container I think of that corn….. Happy Thanksgiving in advance ya’ll!
Thous shall remember the brown masking tape and use on the sacred crocks.
😂😂
Funny. Sounds like something I would do .
Blow your budget and buy some actual containers. 😆
Last year we hosted a friend from overseas and it was the highlight of my culinary life that she gushed about how our Thanksgiving celebration was just like what she'd seen depicted in movies/tv. That's it. I can die a happy woman now 😂😂😂
Love this!
Aww!! What country was she from?
Oh My me too. I made a thanksgiving dinner for a friend from Romania . It was his first Thanksgiving Dinner . He was in aww of the food and the amount of food on the table.
😊😀❤️
Ukraine @@haveialigned
My grandmom insisted the family come to her place for Thanksgiving. She lived a simple life, and lived in a small mobile home. So nobody could eat at the kitchen table, because it was loaded with food and most any flat surface available. There were people eating in the living room, the front and back porch, and a bed room. Those were the best Thanksgivings of my youth, because we were together and it made my grandmom happy.
That sounds AWESOME!
Here’s another unofficial commandment Matt. Thou shall not interrupt the post-feast nap. Because those who live a ways away from Grandmothers house need that energy to stay awake on the drive home, especially the driver.
? Nobody in the South lives "a ways" away from Grandma....
@@ragdoll49 My branch of the family does. We live in Tennessee, she lives in Alabama with the other three branches of the family.
Also it's a fight to the death who gets to take their nap in Mawmaw's bed because that bed is always the softest coziest thing ever. The same witches that make Waffle House so healing enchant the beds of mawmaws everywhere
Never mind those who may have a bit of a drive to reach home. We all require a spot to get through our post-turkey coma in. 💤
@boohooter23 I thought she was called "mee-maw"
I learned all of this the hard way when I moved to South Carolina from California years ago. I swear someone should have prepped me on the transfer. At least a Visa would have helped. 2 different worlds in one Country. Bless my heart !!!😂😅❤
😂 he's right and I'm a Texan 🤠
An aunt waaaay down the family line decided to tell my Nana that her banana pudding didn’t taste the same a few thanksgivings ago. My Nana slowly lifted her head from whatever she was preparing in the kitchen, turned around bright red and I haven’t seen that aunt since. More banana pudding for the rest of us 😋
😂
Just a heads up: if anyone says dinner doesn't smell or taste- they have covid. Send them home with a plate.
@@ADHDqueenB 😂😂😂
I believe that 100%.
🙀
My sister once deviated from the accepted sweet potato casserole recipe AND the potato salad recipe on the same Thanksgiving. My Mama never let her forget it - for 20 years! I'm the designated macaroni 'n cheese cooker (so proud) and when that same sister volunteered to make it 1 yr because I'd had surgery, Mama said "No. Your sister can sit down while she makes it. She makes the mac 'n cheese like me. I'm not taking any chances!" Um, thanks?! (My husband helped, bless him.) My Mama's been gone 5 years and I'd give anything to hear her praise my cooking...and fuss at my sister, hahaha! Happy Thanksgiving, y'all!
I'll take your mac n' cheese recipe, please!
Good for you!😊
I make 5-10 pounds of mashed potatoes every year, skin on, loaded with butter. Gathering I go to is over 40 people normally, and half are teen/twenties boys.
I feel this whole heartedly 😂 I got out of the hospital the morning of Thanksgiving one year and my mama still made me make the Mac n cheese 😅 others volunteered and she said absolutely not!
I completely felt this comment. According to my brother's children I'm the only one allowed to make the turkey. One year my sister in law didn't make a pan of baked mac and cheese. The kids were in full revolt until I walked in with the pan of mac and cheese. I was told I saved Thanksgiving while they all side eyed their Mama the entire meal.
When I worked at a grocery store bakery, I loved the Thanksgiving shift. It was hilarious. People buying 20 lb frozen turkeys for 3:00 pm dinner and looking for long-gone pies and fresh baked rolls (actually baked the day before), and the lost souls asking- “How do you make mashed potatoes?”- while holding up a 10 lb bag of reds. Such fun.
Yes! Haha. This! I also worked at a grocery store bakery.
I think you have achieved sainthood.
😂
I’m an old retired meat mgr. One of my favorite questions asked yearly was, “What’s the difference between a fresh turkey and a frozen one?”
I always replied, “One’s colder than the other.”
@@einy2crikey😂
Several years ago, my niece decided to get married, outdoors, in the mountains, on thanksgiving Friday. Thanksgiving, itself, to be celebrated on location. We both catered the reception and we also made thanksgiving meal for 120. While camping. Outside, camping, thanksgiving meal for 120. We deep fried 15 turkeys. Cast iron Dutch ovens everywhere. It was quite a spread, and an impressive achievement.
Wow!
My word that's enough to kill an ox in a week!
You deserve some kinda medal
Y'all don't be experimenting on the holiday!
Unless you don't want to be invited to Christmas dinner 😂
I experimented once … never again lol
You just got an “Amen”!
