Someone did a survey and picked up on the fact that one in four Americans (a quarter of them)....would prefer to have something different on Thanksgiving Day.
I sat and pondered over this.
For about years of my life, I had Thanksgiving dinner at a Air Force chow-hall. I wouldn't go and rate it five-star but there was little to really complain about.
My German wife has attempted on around five occasions to create the dinner, in a sort of German style. I won't complain much about it (the pecan pie was always frozen, and you would be forbidden Cool Whip because it's loaded with wasted calories).
I even did one Thanksgiving dinner at a Marine NCO Club, with Philippine cooks, doing a sort of Asian-take on the dinner (don't ask, it was pretty bad).
For the past fifteen years, I've done the dinner mostly at the Ramstein or Sembach NCO Clubs....which were pretty decent but in the $25-per-person range.
The trouble with this polling question asked....what the hell would do besides a typical Turkey dinner?
I worked with one guy in the 1990s who was going to do everything listed in a 1790s recipe book for authentic Mount Vernon-George Washington dinner.
Bar-b-q'ing your way to the dinner? Maybe.....with a thick rib sauce.
I could even see doing a goose rather than a turkey (but it'd be loaded with fat).
All of this just makes me wonder.....what else could one do up, on a special occasion?
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