Thanksgiving Traditions

We come down to Destin, Fl. 75 degrees right now is making watching the lions even more difficult.

My family gathers to refresh our memory as to how much we all really dislike one another, while pretending to have profoundly missed seeing one another throughout the rest of the year.  Then everyone gets liqored up, at which point I find an out of the way place to sit and wait for the truth syrum to cause a good dust up....usually between two sisters.

That is way better watching than any Lions game.

Working

Family doesn't drink, so I will be. Crown and Dr. Pepper all day.

I use to eat a lot and drink a lot of alcohol.  In college we use to play a big tackle football game without pads. One year I was sore from hard hits for nearly 2 weeks.

Drinking

Eating, football, and cards against humanity.

Turkey, lions, watching It's a Wonderful Life.

Eating and pounding beer until I black out on the couch.

talking on the phone all day to family because we all live in different parts of the country

Last few years has involved flying up to Ann Arbor, having Thanksgiving here and staying a few nights to go to the OSU game.

We're good for at least one more when my brother is a senior in a few years, so I'm hoping we keep the tradition alive well after that.

...am I the only one here who largely forgoes football on Thanksgiving (at least for a while, until we leave to go to visit family) and instead watches the annual MST3K Turkey Day Marathon?

 

Go to the in laws and sweat my ass as off for a few hours because they keep it about 80 Degrees inside the house. In Texas, no less.

Multiple family touch football game in the AM. Coolers full of beer, water and boxes of Dunkin Donuts.

I was at the first Thanksgiving...traditions sure have changed.

Football game in the am

Thanks giving movies
Planes trains and automobiles
son-in-law

Drink!!

Food!!

Drink!!

Euchre. Rook. Food.

after my wife and kids moved away from family, we started setting up the Christmas tree after Thanksgiving meal.

Turkey injected with a mix of butter, beer, Tabasco, Cajun seasoning and deep fried to 180F. Then food coma.

We never eat turkey. Usually beef, lamb or short ribs. But we start eating appetizers at noon and don't quit until we eat dinner at at 7, after which none of us can move except for mom who refuses to eat until she's sick. I mean bacon-wrapped shrimp, giant cheese and olive plates... so good.

We actually like each other (or I am oblivious). Share stories of things going on in each other's lives. Everyone helps with dinner or clean up.

Anyone else much prefer leftovers?

B&B

about 75 people. everyone gets about 4 gifts. some crap, some good. lots of lottery tickets. kids love it...

Have had several different Midwestern, California iterations. Nothing, after age 17, has remained constant. The thing I have going now is that I bring wines for my inlaws' dinner. This year an Alban Syrah was the headline.

Our daughter got the nickname "turkle" when she was an infant. So, we actually do a Turkle Trot. Exercising on Thanksgiving is our big thing.

We here like to eat and drink til we hurl.