@ToddRobinson13- Better yet, I'll taste test each of your experimental dishes for free. I just like being helpful. 😂
@@wheramiyeah, the curried sweet potatoes were not a big hit when I tried lol! And I tried to make real dressing lol. My family is very Yankee proud, I should have known I have only instant stuffing skills...
My mother made the best dressing you ever tasted. It was famous in the family (both sides!), everyone loved it, and everyone looked forward to it every year. Very sadly, she passed away a few years ago, but I am so blessed and grateful that one day a few years earlier, I asked her if she'd show me how to make it. We had a grand time that day, and it's one of my cherished memories with her. AND I ALSO KNOW HOW TO MAKE HER AWESOME DRESSING. I actually haven't made any in a while, and this video has reminded me that I need to do just that, very soon. Thanks Matt!
I’m a Southerner, and I approve this message.
Me too
I'm a Midwestern gal from NE Indiana, and I second that! God bless us all with enough to share, and make us thankful to live in the USA 🇺🇸!❤
The Country Crock Container bit at the end sent me because if you're from the South you know it's 100% true. XD
And your Mamma and your Grandma have a stash of those things that regularly fall out of the cabinet.@@angelousmortis8041
me too
I grew up in Tampa where every Thanksgiving the British Navy assigns a one-week stopover for one of their naval vessels doing a tour of duty in the Caribbean/Bahamas. Every year the various ship crews would wait for the yearly schedule announcement to see who got the assignment. Locally the radio stations and newspapers would announce how to sign up to host 1 or more sailors/officers for Thanksgiving dinner and the sign-up list would fill up quickly. After a few years with a week of shore leave some of the men with families would arrange for them to fly over to spend the week so you might end of hosting a British family instead of just a sailor. Some of the sailors and families took the tradition of Thanksgiving home with them. Other days young women would hang out at places frequented by the sailors and try to talk them out of the caps...until the Royal Navy cracked down on penalties for "losing" their caps.
This sounds like a nice tradition to celebrate.
That is so cool! I was a military brat and we always hosted some of my dads airmen for Thanksgiving. It was a tradition that my husband and I continued for many years throughout our military careers.
I live near an airforce base in Texas that trains NATO pilots and every year host families share Thanksgivings with the those who are away from home
I did sign up for Operation Homecoming (host an airman from the AF) when I was in tech school. It felt like home. Years later, I did the same for airmen from basic training from Lackland AFB.
That sounds like fun
My MIL taught me how to make a proper Southern Thanksgiving meal, including corn bread dressing and collards, before she passed away. No written recipes, you just have to remember it.
Agreed. If you need a recipe, you don't need to be making it. You learn it watching the older generation make it. Perfect it practicing on your family at home before " taking it on the road".
That’s how MILs let you know you’re loved!
@@jesseauer7649 mine was the best!
Still remember my MIL's recipes. "How much flour?" answer: Oh, just enough. "How long do you cook it?" Till it's done.
@@jesseauer7649so true - my MIL taught me too. I miss her.
As the traditional bringer of thanksgiving collard greens (I tried to quit one year and the whole family text message yelled at me at once😂) I always look forward to meeting all the nice older ladies in the produce aisle to fill up my cart - they’re good cooking role models ❤
Number 10 is actually a hard rule at our house, but we say, "Whoever shows up gets fed!" We've hosted Marines who couldn't get back home for Thanksgiving, friends and relatives of friends and relatives, and people I still don't know. But everyone is welcome, and everyone gets fed. A lot. Like multiple turkeys, a ham or 2, and a duck.
I'm retired military and actually miss being able to host a bunch of youngsters who weren't able to make it home for Thanksgiving. Always so polite and appreciative, and it made my heart sing to always see a house full of people coming together to count their blessings. ❤❤❤
My family loves duck, but I would think it's more trouble than it worth for how many folks it'd feed? We add brisket when we need more meats, and I just saw some one suggest Salmon which sounds fun, I may have to try that. Bonus to salmon is you could cook up more fast when some one brings a +3 ;D
I guarantee you those Marines will defend you with their life now that you gave them edible food. You may not expect it, but they will never forget you and will come to your aid at a moment's notice, especially if y'all had any alcohol for them to drink.
Same with my family. My extended family were kind of jerks so growing up we rarely got invited to the extended family thanksgiving, so my dad and i would have our own thanksgiving and often invited people who had nowhere else to go, occasionally including homeless people, immigrants, or soldiers stationed nearby with no family in the state.
And Roast Beef and smoked pork butt.
At 1:59, CHINET PLATES. Having spent many years trying to negotiate a quickly-disintegrating, cheap paper plate which never had a chance to stand up to the gooey, gravy soaked-meal, which then inevitably gives out (and embarrasses my hostess), I learned this lesson well. I've attended Thanksgivings with complete strangers, but I could always win the day by bringing my good supply of sturdy CHINET PLATES.
Yes! The table sitting is non existent😂 patio furniture, hoods of vehicles, steps outside, borrowed chairs from the church…..that’s a good Thanksgiving ❤️
Yep. Sometimes it's cold on Thanksgiving and sometimes it's so hot that with the inside cooking plus the heat, one can only stand to eat out on the porch! Done that a plenty of times!
