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Thermal said:
In America, we call that "ruined".

Given that it is an American Thanksgiving meal, we can estimate a near zero percent probability of said meat being chicken. Better odds of tofu than chicky-chick.

As others said, cornbread. Kind of like a sweet bread, but denser and different texture. Not sweet enough to be a dessert, but more taste than most breadstuffs.
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Cornbread should never be sweet!
 
Cornbread is gross in general, it's a texture thing. If you're going to eat it, cover it in syrup after heating it up and eat it pancake style.

I've never understood why people enjoy cornbread. There are a million other things way better than cornbread to eat with a Thanksgiving meal than grainy, sand-esque style thick bread. Get a package of Hawaiian buns, put them in tin foil and warm them up. Luckily cornbread is more of a Southern thing. Then again, I'm not to be trusted because my family and I just roll our eyes at the people who have to make everything from scratch by hand. Like the food doesn't taste as good if multiple older women don't spend their entire days cooking rather than laughing with their families or that even most of these mouth breathers in America can tell the difference between store bought croissants that are heated in the oven and ones that are made from hand. Americans are so pretentious about food it's insane. People taking pictures of their turkeys like the damn thing is applying for a passport and sharing it with everyone lol. For dumb.
 
plague311 said:
Cornbread is gross in general, it's a texture thing. If you're going to eat it, cover it in syrup after heating it up and eat it pancake style.

I've never understood why people enjoy cornbread.
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I feel this. Cornbread isn't a thing at our place either.
plague311 said:
There are a million other things way better than cornbread to eat with a Thanksgiving meal than grainy, sand-esque style thick bread. Get a package of Hawaiian buns, put them in tin foil and warm them up.
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We do those twist and pop plainish biscuits, that is all the kids favorite. They absolutely go ape ◊◊◊◊ for them.
plague311 said:
Luckily cornbread is more of a Southern thing. Then again, I'm not to be trusted because my family and I just roll our eyes at the people who have to make everything from scratch by hand. Like the food doesn't taste as good if multiple older women don't spend their entire days cooking rather than laughing with their families or that even most of these mouth breathers in America can tell the difference between store bought croissants that are heated in the oven and ones that are made from hand. Americans are so pretentious about food it's insane. People taking pictures of their turkeys like the damn thing is applying for a passport and sharing it with everyone lol. For dumb.
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Gotta disagree here. Making something together for the whole family is kind of like kids who make a card or present for mom or dad. It's personal.

{ETA: also, we try out recepies that we've never even seen at the store or restaurant, finding out what our crew likes and tweaking the menu a little more with every get together}

And at our place, like many others, it's not just the old women cooking- It's the teen girls and their middle aged moms and my bro in law and I, all laughing and talking while making it happen. I don't feel like anything about the holiday is lost in the hand made prep time; it's an important part of a holiday. Not saying you're wrong, just giving a different take on it.
 
Thermal said:
And at our place, like many others, it's not just the old women cooking- It's the teen girls and their middle aged moms and my bro in law and I, all laughing and talking while making it happen. I don't feel like anything about the holiday is lost in the hand made prep time; it's an important part of a holiday. Not saying you're wrong, just giving a different take on it.
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To each their own, we ate quick, cleaned up and sat at the table playing card games, along with cards against humanity, what do you meme, etc. We just find that genuinely more enjoyable than spending a bunch of time making food. Especially when year after year half the food doesn't get ate, gets put in tupperware and thrown away a few days later.

But as you said, we all have our own takes and celebrations for the seasons. Hopefully it all went to plan.
 
plague311 said:
Cornbread is gross in general, it's a texture thing. If you're going to eat it, cover it in syrup after heating it up and eat it pancake style.

I've never understood why people enjoy cornbread. There are a million other things way better than cornbread to eat with a Thanksgiving meal than grainy, sand-esque style thick bread. Get a package of Hawaiian buns, put them in tin foil and warm them up. Luckily cornbread is more of a Southern thing. Then again, I'm not to be trusted because my family and I just roll our eyes at the people who have to make everything from scratch by hand. Like the food doesn't taste as good if multiple older women don't spend their entire days cooking rather than laughing with their families or that even most of these mouth breathers in America can tell the difference between store bought croissants that are heated in the oven and ones that are made from hand. Americans are so pretentious about food it's insane. People taking pictures of their turkeys like the damn thing is applying for a passport and sharing it with everyone lol. For dumb.
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Again, cornbread done correctly is pretty good. But I'm Southern, and I've never had cornbread at Thanksgiving. It's more usually a summer thing, in my experience. Thanksgiving, per the Southern side of my family anyway, has ordinary bread rolls.
 
Not sure anyone really likes cornbread at Thanksgiving. I think it's more the corn/Indian connection that makes it seem required.

Also, Tragic Monkey: agreed on white rice with gravy and turkey. Paradisical. Can't convince my fam to go with it though. Has to be the homemade mashed taters for the Big Holidays or it's just Arbor Day or something.
 
We've done rice a few times, but we stopped doing turkey all together. I guess I'm not a huge fan of a lot of the standard Thanksgiving food.

Personally, I have no idea why turkey is even a big thing. It's a dry, lean meat that almost never turns out well and really isn't all that satisfying to eat with the added bonus of it reheats like a ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ trainwreck too lol. I know, I know, some people will say, "Not mah turkee, we makez da best. Supar Joocee and nevah dry" but, yes it is. It is dry. Turkey is a dry bird that's why everyone drowns it in gravy.

We do ham for Thanksgiving and then I'm going to do a smoked brisket for Christmas. I certainly wouldn't make the choice to have turkey twice in about a month.

The fixings I do enjoy. I like stuffing, cheesy hashbrowns, green bean casserole, deviled eggs, and finish that ◊◊◊◊ off with a piece of apple pie (because pumpkin pie is gross as hell). I do loves me some sides.

Those layered biscuits are good too. Split them apart, stuff a bit of ham and cheesy hashbrown on it. Yessir.
 
I like this subject so much more than the OP turkey topic.

Seconding the glory of sides. Roasted sprouts and hash browns with cheese and bacon (Xmas breakfast treat with Mimosas) are my in-laws best contributions to the holidays. We do apple pies to, that I pick up local apples from a farm stand to make, and my wife spices them just right.

Turkey on thanksgiving ain't so bad though. It's good enough, and feels special for that once a year vibe.
 
TragicMonkey said:
Again, cornbread done correctly is pretty good. But I'm Southern, and I've never had cornbread at Thanksgiving. It's more usually a summer thing, in my experience. Thanksgiving, per the Southern side of my family anyway, has ordinary bread rolls.
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Yeah, my comment was kind of tongue in cheek - no Southerner (me as well) would make sweet cornbread dammit!

My grandma made cornbread dressing for Thanksgiving from before I was born, and we still use her recipe every year. We have regular bread rolls as well.

The only other thing I really eat cornbread with is beans.
 
Dread Pirate Roberts said:
Yeah, my comment was kind of tongue in cheek - no Southerner (me as well) would make sweet cornbread dammit!

My grandma made cornbread dressing for Thanksgiving from before I was born, and we still use her recipe every year. We have regular bread rolls as well.

The only other thing I really eat cornbread with is beans.
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That all checks out. I *could* eat cornbread with anything that needs to be soaked up. Bean juice, gravy, etc. Whatever masks the grainyness of the cornbread. I also do enjoy cornbread dressing (if by dressing you mean stuffing) but I enjoy any kind of stuffing. It's definitely one of the things that I will eat if it's stove top but will pass on if you're pulling it out of a turkey's ass cavity. Stove top's got it dialed in.
 
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