Wednesday Overnight Open Thread - November 26, 2025 [Zombie Rex]

Good evening Horde. The time has come for mid-week shenanigans of the overnight variety.

Welcome to the Wednesday night ONT which means another edition of overnight fun and games. Pull up a chair and sit a spell. Good will offerings of amusing puns are happily accepted. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors. No, this is not an officially recognized Food Thread. Don't be a traffic cone.

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"Hey Willie! Time for the Wednesday night ONT. You read while I go find the cat..."

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I know what you're thinking. Turkey, turkey, turkey. Everyone talks about Thanksgiving in terms of turkey. Turkey on the table, turkey pardons, turkeys falling from the sky, etc.

What about the cranberry? When does the small but mighty cranberry get its turn in the spotlight?

I'm glad you asked...

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"Vaccinium macrocarpon" is the botanical name for the American cranberry.

Vaccinium macrocarpon, commonly called American cranberry, is native to bogs, swamps, and wet shorelines in parts of northern and eastern North America. It is a low-growing vine or trailing shrub (to 6" tall and spreading) with small, glossy leaves. Small, nodding flowers with white to pink, recurved petals bloom from late spring into early summer. The flowers are followed by plump, red to dark purple, ovoid to round, 0.5" diameter fruits. The leaves of this plant are a larval food source for the bog copper butterfly, the flowers are visited by bees, and the fruits are eaten by birds and occasionally small mammals.
The genus name Vaccinium comes from an ancient Latin name apparently derived from a prehistoric Mediterranean language. Its origin and meaning are generally considered to be lost to time.
The specific epithet macrocarpon means large-fruited, in reference to the relatively large size of the fruit of this species.
The common name cranberry derives from the Germanic kraan, meaning "crane" and bere, meaning "berry," possibly in reference to the appearance of the flowers.

Source: Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO

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Commercial cranberry cultivation reportedly started in the United States in 1816. Captain Henry Hall found a cranberry vine thriving in some sand on Cape Cod (Dennis, Massachusetts). He became the first person to successfully cultivate cranberries.

He noticed that the wild cranberries in his bogs grew better when sand blew over them. Captain Hall began transplanting cranberry vines and spreading sand on them. Others quickly copied his technique.

The idea of growing and selling cranberries commercially caught on. Local landowners converted their swamps, wetlands, peat swamps and wet meadows into cranberry bogs.

By 1885, Plymouth County had 1,347 acres under cultivation. Barnstable County had 2,408 acres. By 1900, the number of acres tripled, making Cape Cod a household name for cranberries.

What came next? Naturally, cranberries in a can.

In 1912, a lawyer named Marcus Urann bought a cranberry bog. Based at a facility in Hanson, Massachusetts, he sought ways to extend the short selling season of the berries. Canning them made cranberries a year-round product. He and two others eventually formed a cranberry cooperative.

Cranberry Juice Cocktail was introduced in 1933 and the jellied cranberry sauce became available nationwide in 1941. Yes, the technical term for the tube of jiggling cranberry in a can is "sauce."

The cranberry cooperative group added members from Wisconsin, Oregon, and Washington, and became the National Cranberry Association in 1946. In 1957, it became Ocean Spray after acquiring the name and logo from a fish company in Washington. You might have heard of it. It remains a cooperative, with over 700 farmers.

An exemption for agricultural cooperatives in the Capper-Volstead Act of 1922 gave "associations" making agricultural products limited exemptions from anti-trust laws.

[Source: assorted nuggets from across the interweb]

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Cran facts:

Americans consume 5,062,500 gallons of jellied cranberry sauce. It takes four million pounds of cranberries - 200 berries in each can.

Only about five percent of America's total cranberry crop is sold as fresh fruit. The rest go into juice, jelly, sauce, and dried fruit (craisins).

The five states known for growing cranberries are: Massachusetts, Wisconsin, New Jersey, Oregon, and Washington. Wisconsin alone accounts for over 50%.

It takes approximately 4,400 cranberries to produce one gallon of cranberry juice.

Cranberry vines are evergreen perennials that can live for over 100 years and produce fruit for up to 65 years in commercial cultivation.

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Do cranberries grow in water? No! Bogs are flooded just before the harvest. The vines are gently jiggled. The berries are released and float to the surface where they are scooped up. They can be dry picked (think of a process that runs a comb through the vines), but about 90 percent of cranberries are picked using wet harvesting techniques.

Four little air pockets inside each berry allows them to float.

More knowledge here:

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Thinking of becoming a cranberry farmer? This is good story telling and a very well made film.

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The Pittsburgh police scanner keeps giving. Thank you people of Pittsburgh!

Tracked to the FBI building? Hmmm...

Friendship seems...unfriendly.

Which one of you was this?

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1 Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

Posted by: mindful webworker - woot hoot a boot at November 26, 2025 10:00 PM (LaTF/)

2 Toonce3

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 26, 2025 10:00 PM (30Ppx)

3 I don't want to get bogged down on all the cranberry content.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 26, 2025 10:01 PM (dyewR)

4 Hello

Posted by: fourseasons at November 26, 2025 10:01 PM (3ek7K)

5 Oh

Posted by: COMountainMarie at November 26, 2025 10:01 PM (3pxDZ)

6 What breed of dog do the Obamas eat on Thanksgiving?

Posted by: gKWVE at November 26, 2025 10:02 PM (sDWtc)

7 I don't want to get bogged down on all the cranberry content.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 26, 2025 10:01 PM (dyewR)

Yeah, it leaves a sour taste in my mouth.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 26, 2025 10:02 PM (uQesX)

8 Lovely Cranberry ONT. Have a blessed Thanksgiving, TRex.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 26, 2025 10:02 PM (ys6FW)

9 Yes, the technical term for the tube of jiggling cranberry in a can is "sauce."

If you play it backwards, it's I buried Paul.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 26, 2025 10:03 PM (uQesX)

10 8 Lovely Cranberry ONT. Have a blessed Thanksgiving, TRex.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 26, 2025 10:02 PM
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Thank you! Likewise.

Posted by: TRex - pilgrim dino at November 26, 2025 10:04 PM (cCn4/)

11 What breed of dog do the Obamas eat on Thanksgiving?
Posted by: gKWVE at November 26, 2025 10:02 PM (sDWtc)

She's not thankful for anything. He eats mandog.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 26, 2025 10:04 PM (uQesX)

12 Evenin'

Just watched the big fight. Once again, Snoopy vs. the lawn chair ended in a tie. Amazing fight!!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 26, 2025 10:04 PM (sAmhv)

13 I don't want to get bogged down on all the cranberry content.

Posted by: Cicero

Just wade on through.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 26, 2025 10:05 PM (QVmho)

14 I liked that cranberry sauce from a can when I was younger.

Then a relative made cranberry relish and it ruined me for the canned stuff.

Posted by: Methos at November 26, 2025 10:05 PM (vSvIl)

15 The Raspberries > The Cranberries

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 26, 2025 10:05 PM (dyewR)

16 I made cranberry sauce for a work potluck one time. Nobody knew what it was because it wasn't can shaped.

Posted by: huerfano at November 26, 2025 10:06 PM (98kQX)

17 I am the only one on either side of the family who loooooves cranberries. I legitimately thought that "Ocean Spray" originated in Rhode Island, the Ocean State. BTW, Northland cranberry juice is best when you have a UTI.

Posted by: pookysgirl, adding to the Cranberry Facts at November 26, 2025 10:07 PM (Wt5PA)

18
Let's get this ~~Thanksgiving~~ ONT dinner cran-king!

Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 26, 2025 10:07 PM (QVmho)

19 My lovely wife LOVES that canned Ocean Spray garbage:

Behold: Nasty Gelled Cranberry Sauce, the unholy abomination that slinks out of the can with a wet, reluctant schlorp, like a gelatinous slug that’s been marinating in its own existential dread since 1973.
It lands on the plate in a perfect, ridged cylinder, quivering with the faint structural integrity of a haunted Jell-O mold. The surface gleams under the kitchen light with an unnatural, almost radioactive sheen (think "nuclear maraschino cherry" meets "gas station sushi"). Tiny air bubbles are suspended inside like trapped souls trying to escape. When you slice into it, the knife makes a sound best described as a sad trombone being slowly drowned in simple syrup.
The texture? Imagine if cranberry bog water had a midlife crisis, gave up, and decided to become a fruit-flavored rubber tire. It wobbles. It jiggles. It refuses to break apart like normal food, instead choosing to ooze in slow-motion defiance, leaving behind a glossy, sticky crime scene that clings to your fork like it’s personally offended you tried to eat it.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 26, 2025 10:07 PM (cYBz/)

20 Bandon, not just golf and sea stacks - cranberry capital of Oregon. Thanks for the berry good ONT, Dino.

Posted by: scampydog at November 26, 2025 10:07 PM (41CYW)

21
Bog your pardon, is that the ~~turkey~~ ONT?

Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 26, 2025 10:08 PM (QVmho)

22
Joey: "Hey, Monica, I got a question. I don't see any tater tots."
Monica: "That's not a question."
Joey: "But my mom always makes them. It's like a tradition. You get a little piece of turkey on your fork, a little cranberry sauce, and a tot!"

Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 26, 2025 10:09 PM (QVmho)

23
You lot are a bunch of slackers...

Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 26, 2025 10:09 PM (QVmho)

24
One of my sons thought the ridges on cranberry sauce were there so you knew where to slice it, lol.

Posted by: fourseasons at November 26, 2025 10:10 PM (3ek7K)

25 My dad loved cranberry sauce. His Thanksgiving dinner plate always looked like there had been a massacre.

Posted by: huerfano at November 26, 2025 10:10 PM (98kQX)

26 Cranberry relish > canned cranberry sauce.

Cranberries, orange juice, sugar, orange zest, candied orange peel. Coarsely chop in blender or food processor. Damn good.

Posted by: Ocean Spray deez nuts at November 26, 2025 10:10 PM (TbWk/)

27 Joey: "Hey, Monica, I got a question. I don't see any tater tots."
Monica: "That's not a question."
Joey: "But my mom always makes them. It's like a tradition. You get a little piece of turkey on your fork, a little cranberry sauce, and a tot!"
Posted by: BifBewalski
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Watched that episode last night.

Posted by: scampydog at November 26, 2025 10:10 PM (41CYW)

28
Tater tots are gross. It's a texture thing with me.

Posted by: fourseasons at November 26, 2025 10:11 PM (3ek7K)

29 My greybox friends.
Wishing you all a marvelous Thanksgiving tomorrow!
You are all wonderful people with a special call out to our fabulous COBs. You rock!

Posted by: Some Rat at November 26, 2025 10:11 PM (TfUTr)

30 Paying royalties to use the their (he didn't say who's) vines.

The vines live 60 or more years. That's getting carried away.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 26, 2025 10:12 PM (30Ppx)

31 >>>Posted by: Tonypete at November 26, 2025 10:07 PM

You've given this a lot of thought.

Posted by: huerfano at November 26, 2025 10:12 PM (98kQX)

32
The ~~food~~ ONT is sauce-ome, and I am grape-ful! (A little mixed fruit humor here.)

Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 26, 2025 10:12 PM (QVmho)

33 So, Tonypete, you really like cranberry sauce, huh?

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 26, 2025 10:12 PM (47diA)

34 Cranberry is one of those flavors I had to grow up to appreciate, just like the flavors of butter, salt, black pepper, and some other things.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 26, 2025 10:09 PM (xqw19)

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FUN FACT: The cranberry gene is missing from about 25 percent of European genomes.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 26, 2025 10:12 PM (dyewR)

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You People laugh at canned Cranberry Sauce, but it is a key component in constructing a proper Miles Standish.

-- sliced Bread, 2 pieces
-- leftover Turkey meats, a pile
-- leftover Stuffing, a heaping
-- cranberry sauce

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 26, 2025 10:13 PM (NtNQ7)

36 Northland cranberry juice is best when you have a UTI.
Posted by: pookysgirl,

tiny.cc/a2ov001

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at November 26, 2025 10:13 PM (bLiG/)

37
What makes no sense to me:

Fries I usually find meh. Jacket potatoes? Meh.
But shred those little taters into hash browns or tater tots and I just can't get enough of 'em.

Posted by: qdpsteve

This is the way.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 26, 2025 10:13 PM (QVmho)

38 I've never had cranberry sauce. Maybe this is the year.

Posted by: PA Dutchman at November 26, 2025 10:13 PM (31p00)

39 Hello, Horde! 😊💕🦃

I am sending Mr. TiFW to the grocery store in the morning because he got me the WRONG cranberry sauce earlier this week - I didn't realize that I needed to specify that I wanted Jellied cranberry sauce 🙄🙄🙄

I mean, if it doesn't slide out of the can in one piece and you can't see ridges on it, it isn't really cranberry sauce, now is it?

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at November 26, 2025 10:13 PM (SRRAx)

40 FUN FACT: The cranberry gene is missing from about 25 percent of European genomes.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 26, 2025 10:12 PM (dyewR)

And 100% of garden gnomes.

Posted by: Creepy little buggers anyway at November 26, 2025 10:14 PM (TbWk/)

41 Tater tots are gross. It's a texture thing with me.

Posted by: fourseasons

Hashbrowns. Love the exalted Potato in all it's forms but that one.

Posted by: Some Rat at November 26, 2025 10:14 PM (TfUTr)

42 >>FUN FACT: The cranberry gene is missing from about 25 percent of European genomes.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 26, 2025 10:12 PM

Is that maybe the same gene where you don't like cilantro? Because I don't like that, too.

Posted by: huerfano at November 26, 2025 10:14 PM (98kQX)

43 Very interesting to read all about cranberries. Thanks T-Rex!

Posted by: Joemarine at November 26, 2025 10:14 PM (y171U)

44 I now know more about cranberries than I thought possible.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 26, 2025 10:14 PM (NwnyJ)

45 Ocean Spray sounds better if you've never been on a party boat.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 26, 2025 10:14 PM (mlg/3)

46 3 I don't want to get bogged down on all the cranberry content.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 26, 2025 10:01 PM (dyewR)

Yeah, that would really be the pits if that happened.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 26, 2025 10:15 PM (0CU3H)

47 >>>Posted by: Tonypete at November 26, 2025 10:07 PM

You've given this a lot of thought.
Posted by: huerfano

Wondering if he's told his lovely wife how he really feels?

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at November 26, 2025 10:15 PM (bLiG/)

48 >fork like it’s personally offended you tried to eat it.
Posted by: Tonypete >>
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I appreciate your reluctance. Just pass it on over here.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 26, 2025 10:15 PM (30Ppx)

49 So...
I just read an article about how TRex little paws make great Thanksgiving gravy. Annnd, the thighs are some great eating!
This article also said Turkies cause lots of climate problems.
So, dinosaurs it is....and boy oh boy! Think of the left overs🤪!

Hey morons, have a fine and bountiful holiday. Much love to you all 💕!...!
Kidding to you Mr. REX! You do have nice legs though🦖

Posted by: COMountainMarie at November 26, 2025 10:15 PM (3pxDZ)

50
Tater tots are gross. It's a texture thing with me.
Posted by: fourseasons
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Hashbrowns. Love the exalted Potato in all it's forms but that one.
Posted by: Some Rat

Vodka. What can the lowly potato not do.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 26, 2025 10:15 PM (QVmho)

51 I do like the little puh sound they make as you boil them when you make the sauce.

Posted by: huerfano at November 26, 2025 10:16 PM (98kQX)

52 I hope each of you and your families enjoy Thanksgiving. I will, and will remember all those before us who helped make the US what it became. We still have people like them among us and will remain great. Thanks to God.

