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    I just need to vent i would never tell anyone in my real life this but this whole week my stomach has been turning knowing that this day is approaching. I am absoultly sick of green bean casserole honesty how is pouring a can of soup and dries onions on canned beans in anyway appealing the thought of it makes me want to vomit and yet the group I'm going to spend this day with had like 3 ppl bring this tierd old dish. There will be so much food and its the same butter and carb loaded cassorals and meat every single year can we at least change it up? I know I have choice not eat and trust me I will exercise this choice but I'm just sick of the whole tradition in general but ppl are counting on me to go and it is my obligation as an American parent to pass this tradition on to my children so I will paste a smile on my face and go threw the motions I kinda wish I didn't feel this way

    ps I know that all of this is my choice and could totaly opt out if I so choose but I won't

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    Default Re: I find thanksgiving revolting :(

    i feel the same about christmas , the gimmicky nauseating christmas songs make me wanna puke, santa clauses everywhere, in your face ads...so gimmicky. ick

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    Default Re: I find thanksgiving revolting :(

    Quote Originally Posted by krchab99 View Post
    I just need to vent i would never tell anyone in my real life this but this whole week my stomach has been turning knowing that this day is approaching. I am absoultly sick of green bean casserole honesty how is pouring a can of soup and dries onions on canned beans in anyway appealing the thought of it makes me want to vomit and yet the group I'm going to spend this day with had like 3 ppl bring this tierd old dish. There will be so much food and its the same butter and carb loaded cassorals and meat every single year can we at least change it up? I know I have choice not eat and trust me I will exercise this choice but I'm just sick of the whole tradition in general but ppl are counting on me to go and it is my obligation as an American parent to pass this tradition on to my children so I will paste a smile on my face and go threw the motions I kinda wish I didn't feel this way

    ps I know that all of this is my choice and could totaly opt out if I so choose but I won't

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    Maybe try some actual "traditional" recipes out of the Colonial Williamsburg cookbook? Stuff that really would have been served in the late 1700s.
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    I would switch with you. I have nobody to make three dishes of green bean casserole. I have to make reservations and take my son to a restaurant because I don't really have family that is close. You can go eat a boring 4 course meal and I will have the family style Thanksgiving please. Be fucking happy!

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    Quote Originally Posted by strippername View Post
    I would switch with you. I have nobody to make three dishes of green bean casserole. I have to make reservations and take my son to a restaurant because I don't really have family that is close. You can go eat a boring 4 course meal and I will have the family style Thanksgiving please. Be fucking happy!
    Ha ha ha! Same!

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    Quote Originally Posted by strippername View Post
    I would switch with you. I have nobody to make three dishes of green bean casserole. I have to make reservations and take my son to a restaurant because I don't really have family that is close. You can go eat a boring 4 course meal and I will have the family style Thanksgiving please. Be fucking happy!
    This.

    I have 3 children now and I am finding joy in these holidays all over again. I suppose I felt somewhat the same way that they did before I had kids but seeing the pleasure my kids take in these holidays has really renewed them for me.

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    How is it your obligation as a parent to pass this tradition along? I know Im wierd LoL but...I do what I want in my own house. Everytime kiddo and I have spent Thankgiving alone, we have pizza and iced cream. Pizza was what I had for my first Tday as an adult, and it just kind of stuck with me lol So yeah, thats been my tradition ever since I was 18.

    When I do spent Tday with others, I bring my broccoli and cranberry slaw...its just shredded broccoli and carrots with my homemade slaw dressing, dressed up with some raisins and walnuts, but for Thanksgving I add dried cranberries too. My ex was vegetarian, and it was literally the only thing he could eat...since it was all meats, and even the sides either had bacon or some sort of animal fat in it...or he just didnt trust it.

    Personally, when I see so much food I lose my appetite...its just not appealing to me to see that much food, most homecooked foods anyway look gross to me (Im huge on presentation...even when I cook at home, I pay attn to food colours and how I arrange it on the plate) and then on top of that...seeing people *consume* so much food. Ive held Tday before, and dinner parties, and I usually eat before, or after..but my appetite is gone watching all of that.
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    Ooh I just saw the last few replies.. Well, I dont know. I guess everyone has their own perception of happiness.. What is the point of doing something you find miserable, because its socially expected to do it. Like I said, we have our own tradition when kiddo and I spent Tday alone together, and its kind of cool, because its special to us. Also, she knows the full pizza story behind my first Tday on my own, and she thinks its kind of cool, and that we do something totally different and unique to just us...we have our own tradition.