Let’s not forget, the tailgate of your best friend’s truck, while higher than a kite, trying to eat a huge plate of dinner. 😆 sounds like a great idea!
Oh my goodness. I laughed so hard at this. It’s like you have been to my family’s dinner. We have a past thanksgiving that we call “dressingate!” The step grandmother (which no one liked) said that she would make the dressin. I show up and no dressin. Our thanksgiving revolves around Turkey and dressin. She said she didn’t like the way it came out and threw it out. I am not going to lie, I was about to cry. lol and with each family member we had to have the “nope, no dressin” conversation. We blessed her heart a lot that day. Lol After that, we only let her bring the store bought pumpkin pie. Lol
As a person from the Pacific North West who has family in the south that I have visited for Thanksgiving... all of this was accurate. Especially that Granny does whatever she wants... no questions asked lol
One time a cousin and I were goofing around, when all of the sudden great grandpa looked at us from his chair with a stern look and said, “Sientete.” I don’t know a lot of Spanish, but we settled down pretty fast. Never upset great grandpa. 😂
Lol . same here live in PNW. Relatives in the south on one 1/2 of the family . Sientete! On the other 1/2 .
Granny has Queen energy and we say absolutely nothing about it. We even like it.
I am from PNW too :D
With any luck, some day YOU will be Granny, and then everybody will be required to obey YOU!
YES! Cornbread dressing (though we did call it stuffing because it’s stuffed in the bird) and NO SUGAR in that cornbread!
I want to take a moment to say a thank you for the communities who share their thanksgivings with those around them. Be it victims of natural weather, the kind old man next door, or whoever you decide. Southern Hospitality is, in my opinion, one of those commandments that is ingrained in us, and we're always happy to share.
Very well said. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your loved ones. 🙏
Even the smallest Thanksgiving gatherings I've been to always have some random person or three that are not related--coworker, a neighbor, someone from the VFW, friends from church etc and that's what makes it special. Sometimes it happens around Christmas too. There's always enough food for another plate, so come on by!
Amen to that!
Imma go fix you a plate 😉
The more the merrier!!! Ya’ll come!
Thank you for all the reminders about cooking and entertaining. Unfortunately, I do this now without my husband who died the day before Thanksgiving 6 years ago. It has been a solemn occasion for more than 50 years since my grandfather's passing as well.
Thanks to this Southern group of people who keep me cheered up. I know I can laugh when I watch your videos.
My grandfather died on thanksgiving day in 1983, he had just tasted the turkey , and sat in his chair and died .
This video should go big time viral. "Honor thy Dressing, and not call it stuffing" Amen. Alleluia.
Dressing does not go inside the bird, stuffing does. Dressing is cooked separate and does not usually include any turkey as an ingredient. Half of the taste profile of stuffing is the turkey fat the bread absorbs.
Praise the Lord on that one! And it better be made with cornbread!
@@From-North-JerseyExactly! Thank you! Dressing never goes in the bird. It is a side dish (more like the co-star) and goes on the side!
@belindamoore3518 - Ok????? 🤷🏽♀️ 😆🤚🏽
My momma's family is from New Orleans but she was born in St. Louis, MO and she makes "stuffing" but I'd put it up against dressing any day of the week. See, it's a stuffing that starts the night before the bird because it's gotta cool after you've sauted the celery, onion, and 3 kinds of sausage; seasoned the bejeezus out of just a bit broth to keep it while you; poured it over stale brioche hand-pulled by children that afternoon into cubes "just so big" before being toasted in an off but warm oven while the sauteing's happening; and mixed in the scrambled egg. I used to wonder how you could possibly put "suffing" in a box or try to make it for a week night...
That being said, she will often cook extra on the side in a casserole dish for food safety, but ideally it gets basted with turkey juice while it's cooking.
I love your last commandment. My sister and I used to do Thanksgiving at my house and invite all our friends who didn't have another place to go that day. One year I was talking with a friend who had a bit of an ego problem, and the problem wasn't that his ego was too small. He was saying he didn't have a place to go on Thanksgiving because his mother was doing something and his sister was traveling, so I invited him to join us. He immediately asked, "Who's going to be there?" After I stopped laughing at what a jerk he was, I told him he probably wouldn't like the guest list.
God bless you, Matt Mitchell. This is spot on. The sad thing about the chair hierarchy? The only way to move up is...death in the family. Memories of Thanksgivings past make every year even more special. Thanksgiving mornings spent watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, staying out of the way of the kitchen work, that's a commandment addition.
Oh see, I was always put to work. Peeling potatoes when I was 5 was how we figured out I was ambidextrous-- my aunt noticed I was using my left hand.
Well kids, I am the official Granny that cooks for 30 family members every year from scratch. Every word is true, but in my home (was raised Old World Southern!) we wouldn't be caught dead using paper products at Thanksgiving! To this day, I would set fine china, crystal, and silver out with a floral arrangement and candles in the. I have a full set of china for every holiday! I cooked for a solid week in prep. but this year, I am ill and not able to do it. Everyone said they wanted to go to someone else's house so this year, I am not cooking. Just doesn't feel right. But your video made me smile. Happy Thanksgiving Yall.
Thank you for keeping tradition all those years.
