Happy turkey holocaust day!

Hey everyone, just wanted to say Happy Thanksgiving! Also, what's your family tradition you/they do for thanksgiving?

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sacrifice the 1st born!!!!

with cranberry sauce

"But mommy, I don't wanna go into the oven!"

And now, the top 10 signs you've eaten too much at Thanksgiving(from David Letterman):


10. Hundreds of volunteers have started to stack sandbags around you.

9. Doctor tells you your weight would be perfect for a man 17 feet tall.

8. You are responsible for a slight but measurable shift in the earth's axis.

7. Right this minute you're laughing up pie on the carpet.

6. You decide to take a little nap and wake up in mid-July.

5. World's fattest man sends you a telegram, warning you to "back off!"

4. CBS tells you to lose weight or else.

3. Getting off your couch requires help from the fire department.

2. Every escalator you step on immediately grinds to a halt.

1. You're sweatin' gravy.

This year, our Thanksgiving day tradition is changing. My husband always has to work Thanksgiving, as does my brother. Thanksgiving here will be a normal Thursday, especially since my husband is getting home from the hospital tomorrow (hopefully) and so won't even get his catered T-day dinner at work.

However, we have a friend from my hometown that recently moved here to Vegas, and her birthday is the Sunday following Thanksgiving. So, we're planning a Texas Hold 'Em party, complete with all the Thanksgiving flavors, in finger foods. Mini turkey & cranberry finger sandwiches on butter rolls. Bite sized pumpkin pies. Stuffing 'meatballs'. Crisp snap beans with a mushroom soup & crisp onion dipping sauce to simulate the famous 'green bean cassarole.' We've had as much fun trying to plan the mini menu with all the traditional flavors as we probably will winning each others' chips, and we'll get all the food cheaper for buying right after Thanksgiving.

(By the way, apparently crying is a Tell. Don't cry while playing poker.)

MmMmM, do you have those mini hotdog things too? The wones wrapped in the cooked bread/dough stuff?

Pig In A Blanket is the chef's term for those, I believe No, we don't. Just the traditional holiday flavors that we're trying to recreate in easier finger foods. My brother and roommate is a chef, so that helps a LOT. I can come up with nifty ideas and make him do most of the work of making sure they work well.

One thing we also discussed, since he used to own a catering company, is developing these recipes for holiday parties and 'left-over' parties between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Imagine being at a holiday party and getting all of the full meal flavors in bite size hors d'ouvers.(sp?) I think it would be a good money maker!

Yes, I forgot the name.

"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly." Arthur Carlson

"oh the humanity!!!!"

one of the finest half hours in TV history

tnx for the memories