2kmaro
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| Thanksgiving Meal Planning
Good advice when planning the family Holiday meal right from the pages of our very own site 'fortunes':
1: Forget what the cookbooks say, plain yogurt tastes nothing like sour cream.
2: Any recipe calling for soybeans tastes like mud.
3: Carob is not an acceptable substitute for chocolate. In fact, carob is not an acceptable substitute for anything, except, perhaps, brown shoe polish.
4: There is no such thing as a "fun salad." So let's stop pretending and see salads for what they are: God's punishment for being fat.
5: Fruit salad without maraschino cherries and marshmallows is about as appealing as tepid beer.
6: A world lacking gravy is a tragic place!
7: You should immediately pass up any recipes entitled "luscious and low-cal." Also skip dishes featuring "lively liver." They aren't and it isn't.
8: Wearing a blindfold often makes many diet foods more palatable.
9: Fresh fruit is not dessert. CAKE is dessert!
10: Okra tastes slightly worse than its name implies.
11: A plain baked potato isn't worth the effort involved in chewing and swallowing.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE!!
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youngerberry
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clubs: | I totally agree with all but number 8. I have yet to find a diet food I would find more palatable with a blindfold on!  |
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2kmaro
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clubs: | Helps if you can find an old wooden spring-loaded clothes pin for your nose, too!
P.S. Congrats on the MVM tag!
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youngerberry
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clubs: | Thanks, I don't think a clothes pin would help with most of them, if not all. |
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McSummation
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Regarding #9 - this is Thanksgiving. Dessert should include pumpkin pie, pecan pie, lemon meringue pie, chocolate meringue pie, mince meat pie, German chocolate cake, lemon cake, and - for the truly daring - some fruit cake to start getting in the Holiday Spirit. (Of course, the afore mentioned fruit cake should have been duly steeped in apricot brandy for at least 6 months.) |
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boognish
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I am about to make my bi-annual pilgrimage to the hills of East TN for Thanksgiving. It makes my Mom happy, but I am not really looking forward to it. I get bored after a day or two. One good thing is she loves to cook food for me. She also doesn't believe in making it healthy. That means real bacon dripping are used and no low fat or healthy substitutes are used for anything. She will also push any left overs on me to take back home with me. Keeps me well fed for a week or so. She also doesn't drink at all. She has a bottle of brandy for her fruit cakes that is probably older than I am that she pours a couple of shots in a cup to seal in with the plethora of fruit cake that she makes every year.
I am looking forward to waking up to country ham, fresh biscuits, eggs, and apple butter made from her apple trees every morning though.
Have a good safe holiday everyone. |
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