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What was Thanksgiving?
2020-11-25 13:12I just realized I don't recall what my parents regularly cooked for Thanksgiving, if anything.
That's not as much a warning of grave memory loss as it might seem. After going to college 2000 miles away, I was never back for Thanksgiving, just Christmas and summer, so it's been almost 30 years. And there wasn't any family to have over, so it wasn't a big social occasion or party, just me and my parents having maybe a nicer meal than usual. And, well, our usual dinners were already pretty nice, food stamps and poverty notwithstanding, so there's not that much contrast.
The one thing I'm pretty sure of is that there wasn't a turkey. Our oven was broken for basically my entire conscious life. My father was adept at doing pot roasts in a Dutch over, but I don't think a turkey would fit. Quite possibly roast beef *was* the special meal, though that's vying with vague memories of Christmas.
I know we had cranberry sauce, but not when. I'm not sure it was only a Thanksgiving thing for us, if it was Thanksgiving as well.
Just musing.
Though all this probably explains why I don't have the same attachment to Thanksgiving food or parties as most other Americans. I came to the standard array of dishes only in college. And coming as an unbiased outsider, a lot of it isn't all that great. :)
That's not as much a warning of grave memory loss as it might seem. After going to college 2000 miles away, I was never back for Thanksgiving, just Christmas and summer, so it's been almost 30 years. And there wasn't any family to have over, so it wasn't a big social occasion or party, just me and my parents having maybe a nicer meal than usual. And, well, our usual dinners were already pretty nice, food stamps and poverty notwithstanding, so there's not that much contrast.
The one thing I'm pretty sure of is that there wasn't a turkey. Our oven was broken for basically my entire conscious life. My father was adept at doing pot roasts in a Dutch over, but I don't think a turkey would fit. Quite possibly roast beef *was* the special meal, though that's vying with vague memories of Christmas.
I know we had cranberry sauce, but not when. I'm not sure it was only a Thanksgiving thing for us, if it was Thanksgiving as well.
Just musing.
Though all this probably explains why I don't have the same attachment to Thanksgiving food or parties as most other Americans. I came to the standard array of dishes only in college. And coming as an unbiased outsider, a lot of it isn't all that great. :)