Happy Thanksgiving. I'm hoping that you get spoiled this year as much as you have been spoiling others the past 30 years!
Spot on! I have received the honor of making the dressing each year, using my grandmothers recipe. It calls for THREE different kinds of cornmeal, which can only be found at IGA or Piggly Wiggly in Alabama or Georgia, just for the cornbread!
I honestly didn't know there was more than one type cornmeal and I took culinary in high school lol
TIL ... there are three different types of cornmeal. The more you know 😂
I need to know what the 3 are please..
That sounds amazing
LOL my great grandmother would ONLY use cornmeal from a Piggly Wiggly in Lumberton NC. That's where she bought her liver pudding too, in natural casings. Once or twice a year someone would drive her there and whoever else in the family wanted to go.
You are so right about the Cornbread dressing. It’s taken my wife 40 years to perfect the Cornbread dressing…and yes it’s more important than the Turkey !!!
The hierarchy chairs is exactly the thing that I've gone through every year I've had family Thanksgiving.
When we went to my nanny’s the adults gots the chairs in the kitchen and in the game room if there wasn’t any more get the brown chairs or stools the kids got the black seats under her little tables we would pull them up to the little table in the living room or the floor
We kids ate at the kitchen table at mammals house. That's where the extra food was piled in the center so it was better than the dining room with the adults. No one to limit your intake of dessert either. 😊
This year I have officially moved up to elder. I am glad about getting a good chair, but sad that there is only one person left on the family older than me. I'm only 64!
I had the honor of getting a southern thanksgiving once, I couldn’t move I was so full, so much damn good food and good people, I was in heaven man
I am physically disabled making me unable to prepare a large dinner from scratch. Last year I was thrilled to host my nephew and his family. They came all the way from my home state of Alabama to have Thanksgiving with us in Texas. So, for the first time I used Cracker Barrel’s catering service. It was all a very good experience, but I had forgotten to order dressing.😱 It was already Thursday morning and of course absolutely no time to make any dressing myself. So, I wondered if the stuffing mix could be converted to dressing. I googled my question and VOILA! There was a recipe for the conversion. I tried it and it turned out acceptable. I hope I don’t have to repeat that experience of forgotten dressing again, but accidents do happen. If you ever find yourself in a similar situation, remember this conversion trick and remember: the moisture level of the batter will determine the moisture texture of the dressing-make sure you add enough broth, but not too much. Anyway, the disaster was averted, we had dressing and a wonderful thanksgiving! I thoroughly enjoyed this segment! HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!! THANK GOD!! AND ROLL TIDE!!🙏✝️🕊️🐘❤️‼️
That is possibly one of the most Southern Thanksgiving stories ever 😂
I like to go to the grocery store the day before Thanksgiving. It’s like a scavenger hunt. I help the people who have a list made by Mom or Grandma find the stuff. They don’t even know what it is so they don’t know where to look for it.
We saw you in the Little Debbie bakery store today stocking up on merch. We should have said hello but didn’t want to bother you with your family. My wife and I both work at Little Debbie and enjoy your content. Take care!
I’m more in awe of someone who works for Little Debbie than him…can we be friends? I’m a huge fan!
You’re basically an American hero for working at little Debbie 🇺🇸 thank you for your service
@@heathermullins3799 thank you for the kind words! Of course we can!
Having a full-on Thanksgiving at our Egg Bowl tailgate this year for about 13 people so we'll all be sitting in camp chairs: Smoked ham, oyster dressing, regular dressing, green bean casserole, baked beans, fried okra, corn, peas, potato salad, rolls and who knows what else. Doing shrimp and grits the night before while the prep work is ongoing. It'll probably take a week to clean up the kitchen after this. But, it'll be worth it!
Comin' over to your house!
@thomasflynt1764 : Heck YES - we do Oyster Dressing too. A must have for the whole family with the same recipe from over 75+ years. Made by loving hands, and comes with wonderful memories of those who have earned their wings. Hallelujah! ❤
My cousin in-law (RIP) was a chef from Austria. He made the most AWESOME oyster dressing for one Thanksgiving dinner. I'd never eaten anything but homemade cornbread dressing, and it blew me away!
If you bring something to my family’s house with raisins in it on Thanksgiving, you can just leave!😂
agreed I can't think of one thing that belongs on a Thanksgiving table that should have raisins in it. Granted I think that applies to anytime of the year 😂but especially Thanksgiving
As my dad always says ‘don’t be putting those bugs in the cookies!’ … or anything else for that matter. I always have to translate for friends that don’t understand raisins = bugs 🐜
@@SleepyPea 🤣 Not at my house!
@@stephaniecasey9100 Yes! At NO time of the year!🤣
@@FarmgirlFriday Love it!🤣
Whoever likes the dish the most, makes it. If you can't cook, you're learning.
I demolish a full loaf of monkey bread every year, somewhere around 15-16 my granny asked me to make two, she couldn't move her hands like she used to for the prep, and she wanted me to have a full loaf to myself that year, for my birthday. So i did. I ain't never seen my granny prouder than when everyone complimented that monkey bread, said it was the best they'd had, and she got to tell them i made it.