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 26, 2025 10:16 PM (47diA)

53 Montechristo sammies are good with a little cranberry preserve.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 26, 2025 10:16 PM (3uBP9)

54 Vodka. What can the lowly potato not do.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 26, 2025 10:15 PM (QVmho

Sure sucks at taking photos of BigFoot.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 26, 2025 10:17 PM (yZqjq)

55 Here’s a fun thing for the overnight.

Mashup bible phrase with movie quotes or mashup movie quotes with other movie quotes or idiomatic expressions or maxims or whatever you want to do.

The best ones will go into the phrase bank for my terminal script.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 26, 2025 10:17 PM (XV/Pl)

56 34 >>>Posted by: Tonypete at November 26, 2025 10:07 PM

You've given this a lot of thought.
Posted by: huerfano at November 26, 2025 10:12 PM (98kQX)

He has. And I agree with him wholeheartedly.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 26, 2025 10:17 PM (0CU3H)

57 Vodka. What can the lowly potato not do.
Posted by: BifBewalski

Especially given the existence of the potato cannon.

Posted by: Kratwurst at November 26, 2025 10:18 PM (fcDpY)

58 Sugar Pie Honey Bunch is not on our menu for tomorrow. Pumpkin, mincemeat, and Maple Bourbon Chocolate Pecan are.

Posted by: mindful webworker - and possibly pecan custard with maple meringue topping at November 26, 2025 10:18 PM (LaTF/)

59 80085 gene? Wuddat?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 26, 2025 10:18 PM (dyewR)

60 Turkey is in the brine and I absolutely love canned cranberry sauce.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 26, 2025 10:18 PM (XV/Pl)

61 I spent my day on very windy cold water in a Jon boat with a potato fork fighting beavers. I'm questioning my life choices.

Posted by: NCKate at November 26, 2025 10:18 PM (qdmYz)

62 7 I don't want to get bogged down on all the cranberry content.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 26, 2025 10:01 PM (dyewR)

Yeah, it leaves a sour taste in my mouth.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 26, 2025 10:02 PM (uQesX)

Can't remember the last time I ate raw cranberries. Are they sour? If so, the canners and bottlers must add sugar to sweeten the taste.

Posted by: Joemarine at November 26, 2025 10:18 PM (y171U)

63 Thomas Bender

“Let my people go… You’re gonna need a bigger staff.”

Posted by: Tonypete at November 26, 2025 10:18 PM (cYBz/)

64 Real people make their own cranberry sauce!

Posted by: runner at November 26, 2025 10:19 PM (g47mK)

65 banana: isn't a Monte Cristo a ham and cheese sandwich that's been deep-fried, then coated with powdered sugar and eaten with jam???

I'd like to know how incredibly drunk the inventor of the Monte Cristo was... :-P
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 26, 2025 10:18 PM (xqw19)

Drunker than you can count.

Posted by: Literary puns at November 26, 2025 10:19 PM (TbWk/)

66 To err is human, in government, it's policy.

Posted by: Some Rat at November 26, 2025 10:19 PM (TfUTr)

67
I just read an article about how TRex little paws make great Thanksgiving gravy. Annnd, the thighs are some great eating!
This article also said Turkies cause lots of climate problems.
So, dinosaurs it is....and boy oh boy!
Posted by: COMountainMarie

Gobble 'til you wobble, then grab a bowl of sauce!

Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 26, 2025 10:19 PM (QVmho)

68 “The first rule of Wisdom is: do not talk about Wisdom. The second rule of Wisdom is: do not talk about Wisdom.”

Posted by: Tonypete at November 26, 2025 10:19 PM (cYBz/)

69 Real people make their own cranberry sauce!

And then sell it to me!

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 26, 2025 10:19 PM (47diA)

70 What breed of dog do the Obamas eat on Thanksgiving?
Posted by: gKWVE at November 26, 2025 10:02 PM (sDWtc)

Chow.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 26, 2025 10:19 PM (npFr7)

71 I just remembered I have a 5 pound bag of tater tots sitting in the deep freeze. I need to do something about that.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 26, 2025 10:19 PM (8QVSJ)

72 62 34 >>>Posted by: Tonypete at November 26, 2025 10:07 PM

You've given this a lot of thought.
Posted by: huerfano at November 26, 2025 10:12 PM (98kQX)

He has. And I agree with him wholeheartedly.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 26, 2025 10:17 PM (0CU3H)

But I forgot to mention that until my wife made cranberry sauce from scratch for me, I was also in your wife's camp. I had no idea what cranberry sauce would be if it didn't have ridges on the slices.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 26, 2025 10:20 PM (0CU3H)

73 You People laugh at canned Cranberry Sauce, but it is a key component in constructing a proper Miles Standish.

The Miles Standish is no laughing matter! It was a gift from Squanto, brought from the Penobscot Indians. It saved the Plymouth Colony during the hard winter of 1621.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 26, 2025 10:20 PM (olroh)

74 73 Cicero, the Ample Bosoms gene.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 26, 2025 10:19 PM (xqw19)

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I don't have the ample bosom gene (thank God) but I am second to none in my appreciation of them.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 26, 2025 10:21 PM (dyewR)

75
Myles Standish, 1854--1656

Sailed to the new continent on the Mayflower with his 19-yr old wife, Rose. Rose died, in 1621, a few months after landing at Plymouth, MA

Miles remarried in 1624 to another colonial pilgrim babe, Barbara, 35, who arrived at the Plymouth colony on the ship the Anne in 1623.

It is unclear when, exactly, Miles Standish invented his famous sammich, which is his only true accomplishment in life.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 26, 2025 10:21 PM (NtNQ7)

76 Next time you fix up a pork roast, put some cranberry sauce on the table. You'll like the combo!

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 26, 2025 10:21 PM (47diA)

77 What breed of dog do the Obamas eat on Thanksgiving?
Posted by: gKWVE at November 26, 2025 10:02 PM (sDWtc)

Chow.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Board this joint up, we're done here!

Posted by: Some Rat at November 26, 2025 10:22 PM (TfUTr)

78 Yay, ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 26, 2025 10:22 PM (lUFok)

79 I spent my day on very windy cold water in a Jon boat with a potato fork fighting beavers. I'm questioning my life choices.
Posted by: NCKate at November 26, 2025 10:18 PM (qdmYz)

Wouldn't a .410 shotgun be more useful?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 26, 2025 10:22 PM (npFr7)

80 And cranberry sauce. Already have cranberry-applesauce.

For tomorrow after dinner:

Cowboy Kent Rollins: 3 Creative and Easy Ways to Use Thanksgiving Leftovers!
https://youtu.be/mcCVb1zcZdY

Posted by: mindful webworker - leftovers? pie, maybe. at November 26, 2025 10:22 PM (LaTF/)

81 Cranberry sauce and stuffing are both a hard pass for me.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 26, 2025 10:22 PM (yZqjq)

82
er, make that 1584, not 1854

stupid senile fingers...

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 26, 2025 10:22 PM (NtNQ7)

83 Did Barbara make them sammiches for him?

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 26, 2025 10:23 PM (47diA)

84 Cranberry Crunch
• 1 cup oatmeal
• ½ cup sifted flour or rice flour
• 1 cup packed brown sugar
• ½ cup butter
• 1 lb cranberries

Mix the oatmeal, flour, and brown sugar. Cut in butter until crumbly. Place half the oatmeal mix in a greased 8x8 pan. Cover with cranberries, and top with the remaining oatmeal. Bake 45 minutes at 350°.

(Mary Margaret McBride’s Encyclopedia of Cooking, 1959)

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 26, 2025 10:23 PM (olroh)

85 Cranberry is one of those flavors I had to grow up to appreciate,

Winter squash was like that for me. Of course the butter and brown sugar helps.

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 26, 2025 10:23 PM (0Htd1)

86 I just remembered I have a 5 pound bag of tater tots sitting in the deep freeze. I need to do something about that.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy

Slingshot ammo.

Posted by: Some Rat at November 26, 2025 10:23 PM (TfUTr)

87 I never minded the jellied blob of canned cranberry sauce. But made cranberry relish my first Thanksgiving as a new bride. Those who hated the canned stuff loved it. I've made the relish ever since.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 26, 2025 10:23 PM (ys6FW)

88 Good evening morons y gracias Dino

I made a cranberry jello mold one Thanksgiving I thought would appeal to Mrs. F.'s midwestern relatives but they remained unimpressed.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 26, 2025 10:24 PM (A0sqA)

89 I prefer the canned cranberry jelly to the sauce. The berry skins always get stuck between my teeth. But I will still eat it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 26, 2025 10:24 PM (npFr7)

90
The Miles Standish is no laughing matter! It was a gift from Squanto, brought from the Penobscot Indians. It saved the Plymouth Colony during the hard winter of 1621.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair

Ah, yes, ol' Squanto.

Tonto's great, great grandpa.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 26, 2025 10:24 PM (NtNQ7)

91 Vodka. What can the lowly potato not do.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 26, 2025 10:15 PM (QVmho

Mixes well with cranberry juice too.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 26, 2025 10:24 PM (y3bZw)

92 I do make my own cranberry sauce (ultra simple, of course).

Dried cranberries are great in stuffing (and in couscous).

In the 1970s I recall (for some reason) browsing through an economic atlas of the US, and something like 95% of cranberry production was from Massachusetts.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 26, 2025 10:24 PM (U/Byj)

93 I spent my day on very windy cold water in a Jon boat with a potato fork fighting beavers. I'm questioning my life choices.
Posted by: NCKate at November 26, 2025 10:18 PM (qdmYz)

May I introduce you to Kenislovas, the Lithuanian Beaver Buster?

https://m.youtube.com/@Kenislovas/videos

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 26, 2025 10:24 PM (8QVSJ)

94 89 Cranberry sauce and stuffing are both a hard pass for me.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

That's Commie talk.

Posted by: Rock-Ribbed Ronnie at November 26, 2025 10:25 PM (zmYmM)

95 My lovely better half made sweet potato pie abd banana pudding tonight. Can't wait to try those tomorrow.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 26, 2025 10:25 PM (yZqjq)

96 Craisins are pretty good in a salad.

Posted by: scampydog at November 26, 2025 10:25 PM (41CYW)

97 Gin and Cranberry Juice goes well.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 26, 2025 10:25 PM (XV/Pl)

98 Fried onions !

Posted by: runner at November 26, 2025 10:25 PM (g47mK)

99 Sorry all you Gobblers out there... but I will continue the tradition I've had for over 30 years now...

And Turkey Day will be celebrated with a Rib Roast.

32 years ago, I got divorced. I had full custody of my twins BUT X got them on some Holidaze... so... Thanksgiving she got them every other year, AND, whoever did not have them on Turkey day got the kids the following Friday and Weekend...

So... Her family ALWAYS did a Turkey... Thus, the tradition of the Rib Roast came to be.

Many years when I lived in Colorado, if'n I did not have the Kiddos, I would Snow Ski on Thanksgiving... then on Friday do the Beefy Beefy Feast...

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 26, 2025 10:25 PM (mP0Kj)

100 Tater Tot Casserole. Now there’s some fine trailer trash cuisine right there. I cook them first, to crispy, before lovingly and liberally installing them across the top of the baking dish, that way they have a little crunch.

Posted by: Common Tater at November 26, 2025 10:26 PM (jXtns)

101 Homemade cranberry sauce is super easy, if you haven’t ever done it, this is your year! You can make cranberry, or cranberry orange, or apple cranberry, or spiced cranberry….almost endless! And YOU control the sugar content!

Posted by: Piper at November 26, 2025 10:26 PM (OoFl2)

102 104 89 Cranberry sauce and stuffing are both a hard pass for me.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

That's Commie talk.
Posted by: Rock-Ribbed Ronnie at November 26, 2025 10:25 PM (zmYmM

Someone has stock in a cranberry farm.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 26, 2025 10:26 PM (yZqjq)

103 Cranberry juice and champagne is also good. That will be breakfast tomorrow.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 26, 2025 10:26 PM (ys6FW)

104 The apple pie for tomorrow came out of the oven a couple hours ago. Still smells wonderful here.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 26, 2025 10:26 PM (y3bZw)

105 Big fire in Hong Kong - blaze at Wang Fuk Court!

Posted by: Operator Error at November 26, 2025 10:26 PM (CgVaR)

106 Just threw another loaf of bread into the oven. My old lady neighbor brought over a jar of Apple-Amaretto jelly this morning and it is crying out for some good bread.

Of course, I had to then hear all about her latest medical adventure.

The Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 26, 2025 10:27 PM (cYBz/)

107 Cranberry sauce is easy to make and super versatile. I like some mandarin oranges in it.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 26, 2025 10:27 PM (A0sqA)

108 53 Kidding to you Mr. REX! You do have nice legs though🦖

Posted by: COMountainMarie at November 26, 2025 10:15 PM
***
All the better to dance the night away!

Posted by: TRex - rockette reject dino at November 26, 2025 10:27 PM (cCn4/)

109 The apple pie for tomorrow came out of the oven a couple hours ago.

==

Very civilized...unlike those pumpkin pie consumers...

Posted by: runner at November 26, 2025 10:27 PM (g47mK)

110
Tater Tot Casserole. Now there’s some fine trailer trash cuisine right there. I cook them first, to crispy, before lovingly and liberally installing them across the top of the baking dish, that way they have a little crunch.
Posted by: Common Tater

Do that with a rice and spam casserole. Uber tasty.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 26, 2025 10:27 PM (QVmho)

111 107 Gin and Cranberry Juice goes well.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 26, 2025 10:25 PM (XV/Pl)

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Or gin and no cranberry juice!

*hic*

HUMA, GET YOUR TONGUE IN HERE!!!

Posted by: Hillary! Dark Horse Candidate 2028 at November 26, 2025 10:28 PM (dyewR)

112 Speaking of pork roast, other day had to cook for a guest and found a very simple recipe to be excellent. Pork roast or pork loin (boneless). Marinate in balsamic, fresh rosemary, black pepper, garlic. Make extra marinade. Pour some on pork in the oven, baste with it. Reduce the rest in a saucepan. Very simple, very tasty. Just finished the leftovers.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 26, 2025 10:28 PM (U/Byj)

113 All that effort making cranberry sauce could be put towards making gravy and green bean casserole.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 26, 2025 10:28 PM (yZqjq)

114 Gin and Cranberry Juice goes well.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 26, 2025 10:25 PM (XV/Pl)

Hmmmm...???
Will have to try that.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 26, 2025 10:28 PM (y3bZw)

115 116 Babylon Bee:

Heaven Confirms People Who Prefer Ham At Thanksgiving Will Not Enter The Kingdom
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 26, 2025 10:26 PM (xqw19)

Only if they are Moslem...

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 26, 2025 10:28 PM (mP0Kj)

116
If you really wanna go all colonial crazy...

you can add a layer of Mashed Potatoes to your already-Scooby Doo-stacked Miles Standish sam.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 26, 2025 10:29 PM (NtNQ7)

117 I once had a Vodka Martini. She regretted it.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 26, 2025 10:29 PM (mlg/3)

118 Pittsburgh Scanner
Downtown. PPG Plaza. A detail officer caught some guy peeing in public and ran him for warrants. They apparently detained a very wanted individual with a nationwide extradition note.

