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So, what time is dinner?
Jeff Wrangler:
Here's a thought that just popped into my head: We're swappin' recipes and family traditions, but I wonder what time everyone is having dinner on Thanksgiving Day?
While I was raised in town, not lonely like Ennis, my family has always remained close to its not-too-distant rural roots. Holiday dinners, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter, are generally mid-day meals, as is "Sunday Dinner." Indeed, I come from a background where folks don't have "breakfast, lunch, and dinner," they have "breakfast, dinner, and supper"--a holdover, I believe, from farming days, when the mid-day meal was the biggest of the day because men who have been working all morning plowing the back 40 need a big mid-day meal to give them the energy so they can go back out and finish that plowing.
In any case, my dad and I will be dining with his cousin's family mid-day on Thanksgiving Day. What about everyone else?
Meryl:
Good question, Jeff. :)
I'm going to a friend's for dinner. Appetizers at 2:00, and dinner at 3:00. Should give us plenty of time to digest before heading home. ;D
dot-matrix:
When I was a kid dinner was always at 4, after the ball game. Now it seems the plan is always munchies between 1 and 3 and dinner at 3:30. Bob and I are driving up to Colorado Springs to his folks for the holiday.
Ellemeno:
We're hosting ten (total) here this year, ETA of 2pm. Most are coming from about an hour away, including my sister-in-law, who is actually bringing the turkey (I'm doing the Tofurky). So, the plan is she is going to pull that done turkey out of the oven, swaddle it in insulating blankets, drive the hour to get here, and carve it pretty much right away. It sounds like we will eat soon after everyone arrives, and then relax, play games, groan contentedly.
I washed the slipcovers on both couches today (thank you, IKEA), washed the serving pieces that don't get used that often, filled the salt and pepper shakers, and completely decluttered the kitchen counters. My niece vacuumed everywhere.
MaineWriter:
My mom is cooking and hasn't been specific, but I suspect we'll be eating between 2 pm and 3 pm, which is usual.
In our house, the thing I love is to watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade, which is on from 9 am til noon. I'll use the time tomorrow morning to make creamed onions and my husband is baking a pumpkin pie. We'll gather up the kids and head to my parents (20 minutes away), planning to arrive about 1 pm.
My sister and her family are driving from Massachusetts so they, unfortunately, will have to miss the parade on TV.
I grew up in the New York City suburbs of Long Island and have never been to see the Macy's parade in person! Probably just as well, I am sure you get a better view on TV.
Leslie
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