Thanksgiving Dinner or  Thanksgiving Supper?
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2:00 p.m.  This allows for time to digest your food, watch the game, eat pie, and then around 6:00 or whenever if you still feel peckish, there are leftovers.  \n\nIt's just a family tradition, but it works for us, we typically have about 50 people over, and they stay until the wee hours, playing cards and just catching up with each other.
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Try getting a sampler plate of traditional greek and turkish food (both are fairly similar with key differences)  Ask the resteraunt if you can order a little of everything.  They should be able to cut you a deal.  Particularly cool if you want to do it in traditional greek style and rather then have it plated for you you have it all laid in serving dishes on the table and pass it around thanksgiving style.  This encourages communication and socialization in a time that, in American tradition, is normally kinda quiet.
814945
Turkey and dressing/gravy, cranberry sauce (homemade, not that canned stuff) on the side...and dessert...Maple walnut pumpkin pie\n\nHappy Thanksgiving....to you, your family and friends
732222
The most incredibly perfect Thanksgiving Dinner consists of these delights - jellied cranberry sauce, hot and creamy baked corn, green bean cassarole, homemade buttermilk biscuits, an inanely juicy turkey that slides off the bone, a light gravy for both the turkey and the biscuits, extra sugrey candied yams (yum!), potato salad made with spicy paprika and celery seed, and some hot spiced cider to drink.  And you can't forget that side of pumpkin pie for dessert!  If that's not perfect, then I seriously don't know what would be!
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1st thing:  Breathe!  You'll get through this & have some great memories in a few years.\n\nNext, don't be embarressed for your in-laws.  It's not YOUR fault they are the way they are.  Your parents/family KNOW this. \n\nRegarding the kids, plan on doing a children's table.  2 reasons:  keep them seperate from the adults so you can have "grown up conversations" and you can use that same table for activities such as puzzles, games, crafts, etc. \n\nFor the menu:  Tell them that you had planned on traditional Thanksgiving dinner.  If they would like to make & bring barbeque, that would be great!  Then both families can share what they consider traditional.\n\nHave fun!  Remember this won't be the only time the families get together.  Make the best of it!
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We carve the turkey in the kitchen for several reasons.  One--we have a large family, so we need as much room as possible for folks to sit, and to put food on the table.  Secondly, it's a lot easier to carve the turkey before dinner and have less people handling it.  Third, you would have someone "in the way" all the time trying to cut it.  Lastly, when we sit down to eat, everyone can eat and no one in particular has to be up and trying to carve the bird in a "aesthetically pleasing" pattern.  Just cut the darn thing and eat!  Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!
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Lighten up, Link, I suspect Happy Holidays is pretty appropriate up until Thanksgiving - after Thanksgiving, I'm expecting a big, fat\n\nM E R R Y   C H R I S T M A S  ! ! !\n\nBy the way - you have a MERRY CHRISTMAS!
713016
Sounds perfect to me...I am NOT a Pumpkin Pie, Mince Meat Pie, or Apple pie freak....a Lemon Merangue sound great. There is no reason to think that other things do not work for eating at Thanksgiving. I am thinking of making a cake this year instead of pie...hell, who has room for all this stuff anyway? Good luck (please make to of them, send me one...I love Lemon !
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Well.....Just do normal Thanksgiving meal and hope for the best. It's going to seem odd and there isn't much you can do but hope for the best. \nGood Luck
912801
Thanksgiving is the national day of...thanksgiving.  It was made a holiday by President Lincoln to help heal the scars of the Civil War.  Meant to symbolize the thanksgiving feast the Pilgrims had with the Native Americans after the winter and near-drought of the first year of settlement (the Native Americans basically kept the settlers alive, introducing them to native crops such as corn and lima beans and regional seafood like lobster and cod), the feast is actually an invitation for families to come back together and for the nation itself to put aside the bickering for just one day and eat and enjoy each other just for the sake of family.  Unfortunately, the pureness of the day is tainted by the fact that it marks the beginning of the Christmas buying season, but what can we do about that?  Thanksgiving is the fourth Thursday in November.\n\nI'm not sure what I'm thankful for yet; I haven't made up my mind.  There are so many things I am grateful for, but that one thing I am thankful for...I need to put more thought into it.
711988
Maybe they call it Thankgiving ......\n:))\n\nHappy Thanksgiving.\n\n:)
325389
Definitely fish! I know Jesus likes a fish supper, especially when Mary is around.\n\n'SOO GUY'.. Why, you have a problem with people expressing their thoughts? I guess you're a Christian, should everyone just listen to you then uh? A$$hole.
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No.  You want good food that you know is good on Thanksgiving.  You were just being real with him.  Nothing wrong with that.
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Sweet pototoes, no, make that pumpkin pie, no, maybe the turkey... \nIt is too hard to narrow it down to one thing.  Thanksgiving has a very structured menu (turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, sweet potatoes, pumpkin pie).  I can't imagine not having those.\nWhen we were overseas for 3 years, it was really hard finding all the parts for Thanksgiving, but we always managed somehow.  One year, we had to cut up a huge Queensland blue pumpkin and make the pie from scratch without a recipe.  Not easy.
953038
Everyday is a good day, Thanksgiving is like every weekend dinner on Sunday after church in my home. All the family come together. God bless****
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both,but taking in consideration your 'sugar condition',in less \namounts of the usual service,so you can enjoy without exceeding\nsugar limit consumption,go ahead ,enjoy!!!,but bare in mind this key word :MODERATION, Happy Thanksgiving!!!
851823
The Pilgrims did have a feast in 1621, after their first harvest, and it is this feast which people often refer to as "The First Thanksgiving". This feast was not repeated.Nevertheless, the 1621 feast has become a model that we think of for our own Thanksgiving celebration and we do know something of the truth about it.\nThe feast went on for three days , included ninety "Indians", and food was plentiful. In addition, to the venison provided by the Indians, there was enough wild fowl to supply the village for a week. The fowl would have included ducks, geese, turkeys and even swans.\n\n\nIt is now a time to remember the Pilgrims and what they went through. A time to be tankful for all we have, our family and friends, for many things, we all have our own list.