Pissed away his chance at freedom, eh? A real whiz kid, that one.

Posted by: mikeski at November 26, 2025 10:30 PM (nhCoE)

119 That HK fire looked brutal. KIA in the teens. Didn't even look like on the denser areas, in Kowloon. Always a fear in dense high-rises.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 26, 2025 10:30 PM (U/Byj)

120 The apple pie for tomorrow came out of the oven a couple hours ago.

==

Very civilized...unlike those pumpkin pie consumers...
Posted by: runner at November 26, 2025 10:27 PM (g47mK)

***

I know, right?
Besides pumpkin pie gives me heartburn.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 26, 2025 10:30 PM (y3bZw)

121 Heaven Confirms People Who Prefer Ham At Thanksgiving Will Not Enter The Kingdom

Again, isn’t this what NotTheBee was created for?

Although, every time I watch A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving and see the first Thanksgiving meal—popcorn and buttered toast—I think, this is my dad’s dream dinner.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 26, 2025 10:30 PM (olroh)

122 If you play it backwards, it's I buried Paul.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

You can laugh, but when I was in college we ran that cut backwards on a turntable and it did say that. As I remember, it was, "I buried Paul today."

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 26, 2025 10:30 PM (0Htd1)

123 Love the Cranberry Crunch recipe! Same thing we do with apples.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 26, 2025 10:30 PM (vd6bO)

124 The kid and J are brining the turkey. I heard “we need to really wash our hands now, oh no, the hand soap is empty…what should we use? Let ‘s use this stuff!” Followed by laughing. I am really scared as to what “this stuff” is.

Posted by: Piper at November 26, 2025 10:31 PM (OoFl2)

125 We're having pumpkin pie tomorrow too. Prefer apple though.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 26, 2025 10:31 PM (yZqjq)

126 All that effort making cranberry sauce could be put towards making gravy and green bean casserole.

Posted by: AlaBAMA

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All of those will be on the table. Cranberry relish is the least time-intensive thing I serve.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 26, 2025 10:31 PM (ys6FW)

127 Can you imagine a pink elephant? Well, you just did.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 26, 2025 10:31 PM (mlg/3)

128 I'm too lazy to look for it, but I think there's a EweTube video about British people seeing canned cranberry sauce for the first time.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 26, 2025 10:31 PM (8QVSJ)

129
Stove Top? Ready in 5 minutes.

a Godsend or the Devil's Dingleberry's?

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 26, 2025 10:32 PM (NtNQ7)

130 Apple
Rhubarb
Cherry

That's it!

Posted by: runner at November 26, 2025 10:32 PM (g47mK)

131 What, no love for blueberry pie?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 26, 2025 10:33 PM (XV/Pl)

132 Posted by: Piper at November 26, 2025 10:26 PM (OoFl2)

*fistbump*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 26, 2025 10:33 PM (A0sqA)

133 Man, I haven't had rhubarb pie in a long time.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 26, 2025 10:33 PM (yZqjq)

134 Sorry to divert from cranberries and food. A report out that the perp in DC served in ANA (Afghan National Army, not All Nippon Airways, a much better gig actually) for 10 years with US special forces. Has a wife and kids. So - he shoulda been a shoe-in for asylum, odd he (apparently) didn't get it. Relative, source for the info, who also served in ANA, apparently stunned and distraught at today's events.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 26, 2025 10:33 PM (U/Byj)

135 131 That HK fire looked brutal. KIA in the teens. Didn't even look like on the denser areas, in Kowloon. Always a fear in dense high-rises.

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You look at those 40-floor apartment blocks that line every street in Kowloon and you wonder how it doesn't happen more often.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 26, 2025 10:33 PM (dyewR)

136 The Pilgrims at the first Thanksgiving ate boiled lobster and oysters, waterfowl, passenger pigeon, venison, beans, corn bread, cranberries (but no cranberry sauce)!

Much more seafood, game meat, and corn-based dishes.

Posted by: Joemarine at November 26, 2025 10:33 PM (y171U)

137 I lived in Plymouth County surrounded by cranberry bogs for many year. Never really acquired a taste for them. I've never actually met anyone who has.

But it's rare to ever show up at a home in New England for Thanksgiving and not see a bowl of gelatinous red goo with lines that nobody has any interest in.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 26, 2025 10:33 PM (viF8m)

138 Of course we have Pear tart and that German thing, but that is down the list.

Posted by: runner at November 26, 2025 10:34 PM (g47mK)

139 124 All that effort making cranberry sauce could be put towards making gravy and green bean casserole.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at November

Did you miss my 18 variations of green bean casserole the other day? 😂

Posted by: Piper at November 26, 2025 10:34 PM (OoFl2)

140 Stove Top I like for easy backpacking meals. I don't make it for Thanksgiving.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 26, 2025 10:34 PM (ys6FW)

141 I think they had a beef variety, turkey variety, pork variety...
Posted by: qdpsteve

Is cornbread a variety or a genetic accident?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 26, 2025 10:34 PM (mlg/3)

142 It turns out there is no "Big Cranberry"

Ocean Spray is a co-op of a bunch of farmers.

Posted by: pawn at November 26, 2025 10:34 PM (sPsWv)

143 The Pilgrims at the first Thanksgiving ate boiled lobster and oysters, waterfowl, passenger pigeon, venison, beans, corn bread, cranberries (but no cranberry sauce)!

Much more seafood, game meat, and corn-based dishes.
Posted by: Joemarine at November 26, 2025 10:33 PM (y171U)

I've been lied to !!

Posted by: runner at November 26, 2025 10:34 PM (g47mK)

144 If you want a kicked up cranberry sauce replacement, use Rhubarb Jelly and Tobasco or your favorite hot sauce to taste.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 26, 2025 10:34 PM (XV/Pl)

145 Cranberry sauce takes about 20 minutes and de minimis effort, for the record. Very simple.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 26, 2025 10:35 PM (U/Byj)

146 Soothsayer, I'm old enough to remember when Stove Top stuffing came in flavors.

I think they had a beef variety, turkey variety, pork variety...
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 26, 2025 10:33 PM (xqw19)

Cue Steve Inman, "...just trying to get home to his Stove Top stuffing."

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 26, 2025 10:35 PM (8QVSJ)

147 Did you miss my 18 variations of green bean casserole the other day? 😂
Posted by: Piper at November 26, 2025 10:34 PM (OoFl2

Oh come on! There can't be more than two variations. One with black pepper and one without?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 26, 2025 10:35 PM (yZqjq)

148 156 It turns out there is no "Big Cranberry"

Ocean Spray is a co-op of a bunch of farmers.
Posted by: pawn at November 26, 2025 10:34 PM (sPsWv)

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Everyone knows Big Concord Grape is where the real juice is.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 26, 2025 10:35 PM (dyewR)

149 What, no love for blueberry pie?
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 26, 2025 10:33 PM (XV/Pl)

We had a blueberry pie ready earlier this week. I ate the last piece for breakfast today.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 26, 2025 10:35 PM (y3bZw)

150 129 Romeo13, hey!

Was wondering how things are going with your son, whom you spoke about a few nights ago. :-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 26, 2025 10:29 PM (xqw19)

He apologized the next morning... but is still in the Dog House.

I learned long ago not to make decisions when I am emotional. Hell, I could show you an Evaluation from the Navy where my Capt. from Desert Storm wrote that I was the most Calm person in a crises he had ever met.

So, truthfully.... still processing. I would say Jury is still out but like a Liberal Judge... damn it... I getz to decidez!

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 26, 2025 10:36 PM (mP0Kj)

151 Ocean Spray is a co-op of a bunch of farmers.
Posted by: pawn

That's exactly what the juice would say...

Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 26, 2025 10:36 PM (mlg/3)

152 You know you're retired when you eat pie for breakfast.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 26, 2025 10:36 PM (yZqjq)

153 I'm very thankful for the Horde, and this place. I know I'm more of an annoyance than a valued contributor but this is the closest place I've found where I kind of belong (not really but kind of)...in the back, along the wall.

Happy Thanksgiving to all the Morons. Enjoy food, rest, and the certainty that you are in the right.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 26, 2025 10:36 PM (CHHv1)

154 For a green thing we are doing brussel sprouts. Anyone bringing okra will be shot on sight.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 26, 2025 10:37 PM (y3bZw)

155 Cranberry with Turkey, mint jelly with Lamb, pineapple with ham.

Is there a sweet/tart that goes with beef?

Posted by: the way I see it at November 26, 2025 10:37 PM (KDPiq)

156 So WI has wrestled the cranberry lead from MA. Interesting.

Actually I found the cranberry harvest process pretty interesting. Saw a video on it once.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 26, 2025 10:37 PM (U/Byj)

157 Cranberry sauce takes about 20 minutes and de minimis effort, for the record. Very simple.
Posted by: rhomboid at November 26, 2025 10:35 PM (U/Byj)

I had a slow can opener like that, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 26, 2025 10:37 PM (npFr7)

158 167 You know you're retired when you eat pie for breakfast.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 26, 2025 10:36 PM (yZqjq)
_-_

Hey! I eat pie for breakfast...oh, yeah, retired.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at November 26, 2025 10:37 PM (vd6bO)

159 144 Soothsayer, I'm old enough to remember when Stove Top stuffing came in flavors.

I think they had a beef variety, turkey variety, pork variety...
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 26, 2025 10:33 PM (xqw19)

It still does...

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 26, 2025 10:37 PM (mP0Kj)

160 Love the Cranberry Crunch recipe! Same thing we do with apples.

It may have been an all-purpose recipe, I don’t have the book in front of me right now due to family travels. I love a good apple crisp, but that cranberry has taken over as my favorite, and rhubarb a close second.

Rhubarb Crisp

• 4 cups diced rhubarb
• ½ cup plus 1 tbsp flour
• 1 tbsp water
• 2/3 cup brown sugar
• ¼ tsp cinnamon
• ½ cup sugar
• ½ cup butter
• ¾ cup oatmeal
• ¼ tsp salt

Mix all together; bake in 8x8 greased pan. Bake at 350° 45 to 50 minutes.

(From Mrs. Geo. Otto in the 1964 All Loved and Cherished Wonders of The American Lutheran Church Women of Lakota, North Dakota.)

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 26, 2025 10:37 PM (olroh)

161 Also, it’s not dressing if there is no sage sausage in it.

Posted by: Piper at November 26, 2025 10:37 PM (OoFl2)

162 - Low sodium
Posted by: qdpsteve

I'd go with low sodium. Less chance of an explosion.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 26, 2025 10:38 PM (mlg/3)

163 Cicero (@cicero43) at November 26, 2025 10:05 PM''

Do they stillmake jellied cranberry sauce with raspberry? I think that's an improvement. For whole cranberry sauce, go ahead and make it yourself, using the recipe on the bag of cranberries. Variations include 1/8 to 1/4 teaspoon salt and some citrus juice and/or zest. But just cranberries, sugar and water is fine. Try it plain first.

Cranberry relish is zippier. There is also cranberry salsa, which can be nice. Sometimes made with mild chiles, onion and lime juice.

Posted by: KT at November 26, 2025 10:38 PM (7vIsy)

164 Always liked the jelly cranberry sauce from the can. It was my job to slice up the wheels and lay them neatly in the serving dish when I was a kid. I still prefer it to the fancier relish-style stuff.

Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at November 26, 2025 10:38 PM (V362x)

165 Cranberry Bog was a bar restaurant in the northeast likes Friday’s.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 26, 2025 10:38 PM (KDPiq)

166 Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 26, 2025 10:37 PM (olroh)

okay..but where it the crust part of it ?

Posted by: runner at November 26, 2025 10:39 PM (g47mK)

167 Cranberries have just enough bitterness to serve as a palate cleanser. Kind of resets your tongue after its been saturated with the taste of meat and gravy.

Posted by: pawn at November 26, 2025 10:39 PM (sPsWv)

168 Happy Thanksgiving to all the Morons. Enjoy food, rest, and the certainty that you are in the right.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 26, 2025 10:36 PM (CHHv1)

Right back at cha BC!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at November 26, 2025 10:39 PM (y3bZw)

169 169 For a green thing we are doing brussel sprouts. Anyone bringing okra will be shot on sight.
Posted by: Diogenes at November

Is that why I didn’t get my invitation?

Posted by: Piper at November 26, 2025 10:39 PM (OoFl2)

170 Don't know of a sweet/sour combo for beef. But a chipotle cream sauce and chimichurri combo work well with grilled flank steak. Pretty, too - light brown and bright green.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 26, 2025 10:39 PM (U/Byj)

171 Stephen, I wouldn't mind the Charlie Brown dinner for Thanksgiving one year. I can think of a lot worse to eat.

Anche io. I know we joke about popcorn futures here, but popcorn is a wonder food. (As is buttered toast.)

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 26, 2025 10:40 PM (olroh)

172 Good for UTIs.

Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 26, 2025 10:40 PM (uWb+v)

173
It saddens me You People are so averse to my history...

but I shall endeavor to persist...

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 26, 2025 10:40 PM (NtNQ7)

174 For a green thing we are doing brussel sprouts. Anyone bringing okra will be shot on sight.
Posted by: Diogenes at November

Is that why I didn’t get my invitation?
Posted by: Piper at November 26, 2025 10:39 PM (OoFl2

You packin' okra?

Posted by: Diogenes at November 26, 2025 10:41 PM (y3bZw)

175 Cranberry relish is zippier. There is also cranberry salsa, which can be nice. Sometimes made with mild chiles, onion and lime juice.

Posted by: KT

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That sounds good. How is the Great Pyrenees? Any success with him?

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 26, 2025 10:41 PM (ys6FW)

176 Does anyone make deviled eggs for thanksgiving. It was part of our Thanksgiving and Christmas meals growing up.

I’m like Cool Hand Luke and probably eat 50 of them ( I guess that would really only be 25)

Posted by: the way I see it at November 26, 2025 10:41 PM (KDPiq)

177 >>Actually I found the cranberry harvest process pretty interesting. Saw a video on it once.

Used to watch it every fall. It's pretty cool.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 26, 2025 10:42 PM (viF8m)

178 Pie for breakfast was a (rare) but "normal" treat from waaay back, basically my whole life. Reminds me, still not happy with my pie crust. Going to try the vodka trick, then lard if that doesn't work. Pies are fine/fillings are good, but I want that crumbly flaky crust like the better commercial stuff has.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 26, 2025 10:42 PM (U/Byj)

179 okay..but where it the crust part of it ?

It gets crispy on its own, on the bottom (and on the sides). Mostly from the sugar.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 26, 2025 10:42 PM (olroh)

180 We are fixing a massive amount of rolled oysters. We do weird shit here in Kentucky. I don't know why.

Posted by: NCKate at November 26, 2025 10:42 PM (qdmYz)

181
Mary Brewster (c. 1569 – April 17, 1627) was a Pilgrim and one of the women on the Mayflower.

She was the wife of Elder William Brewster. She was one of only five adult women from the Mayflower to survive the first winter in the New World, and one of only four such to survive to the "first Thanksgiving" in 1621, which she helped cook.[1][3] As such, she is included in Plimoth Plantation's reenactment of that Thanksgiving.