The last commandment touched my heart. I teared up. Thank you. Bless you.
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When I was a noob to hosting, I remember setting the "tv perfect" Thanksgiving table brimming with crocheted pumpkins, a sunflower arrangement I put together myself, my late aunt's china, glittering crystal glasses that I hand polished...with gloves...to avoid fingerprints. The family arrived, did not even venture in to the formal dining room, went straight into my cabinets, pulled out the plastic cutlery and paper plates, and ate on the couches. NEVER again did I ever attempt a nice table. Even though it kills my soul inside, every year, it's random computer chairs (even though there are literally formal dining chairs), and paper and plastic.
In my family it is also not considered bad form to bring your own containers expecting to take home leftovers. It is almost expected.
Right? It's more like an exchange. I bring ten pounds of mashed potatoes; I leave with some mashed potatoes, dressing, green bean casserole, turkey, gravy, and a slice of Aunt Susan's apple pie if there's any left by then.
@@wordforger exactly! My family is part Thai and they treat everything, even religious festivals, like potlucks and just about everyone brings a big platter of something, then everyone grabs a little of everything from the leftovers to take home. You'll see people showing up to temple functions with plastic bags and tupperwear along with the food they brought.
One day before Thanksgiving as I am cooking everything in sight (besides what I had cooked the day before) my husband asked me what was for dinner. I turned but before I could say anything, our teenage son answered "Heck, Dad, even I know this a "fix it your dang self day." Then added that he knew the number to pizza hut.
11. Thou shalt not hang Christmas decorations until black Friday. No sooner
THAT SHOULD BE COMMANDMENT NUMBER ONE! Christmas decorating is for the weekend AFTER THANKSGIVING!
@@asdisskagen6487 I agree
I have seen people decorate with Christmas decorations *THE DAY AFTER HALLOWEEN.*
its crazy how some stores start selling Christmas stuff before Halloween. Last year my dad and stepmom had christmas lights up AND on for thanksgiving.
No! Not until Dec. 15!
We always had a large table that had two leaves to it and could accommodate up to 15 people. The chairs were old and had seen better days but they all matched. The room was tight, the people were boisterous and the table was set with fine china and great food.
No one brought anything, we cooked everything ourselves and no one was required to clean up after bringing in the plates and things to the kitchen.
We didn't require guests to raise a finger in our home, even if they are family.
My husband and i would split the menu and the things that could be done ahead of time were taken care if the day before. We were up early and we did the cooking together, which was so much fun. It was our time together as part of our holiday tradirion.
Now, our daughter is grown up, my parents are seniors and too busy traveling. His mom has since moved out of state. Its now just the two if us. We still cook together and sit down for a quiet thanksgiving at home.
Incredibly sad
It's not sad.
It's a different place in life.
As long as the meal is excellent, is fine.
@@YeshuaKingMessiah
We wanted our guests to feel relaxed, not stressed out or worried about what to bring. Too many people stress out about having to cook and if their food is good. Who wants to be doing dishes when you're full and sleepy? We quickly packed things away and put everything into the fridge to be taken care of later. It was more fun to catch up and socialize and besides there weren't many left overs.
It's quiet now, but we have demanding jobs and we're older, it's hard to try to keep up the energy levels. My parents are in their 80's and they go south for the winter (leaving around October), and my mil has a year or less so she can't travel out of state. So it really is nice to do low key holidays. Sometimes, we get a guest or two but it's nice without the noise. It's not sad, it's life as I knew it growing up. Once the grands passed on holidays became quiet, until the next generation picked it up again. When our daughter has her own place or her cousins do then holidays will become boisterous once again. I think big celebrations are for the young. It's harder to travel as we get older. Driving at night is hard and the excitement/noise levels are too much.
@@michellefarris3961 holidays aren’t about the food
It’s the relationships
Life is relationship
@@YeshuaKingMessiah His Name is Jesus. You can look it up in the Bible.
That was a good one. The dressing commandment…amen! I was born, raised, and live in the West but my family, both sides are from the South so I was raised like a misplaced Southerner, lol. I never trust anyone with the dressing because most of these people never ate cornbread dressing until they come to my house.
True that
Oh Darlin, your what we call a Transplant! You can take the Southerner out of the South but you cant EVER take the South out of the Southerner! Happy Thanksgiving Darlin!
@@bettierusso5410 ❤️ you are so sweet! Happy thanksgiving to you and yours!
Just moved back to Alabama, can’t wait for thanksgiving back in my birth state
Don't forget the elders with the new joints get the chairs with the arms, or else we are stuck at the table and will never be able to leave it again for any reason.
Now in my Northern family, stuffing is cooked inside of the bird and dressing is cooked in a separate pan.
As a Kroger employee, I definitely agree with number 3. I have heard many horror stories from my coworkers about customers coming in at last minute and complaining about us not having enough Stove Top stuffing mix (1. That's not real dressing. And 2. Our location isn't the only location in Little Rock. )
Having lived in Little Rock for over a decade, can confirm. The fact that Wal-mart isn't open on Thanksgiving is a cause for panic.
I worked at Publix for 2 years, and the day before Thanksgiving was always insane.