    The gatherings with friends is fun definitely, but shes not exactly suffering when we dont do it...lol We have our own happiness... Tday for us isnt about eating a lot of food, its about other more important stuff....like watching the Macys Parade!!!!!!!!
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    Default Re: I find thanksgiving revolting :(

    I've done the big family thing, the traditional restaurant thing, I want to shake it up. So, I'm making a Seychelles style roasted chicken. Now that I'm steering away from gluten and heavy carbs and what not, I've chosen something healthier that won't still be on my ass come New Years Eve.

    krchbb, you should just eat the veggies and roasted meats over anything fried and AVOID stuffing. It's a diet killer.
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    Default Re: I find thanksgiving revolting :(

    Like with what others posted above there are so many people who don't get to have a family gathering a home cooked TG meal. Look past the "same ol boring traditional TG carb loaded foods" and appreciate the day of spending time with the one's you care about. Besides Christmas, it's a day where you should eat guilt free and it's once a year. I mean how often do you get to eat those foods unless you have Capriotti's Bobby sandwiches many times throughout the year LOL.
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    Default Re: I find thanksgiving revolting :(

    i agree with the op. i personally don't understand how gorging on an insane amount of food and bickering with family accomplishes anything. i eat the foods i am most thankful for, and it isn't turkey. i dont have family close by, but it doesn't bother me. i personally find it more rewarding to spend time with the poor on thanksgiving. helping them and making them smile really brings joy to me this time of year. i really feel this is a better way to show thanks than eating food that you don't really love and being around people you don't get along with. (not in my case with family, but i hear a lot of stories)

    op, what foods are you and your kids most thankful for? i think that's what you should eat and share those foods with those less fortunate. if others have a problem with that, it is their problem, not yours.

    i never really liked the concept, even as a kid. actually, i found no point in stressing the beejeesus out of oneself to make such a meal. my family stopped doing it, and we are much happier for it.

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    Default Re: I find thanksgiving revolting :(

    You have to define holidays the way you want it.
    Switch it up and make something way different! I like turkey, but I am not a fan of the Thanksgiving meal. Me and the boyfriend are going for steak and going to have some crazy good food, then next week we'll be eating off a turducken.
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    Default Re: I find thanksgiving revolting :(

    Thanksgiving is my least fave holiday. I'm very pro Giving Thanks but I hate family gatherings, I hate football, an I HATE having that much food around.

    I feel you OP.
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    Default Re: I find thanksgiving revolting :(

    Maybe it would help if you thought of all the Hurricane Sandy victims who lost EVERYTHING and would gladly trade places with you ?
    Or how about our troops in Afghanistan and elsewhere around the world eating turkey MRE's instead of a full course sit down with family and friends ?
    What about the people living far from family and friends who have to eat in a restaurant or pop a Swanson Turkey dinner into the microwave ?

    Yeah the holidays can be a hassle. I like Christmas but I hate crowds and traffic. Sometimes I can get frustrated and mutter that : "Christmas is for children and religious fanatics lol " But I DO like the smiles on the faces of my friends and loved ones when they open the presents I got them.

    It's all a function of pov, perspective and attitude imho.

    Happy Thanksgiving to one and all. Try to remember the less fortunate and give until it hurts. Gobble. Gobble.

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    Default Re: I find thanksgiving revolting :(

    This kind of reminds me of the third world meme...where the caption says something like "So you mean to tell me, in your country, you make your kids eat all the food on their plate, because I dont have any?" I know that as a kid when we barely had any food any day of the year, and it didnt make me feel better to know other people were eating more in one day than what we made last for a month or more...would feel like an insult to know people are actually thinking of people like me while they did that, feeling good about themselves to know I would trade places with them if I could.

    It feels like common sense, but maybe its the sort of thing where youd have to actually be less fortunate to understand why its an insult. Who knows. But it makes a lot more sense to me, if you are concerned for people who are less fortunate, to actually do something for the less fortunate, instead of treating yourself to more than you need simply because you can afford to.