She had six children with William: Jonathan, Patience, Fear, an unnamed child who died young, Love, and Wrestling.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at November 26, 2025 10:42 PM (NtNQ7)

182 I've had cranberry salsa and it's pretty good.

Posted by: pawn at November 26, 2025 10:42 PM (sPsWv)

183 Stuffing. Like wet bread that failed to make a paper machete.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 26, 2025 10:43 PM (yZqjq)

184 Made a no bake cheesecake for tomorrow. Kitchen looked like a tornado had hit it by the time it was finished. Good thing Javems II was here to clean up for me. No cranberries were involved.

Posted by: Javems at November 26, 2025 10:43 PM (8I4hW)

185 I mean, I'll eat Okra if it's presented, but much like a Kubrick film, nobody's asking for it.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 26, 2025 10:43 PM (XV/Pl)

186
btw, both Patience & Fear were daughters. Unsure on sex for Love & Wrestling.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at November 26, 2025 10:44 PM (NtNQ7)

187 Going to try the vodka trick, then lard if that doesn't work.

I haven’t tried it, but vodka should work, and the lard will help. If vodka doesn’t work for you, try vinegar or beer.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 26, 2025 10:44 PM (olroh)

188 Does anyone make deviled eggs for thanksgiving. It was part of our Thanksgiving and Christmas meals growing up.

I’m like Cool Hand Luke and probably eat 50 of them ( I guess that would really only be 25)

Posted by: the way I see it

---
Yes. There are only 3 of us this year and there will be a full tray. They are a favorite!

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 26, 2025 10:44 PM (ys6FW)

189 I have relatives in the Ocean Spray coop. I am not a fan. Of cranberries, fresh or yelled. The relatives are OK.

I like them dried. The cranberries, that is, especially in cookies or trail mixes with other dried fruits.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 26, 2025 10:44 PM (dK+Kv)

190 Cranberry salsa can be quite good.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 26, 2025 10:45 PM (U/Byj)

191 Don't know of a sweet/sour combo for beef. But a chipotle cream sauce and chimichurri combo work well with grilled flank steak. Pretty, too - light brown and bright green.
Posted by: rhomboid

Sweet sour beef: soak the sliced top round beef in soy, chinese rice wine, garlic, etc for a few hours. Pat dry, chill in the fridge for a few more. Mix up a cherry/ pineapple, chicken stock, soy, starch, sauce. Get the wok wicked hot. Toss the beef in a flour / corn starch and salt mix. Fry the hell out of it. Serve with rice, green onions, and the cooked down sauce.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 26, 2025 10:45 PM (mlg/3)

192 Actually I found the cranberry harvest process pretty interesting. Saw a video on it once.

Used to watch it every fall. It's pretty cool.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 26, 2025 10:4

It’s like containing an oil slick.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 26, 2025 10:45 PM (KDPiq)

193 What, no love for blueberry pie?
Posted by: Thomas Bender

I loves me some blueberry pie! Peach, and cherry too!

Posted by: Tonypete at November 26, 2025 10:45 PM (cYBz/)

194 Actually I found the cranberry harvest process pretty interesting. Saw a video on it once.
Posted by: rhomboid

Did it mention the spiders?

Posted by: mindful webworker - lots and lots of spiders at November 26, 2025 10:46 PM (LaTF/)

195 SP Blair, I would think beer would have too much flavor. Plan to try vodka first, then if mission failure, lard. Or maybe lard as well, anyway, since so many other delectable things can be made with it.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 26, 2025 10:46 PM (U/Byj)

196 All these Thanksgiving recipes are inherently racist according to the modern American Left.

Posted by: Hut at November 26, 2025 10:46 PM (u5QD1)

197 My family is from Western PA and oyster dressing and casseroles and such were a big Thanksgiving tradition there too.

Posted by: pawn at November 26, 2025 10:46 PM (sPsWv)

198
You packin' okra?
Posted by: Diogenes at November 26, 2025

Fried, I am from Alabama.

Posted by: Piper at November 26, 2025 10:46 PM (OoFl2)

199 Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 26, 2025 10:45 PM (mlg/3)

Sounds like the delicious Hawaiian Steak I used to get at Houston’s Restaurant.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 26, 2025 10:47 PM (KDPiq)

200
Cranberry relish is zippier. There is also cranberry salsa, which can be nice. Sometimes made with mild chiles, onion and lime juice.

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She Who Must Be Obeyed does a lovely cranberry relish that has tangerine and some other stuff in it. It's a world beyond the canned stuff.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 26, 2025 10:47 PM (dyewR)

201 Does everyone just make old fashioned mashed taters?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 26, 2025 10:47 PM (yZqjq)

202 weft, dang good. Going to paste/copy your comment to recipe notes file.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 26, 2025 10:47 PM (U/Byj)

203 Mrs. Sock was looking in the freezer for something and found a NY cut steak. She plopped it down in front of me and informed me that's what she wanted for dinner. There was only one. She's making this is really good noises at the breakfast counter. I'm going to heat up some left over chili from Saturday.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at November 26, 2025 10:47 PM (bLiG/)

204 >>It’s like containing an oil slick.

A pretty good analogy.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 26, 2025 10:48 PM (viF8m)

205 216 All these Thanksgiving recipes are inherently racist according to the modern American Left.
Posted by: Hut at November 26, 2025

As one of the AOSHQ Native Americans, I give you full blessings to enjoy your Thanksgiving feast.

Posted by: Piper at November 26, 2025 10:49 PM (OoFl2)

206 Does anyone make deviled eggs for thanksgiving. It was part of our Thanksgiving and Christmas meals growing up.

Daughter of Diogenes #2 is a master of deviled eggs!! Fantastic!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at November 26, 2025 10:49 PM (y3bZw)

207 What is a rolled oyster?

Posted by: JackStraw at November 26, 2025 10:50 PM (viF8m)

208
also: I would like to see that Democrat cocksucker mayorkas strung up and fileted.

fileted or flayed??

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at November 26, 2025 10:51 PM (NtNQ7)

209 Fried, I am from Alabama.
Posted by: Piper at November 26, 2025 10:46 PM (OoFl2)

Well. Frying is a step towards burning them outright. You can eat on the porch.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 26, 2025 10:51 PM (y3bZw)

210 Dear wife is putting the finishing touches on a deviled egg platter as we speak.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 26, 2025 10:51 PM (cYBz/)

211 BarelyScaryMary at November 26, 2025 10:41 PM

The Great Pyrenees ran from DH when someone was discing the ground in part of his territory yesterday, so we have just been trusting that he is getting the food we are leaving. I think I saw him/her next to a house fence some distance from the road, sort of hidden from the owners of the house (house is recessed a quarter block from the road itself), this afternoon.

Posted by: KT at November 26, 2025 10:51 PM (7vIsy)

212 "Daughter of Diogenes #2 is a master of deviled eggs!! Fantastic!!!"

Now you've done it.

Posted by: pawn at November 26, 2025 10:51 PM (sPsWv)

213 Cherry pie
Pecan pie
Carrot cake

There had BETTER be some dressing and gravy! Or else!

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 26, 2025 10:51 PM (47diA)

214 I make really delicious cranberry sauce with port wine, candied ginger, and lingonberries.

Posted by: Frankie at November 26, 2025 10:51 PM (OpkeL)

215 AlaBAMA, my assigned task for the feast (as it has been for years) is garlic mashed potatoes. And there actually are potatoes in the dish. But cream, butter, and roast garlic dominate. Three whole heads of roasted garlic this year. And part of the cream will be the leftover garlic-infused cream I used to make potatoes dauphinoise a few days ago. I'm assuming everyone will pick up on the garlic.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 26, 2025 10:51 PM (U/Byj)

216 (From Mrs. Geo. Otto in the 1964 All Loved and Cherished Wonders of The American Lutheran Church Women of Lakota, North Dakota.)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 26, 2025 10:37 PM (olroh)
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We have a few of these kind of cookbooks purchased from garage sales.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 26, 2025 10:51 PM (A0sqA)

217 Thankful for the ONT and all the talk about food. I'm ready for tomorrow.

Posted by: mot at November 26, 2025 10:52 PM (fIPNY)

218 I would think beer would have too much flavor.

I would have thought so, too, but the beer flavor disappears. I learned the trick reading an old Chicago chef, Eddie Doucette.

I suppose if you use a flavored beer it might not. I generally use Lone Star (which is also what I use for Oggi’s Beery Peanut Brittle in The Deplorable Gourmet).

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 26, 2025 10:53 PM (olroh)

219 238 AlaBAMA, my assigned task for the feast (as it has been for years) is garlic mashed potatoes. And there actually are potatoes in the dish. But cream, butter, and roast garlic dominate. Three whole heads of roasted garlic this year. And part of the cream will be the leftover garlic-infused cream I used to make potatoes dauphinoise a few days ago. I'm assuming everyone will pick up on the garlic.
Posted by: rhomboid at November 26, 2025 10:51 PM (U/Byj)

Sounds delish!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 26, 2025 10:53 PM (yZqjq)

220 I never complained of the various and plentiful pies at Thanksgiving but I always hoped one year someone would make a cobbler. Never happened.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 26, 2025 10:54 PM (KDPiq)

221 Cranberries are a big issue in the Northwoods. The runoff from the bogs causes algae blooms in the lakes. There is a lawsuit to restrict them under the Clean Water Act.

https://tinyurl.com/nws5kk5n

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at November 26, 2025 10:54 PM (R86kT)

222 A rolled oyster is several raw oysters dredged and rolled in cracker crumbs and deep fried. They are tennis ball size. It's a Louisville tradition.

Posted by: NCKate at November 26, 2025 10:54 PM (qdmYz)

223 Flayed, THEN fileted.

Some firefighter organization has a wild video up on turkey fryer fire hazards. But the two guys literally plunge the turkey down into the hot fryer, resulting a predictable conflagration with splashing/flaming oil. Think the key thing is to do it all outside, well away from any structures.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 26, 2025 10:54 PM (U/Byj)

224 Headed to bed myself with dreams of tomorrow's feast!

Thankful for this place, and the wonderful cast of characters who make it up!

Yall enjoy yourselves tomorrow.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 26, 2025 10:54 PM (yZqjq)

225 _ArtemisConsort . 7h
“62% of [Somali men in Denmark] are convicted of a violent crime by the age of 30.”
--
_mattvanswol . 5h
They don't kill you because you're a Nazi.
They call you a Nazi so they can kill you.

_Elon Musk@elonmusk . 3h
Falsely labeling non-violent people as “fascist” or “Nazi” should be treated as incitement to murder.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 26, 2025 10:54 PM (30Ppx)

226 (From Mrs. Geo. Otto in the 1964 All Loved and Cherished Wonders of The American Lutheran Church Women of Lakota, North Dakota.)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair

For all recipes Pennsylvania Dutch, my go to cookbook is "Cooking in Longswamp" The United Church of Christ in Longswamp, PA. Fantastic wet-bottomed shoo-fly pie.

Full of wonderful directions such as the ever popular - 'Bake until done' and 'put into a hot oven'.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 26, 2025 10:56 PM (cYBz/)

227 217 My family is from Western PA and oyster dressing and casseroles and such were a big Thanksgiving tradition there too.
Posted by: pawn
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Where in Western PA? I grew up in Lawrence county .

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 26, 2025 10:56 PM (sAmhv)

228 >>I make really delicious cranberry sauce with port wine, candied ginger, and lingonberries.

We are getting into Brussels sprouts territory.

They are great as long as you cover them up with other stuff that actually tastes good!

Posted by: JackStraw at November 26, 2025 10:56 PM (viF8m)

229 btw, both Patience & Fear were daughters.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History

I assume Fear was the sweetheart, and Patience was the bunny-boiler.

Posted by: mikeski at November 26, 2025 10:56 PM (nhCoE)

230 Sides and desserts are all made and cooked (including a spiced cranberry sauce with zinfandel), leaving only the turkey and gravy for tomorrow! Happy Thanksgiving everyone...thankful for this site and all of you.

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at November 26, 2025 10:57 PM (cCn4/)

231 We have a few of these kind of cookbooks purchased from garage sales.

Unsurprisingly, I find a lot of northern-state community cookbooks in Texas and Arizona. I’m trying to cut back on buying them because I want to use the ones I have more, but every once in a while I see something too interesting to pass up.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 26, 2025 10:51 PM (A0sqA)

You really do have a platinum membership!

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 26, 2025 10:57 PM (olroh)

232
In case you missed it, not only did Our Favorite President© blame biden unequivocally and by name, he also threw in the Salamis as intruders who need deport.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at November 26, 2025 10:57 PM (NtNQ7)

233 You know, for a communist newspaper, the (UK) Guardian sure does beg for money a lot.

Shouldn't they all be working voluntarily for the Good of their Fellow Man?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 26, 2025 10:57 PM (IG3/x)

234 SP Blair, thanks. Interesting. If vodka and lard don't get 'er done, I'll try beer. I'm guessing it's all about limiting the development of gluten, but I do everything by the book (including all ingredients being/being kept very cold until baking time). So it's been frustrating.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 26, 2025 10:57 PM (U/Byj)

235 Brussel sprouts are OK. Two of them. The first tastes pretty good, the second is bitter and then I quit.

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 26, 2025 10:57 PM (47diA)

236 Yes on Quality Assurance duty tonight

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 26, 2025 10:58 PM (A0sqA)

237 Where in Western PA? I grew up in Lawrence county .
Posted by: Puddleglum

GO 'CANES!!

Posted by: Tonypete at November 26, 2025 10:59 PM (cYBz/)

238 I’m jumping ahead to Christmas but the discussion of oysters made me think of the Feast of Seven Fishes and one of the things I miss no longer living in the NE near my Italian friends.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 26, 2025 10:59 PM (KDPiq)

239
You know why PDT also dragged the Salamis into this Democrat-inspired-sanctioned execution, yes?

To get them to freak-the-fuck-out, that's why.
He just got them to defend the rotten Somalis while defending other violent criminal foreign invaders.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at November 26, 2025 10:59 PM (NtNQ7)

240 I was the appointed tater masher beck in the day. I got a little crazy and snuck a little cumin in them one year after getting out of school. My Mom detected it first and covered for me after she sampled.

She knew it was from hanging out with a bunch of Indians at school.

My sisters loved it but my Dad gave me the death look.
Never said anything to me though. He really wasn't into anything outside of his experience.

Posted by: pawn at November 26, 2025 10:59 PM (sPsWv)

241
Full of wonderful directions such as the ever popular - 'Bake until done' and 'put into a hot oven'.
Posted by: Tonypete at November

A hot oven is about 425, TP.

Posted by: Piper at November 26, 2025 10:59 PM (OoFl2)

242 Sides and desserts are all made and cooked (including a spiced cranberry sauce with zinfandel), leaving only the turkey and gravy for tomorrow! Happy Thanksgiving everyone...thankful for this site and all of you.

Posted by: The Grateful -

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Happy Thanksgiving! I read about your hotel cooking plans last ONT and hope it is a big success.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 26, 2025 10:59 PM (ys6FW)

243 >
She had six children with William: Jonathan, Patience, Fear, an unnamed child who died young, Love, and Wrestling.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at November 26, 2025 10:42 PM (NtNQ7)

My favorite Puritan name is always going to be 'Unless-Jesus-Christ-Had-Died-For- Thee-Thou-Hadst-Been-Damned Barebone'.

