What's your favorite part of Thanksgiving?
921365
The massive amount of gas that I get to expell and share with my loving family after eating.
863543
I'm Italian so we tweaked the traditional American Menu so here it is.................\nTURKEY (of course) now to make it interesting my mom de-bones her turkey & stuffs it with a more italian like stuffing of wild rice mushrooms & spinach. Its tender and delicious\n\nMASHED POTATOES this I make with roasted garlic & chives a must have\n\nSTUFFING this is more traditional not actually stuffed into the turkey. \n\nBROCCOLINNI which are a green italian vegetable, very good.\n\nGREEN BEANS another american tradition, but we put our own twist on it with garlic & olive oil, and best thing is these are fresh grown in our own garden!\n\nPASTA our table always has a pasta on it either with a sauce or in the form of a soup. This year we are making gnocci a very yummy potatoe based pasta with a roasted tomato sauce.\n\nCRANBERRY SALAD made with fresh cranberies, pineapple & nuts real good.\n\nSWEET POTATOES in the oven.\n\nPUMPKIN PIE, BLACK BOTTOM BANANA PIE, CHOCOLATE SILK PIE (something for everyone) tons of holiday cookies too!!\n\nCHESTNUTS after dinner & dessert we roast chestnuts and eat them this is a huge family tradition!\n\nThis is Thanksgiving Italian-American Style
775939
Thanksgiving is a day that we set aside here in America to give thanks to God for the bountiful blessings that He has bestowed upon us.  It is the Harvest season and we also give thanks for a abundant harvest that we have.  We give thanks for family, friends and this wonderful country that we live in. \nThe first Thanksgiving was when the Native Americans(Indians) and Pilgrims had a feast to celebrate the wonderful harvest that they had.
1103374
Thanksgiving is about being thankful for the blessings, the good things, that we have in our life.  We may remember the first Thanksgiving, when settler and native Americans gathered to celebrate success in being able to achieve the ability to survive without starving to death and celebrated together since the groups had worked together, the native Americans having taught the settlers how to subsist here.\n\nAt modern Thanksgivings, people talk about and thank God for the things that are important to them--their families, the ability to have a meal on the table and people they love to share it with in a country where they are able to believe as they choose to.\n\nIt's my favorite holiday of the year.  It's about saying "Thank you" and not "Give me".
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!
950108
This was the first year that I did not fly out of state to visit friends and family for the week of Thanksgiving.  Instead, I stayed home, cleaned house, slept, worked, and went Christmas Shopping at 5am on Friday.\n\nI really enjoyed myself by myself.\n\nP.S.  Did not cook one things on Thanksgiving !  However, it was very pleasing.
644106
favorite food or favorite hobby
981044
I love Mom's rice and mushroom stuffing, though I have never gotten too excited over anyone's bread based stuffing before. \nI also like the potatoes that were roasted with the turkey because they soaked up all of the turkey juice. \nThe turkey is pretty good too as long as it is not dried out by being roasted too long, and luckily, it is almost always perfect.\nAaaaaah......food.
187027
I love thanksgiving.  Turkey is great.  \nIf you are talking about the country, I wanna go there, it looks like a really cool place to visit.
804097
people whom you love like your family and friends\n\nHAPPY THANKSGIVING
961273
After 16 years I finally got to meet my daughter this year. We spent yesterday making Thanksgiving dinner for the rest of the family together. \n\nI am so grateful for her, for my family, and for the amazing gift of life.
887121
nostalgia\n\n(remembering how November makes me feel with all the fall colors and coolness)
939706
My Thanksgiving Day is full of so many of life's blessings -- and I'm not speaking those of monetary value -- that I'm grateful just to be there with my husband, mom and her husband and sister.  I say all my thank you's to my Higher Power before I embark on my journey to fill my 3 day dietary quota and when we're all there, you can bet I soak up every minute of being there in one piece and you're damn right--be thankful people!  And I'll be glad to watch whatever football game is on because I have terrible reception on my home TV.  :)
735847
wake up about 9, get ready, go to grandmas, watch parade/\nvisit with my cousins while my grandma and aunts cook\npray, then eat about noon.  everyone is done by one ish and then the men sit in the living room to watch football and the woman clean and visit in the kitchen, us grandkids go downstairs and play this game we made up called potato days (we do it every thanksgiving even though my cousins are all around 15 or 16) haha just thinking about it makes me smile : )  we all go home, ushually take a nap or something, then everyone goes over to our house for visiting and wine for the adults in the evening.  its a very nice time.
759150
It's Thanksgiving....... we empty a pumpkin and wear IT. Bananas are reserved for Arbor day when we are swinging from the trees. *wink*
822652
Thanksgiving's at my family's old house used to be crazy.  Family members from all over the US would gather in the small farmhouse, cooking dinner, playing football, and reminicse by the fire.  I remember fondly a Thanksgiving eight years ago.  I was stuffing the turkey and my mom was making pumpkin pie.  We didn't have a mixer, so she took out the blender and said "Yeah, you blend" I told her she was crazy and went back to fixing the turkey. My cousin walked in on my mom trying to make pumpkin pie in the blender and said "Ohh la la", out of suprise.  She looked at me with a serious look on her face "Lets sit in front of the fireplace" she said.  Just then, the lights suddently went out.  The phone rang.  It was my cousins. Due to the massive storm that had hit the area, they wouldn't be able to make it. "Bill Bailey won't you please come home", my mom jokingly told my cousins on the phone.  I heard my aunt screaming from the other room at my six year old cousin " you are not going to watch tv as we eat dinner." He responded by having a temper tantrum because he didn't understand power outage.\n\nDespite the power outage, the stove was gas so we were able to have a beautiful candlelight feast without the tv on or cousins watching tv.
891745
It varies from year to year with me. Every thanksgiving morning, I wake up and watch the Macy's thanksgiving day parade on tv and sometimes call up my friend, and talk about it with her. Sometimes me and my family and my friend ( same one as on phone) go to the city and see the parade. In the past I have also had dinner at their house, and have even went up to Aunt's in Jersey, and saw some cousins. These passed two years I've went with my dad to this beautiful mansion restaurant thing. This year we might try a different restaurant. I will be watching the parade on tv this year. I am excited! we always have turkey, mashed potatos, corn, cornbread, gravy of course, sometimes applesauce... and some other stuff.