    Its one thing to appreciate an be thankful for what you have....quite another to say you enjoy yourself to excess while thinking of others have nothing. Thats not honorable. I def would not feel good about myself to stuff myself to excess while thinking of people who have nothing. If it really mattered, and you *really* think about our troops, the homeless, the estranged and less fortunate, cut your thankgiving food bill in half, and:

    Donate the rest to USO so they can send care packages to soldiers: http://www.uso.org/operation-uso-care-package.aspx
    For our diabled veterans who have served our country, check this out: http://www.dav.org/donate/Default.aspx
    To assist military families (soldiers do *not* make good money and for all they do, many have very little): http://www.militaryfamily.org/get-involved/donate/

    Bring it close to home, and seek out local homeless shelters, shelters for battered and abused women and children, check with a local church who may be doing something for the community to see how you can help. Or just take it upon yourself to put together food boxes, go downtown and hand them out to people sleeping in the street (and I dont mean pack up your leftover scraps, but to put together a proper plate of food)

    Btw, Im not talking out of my ass...As teen my church did special dinners for the homeless in our community and I volunteered (I just checked...and happy to see they still do that, and now even have a special "Homeless Ministry" http://www.mountolive.org/bulletin.pdf) Ive also volunteered in soup kitchens, nursings homes, spending time with those whose families didnt come and see them for the holidays, and I donate to "The Homeless Voice" a Miami based organization.

    So Im not telling anyone to do anything I havnt done....but having been there myself and needing that for myself, I will just let you be aware that the whole concept of thinking about all the people who dont have, as an excuse to eat in excess is a really bad one. Say you do it because you enjoy it...thers *nothing* wrong with that, be grateful for what you do have, but dont tell others how you feel they should celebrate a holiday, and on top of that say you do it because you can and others cant. Thats just cruel.

    To me, thanksgiving is about being thankful...its about appreciating what I have...its not about eating as much food as I can. For others, thats a part of the holiday they enjoy...not for me, but thats fine. Just like how we havnt exchanged gifts every Christmas and chose to buy gifts for toys 4 tots or volunteered instead, doesnt mean we're doing it *wrong* just because we dont do the popular part...people do things in their own way....theres *nothing* wrong with that.
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    Quote Originally Posted by papillonluvr View Post
    Thanksgiving is my least fave holiday. I'm very pro Giving Thanks but I hate family gatherings, I hate football, an I HATE having that much food around.

    I feel you OP.
    Well the tradition is founded on hypocrisy to a large extent.

    Given that within a generation those cute little Indians and quaint pilgrims (like you see all the plastic figures of) were slaughtering each other in what was probably the most brutal Indian war in American history, King Phillip's War. If not in fame or numbers of casualties, certainly in the ratio of casualties to Native American and Colonist populations in the area. It was also the first real use of genocidal strategy, whole towns of Native Americans being moved en masse to barren islands in the height of winter to starve and freeze to death.

    And I sure hear you with the football.


    However there is a lot of good that comes from it as well; and the holiday does give a lot of people happiness, bring families and friends together, and in the case of homeless shelters, etc., provide a decent meal for people who sure need it.


    By far the best Thanksgiving I ever had was with my 2nd SO, who was a bit of a rebel like myself, and also as it happened an extremely picky eater. We decided to just eat whatever the hell we wanted--ALL of it--main course, side dishes, dessert. She ate whatever she wanted--some kind of fish I think it was. I had a gigantic steak. We fucked the hell out of each other, stuffed our faces, and lazed around in bed the rest of the night in a celebration of lust, gluttony, sloth, and indolence. It was epic...
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    I wish I was in America to clebrate, there are a few places in London doing thanksgiving dinners I might go and have one yumm.
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    You do not have to use canned cream of mushroom soup or powdered onion soup or any of that fake crap. You don't have to make green bean casserole, I never do. Why not focus on alternative / healthier recipes? Use this as an opportunity to improve your cooking and experiment a bit.

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    Quote Originally Posted by simone87 View Post
    i feel the same about christmas , the gimmicky nauseating christmas songs make me wanna puke, santa clauses everywhere, in your face ads...so gimmicky. ick
    Given that they have no idea when Yeshua was born exactly, and that he would no doubt have been horrified at the massive commercialization in (the 3rd or 4th translation of) his name--it's really pretty sad and disgusting. But them again, as with Thanksgiving, it can be a very positive phenomenon, bringing the families together, helping the poor, etc.


    The bottom line for me--and I believe this more and more the longer I live--every day is a holiday. Every day is your birthday, because every day is another gift of Life. Every day is Christmas, we can show our love for friends and family. If you are in love, every day is Valentine's Day. And every day we should give Thanks for having food to eat, friends to eat it with, etc.
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    Default Re: I find thanksgiving revolting :(

    I did not mean to offend anyone with post I'm actully not spending the holiday with loved ones I'm going to a dinner at my church with ppl I hardly know I know I don't have to go but I want my kids to have the best memories I can give them however I like the pizza idea that I read in this thread I might do that next year

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    Wow. This thread has really taken a depressing turn.