While in college, I worked at a Piggly Wiggly. We considered the day before thanksgiving halloween for grocery store employees, only scarier.
@@asdisskagen6487Then you're making the run to Walgreens! 😂
@@LittleRockVol I worked at Walgreens back when it was the only store open on Thanksgiving day and Christmas day, and it was WILD. I'd get people coming in asking for last minute things like onions--not french fried in a can, but like whole ones. LOL
Prepare to be hugged... Against your will... (Thanks for the giggle!) My family gatherings were always small compared to most. In the north we have stuffing and I believe most of us put gravy on it. Maybe I was "spoiled", but our "table gatherings were always that "ideal image" you mentioned... If we did watch football, it was always the pro games. (Brady and Bellicheck spoiled us rotten! Alas, all good things come to an end...)
Every year I (jokingly) suggest to my husband that I try a different way of doing the turkey. Every year he looks at me with the biggest, saddest, eyes and says "Well. If you want to. I think your normal one is great though......"
My dressing recipe will never change, though. That's Grandma's recipe. We had to translate it from German, and then decipher what she really meant. It gets baked in a giant turkey bag, in a turkey roasting pan. Because there's no other dish that it can fit in.
Holy…! That is a shit ton of stuffing! I hope you have a platoon of Navy seals fresh off of a mission to feed all of that too! 🤣 please have a happy Thanksgiving, if you were able to celebrate this year. 🫂
My wife is from upstate New York and we had been married several years before she was introduced to a southern Thanksgiving. Kids were playing on hay rolls, we were shooting the latest gun purchases, etc. She thought she’d married into the Clampetts.
I would love to see Matt's place on Thanksgiving. That would be entertainment.
I actually just hope that he enjoys himself. I know that some people, who are expected to be funny, get tired of being "on" at family get-togethers. (I'm not funny enough for people to expect me to be funny).
Matt's place is empty. He packs up the wife and kids and drives them to Grandma's. The only question is which grandma.
@@HariSeldon913One for lunch and the other for supper.
@@alperdue2704 That's what I do, but Matt makes just one sound like an all day event.
I met my best friend of almost 35 years now due to commandment 10.
He'd been kicked out of his house and had no where to go on thanksgiving so my family brought him in to share our table and a warm place to sleep.
That was 1991. We've been through everything together since then.
“Kicked an ant hill” 😂☠️ I’m absolutely rolling right now
The one thing I looked forward to every year, for as long as I can remember, was my Gami's cornbread dressing. The best tasting food I've ever eaten. This'll be our 2nd thanksgiving without her and even though my aunt's comes close, it's just not the same.
Preach, Matt, Preach! Went to Thanksgiving at my aunt's house in Mississippi one year. My mother followed protocol and brought what she said she would, but my cousin tried to upstage my big mama(grandma) by not only making the turkey but baking a sweet potato pie. Ain't seen her since.
aww man! poor cuz! lol 😂😂
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williambanks2223: I can remember a few years back we had some of my husband's family from out northwest, and they were just bound and determined not to like sweet potato pie. We told them that was okay because we had pumpkin, apple and several varieties of cakes in addto the sweet potato pie. I told my husband later that I was glad they didn't "like" it - I barely got a sliver of the last pie because they ate it all. Everything else was eaten, too. I did a 28 lb turkey and a 24 lb ham and all the other usuals of a Southern Thanksgiving. My sister and I were cooking for several days, but it was a great dinner. Unfortunately, my health won't let me do that anymore, and miss it.
Bless! This comment made my day!🤣🤣🤣
My mom was from the south and holidays were a feast...my mouth is watering 😂
My grandparents and my parents both had a really big dining room table with matching chairs. Our family Thanksgiving when I was a kid actually did look like a Norman Rockwell Thanksgiving.
What a nice memory. My grandmother would bring out her best china and we’d help set the table and it was always so pretty. Good times and memories.😊
When we got too many to sit at the table, my dad bought a HUGE piece of plywood and set it on top of the regular table. You learned not to lean on the table, and if everyone had to shuffle their way around it, at least we all had a seat!
Matt, you forgot. . .YA GOTTA HAVE GOOD GRAVY TO GO OVER THE DRESSING!!!! One year my sister invited us to her house for Tday. She cooked a turkey but had some jars of store bought gravy sitting there ready to be microwaved… and I almost fainted. She had loads of pan drippings and I offered to make gravy for her. She ended up racing to her bedroom in tears because I had insulted “her cooking.” Good grief, we had some drama but we also had some delicious homemade gravy to cover that dressing and dry white meat. Good gravy can fix a Chinet platter full of miscues. Happy Turkey Day!
Nailed it!!! I added a chocolate bourbon pecan pie in one year…ten years ago! Haven’t heard the end of that yet. I just remind my husband that I’m the cook and if he doesn’t like it, he can cook. That’ll NEVER happen! But I haven’t made one since. Too bad, it was awesome.
That's a shame, a chocolate bourbon pecan pie is the perfect dessert. There used to be a restaurant called Mimi's Cafe that had a chocolate chip pecan pie on the menu. It was delicious. The last time I ate there I was told they took it off the menu. I never ate there again, it was the single best dessert I had ever had at a restaurant and I just couldn't stand to sit in there knowing it was gone lol.
