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[Mountain Goat]

I love this stuff. And I get the bad grandma recipe thing, given that I annually make my mum's trifle (sponge fingers, tinned strawberries, rum, cream: best trifle EVER, as long as you are either me or my sister. No-one else ought to try it. )

I remember having the sweet potatoes and marshmallow thing, and my mind being blown.

[Kenickie]

My dad and brother refuse to eat my mum's homemade cranberry sauce at Christmas.

[Blondiejude]

Jet or emma you need to come back and explain what everything is please. I am transfixed by thanksgiving as on tv it generally comes across as turkey served with pudding what are all the sides? Is cornbread really heavy? I’m trying to imagine having a slice of bread with roast beef dinner and failing!

[Blondiejude]

Ken - every year I buy cranberry jelly as we usually have about 12 for lunch and they aren’t all my family and I get PANIC someone will ask for it. Every year no one does and then each November I bin the out of date one (or attempt a ridiculous gravy type recipe then bin that) then panic buy a new one. It’s almost become a Christmas tradition now. I got one Tuesday as they were on offer for a £1. I’m so gullible it’s untrue.

[Disco]

I think I've asked Jet every year* but if they have turkey and all that weird stuff for Thanksgiving then what do Americans typically eat for Christmas?

*Forgive me, it's been a year so I've forgotten. Again.

[Jet]

Usually a ham. Mr J and I left to our own devices have either smoked turkey (this is the first year we’ve smoked a whole one for the family for thanksgiving), Porschetta and this year we’re planning mini wellingtons.

I’ll explain the food stuffs on the table when I get home. I really liked my sister in laws corn casserole but it became apparent why when she told me what was in it (Koran or butter).

[Mountain Goat]

turkey served with pudding

This is the best description of Thanksgiving I have ever seen.

[Disco]

Do they have all the pudding with the ham?

Do Americans have roast potatoes ever? Or do they just have wedges?

[Jet]

My autocomplete is being terrible - there was no Koran in it just lots of butter

[Jet]

What pudding? You means the pies?

Turkey, stuffing, gravy, cranberry sauce. Just like Christmas dinner with mashed potato instead of roasted ( ) and no pigs in blankets.

Cornbread is quite light and crumbly. But we don’t have that with thanksgiving dinner; others might the cornbread casserole is a bit like a buttery corn stuffing, I suppose. She makes it because her kids like it.

[Disco]

I would like your mum's trifle, Goat. I love tinned strawberries. Oh wait, no custard :eek: . OK I would like a mix of your mum's and R's mum's because she does super-set Bird's custard BUT she does it with tinned prunes !

[Disco]

What pudding? You means the pies?

Turkey, stuffing, gravy, cranberry sauce. Just like Christmas dinner with mashed potato instead of roasted ( ) and no pigs in blankets.

I meant all the sweet vegetable sides.

OK, I can get with that - and I am glad it's different from TGD - I like mash a lot. Do they have sprouts, parsnips and pigs? Is the stuffing normal?

[Mountain Goat]

Oh sorry, I forgot the custard! Of course there is custard. I will give you some trifle (but after turkey, not as a side dish).

I'm definitely up for the cornbread and the buttery corn. But mash with a roast feels a bit invalid.

[Jet]

Oh, I see! The sweet potatoes. I don’t know if corn, cornbread or corn casserole is normal, it’s just something my sil makes.

Mr J’s family are not huge sweet potato fans so it’s never featured in immediate family thanksgiving but the wider family have made the weird marshmallow thing.

[Ella77]

Imagine never having roast potatoes :eek:.

[Disco]

I also enjoy photos where there is a dish with an entire can of cranberry sauce dumped out and it still has the shape of the can

This very second - I am watching The Real Housewives of New York - and one of them has dumped a couple of cans of cranberry onto a plate and said "I love to keep the shape of the cranberry as the can".

[Disco]

Imagine never having roast potatoes :eek:.

I would DIE.

[Disco]

The cranberry sauce.

[Mountain Goat]

Hold on. Never having roast potatoes? Is this what it is? I can't recall. Not just not at Thanksgiving, not ever?

[Disco]

Yes, we need to know. Never, ever, ever?