He must've had a hard time filling out forms at the DMV.

Hah! Had to add a space in there. The name was so long the blog rejected it.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 26, 2025 11:00 PM (IG3/x)

244 Pittsburgh Scanner
Downtown. PPG Plaza. A detail officer caught some guy peeing in public and ran him for warrants. They apparently detained a very wanted individual with a nationwide extradition note.

Pissed away his chance at freedom, eh? A real whiz kid, that one.
Posted by: mikeski at November 26, 2025 10:30 PM (nhCoE)

Hope nobody leaks this info.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 26, 2025 11:00 PM (HW6XE)

245 Cranberry relish > canned cranberry sauce.

Cranberries, orange juice, sugar, orange zest, candied orange peel. Coarsely chop in blender or food processor. Damn good.
Posted by: Ocean Spray deez nuts at November 26, 2025 10:10 PM (TbWk/)

Or, you know, some Grand Marnier.

Versatile stuff, that Grand Marnier.

Posted by: RickZ at November 26, 2025 11:00 PM (gKDq2)

246 fileted or flayed??
Posted by: Soothsayer's

Fileting is to cut down the bone, lengthwise. Flayed is to peel in strips. My vote is for flaying.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at November 26, 2025 11:00 PM (bLiG/)

247 Roasted Brussels sprouts are tasty.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 26, 2025 11:01 PM (ys6FW)

248 262 Where in Western PA? I grew up in Lawrence county .
Posted by: Puddleglum

GO 'CANES!!
Posted by: Tonypete
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Heh! I didn't go there. Just a couple of miles north. Different school district.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 26, 2025 11:01 PM (sAmhv)

249 My Dad was from Clintonville and Mom was from Oil City. They met at Penn State.

Clintonville has not changed at all in 50+ years.

Posted by: pawn at November 26, 2025 11:01 PM (sPsWv)

250 > Versatile stuff, that Grand Marnier.
Posted by: RickZ at November 26, 2025 11:00 PM (gKDq2)

I used to like to put just a tiny bit of it in omelets.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 26, 2025 11:01 PM (IG3/x)

251 Chart – Violent crime conviction rate in Denmark, ages 15-79, by country of origin, 2010-2022

https://tinyurl.com/4ey9mumx

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 26, 2025 11:02 PM (30Ppx)

252 Greetings Everyone

Coming in late because just as Gutfeld was coming on at 7PM local time, usually concurrent to ONT dropping, as I was relaxing, I heard OH NOOOO! coming from the kitchen.As this is a common occurrence I didn't rush, but walked over. Wife says 'I have to bring a cake (tomorrow) and I thought I had cake mix....'

Ok, put on shoes, etc, get in car, go to store being thankful we're not in a cold climate. In fact, today was kinda warm even for here.....

Crisis averted.

End of story.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 26, 2025 11:02 PM (QGaXH)

253 Good night. Headed to Texas in the am to visit half my grandkids and their parents. Be safe!

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 26, 2025 11:02 PM (47diA)

254 They flood the fields to harvest the cranberries, and apparently the growers look for workers who are not afraid of spiders, because the big wolf spiders live in the bogs and they like to climb up out of the bogs during harvest/

Bandon Oregon is also the place where they grow commercial Easter lilies

Posted by: Kindltot at November 26, 2025 11:03 PM (rbvCR)

255 Full of wonderful directions such as the ever popular - 'Bake until done' and 'put into a hot oven'.
Posted by: Tonypete at November

A hot oven is about 425, TP.
Posted by: Piper

And "until done" is about 1/2 to 2/3 of the time until the smoke alarm goes off.

Obviously, you have to make two. First one to measure the time, second one to eat.

Posted by: mikeski at November 26, 2025 11:03 PM (nhCoE)

256 >>Brussel sprouts are OK. Two of them. The first tastes pretty good, the second is bitter and then I quit.

You're in denial. It's not your fault. But there is a way to break the hold Satan's dingleberries have on you.

Look to the light. Leave evil behind.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 26, 2025 11:03 PM (viF8m)

257
My favorite Puritan name is always going to be 'Unless-Jesus-Christ-Had-Died-For- Thee-Thou-Hadst-Been-Damned Barebone'.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

That's a good one. Those pilgrims were creative.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at November 26, 2025 11:03 PM (NtNQ7)

258 19 My lovely wife LOVES that canned Ocean Spray garbage:

Behold: Nasty Gelled Cranberry Sauce, the unholy abomination that slinks out of the can with a wet, reluctant schlorp, like a gelatinous slug that’s been marinating in its own existential dread since 1973.
{snip}
The texture? Imagine if cranberry bog water had a midlife crisis, gave up, and decided to become a fruit-flavored rubber tire.
{snip}
Posted by: Tonypete at November 26, 2025 10:07 PM (cYBz/)

This is simply brilliant!

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at November 26, 2025 11:03 PM (v23vE)

259 Versatile stuff, that Grand Marnier.

One for the relish… one for me… one for the sidecar… one for the relish… one for me…

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 26, 2025 11:04 PM (olroh)

260
How about this for a baby's name?

Unnerving

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at November 26, 2025 11:04 PM (NtNQ7)

261 And no ette or gay moron has mentioned liking a Sea Breeze.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 26, 2025 11:04 PM (KDPiq)

262 We are getting into Brussels sprouts territory.

They are great as long as you cover them up with other stuff that actually tastes good!

Posted by: JackStraw at November 26, 2025 10:56 PM (viF8m)

Had this once as an appetizer: Roasted sprouts with pecans topped with a roasted garlic/parmigiano-reggiano/cream sauce. So there you go. Quite tasty, though, sprouts and all.

Posted by: RickZ at November 26, 2025 11:04 PM (gKDq2)

263 People say that Brussels sprouts are good with bacon.

Those people lie.

Brussels sprouts are the rare exception to the maxim that everything is better with bacon.

Brussels sprouts are like anti-bacon.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 26, 2025 11:04 PM (IG3/x)

264 255 Sides and desserts are all made and cooked (including a spiced cranberry sauce with zinfandel), leaving only the turkey and gravy for tomorrow! Happy Thanksgiving everyone...thankful for this site and all of you.
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at November

I have potatoes and dressing left. Finished are herbed green beans and carrots, butternut squash with cranberries, cranberry sauce with pecans, biscuits, pumpkin pie and bourbon pecan pie. Turkey is being brined by turkeys in the kitchen as we type!

Posted by: Piper at November 26, 2025 11:04 PM (OoFl2)

265
And I thought injuns were, um, prolific with their crazy names.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at November 26, 2025 11:04 PM (NtNQ7)

266 ARiK, was one of my favorite kind of days. Calm, unmarked sky, dry, 80. Of course in these parts there are 10 or 15 types of perfect favorite days. Had a great swim, pool unexpectedly had it set up for 50-meter laps, which is much better. When doing backstroke, saw many high-flying airliners heading to Mexico or points south, and the ones low circling for landing here looked so close you could touch them.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 26, 2025 11:05 PM (U/Byj)

267 168 BC
You know you are fine Moron among morons. Much holiday blessings to you sweet one!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at November 26, 2025 11:06 PM (3pxDZ)

268 Brussels sprouts are like anti-bacon.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 26, 2025 11:04 PM (IG3/

So bacon wrapped sprouts should have no taste,

Posted by: the way I see it at November 26, 2025 11:07 PM (KDPiq)

269 My favorite Puritan name is always going to be 'Unless-Jesus-Christ-Had-Died-For- Thee-Thou-Hadst-Been-Damned Barebone'.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

I hope that child was good, can you imagine getting all that out when he was being naughty? I wonder what the nickname was.

Posted by: Piper at November 26, 2025 11:07 PM (OoFl2)

270 >>People say that Brussels sprouts are good with bacon.

>>Those people lie.

This guy gets it.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 26, 2025 11:08 PM (viF8m)

271 I hope that child was good, can you imagine getting all that out when he was being naughty? I wonder what the nickname was.
Posted by: Piper at November 26, 2025 11:07 PM (OoFl2)
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His first name was Nicholas. So.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 26, 2025 11:09 PM (0cOaq)

272 I used to like to put just a tiny bit of it in omelets.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 26, 2025 11:01 PM (IG3/x)

I got a recipe, from a Methodist Church Cookbook no less, for carrots/celery matchsticks sauteed in butter and a TBS of or so of Grand Marnier and a touch of black pepper. Takes about two to three minutes to cook. It's simple and maybe doesn't sound so good, carrots-celery-orange. But that would be wrong. It's delicious.

Posted by: RickZ at November 26, 2025 11:10 PM (gKDq2)

273 281 >>Brussel sprouts are OK. Two of them. The first tastes pretty good, the second is bitter and then I quit.

You're in denial. It's not your fault. But there is a way to break the hold Satan's dingleberries have on you.

Look to the light. Leave evil behind.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 26, 2025 11:03 PM (viF8m)

You speak truth, sir.

Posted by: moki at November 26, 2025 11:11 PM (wLjpr)

274 I just remembered I have a 5 pound bag of tater tots sitting in the deep freeze. I need to do something about that.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 26, 2025 10:19 PM (8QVSJ)

You could make Jansson's Temptation, substituting tater tots for potatoes - Um, and probably sardines for the anchovies

Preheat the oven to 425F and layer the ingredients in a casserole in the order given:

2 large onions, cut into 1/4-inch-wide strips
14 fillets Swedish anchovies, or regular anchovies
6 potatoes, peeled and cut into strips
1 ½ cups heavy cream
2 tablespoons dry bread crumbs
1 tablespoon unsalted butter, melted

Posted by: Kindltot at November 26, 2025 11:11 PM (rbvCR)

275 > His first name was Nicholas. So.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 26, 2025 11:09 PM (0cOaq)

Didn't he change it to Nicholas later in life? I can't recall.

Sort of like the children of hippies changing their names from "Galaxy Kaleidoscope Shiningstar" to "Steve".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 26, 2025 11:11 PM (IG3/x)

276 I hold the secret of making delicious chicken using whole berry cranberry sauce.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 26, 2025 11:12 PM (0cOaq)

277 I got a recipe, from a Methodist Church Cookbook no less, for carrots/celery matchsticks sauteed in butter and a TBS of or so of Grand Marnier and a touch of black pepper. Takes about two to three minutes to cook. It's simple and maybe doesn't sound so good, carrots-celery-orange. But that would be wrong. It's delicious.

Posted by: RickZ

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John Wesley wouldn't approve, but it sounds interesting. Thanks.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 26, 2025 11:12 PM (ys6FW)

278 My favorite Puritan name is always going to be 'Unless-Jesus-Christ-Had-Died-For- Thee-Thou-Hadst-Been-Damned Barebone'.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

I hope that child was good, can you imagine getting all that out when he was being naughty?
Posted by: Piper

Pretty obvious it got trimmed down to just "Jesus Christ" for that.

I wonder what the nickname was.
Posted by: Piper

I'd call him "Unnie."

Posted by: mikeski at November 26, 2025 11:13 PM (nhCoE)

279 Didn't he change it to Nicholas later in life? I can't recall.
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He was christened Nicholas.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 26, 2025 11:13 PM (0cOaq)

280 we survived evening one of liberal sister in law, and surprisingly it wasn't bad! Enjoyed a cheese platter and then homemade chili (no carrots), and listened to stories about husband's family that raised our eyebrows a few times. No politics, which was lovely, and only one dig at me, which is a miracle. Thank you Lord!!!

Posted by: moki at November 26, 2025 11:13 PM (wLjpr)

281 I hope that child was good, can you imagine getting all that out when he was being naughty? I wonder what the nickname was.
Posted by: Piper at November 26, 2025 11:07 PM (OoFl2)

If it were the guy I worked construction for, it would have been "Jesus Christ!"
It was getting to the point that I was wondering if he was going to cut my paycheck under that name

Posted by: Kindltot at November 26, 2025 11:14 PM (rbvCR)

282 58 We still have people like them among us and will remain great. Thanks to God.
Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 26, 2025 10:16 PM (47diA)

Like a certain knife- wielding National Guard Captain this afternoon.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 26, 2025 11:14 PM (QGaXH)

283 @272

>>Roasted Brussels sprouts are tasty.

Any kind of brussel sprouts are good, you either like them or you don't.

Par boiled, roasted with a some EVOO, salt, pepper and a little butter and you are good to go.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 26, 2025 11:14 PM (XV/Pl)

284 People say that Brussels sprouts are good with bacon.

Those people lie.

Brussels sprouts are the rare exception to the maxim that everything is better with bacon.

Brussels sprouts are like anti-bacon.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 26, 2025 11:04 PM (IG3/x)

Brussels sprouts are like endive: Both do better cooked using butter as the fat.

Posted by: RickZ at November 26, 2025 11:14 PM (gKDq2)

285 In case you missed it, not only did Our Favorite President© blame biden unequivocally and by name, he also threw in the Salamis as intruders who need deport.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at November 26, 2025 10:57 PM (NtNQ7)

Better hide, quick.

Posted by: The Salamis at November 26, 2025 11:14 PM (uQesX)

286 I'm baking the bread at around 475 right now. Keeping it in there until I get an internal temp of 200.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 26, 2025 11:15 PM (cYBz/)

287 >>You speak truth, sir.

In my next life I hope to walk the earth like the anti Johnny Appleseed freeing children from the shame and horror of Brussel sprout terror their parents force on them.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 26, 2025 11:16 PM (viF8m)

288 Some foods are just plain controversial.

Brussel sprouts, anchovies, capers, 'calamari'...
Posted by: qdpsteve

If you added 'scrapple' sign me up.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 26, 2025 11:17 PM (cYBz/)

289 229 What is a rolled oyster?
Posted by: JackStraw at November 26, 2025 10:50 PM (viF8m)
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That sounds like a question for an elderly Chinese woman. Anyone who's been to China or even a domestically located "China Town" knows what I'm talking about.

Posted by: Orson at November 26, 2025 11:17 PM (dIske)

290 @314

>>Some foods are just plain controversial. Brussel sprouts, anchovies, capers, 'calamari'...

I love all of that.

Anchovies and sausage on pizza with black olives is a go too pizza choice.

At the very least, ain't nobody eating your pizza at 3am.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 26, 2025 11:17 PM (XV/Pl)

291
In my next life I hope to walk the earth like the anti Johnny Appleseed freeing children from the shame and horror of Brussel sprout terror their parents force on them.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 26, 2025 11:16 PM (viF8m)

No need to wait, there are children who need to be unshackled from the chains of the Devil's Balls right now!!

Posted by: moki at November 26, 2025 11:18 PM (wLjpr)

292 Some foods are just plain controversial.

Brussel sprouts, anchovies, capers, 'calamari'...
Posted by: qdpsteve

If you added 'scrapple' sign me up.
Posted by: Tonypete at November 26, 2025 11:17 PM (cYBz/)
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The only one of those I don't care for are the anchovies. All the rest, done well, are delicious.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 26, 2025 11:18 PM (0cOaq)

293 Some foods are just plain controversial.

Brussel sprouts, anchovies, capers, 'calamari'...