Give pumpkin cheesecake with ginger snap crust a try.
Make it for Christmas dinner instead!
@@quietone748 That is not an option. Pecan pie with no fancy additions. Since I can only eat a slice or two,(it’s so sweet), I’ll survive. 😔🤣🤣
Thanksgiving used to be my favorite holiday......now i no longer have family....so i miss it😢😢
I love how mat looks like hes riding in the buggy at 1:09 !
True Southerner calls it a buggy.
You nailed it! My Aunt Lou and Uncle Billy (siblings) had an annual argument about how much sage goes in the cornbread dressing. We looked forward to it.
I get to make the cornbread dressing this year! ... and a pumpkin pie!
You must be living right.
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Word of advice, make a couple before Thanksgiving to practice up.
And to avoid the dressing from being allegedly on the dry side, use chicken stock or broth instead of water...and put TWO sticks of butter just to be safe. The bacon or sausage protocol is for another time...or now (See section on Family Recipe Secrets and Hacks in your Southerner's Handbook)😃🤣🤤🍗🍁@@sid2112
Oh, Matt. This was spot on. On every single talking point. Thanks, and we love you! ❤
"Those things are too dang small"
That's why we have large wooden plates/trenchers we use for thanksgiving instead. they're like 2.5 times the size of a normal place and they look real nice. A real pain to clean up afterwards, but when everyone is able to plate up all the greenbean casserole, potato salad, and fruit salad they want on top of a slab of turkey meat AND salmon, everyone agrees its worth it.
^ This person Thanksgivings
Salmon, that's a new one, may have to try that. We have brisket when we have enough family over we need to stretch the meats (I refuse to try to cook a bird more than 18 lbs, because it will not cook properly without a commercial oven)
But we also have a few extra sides/substitutions, like cheese covered broccoli, beans, mash potatoes instead, and strawberry/banana jello salad which should not be counted as a side, but it's a salad so it's not desert! Only pies for desert..... ALL the pies: Pecan, molasses pumpkin, open-top apple with strussel, cherry, and lemon meringue.
Doesn't anyone use real plates anymore?
I’ve been doing Southern Thanksgiving my whole adult life. The “welcome everyone” rule is so true! I’ve had Thanksgiving worth more non-family than family over the years! If you don’t have a place to go for the holiday, you are welcome at my house!
Matt,spoken like a true Southerner. Every thing you said is absolutely 💯 true and a fact. I do believe these are actually laws in southern state 😅.
We have similar rules for Cheusok (Korean thanksgiving), but you are observing this holiday for three days. If you aren’t cooking, helping with prep, or bussing food to whatever space is available, you stay out of the cooking area or you will be trampled and shoved around. Your plate or bowl will never be empty for more than 5 seconds before another mountain of food is plopped on. You will have enough butane canisters and charcoal to run an army for several months or you will run out and may god help you if you run out. Depending on the size of the gathering you will consume at least one large animal or a quarter of a large farm. Either way you will eat very well for three days straight.
True. A family holiday gathering is NOT the place for arguments, fights, or ANY type of drama. Behave yourself, and help others do the same!
You may as well break the other nine if you refuse to watch the Egg Bowl. We (Mississippi State & that other school) are your Thanksgiving entertainment, like it or not.
You forgot the couch rule!
Elders get the seats first pick
The Adults get what’s left
The pets sit in whatever spot is open
And the kids get the floor or pull out the camping chairs and sit around the couch
Yup pets for sure get priority over the kids
pets sit on laps if they fit, next to the kids if they dont. Just be careful because most dogs are willing to try and fitting on your lap even if they weight as much as grandma.
This is the best one ever. Informative but so funny. As an Aussie I’m really excited about getting hugged against my will. Shall I bring the Solo cups?
I’m thankful for the constant joy I get watching your videos, Matt. These are 100% spot on - Granny (or Mammaw in my family) makes her own rules!
My mom hooks me up with a couple country crock tubs, a coolwhip bowl and maybe some rolls in a ziploc bag. I love Thanksgiving!
Growing up all we had was canned cranberry sauce, and I could stand it. But my uncle married a Cajun, and she introduced me to homemade cranberry sauce. Buddy it’s so good!
Congratulations on your uncle's good fortune! 😂
I can't do the foo foo cranberry sauce. Gotta have the canned stuff. It even comes with lines so you can properly slice it!
I'm half southern (full southern family that still lives in the south, but I was born and raised in the north). I'm amazed how many of these "commandments" were instilled in my as a child and have made their way into my own home.
Thank you for this advice. My family and I just moved to the south a few months ago. Things are very different from where we came from. Although nobody has invited us to Thanksgiving, nor do we have family to go be with, I'll be sure to remember this list should we suddenly find ourselves at somebody else's Thanksgiving.
Are y'all close to the north Florida area? Y'all are totally invited to our house for Thanksgiving!
@cnsohm This has got to be the coolest thing to ever happen on the internet. Risky since we don't know each other, but really cool. We're in west Florida. So far west that an accidental wrong turn puts us in Alabama.
