Shit that you overheard during Thanksgiving (2021)

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Nothing this year, but previous years have been pretty good.

1: My wife’s first meal with a large group of Americans was Thanksgiving. My boss’ wife was no-shit Queen Betty Crocker and laid out an AMAZING spread for her family and a dozen guests, which was made even more incredible by the fact that it was held in Tokyo, in a rental space, and a lot of that stuff was hard to get (at that time). My then-future bride asked wide-eyed, “Do Americans eat like this all the time?!?!” My boss said, “No, this is just a little thing, we’ll have more later.”

2: After we married, we visited half of my family in the US during another Thanksgiving. One set of my grandparents were divorced and my grandmother married some jackass who had been an essential worker during WWII (some kind of design job, idk). Of course, he couldn’t wait to bring up the war and dropping nukes. Even his own kids, who normally defended him, were telling him to shut up. Cringe, but I suppose it could’ve been worse—my actual grandfather fought in the Pacific theater.

3: Mrs. Butcher Pete learned a lot of English watching cooking shows, and was awed by the mighty TURDUCKEN. Such a grotesque monstrosity could only be found in ‘Murica, and Thanksgiving was the only proper venue to attempt to master such a beast. By this time, my parent’s generation (on the non-jackass side of the family) were a little too old to handle cooking duties and the rest of my generation was too incompetent, so Mrs. Pete did the whole Thanksgiving spread, cooking a turducken with me as a kitchen assistant. One of my uncles watched Mrs. Pete tornado around the kitchen for a bit before saying, “Had you told me as a kid that I’d one day be watching a Japanese woman make Thanksgiving dinner, I would’ve called you nuts.”

4: Back to Tokyo. One of my wife’s cousins learns about Thansgiving from tv and asks Mrs. Pete about it. She does so in front of several other relatives, who are always down for a feast. What started as a “we aren’t doing anything this year” turned into a Thanksgiving/Japanese fusion potluck, with turkey, mashed potatoes, apple pie, sushi, octopus stew, and some other stuff I can’t name.
 
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To be fair my comment was too harsh, I how story envy Thanksgiving, you guys get to have have Turkey twice a year that shit slaps hard. :hambone:🤤 way better than regular chicken.
 
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Having Thanksgiving with my dads side, which means hicks and trailer park trash. Can't wait to shoot myself after 30 minutes.
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It took 15 minutes

Some highlights

1. QAnon is real, and the deep state is keeping JFK Jr hostage
2. our local mayor is a deep state op because my felon uncle can't have an AR-15
3. The NFL is still bad for some reason, my other meth lovin uncle cried when I had the Bears-Lions game on
 
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Mashed Potato Pie Recipe - Food.com

I don't know where this recipe originated, but it has been an old stand by on my mom's dinner party tables for years. It actually bakes up to look quite impressive. Please don't try to substitute fresh mashed potatoes (believe me I have tried) the instant box stuff provides the perfect texture.
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Mashed potato pie is where it's at.

Use half-and-half instead of milk, and smoked paprika.
 
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Really nothing big. My moms making a ham, some Vegetables and Deviled Eggs that I’ll be eating shortly. Later on some friends from Church who don’t have family around here are going to throw a Thanksgiving celebration. Before COVID it was a big deal in my family but now about half of them are terrified of it so we don’t celebrate it as much any more.
 
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Tired of a long ass drive to a town I hate but it makes my mother happy.

This might be the first time her husband doesn't say Nigger because there's no football on, just some new boomer ranching show.

Update: apparently a "car full of illegal aliens" turned around near the house. Honestly surprised he didn't call them beaners (not that I'd judge him either way, I'm just surprised) after turning around in the driveway.
 
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I overheard my Gen-X friend's Boomer father call her immediately after the Kyle Rittenhouse acquittal and tell her to GO STRAIGHT HOME and LOCK THE DOORS because that BASTARD KID WAS LET OFF and there was going to be rioting in the streets. This was nowhere near Wisconsin but while we were shopping for Thanksgiving ingredients so I think it counts. Boomers gonna boom.
 
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Thanksgiving has been entirely cancelled because my grandmother got food poisoning last night and she doesn't want anyone to come over. I live in an extremely small town so the only grocery store nearby is barren. No clue what the rest of my family will do since no one else wants to host and my place is too small to hold all of my family members.
 
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