Posted by: qdpsteve

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I cook with Brussels sprouts, anchovies and Capers regularly. But not all at once.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 26, 2025 11:18 PM (ys6FW)

294 no, the sheep's eyeballs are the best part, it is an honor for you

Posted by: Kindltot at November 26, 2025 11:18 PM (rbvCR)

295 This is a good mashup...

A Republic, if you can maintain the server.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 26, 2025 11:18 PM (XV/Pl)

296 Just looked it up. Scrapple sounds related to chitlins.
Posted by: qdpsteve

Lips and assholes. You know. Spam.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 26, 2025 11:19 PM (mlg/3)

297 297 no, the sheep's eyeballs are the best part, it is an honor for you

Posted by: Kindltot at November 26, 2025 11:18 PM (rbvCR)

A Jordanian friend of ours admitted that was just effing with the Westerner - none of them like it!

Posted by: moki at November 26, 2025 11:19 PM (wLjpr)

298 John Wesley wouldn't approve, but it sounds interesting. Thanks.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 26, 2025 11:12 PM (ys6FW)

That's the part that got me; there has been many a good laugh over that. Yet a tasty and easy to remember elegant side vegetable recipe. (That is to say, it looks pretty on the plate, the green and orange.)

Posted by: RickZ at November 26, 2025 11:19 PM (gKDq2)

299 Posted by: moki at November 26, 2025 11:18 PM (wLjpr)

How's the reading going?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 26, 2025 11:19 PM (uQesX)

300 Actually, I regularly ate, Manish Water, which is Jamaican delicacy of goat head soup.

People would fight for the eyeballs.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 26, 2025 11:20 PM (XV/Pl)

301 Scrapple sounds like it should be good but they never tell you the main ingredient is sawdust.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 26, 2025 11:20 PM (A0sqA)

302
How's the reading going?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 26, 2025 11:19 PM (uQesX)

I need to get back to it - I've been writing like made for the last couple of months and then slowed down to prep for the holidays. I promise to get refocus once Thanksgiving is over!!!

Posted by: moki at November 26, 2025 11:21 PM (wLjpr)

303 Actually, I regularly ate, Manish Water, which is Jamaican delicacy of goat head soup.

People would fight for the eyeballs.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 26, 2025 11:20 PM (XV/Pl)

Mum would ask the butcher to leave the eyes in, she said it had to see us through the week.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 26, 2025 11:21 PM (rbvCR)

304 Chitlins.

Pickled Pigs Feet.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 26, 2025 11:22 PM (bss/y)

305 The turkey briners are mopping the kitchen and hallway. I am not getting up to see what is happening. I am not.

Posted by: Piper at November 26, 2025 11:22 PM (OoFl2)

306 I went to dinner with my Japanese clients and Japanese bosses often and would try not to look disgusted when they ate fish eyeballs.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 26, 2025 11:22 PM (KDPiq)

307 no, the sheep's eyeballs are the best part, it is an honor for you

Posted by: Kindltot at November 26, 2025 11:18 PM (rbvCR)

A Jordanian friend of ours admitted that was just effing with the Westerner - none of them like it!
Posted by: moki at November 26, 2025 11:19 PM (wLjpr)
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IIRR from Norman Schwartzkopf's memoir, the general staff were offered sheep's eyeballs when they arrived in Saudi for Desert Shield. And, yeah, I think it's like the fermented shark in Iceland, it's given to gullible foreigners.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 26, 2025 11:22 PM (0cOaq)

308 I like corn meal mush, but I rarely eat it anymore. It is not enough to get me to lunch by itself.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 26, 2025 11:23 PM (rbvCR)

309 Just looked it up. Scrapple sounds related to chitlins.
Posted by: qdpsteve

Lips and assholes. You know. Spam.

Posted by: weft cut-loop

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I thought scrapple is the northern equivalent to liver pudding. Which is delicious, actually, but I've never seen outside of North or South Crackalacky.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 26, 2025 11:23 PM (ys6FW)

310 I need to get back to it - I've been writing like made for the last couple of months and then slowed down to prep for the holidays. I promise to get refocus once Thanksgiving is over!!!
Posted by: moki at November 26, 2025 11:21 PM (wLjpr)

No need to rush. I've gotten out of the habit a bit, but an idea for a Randy sequel manifested itself in my brain. Same for Star Searcher.... So many ideas, so little follow through.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 26, 2025 11:24 PM (uQesX)

311 305 The turkey briners are mopping the kitchen and hallway. I am not getting up to see what is happening. I am not.
Posted by: Piper at November 26, 2025 11:22 PM (OoFl24
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It's best ya don't.

Posted by: The Turkey Briners at November 26, 2025 11:24 PM (vd6bO)

312 If you want to make your gravy (that's red sauce for you heathens) a little richer, always start with a couple of anchovies.

I'm not crazy about anchovies on pie but I like them as a red sauce starter.

Posted by: RickZ at November 26, 2025 11:25 PM (gKDq2)

313 The turkey briners are mopping the kitchen and hallway. I am not getting up to see what is happening. I am not.
Posted by: Piper

Don't worry until they start filling the tub and asking you where you keep the dog shampoo.

Posted by: mikeski at November 26, 2025 11:26 PM (nhCoE)

314 No need to wait, there are children who need to be unshackled from the chains of the Devil's Balls right now!!

My father used to tell me I was adopted when he was really mad at me. At first I was hurt. Then I realized he was kidding and it became a family joke.

Then my mother tried feed me Brussels sprouts and told me I had to eat them because my father liked them. It was at that moment I realized he wasn't kidding, I was adopted, and he was a demon.

I'm still in working thought issues.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 26, 2025 11:26 PM (viF8m)

315 I like corn meal mush, but I rarely eat it anymore. It is not enough to get me to lunch by itself.
Posted by: Kindltot at November 26, 2025 11:23 PM (rbvCR)

Couche couche as we call it in Louisiana. Often sour milk was used instead of buttermilk.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 26, 2025 11:26 PM (KDPiq)

316 193 Use an okra, go to jail!
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 26, 2025 10:41 PM (xqw19)

Anyone found with okra gets a night in the box....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 26, 2025 11:27 PM (QGaXH)

317 Rick Z., a version of puttanesca sauce has been heavy in my cooking rotation this last year. We love it.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 26, 2025 11:27 PM (ys6FW)

318 My dad used to love to eat those can sardines.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 26, 2025 11:28 PM (KDPiq)

319 I have bought the mackerel in tomato sauce, and ground up the fish in the sauce to use as a red sauce for pizza.
I am not a fan of anchovies, but my wife buys anchovy powder and uses it on lots of stuff, including rice.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 26, 2025 11:29 PM (rbvCR)

320 Anchovies make sauces and condiments deeper and richer somehow. Guess it's the heightened umami.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 26, 2025 11:27 PM (Cl3L+)

That's it, umami. Same with mushrooms, a meaty umami flavor.

Posted by: RickZ at November 26, 2025 11:29 PM (gKDq2)

321 King Oscar Sardines with Cracked Pepper. I love those.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 26, 2025 11:29 PM (ys6FW)

322 Cloudy and rainy the last several days, more cloudy and rainy and cold starting Friday. But, as ordered, tomorrow will be sunny with a high of 54°. Perfect as usual for NE Okla.

Looks like we'll be having seven for supper tomorrow. MiladyJo and me, son M, daughter Sugar Plum Fairy and her husband The Scientist, young tattooed psycho friend with his lovely Thai wife and their lovely daughter. (The prodigal son and his wife remain estranged, the grandkids held hostage.) Thai wife is bringing some Taro dessert.

And five dogs, just to keep the place extra lively.

Not quite the crowd and feast Mom used to host, but in the spirit of.

Posted by: mindful webworker - God bless us every one at November 26, 2025 11:30 PM (LaTF/)

323 I sense a disturbance in the Force.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 26, 2025 11:30 PM (npFr7)

324 YOUR MOM!

Posted by: guy who says "YOUR MOM!" at November 26, 2025 11:30 PM (vm2Wx)

325 That's it, umami. Same with mushrooms, a meaty umami flavor.
Posted by: RickZ at November 26, 2025 11:29 PM (gKDq2)
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Portabella mushrooms sauteed in butter with some garlic. Yum.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 26, 2025 11:31 PM (0cOaq)

326 I am thankful for all forms of potato...mashed, french fried, baked, tots, au gratin, julienned, you name it...and also their cousins the yams and sweet potatoes.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at November 26, 2025 11:31 PM (a1AGi)

327 I sense a disturbance in the Force.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 26, 2025 11:30 PM (npFr7)

Someone came and went quickly?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 26, 2025 11:31 PM (uQesX)

328 Have a joyous Thanksgiving feast, mww.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 26, 2025 11:31 PM (ys6FW)

329 Rick Z., a version of puttanesca sauce has been heavy in my cooking rotation this last year. We love it.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 26, 2025 11:27 PM (ys6FW)

I always loved that name, 'the whore's sauce'. It's tasty, well, the sauce; can't speak to the whore.

Posted by: RickZ at November 26, 2025 11:32 PM (gKDq2)

330 Pies done. Butternut and pecan. Cigars while they cooled. I whipped up some heavy cream sweetened with honey, then Little and I performed QA on the pecan. Thought the cream was a bit too sweet, but Little overruled my assessment. Will get into the butternut tomorrow morning before prepping the bird...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 26, 2025 11:32 PM (nbLIj)

331 My underwear has a rich umami flavor.

Posted by: Joe Biden at November 26, 2025 11:33 PM (yifKf)

332 Couche couche as we call it in Louisiana. Often sour milk was used instead of buttermilk.
Posted by: the way I see it at November 26, 2025 11:26 PM (KDPiq)

Do you cook couche-couche in the milk, or add it on top?
Cous-cous proper is steamed semolina wheat, though in Brazil cous-cous is made from corn meal that is soaked and then steamed

Posted by: Kindltot at November 26, 2025 11:33 PM (rbvCR)

333 I always loved that name, 'the whore's sauce'. It's tasty, well, the sauce; can't speak to the whore.

Posted by: RickZ

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After reading the history of it, I told Hubby the dish is Prostitute Pasta. We get a laugh over that.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 26, 2025 11:35 PM (ys6FW)

334 A neighbor dropped off a homemade pumpkin pie earlier this evening. It looks good but I have 3 Costco pumpkin pies already. Two are still in the freezer but the last one thawed this afternoon.

Good: Lots of pumpkin pie

Bad: I'm not supposed to have pumpkin due to high potassium content.

I finished my cranberry orange relish about the time the neighbor showed up. I'll take some over to their house in the morning.

Posted by: Beartooth at November 26, 2025 11:37 PM (0714D)

335 Posted by: raimondo at November 26, 2025 11:36 PM (Soknt)
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Pretty sure Spicoli thinks you're a dick.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 26, 2025 11:37 PM (0cOaq)

336 > 315 I like corn meal mush, but I rarely eat it anymore. It is not enough to get me to lunch by itself.
Posted by: Kindltot at November 26, 2025 11:23 PM (rbvCR)

I bought some old-fashioned non-quick oatmeal the other day. Being of the retired persuasion, I no longer have to give a crap about stuffing down breakfast and heading out the door, and oatmeal is just the thing for a cold winter morning.

And once again I realize just how early my mother must've had to get up to make us all breakfast before school/work. "Quick" oatmeal didn't exist then. Biscuits and sausage gravy. Pancakes. Lots of other things.

I'mk thankful for that, Mom. I wish you were here so I could tell you in person.

I'm planning to have a leisurely Sunday morning breakfast with oatmeal, raisins, and cinnamon, scrambled eggs, bacon, and toast.

Figure I should be recovered from Thanksgiving dinner by them.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 26, 2025 11:37 PM (IG3/x)

337 Dinuguan -

A dish that is mainly comprised of pork meat and blood. Sometimes pork innards such as small and large intestines along with other internal parts of the pig are added. This is also known as "Blood Stew"or Pork Blood Stew.

Actually really good as long as there are not too many chewy bits.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 26, 2025 11:39 PM (Z5/Ih)

338 I like corn meal mush, but I rarely eat it anymore. It is not enough to get me to lunch by itself.
Posted by: Kindltot at November 26, 2025 11:23 PM (rbvCR)

You could make Indian pudding with the corn meal. Lovely, lovely Indian pudding.

Posted by: Beartooth at November 26, 2025 11:41 PM (0714D)

339 Posted by: raimondo at November 26, 2025 11:36 PM (Soknt)
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Pretty sure Spicoli thinks you're a dick.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 26, 2025 11:37 PM (0cOaq)

That was a quick banhammering.

Posted by: Z, no not him. A different Z at November 26, 2025 11:41 PM (F+CKH)

340 > This is also known as "Blood Stew"or Pork Blood Stew.

The ancient Spartans favored a similar dish.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 26, 2025 11:43 PM (IG3/x)

341 The ancient Spartans favored a similar dish.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 26, 2025 11:43 PM (IG3/x)
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An Athenian whose name I'm forgetting, after sampling the Spartan "black soup," said he understood why the Spartans did not fear death.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 26, 2025 11:44 PM (0cOaq)

342 Joe Kidd, which cigar today? Burned a Perdomo Legacy Shade Grown earlier. A bit disappointed, had very high expectations, but it was a bit troubled, wrapper started unwrapping mid-way (total mystery since it's been properly stored for weeks since I got it) - so I'll try one again.

And impressed by the pie line-up.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 26, 2025 11:44 PM (U/Byj)

343 She had six children with William: Jonathan, Patience, Fear, an unnamed child who died young, Love, and Wrestling.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at November 26, 2025 10:42 PM (NtNQ7)

My step-mom's name was Patience. It was a family name for her family.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 26, 2025 11:47 PM (rbvCR)

344 Have a joyous Thanksgiving feast, mww.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary

Thanks. You, too. Enjoyed your nic modification, btw.

Enjoying my first glass of egg nog for the season. Defying my doctor's recommendation to abstain from alcohol.

I watched a vid on the warnings for one of my prescriptions, and it said adding alcohol may cause sleepiness or dizziness. Like that isn't a normal side-effect of booze! and over-29-ism.

Posted by: mindful webworker - I'll sleep it all off this weekend at November 26, 2025 11:47 PM (LaTF/)

345 We got a few cranberry bogs around here. There's actually a town called cranberry.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 26, 2025 11:47 PM (snZF9)

346 Anchovies on celery sticks is the appetizer for tomorrow. Simple and effective for keeping the aroma of roast turkey from driving one mad..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 26, 2025 11:48 PM (nbLIj)

347 There's actually a town called cranberry.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 26, 2025 11:47 PM (snZF9)
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It's actually mentioned in "Edge of Tomorrow."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 26, 2025 11:48 PM (0cOaq)

348 I don't want to get bogged down on all the cranberry content.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 26, 2025 10:01 PM (dyewR)

Nice. A pun all the way up at #3.

Posted by: GWB at November 26, 2025 11:50 PM (BwBUI)

349 Are my comments sticking?
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 26, 2025 11:48 PM (t6qTZ)
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It seems not.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 26, 2025 11:50 PM (0cOaq)

350 Are my comments sticking?

Posted by: qdpsteve

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Sticking to what?

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 26, 2025 11:50 PM (ys6FW)

351 Dinuguan -

A dish that is mainly comprised of pork meat and blood. Sometimes pork innards such as small and large intestines along with other internal parts of the pig are added. This is also known as "Blood Stew"or Pork Blood Stew.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 26, 2025 11:39 PM (Z5/Ih)

Don't eat it unless you know who made it. Wise words from my first MiL.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 26, 2025 11:51 PM (uQesX)

352 The Turkey Briners sounds like a barbershop quartet.

You don't want to know-know-know
what we're up to~
I now we promised (promised, promised)
to be true~
but I've got a hint of salmonella, for you!