    For my family, it is a time to be thankful for everyone we have. And yes, a feast will be produced in my house tomorrow. We will have lots o' meat, potatoes and stuffing, boatloads of gravy to pour on everything, rolls slathered with butter, desserts coming out of our ears, etc. And when we sit down at the table overflowing with all these wonderful foods, we will say a prayer of thanks for everything that we have.

    Now the downside to that is that, since we do not waste in my house, I will be eating those foods for the better part of the following week - LOL. But to me it is worth it.

    An yes, there will be football! Lots of football, including a night game where I hope that Pats will nail the Jets' casket shut for the season!

    And who can forget the Macy's Parade. It is a time honored tradition.

    Now am I really all that caught up in most of this? Heck no, except perhaps the Pats game tomorrow night. But I'm not going to let my own feelings take away from what should be a special day for my children, who will no doubt sneak extra treats when they think that we aren't looking - LOL - and otherwise have a day that is dedicated to their family.

    With that, I'm going to exit this thread with a Happy Thanksgiving to all of you who are going to actually enjoy it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Djoser View Post
    Given that they have no idea when Yeshua was born exactly, and that he would no doubt have been horrified at the massive commercialization in (the 3rd or 4th translation of) his name--it's really pretty sad and disgusting. But them again, as with Thanksgiving, it can be a very positive phenomenon, bringing the families together, helping the poor, etc.


    The bottom line for me--and I believe this more and more the longer I live--every day is a holiday. Every day is your birthday, because every day is another gift of Life. Every day is Christmas, we can show our love for friends and family. If you are in love, every day is Valentine's Day. And every day we should give Thanks for having food to eat, friends to eat it with, etc.
    I love this...and totally agree! Its nice to have the reminder once a year, but even better to live everyday thankful, to appreciate those you love and care for whenever possible..any time is a good time!! True enough that the real meaning behind the holiday has been lost...heck most of them! lol but they do bring people together and have people thinking of and doing things for others and thats always a good thing
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    Quote Originally Posted by rickdugan View Post
    Wow. This thread has really taken a depressing turn.

    For my family, it is a time to be thankful for everyone we have. And yes, a feast will be produced in my house tomorrow. We will have lots o' meat, potatoes and stuffing, boatloads of gravy to pour on everything, rolls slathered with butter, desserts coming out of our ears, etc. And when we sit down at the table overflowing with all these wonderful foods, we will say a prayer of thanks for everything that we have.

    Now the downside to that is that, since we do not waste in my house, I will be eating those foods for the better part of the following week - LOL. But to me it is worth it.

    An yes, there will be football! Lots of football, including a night game where I hope that Pats will nail the Jets' casket shut for the season!

    And who can forget the Macy's Parade. It is a time honored tradition.

    Now am I really all that caught up in most of this? Heck no, except perhaps the Pats game tomorrow night. But I'm not going to let my own feelings take away from what should be a special day for my children, who will no doubt sneak extra treats when they think that we aren't looking - LOL - and otherwise have a day that is dedicated to their family.

    With that, I'm going to exit this thread with a Happy Thanksgiving to all of you who are going to actually enjoy it.
    I really doubt anyone wants to rain on your (Macy's) parade, Rick. I for one am very glad you and so many other people will find happiness in traditional food and lots of football. We just want to celebrate in a different way, and laugh/vent about the annoying parts.

    If you perhaps re-read my last post, you will see that what I would like most of all is that the positive aspects of the holiday(s) are not limited to a few occasions each year. That's very positive!
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    blksharpie, thank you so much for that post. you've put into words how i feel much better than i could. i always felt that way about thanksgiving since i was a child. i felt...wrong. that is why i forgo the traditional dinner with friends and family to help the poor. i bring my favorite foods to them. i feel much more spiritually fulfilled in doing so. yes, i have had a few 'friends' have a problem with my choice. sometimes going as far as to actually call me 'ungrateful'. considering the very personal reason as to why i do this every year, i was rather insulted. yes, of course i check in with family and friends by phone to wish them a happy thanksgiving. we respect our different ways of celebrating. i prefer simplicity for this holiday. i honestly feel in my heart like i am more grateful for just the simple things in life when i do not celebrate this holiday in the traditional manner. i'm not trying knock anyone else's choice, i am sharing my nontraditional idea in the hopes that the op may benefit and find a way to celebrate that leaves her feeling as spiritually fulfilled as i am.

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    Great post alice_island.
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