@@domin8ssthis must happen!!! It was meant to be. Southerners don’t invite unless we mean it. ❤️
@@domin8ssthere's a restaurant where you're at that is kinda like cracker barrel. There are/were only 2, one in Missouri and one right there in Alabama. It's been so long. I want to say it begins with a B. Brandons or something like that. Got it, it's called Lambert's. Home of the throwed rolls. So much fun and really good food.
Florida might be differently southern but most of these rules apply, there just may be more for Florida…they’re different, they have a genuine mix of everyone and that’s just different.
I'm a Tennessee-raised girl who moved to Indiana a few years ago, and I bring the South to my midwestern family's Thanksgiving. I bring my sweet potato casserole topped with pecans and brown sugar and my cornbread dressing. The Midwest is all about hugs, too, but nobody makes good dressing or sweet potatoes. I love my midwestern family, but they don't understand some foods the way I was raised to understand them.
Hahaha! I make the dressing for 80 people so… I’m gonna start baking and freezing cornbread tomorrow!
Let the church say "Amen" 💚💚💚
As a true member of the south these are facts 😆
My Mother was a stuffing Mother(from Idaho). My Parents were a mixed marriage(she from Idaho and he from WV). Me? Born and raised in Tennessee. I'm a dressing person. I had to find/eat dressing at my friends house and EVEN at school! When I was old enough I would make own(thank goodness).
Matt you are the best! Making me laugh with 1-9 then tear up on Commandment 10. And yes, we Southerners do like to hug!!!!! Love this😍😍😍
The Southern goodbye takes at least a half hour; minimum.
@@alperdue2704 It takes HOURS for my husband and in-laws😆😆😆
If your goodbyes don't take over an hour and you haven't hugged and kissed everyone at least twice your not doing it right.😂 My family knows I'm a hugger and it's not a quick hug and a pat on the back, I want the to know they are loved and I hold them close to my ❤❤❤
@@HugsXO And don’t forget that extra time when they follow you out to your car.
@@alperdue2704 Your right!!! That's a good extra 30 minutes of everyone saying Bye, Goodbye, so glad you could make it and then more goodbyes and blowing kisses.🤣🤣🤣🤣 I'm a good southern (SoCal) girl and these things matter. Have a wonderful and blessed Thanksgiving and gooble till you wobble!! 🦃
Thank you I do not do Walmart for a good reason anytime of year❤️
Fun video thank you and happy Thanksgiving!
My cousin and my mom got into it one Thanksgiving and within about 3 seconds Grandma had already come from the other side of the house with a "NOT IN MY HOUSE, NOT ON THANKSGIVING. FIGURE IT OUT OR GET OUT."
I had never seen grandma yell before that and never want to again.
And the last rule is definitely true, every year we have someone be it a veteran friend of my grandpas who talks to nobody and sits in his room with him all day then disappears or the psuedo family that just shows up every year because they have nowhere else to go. Its Thanksgiving and grandmas door is always open on thanksgiving.
I have my great grandmothers dressing pan. I treasure it.
Preach, brother! 😂 On the dressing, my mom usually made three. One for stuffing the turkey, and two (one with oysters, one without) as sides dishes. Then there was the home made cranberry chutney with orange peel & pecans, spiced (or pickled) peaches, green beans, etc..! Then there were the years we had ham too-she’d make this sweet mustard sauce that definitely made you use your roll to sop the extra up! 😋
I always make one dressing with oysters and one without, too! My father and brother must have oysters, the rest of us-ick.😂
Oysters and dressing
WTHeck
Yikes
We would have 2, one with chicken dark meat, and one without.
Oh, how I love Spiced Peaches! Might bring those as a surprise this year... Adding that to tomorrow's grocery list. ❤
We had the cranberry orange peel chutney too, and also spiced peaches (soaked in brandy for weeks). Grew up in NJ, was always glad my Mom was from the South.
Thanks so much for this. At 72 my southern upbringing is still around. I am 1 of 10 children-so yep kids table-back porch! Happy memories😂
Full of beans and probably stained from spaghetti sauce or chilli. 😂
I was so proud of myself this year for southern thanksgiving. I remembered my own to go containers to both friendsgiving and my family thanksgiving. I have nobody else’s country crock, Tupperware, glassware, or utensils to wash and return in 6 months when I finally remember again. I’ve achieved this twice in my life completely lived in the South. I’m 36.
Proud I tell you!😅
Happy Friday Matt. Another possible commandment when dipping the turkey in the deep fryer stay far away when it is dipped or be prepared for a hospital stay when you receive 3rd degree burns from the splatter oil.
As an additional caution ... do not set the fryer up under low-hanging foliage. Just sayin'😂
And make sure that turkey is dry dry dry before you submerge it in hot oil. Unless you want fireworks on Thanksgiving...
Make sure the Turkey ain’t still frozen, otherwise the fryer will explode.
My Thanksgiving meal is already planned...a ribeye and some fries, and maybe some dressing if I decide to get fancy. CC that for thanksgiving supper. Jesus is good.
The Moment you mentioned the Country Crock container I said "there's baked beans in there"
You better get that sage and poultry seasoning in the first week of November!