Posted by: Nerd Herd at November 26, 2025 11:51 PM (NZPfR)

353 Joe Kidd, which cigar today?

Posted by: rhomboid at November 26, 2025 11:44 PM (U/Byj)

Alec Bradley Prensado Toro. Paired nicely with a couple fingers of Truthteller bourbon.

Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 26, 2025 11:52 PM (nbLIj)

354 Good night, Horde.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 26, 2025 11:52 PM (0cOaq)

355 Good Night and hope to see everybody during the day tomorrow....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 26, 2025 11:53 PM (QGaXH)

356 >>I'mk thankful for that, Mom.

I'll be with my mom on Saturday for the family get together including the great grandbabies.

It would be impossible for me to say how lucky I was to have the best parents anyone could ever ask for.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 26, 2025 11:53 PM (viF8m)

357 Whore's pasta = pasta-tute's carbs

Posted by: Nerd Herd at November 26, 2025 11:53 PM (NZPfR)

358 Kidding to you Mr. REX! You do have nice legs though🦖

Posted by: COMountainMarie at November 26, 2025 10:15 PM
***
All the better to dance the night away!
Posted by: TRex - rockette reject dino at November 26, 2025 10:27 PM (cCn4/)

Next rockette audition, you should use the Michigan Rag. It always worked for Mr. Michigan Frog.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 26, 2025 11:53 PM (S/Y4j)

359 Banned IP most likely.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 26, 2025 11:54 PM (bss/y)

360 Evenin’ again, All.

I can’t stand cranberry anything.

Posted by: Bulg at November 26, 2025 11:55 PM (77rzZ)

361 There's actually a town called cranberry.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 26, 2025 11:47 PM (snZF9)

IIRC, county road 537 goes through some cranberry bogs. Real pretty part of the state...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 26, 2025 11:55 PM (nbLIj)

362 My lovely and talented lady introduced me to things I never thought I'd enjoy. Mincemeat pie (always thought it was "mystery meat"). Brussel sprouts (they can be made edible!). Even liver (once, that was enough; it's still liver). Among other joys of life. Greek food. Coffee. Drinking at bars (our young life in Chicago).

Posted by: mindful webworker - I have been much blessed. at November 26, 2025 11:55 PM (LaTF/)

363 Now all my comments above have disappeared.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 26, 2025 11:55 PM (ESGH/)

364
Banned IP most likely.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Or some miserable faggot who likes to ban people.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at November 26, 2025 11:56 PM (NtNQ7)

365 Well, I got some good work done on #3 Suburban today, despite the cold 15 degree weather. Replaced the engine thermostat and the bypass hose. Engine now warms up to a decent operating temperature, and the heater blows a torrent of warm air. Drove it to Elnora for Wing Night, and the 'burb was toasty warm inside.

There was a bypass hose on it, but the previous workers had crammed in a piece of straight 3/4" heater hose, and it was kinked almost shut. I rooted around in a box of used molded heater hoses, found one with slight bend in it, and cut that piece out and used it. Fits like a glove; no kinks.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 26, 2025 11:56 PM (npFr7)

366 Seems to be sticking now.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 26, 2025 11:56 PM (bss/y)

367 I won't see parents at Thanksgiving, but at Christmas. Dad isn't doing well. It will be good to see them.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 26, 2025 11:56 PM (ys6FW)

368 My family is also descended from the Mayflower Brewsters

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 26, 2025 11:56 PM (y0M1d)

369
Adherent Comments

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at November 26, 2025 11:57 PM (NtNQ7)

370 Actually really good as long as there are not too many chewy bits.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 26, 2025 11:39 PM (Z5/Ih)

Morcilla is pork blood, rice, various veggies and seasoning in a sausage skin. I used to love that stuff.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 26, 2025 11:58 PM (rbvCR)

371
I dunno, naming a kid "Fear," tho?

I mean, why not Animosity, then?

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at November 26, 2025 11:58 PM (NtNQ7)

372 Adhesive?

Adhering?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 26, 2025 11:59 PM (bss/y)

373 Happy Thanksgiving guys!

We have a launch in the morning..

Roscosmos/NASA - Soyuz 2.1.a - Soyuz MS-28
LS-31/6 - Baikonur Cosmodrome, KAZ - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: November 27, 2025
Launch Time: 4:27 AM EST (0927 UTC, 10:27 CEST)

https://youtu.be/EvQz-WZSPfM

Posted by: Joyenz at November 26, 2025 11:59 PM (2F0/Y)

374 Adherent > Coherent

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 27, 2025 12:00 AM (ys6FW)

375 Cohesive comments?

Nah, qdp.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 27, 2025 12:01 AM (bss/y)

376 Happy Thanksgiving Eve, horde!

Got the eggs boiled, will turn them into deviled eggs in the morning.

That's the full extent of "preps" here. It's kind of a relief, actually, to not need to travel or host a houseful.

Posted by: JQ at November 27, 2025 12:01 AM (rdVOm)

377 But Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania is a cool place.

Posted by: Bulg at November 27, 2025 12:02 AM (77rzZ)

378 Happy Thanksgiving, JQ! Deviled eggs are the best.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 27, 2025 12:03 AM (ys6FW)

379 Are my comments sticking?
Posted by: qdpsteve

Let me try sewing it back on.

Posted by: Wendy at November 27, 2025 12:03 AM (LaTF/)

380 >>My family is also descended from the Mayflower Brewsters

The Brewster homestead is less than a mile from my old place.

The history of your ancestors is very much alive in my old town.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 27, 2025 12:04 AM (viF8m)

381 Let me try sewing it back on.
Posted by: Wendy at November 27, 2025 12:03 AM (LaTF/)

Nice.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 27, 2025 12:04 AM (bss/y)

382 Thanks Wendy. :-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 27, 2025 12:05 AM (ESGH/)

383 Evening.

Help me guess at how much TJM had to drink before recording his latest review.

https://youtu.be/VyiLueS_8RY

Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at November 27, 2025 12:05 AM (1Yy3c)

384 Rick Z., a version of puttanesca sauce has been heavy in my cooking rotation this last year. We love it.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 26, 2025 11:27 PM (ys6FW)

I always loved that name, 'the whore's sauce'. It's tasty, well, the sauce; can't speak to the whore.
Posted by: RickZ

Years ago I saw capers really good price.
No idea what they were but bought a jar.

Open it and take a whiff... Whoo?!.. ok...

Olive oil
Some fresh garlic,
Dissolve some anchovy,
Some crushed red pepper,
Capers,
Sliced black olives ...

Dump in a jar of whatever red sauce.
Pretty damn good.

Didn't know it was a thing since forever until years later.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 27, 2025 12:06 AM (Z5/Ih)

385 I am thankful that I grew up where poelple keep thier bacon grease.

Added a bit of je ne sais quoi to my Clam Fettucini Carbonara

Posted by: Miklos needs another freezer at November 27, 2025 12:06 AM (N7hqt)

386 Mincemeat pie (always thought it was "mystery meat").
Posted by: mindful webworker - I have been much blessed. at November 26, 2025 11:55 PM (LaTF/)

I think Jon Townsend indicated minced meat just meant any meat that's been finely chopped.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 27, 2025 12:07 AM (uQesX)

387
I dunno, naming a kid "Fear," tho?

The only one we have to fear...is Fear himself.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 27, 2025 12:07 AM (pkeXY)

388 Those Brewster sisters were really sweet old ladies.

Posted by: Bulg at November 27, 2025 12:07 AM (77rzZ)

389 Years ago I saw capers really good price.

Ask not my vice
I tell you the price

Posted by: Miklos, dancing alla putanesca at November 27, 2025 12:09 AM (N7hqt)

390 I am thankful that I grew up where poelple keep thier bacon grease.

Added a bit of je ne sais quoi to my Clam Fettucini Carbonara
Posted by: Miklos needs another freezer
++++

Bacon fat is required for cooking eggs with the crispy brown edges but still soft yolk.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 27, 2025 12:09 AM (Z5/Ih)

391 Help me guess at how much TJM had to drink before recording his latest review.

https://youtu.be/VyiLueS_8RY
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at November 27, 2025 12:05 AM (1Yy3c)

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LOL. A *lot*.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 27, 2025 12:10 AM (r+pQK)

392 Bacon grease, heck yeah! I have grandma's old grease strainer/keeper. Cooked off some bacon yesterday, in fact. Poured the grease into that lil can... use it for frying just about anything, but mostly eggs and hashbrowns.

Posted by: JQ at November 27, 2025 12:10 AM (rdVOm)

393
Their second choice was Flatulence.

3rd choice?

Ecstasy.

Those wacky Brewsters...

Posted by: Soothsayer's Innaccurate but Amusing History at November 27, 2025 12:10 AM (NtNQ7)

394 I am thankful that I grew up where poelple keep thier bacon grease.

Added a bit of je ne sais quoi to my Clam Fettucini Carbonara

Posted by: Miklos needs another freezer

___

There are 2 jars of bacon grease in the fridge. It is good indeed for that je ne sais quoi.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 27, 2025 12:10 AM (ys6FW)

395 I think Jon Townsend indicated minced meat just meant any meat that's been finely chopped.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

Ground three times

*odd Tony Orlando vibes*

Posted by: Miklos, who turned a leg of lamb into Gyros as long ago as Tuesday at November 27, 2025 12:11 AM (N7hqt)

396 Just caught milady cutting dough into strips.

🎶 Lattice be lovers
We'll marry our fruitpies together
https://youtu.be/Eo2ZsAOlvEM

Apparently it must be about time for me to go lurk mode.

Posted by: mindful webworker - actually used 'gaberdine' in a song lyric! at November 27, 2025 12:12 AM (LaTF/)

397 Bacon grease is good for cornbread. And beans.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 27, 2025 12:13 AM (ys6FW)

398 Help me guess at how much TJM had to drink before recording his latest review.

https://youtu.be/VyiLueS_8RY
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at November 27, 2025 12:05 AM (1Yy3c)

=====

LOL. A *lot*.
Posted by: Jordan61

In vino Veritas

Posted by: Miklosius Caroliniensis at November 27, 2025 12:14 AM (N7hqt)

399 I think Jon Townsend indicated minced meat just meant any meat that's been finely chopped.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 27, 2025 12:07 AM (uQesX)

"Mincemeat", as used as a filling for pies or tarts, is mostly candied fruit, and some nuts maybe, and a little suet or lard, IIRC. And it has spices in it.

Hot mince pie with "hard sauce" is a yummy holiday tradition. Hard sauce is like cake frosting, with booze in it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 27, 2025 12:15 AM (npFr7)

400 Bacon grease is good for cornbread. And beans.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary
+++++++

And home made ice cream!

Also, stack of pancakes,
Pat down quarter to half inch brown sugar on top
Drizzle on hot bacon fat.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 27, 2025 12:16 AM (Z5/Ih)

401 HAPPY THANKSGIVING, EVERYONE!!!

Posted by: Bulg at November 27, 2025 12:16 AM (77rzZ)

402 Back atcha, Bulg!

Posted by: JQ at November 27, 2025 12:17 AM (rdVOm)

403 >>Ground three times

Blinded by the smoke from a distant fire.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 27, 2025 12:17 AM (viF8m)

404 I think Grandma used bacon fat for pastry too. Or, at least for dumplings.

Posted by: JQ at November 27, 2025 12:18 AM (rdVOm)

405
Skip will be appearing soon...

Posted by: Soothsayer Sees All at November 27, 2025 12:19 AM (NtNQ7)

406 Hot mince pie with "hard sauce" is a yummy holiday tradition. Hard sauce is like cake frosting, with booze in it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

In Scotland, "hot mince pie" is code for Moslem Rape gangs

Posted by: Old McDonald still has a farm at November 27, 2025 12:19 AM (N7hqt)

407 Awoke yesterday, having had some complicated, vivid, and intense dream, of which I could recall little. Was happy to find it was just early morning in my safe, simple bedroom.

I thought, mayhap it will be like that when we arise in the next life. Wow! I just had the craziest dream! I don't recall a lot of it, what I do recall doesn't make much sense, but I know it was intense. Glad it was just a dream and I'm safe here at home.

https://youtu.be/PgagPdVM7bk

G'nite, y'all.

Posted by: mindful webworker - John 14:2 at November 27, 2025 12:20 AM (LaTF/)

408 Bacon grease popcorn--it is the one thing Hubby cooks. He does popcorn on the stove the old-fashioned way with kernels. But uses bacon grease instead of oil. It is really good.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 27, 2025 12:20 AM (ys6FW)

409 My favorite part of Thanksgiving was always The Leftovers. Who's with me?!

Turkey. Noodle. Soup.

Posted by: JQ at November 27, 2025 12:21 AM (rdVOm)

410 Skip will be appearing soon...
Posted by: Soothsayer Sees

It is not a School Night.

I think he is watching the Scary Movies while I entertain "Uncle" Eugene.

Posted by: Strict but affectionate Auntie Miklos at November 27, 2025 12:22 AM (N7hqt)

411 JQ, heck yes. I boil the carcass for broth and make turkey & dumplings. yum.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 27, 2025 12:22 AM (ys6FW)

412 Bacon grease, heck yeah! I have grandma's old grease strainer/keeper.

Posted by: JQ at November 27, 2025 12:10 AM (rdVOm)

One of Little's friends gifted me a silicone bacon fat keeper several years back. Very thoughtful young man. I usually mash up some garlic and olive oil to work under the turkey skin, but tomorrow it will be bacon fat, oh yes...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 27, 2025 12:22 AM (nbLIj)

413 >>I thought, mayhap it will be like that when we arise in the next life. Wow! I just had the craziest dream! I don't recall a lot of it, what I do recall doesn't make much sense, but I know it was intense. Glad it was just a dream and I'm safe here at home.
---------

I have wondered the same, mindful. I hope it's like that.

Posted by: JQ at November 27, 2025 12:22 AM (rdVOm)

414 I'm seeing leftists on twitter argue Somalia welfare fraud is a good thing now.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 27, 2025 12:24 AM (sKqQm)

415 Behold: Nasty Gelled Cranberry Sauce, the unholy abomination that slinks out of the can with a wet, reluctant schlorp, like a gelatinous slug that’s been marinating in its own existential dread since 1973.
It lands on the plate in a perfect, ridged cylinder, quivering with the faint structural integrity of a haunted Jell-O mold. The surface gleams under the kitchen light with an unnatural, almost radioactive sheen (think "nuclear maraschino cherry" meets "gas station sushi"). Tiny air bubbles are suspended inside like trapped souls trying to escape. When you slice into it, the knife makes a sound best described as a sad trombone being slowly drowned in simple syrup.
The texture? Imagine if cranberry bog water had a midlife crisis, gave up, and decided to become a fruit-flavored rubber tire. It wobbles. It jiggles. It refuses to break apart like normal food, instead choosing to ooze in slow-motion defiance, leaving behind a glossy, sticky crime scene that clings to your fork like it’s personally offended you tried to eat it.
Posted by: Tonypete at November 26, 2025 10:07 PM (cYBz/)

***********

That description qualifies as art. High quality art.

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at November 27, 2025 12:24 AM (E8jXP)

416 Turkey and ham are done, kitchen cleaned up. Kids are at the local saloon - local Thanksgiving Eve town tradition (guess who is designated driver), scampywife called it a night. Cheers, Horde.

Posted by: scampydog at November 27, 2025 12:25 AM (41CYW)

417 I usually mash up some garlic and olive oil to work under the turkey skin, but tomorrow it will be bacon fat, oh yes...
Posted by: Joe Kidd

What time should I arrive? LOL

Posted by: JQ at November 27, 2025 12:26 AM (rdVOm)

418 One of Little's friends gifted me a silicone bacon fat keeper several years back. Very thoughtful young man. I usually mash up some garlic and olive oil to work under the turkey skin, but tomorrow it will be bacon fat, oh yes...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 27, 2025 12:22 AM (nbLIj)

____
Never thought of that. Bacon grease on the turkey. Yum.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 27, 2025 12:26 AM (ys6FW)

419 I have wondered the same, mindful. I hope it's like that.
Posted by: JQ

*disregards the bar talk*

*offers another hashish infused Jello shot*

Posted by: Skeptical but genial Late Nite Miklos at November 27, 2025 12:26 AM (N7hqt)

420 Did you know that Squanto was a Catholic?

LOL. True story.

Posted by: no one at November 27, 2025 12:26 AM (d6BF2)

421 Cheers, Doggo! Happy TG to you and yours!

Posted by: JQ at November 27, 2025 12:27 AM (rdVOm)

422 Posted by: Tonypete

May you be relived of your troubles.

Posted by: "Turkey" "Gravy" in a jar at November 27, 2025 12:28 AM (N7hqt)

423 As a lurker, I’ve come to realize the comment section of Ace’s is My Soap Opera.

All the great characters that populate my online life are here.

The bad ones CBD quickly and efficiently disposes of, he should moonlight over at Instapundit.

Posted by: Goatweed at November 27, 2025 12:30 AM (jK3NL)

424 My grandmother would put bacon grease into the runzas when she made them. Takes the runzas to another level.

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at November 27, 2025 12:31 AM (E8jXP)

425 My favorite part of Thanksgiving was always The Leftovers. Who's with me?!

Turkey. Noodle. Soup.
Posted by: JQ at November 27, 2025 12:21 AM (rdVOm)

The evolution of turkey dinner post Thanksgiving at Casa Sin Problemas goes:

1) Turkey sammiches with extra turkey on the side

2) Turkey omelets (the only acceptable reason for jarred gravy)

3) Turkey gumbo

Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 27, 2025 12:31 AM (nbLIj)

426 Back at ya, JQ. Happy TG to you and yours.

Posted by: scampydog at November 27, 2025 12:31 AM (41CYW)

427 Slumber calls. Happy Thanksgiving, Horde. May God Bless you, every one.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 27, 2025 12:34 AM (ys6FW)

428
My grandmother would put bacon grease into the runzas when she made them. Takes the runzas to another level.
Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie

You'll get the runzas.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 27, 2025 12:35 AM (pkeXY)

429 I remember watching grandma roll out the dough and cut the noodles. (I now have her noodle-cutter too!) Then she'd drape the noodles over a drying rack overnight.

Funny-- as I remember the scene, it's all from a child's-eye-view, just a bit higher than level with the counter top.

Posted by: JQ at November 27, 2025 12:36 AM (rdVOm)

430 I have just noticed that I have two (2) kinds of pie in the fridge.

Coconut Creme AND Lemon Meringue

Yet some say America is not the land of Opportunity and Freedom

GO HOME you pie-hating commie bastards

Posted by: Miklos likes options. Sweet sweet options at November 27, 2025 12:37 AM (N7hqt)

431 "runzas"?

Never heard of that before. Sheltered life, here...

Posted by: JQ at November 27, 2025 12:38 AM (rdVOm)

432 "Mincemeat", as used as a filling for pies or tarts, is mostly candied fruit, and some nuts maybe, and a little suet or lard, IIRC. And it has spices in it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 27, 2025 12:15 AM (npFr7)

Now, yes, but JT was talking about 18th century cooking.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 27, 2025 12:38 AM (uQesX)

433 My grandmother would put bacon grease into the runzas when she made them. Takes the runzas to another level.
Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie

That's Nebraska, yes? Had my first and only Runza driving through there in'07. Definitely would have benefitted from a dollop of bacon fat..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 27, 2025 12:39 AM (nbLIj)

434 3) Turkey gumbo

Posted by: Joe Kidd

I tried to read that in a Justin Wilson voice.

fail

Posted by: Le Mikleuse ga-ron-tees cher at November 27, 2025 12:40 AM (N7hqt)

435 AOP - Earlier today made a two-part reply to your suggestion re feeding our Vets. Don't know which thread it was, but it was willowed.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 27, 2025 12:43 AM (XeU6L)

436 Well, I am getting chilly. And sleepy. Time for me to hit the sack. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 27, 2025 12:44 AM (npFr7)

437 AOP - Earlier today made a two-part reply to your suggestion re feeding our Vets. Don't know which thread it was, but it was willowed.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 27, 2025 12:43 AM (XeU6L)

I was out and about, so I missed it. Coles notes?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 27, 2025 12:44 AM (npFr7)

438 Since TG isn't a huge production this year, I lazed around this morning... so peaceful... until my BFF texted me that her lights & tv were wonky.

She didn't know what to do and was scared that it would cost her a fortune to fix!

I told her to call the power company. She continued to freak out. I told her *again* to call power company, which she finally did... and then she wanted me to come over because she was still freaking out. OK.

Brought over a LED lantern & extra batteries, just in case.

Turned out, her neighbor's tree was rubbing the insulation on her powerline and water got in when it rained. Crew trimmed the tree and spliced out the bad spot. Yay! And no charge to BFF.

Posted by: JQ at November 27, 2025 12:47 AM (rdVOm)

439 I was out and about, so I missed it. Coles notes?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
-----

A bit lengthy. I'll find it at some point.

I want a 'Search All Threads from date-to-date' function.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 27, 2025 12:48 AM (XeU6L)

440 Sorry I'm late, I was waiting outside the Oaklander Hotel trying to get a famous person's autograph.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 27, 2025 12:50 AM (GxMsM)

441 I tried to read that in a Justin Wilson voice.

fail

Posted by: Le Mikleuse ga-ron-tees cher at November 27, 2025 12:40 AM (N7hqt)

Jooostan taught me many of the finer points of Cajun cooking:

"Now dis here dahk roux dat I'm makin' take about tre owa's"...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 27, 2025 12:50 AM (nbLIj)

442 "If you came to the ONT to find cheat codes to Hunt the Wumpus, you are welcome to look through our old Compute! magazines. They're over in the corner and bundled with twine. Are you lurking ?? Thank you for your attention to this matter."

That's a lot of magazines to peruse through. Are you going to want them re-bundled when I'm finished?

Posted by: tankdemon at November 27, 2025 12:51 AM (GxMsM)

443 A bit lengthy. I'll find it at some point.

I want a 'Search All Threads from date-to-date' function.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 27, 2025 12:48 AM (XeU6L)

Ah, OK. It occurred to me that you might find a camp catering company, oil company, or construction company with an idle cookshack that could make a donation in kind for a tax write-off.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 27, 2025 12:52 AM (npFr7)

444 And now I am off to the rack.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 27, 2025 12:52 AM (npFr7)

445 My wife only drinks cranberry juice when she thinks she might have a UTI.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 27, 2025 12:54 AM (GxMsM)

446 tank, I love the cran-grape juice.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 27, 2025 12:59 AM (ESGH/)

447 There's actually a town called cranberry.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 26, 2025 11:47 PM (snZF9)

IIRC, county road 537 goes through some cranberry bogs. Real pretty part of the state...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 26, 2025 11:55 PM (nbLIj)

Yup, I'm on 537 a few times a week. It takes you to 539, which we call the hillbilly highway. Pin straight all the way to the shore areas. Great motorcycle roads there.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 27, 2025 12:59 AM (snZF9)

448 Nothing More Determined than a LIB thinking with their Feet -- rushing to reward the guilty, to Punish the Innocent or Champion the mediocre, the Unworthy, the DEPRAVED on the basis of their Depravity.

https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-LIBsTheChickenRun
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-BrennanBecomesSpookula
LET's EAT!

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at November 27, 2025 12:59 AM (g8d7M)

449 433 My grandmother would put bacon grease into the runzas when she made them. Takes the runzas to another level.
Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie

That's Nebraska, yes? Had my first and only Runza driving through there in'07. Definitely would have benefitted from a dollop of bacon fat..
Posted by: Joe Kidd
----
Nebraska by way of Minnesota/Wisconsin. Scandies.

One of the things I miss. They call them pasties out here in Montana. And bacon fat would improve them.

Posted by: clarence at November 27, 2025 01:02 AM (GE9Fw)

450
Grampa used to put bacon grease on the fence posts, said it keeps the kneegroes & joos away. It worked, too.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 27, 2025 01:05 AM (NtNQ7)

451 JQ at November 27, 2025 12:47 AM (rdVOm)

Heh. I had a similar situation this morning, except it wasn't a BFF. A woman came to the house looking for Roommate Brent, who was out. When I told her this, she burst into tears. In her car was a yappy terrier and two puppies, each maybe a month old. Car was overheating.

She had just left her abusive boyfriend and had no where to go. She had met Brent back in August. No contact since. I got her to a church that I'd been going to. Only person there happened to run the women's ministry. She suggested a battered women's shelter, and the girl was familiar with it. I followed her there to make sure her car didn't quit along the way. She appeared to be thinking a bit more clearly by then, so I'm hopeful she's getting the help she needs. Definitely not on my bingo card today...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 27, 2025 01:10 AM (nbLIj)

452 Bless you, Joe Kidd!

Posted by: JQ at November 27, 2025 01:14 AM (rdVOm)

453 Back in the 90's when my wife & I did the family Thanksgiving, my efforts would be brining two large birds the day before and then firing up my smoker around midnight and stuffing that bird with seasoned butter under the skin and then oranges and seasoning in the cavity. 3 hours later, my side burner BBQ would receive the second bird seasoned with a Cajun blend to be slow cooked with apple wood for the next 6 hours.

I did some pretty fine birds back in the day.

Happy Thanksgiving to all the Horde!!

Posted by: Nightwatch at November 27, 2025 01:16 AM (25kuG)

454 BFF had never lived alone until divorcing ~6 or 8 years ago. Had never owned her own place, either, all those years.

Got to admit, it's terrifying when you're not sure what's happening and don't know how to fix it, and there's *nobody else* around!

Posted by: JQ at November 27, 2025 01:18 AM (rdVOm)

455 @Joe Kidd, Friday night about midnight I had a good friend (who lives about an hour away)'s son call me from California, saying Dad had gone to the ER that afternoon but left the hospital that night, and could I get him to go back? I went over to the house and talked to his wife. He had likely had a TIA (mini-stroke) at work -- one side of his face was drooping, his speech was slurred like he was drunk, and he had headaches. Once he got to the ER, though, neuro screening was fine, and they didn't do anything (which told me they didn't think it was an emergency). He was waiting around for an MRI and had had enough, so he went home. He was asleep. I said let him sleep and see if he'll go back tomorrow. But it screwed up my sleep all weekend to be up all night Friday night. Certainly wasn't in my plans. [Rest of story: we talked today and he'll go get an MRI when they can schedule it.]

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at November 27, 2025 01:19 AM (eStot)

456 We are doing our annual Friendsgiving feast at our friends' house again this year - been doing this for about 40 years now.

This year we will be bringing GF green bean casserole, GF stuffing, GF sweet potato casserole, GF buttermilk pie, canned cranberry sauce, and 3 pies that we ordered from a local company that helps out Rebecca's old school.

Most of the GF items taste the same as the regular stuff; A couple of the guests have to or choose to eat GF - Rebecca being one who has to - so we bring those items so that others don't have to make it special.

One of our friends brings sweet potato casserole and cranberry relish, but she adds jalapenos or chipotles to hers, and the cancer med that I am on makes my mouth very sensitive. I can't even drink carbonated soda these days!

But we will all have fun, and the thing that I am most thankful for this Thanksgiving is that I am still here to spend it with all of our dearest friends. 😊💕🦃

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at November 27, 2025 01:21 AM (SRRAx)

457 Runzas, as my grandmother made them, start out with making a bread/dinner roll dough, substituting a tablespoon of bacon grease for butter.

Brown up some hamburger/pork mince and set aside when done, then add a tablespoon of the bacon grease to the fat left over and saute the onions in the fat, and as soon as the onions are turning a light brown, add the sliced cabbage to the mixture and wilt it down.

After this is done, take mixture off the stove and let it cool down to room temperature, and as soon as this is done, take some dough and roll it out to a somewhat thin sheet (1/2 in thickness or so) and place some of the meat/cabbage/onion onto the dough and bring the edges up and around so as to enclose the meat, then seal the dough. Place on a cookie sheet, bake, and enjoy!

It was a field meal for my grandfather, his brothers (before they got married and started their own farms), son, and grandsons when they were planting/harvesting and couldn't come in to eat lunch and dinner.

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at November 27, 2025 01:21 AM (tfhE+)

458 454

That is my current job here in LA. We take the most at risk humans and try to bring them back into society with housing and hope.

Posted by: Nightwatch at November 27, 2025 01:22 AM (25kuG)

459 Bless you, Joe Kidd!
Posted by: JQ at November 27, 2025 01:14 AM (rdVOm)

Well, you're a good friend. I guess we're each doing our part to serve those that God puts in our paths.

May your Thanksgiving provide a blessed respite from your burdens.

Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 27, 2025 01:23 AM (nbLIj)

460 There's actually a town called cranberry.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 26, 2025 11:47 PM (snZF9)
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When working in Pittsburgh, used to stay in Cranberry Township. Some decent restaurants.

Posted by: scampydog at November 27, 2025 01:24 AM (41CYW)

461 >>one side of his face was drooping, his speech was slurred like he was drunk, and he had headaches. Once he got to the ER, though, neuro screening was fine, and they didn't do anything (which told me they didn't think it was an emergency).
--------

This happened to my older bro-- before our "falling out"-- turns out he had Bell's Palsy, not a stroke, but we were both freaking out. I took him to ER.

Took about a month, maybe more, and he regained muscle control of his face.

(No, not due to cl0tsh0t, this was long before coof)

Posted by: JQ at November 27, 2025 01:24 AM (rdVOm)

462 "and bring the edges up and around so as to enclose the meat, then seal the dough. Place on a cookie sheet *, bake, and enjoy!"

* Left out the part where the dough would be left to rise, like what happens with normal bread and rolls.

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at November 27, 2025 01:25 AM (tfhE+)

463 Thank you, Joe Kidd. May you receive the same!

Posted by: JQ at November 27, 2025 01:26 AM (rdVOm)

464 Good night Horde.

Posted by: Nightwatch at November 27, 2025 01:28 AM (25kuG)

465 @JQ, yeah, I told his wife it could have been Bell's palsy -- I've known a couple of people who got it. It's harmless and goes away after a while. But he should probably get the MRI just to make sure. I've been on a blood thinner for 10 years with AFIB and it's not that big a deal -- if he did have a TIA, then it's really not the end of the world to get them to forestall a stroke.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at November 27, 2025 01:28 AM (eStot)

466
Dinuguano

Fixed that spelling for you

Also, "chitterlings" is also often misspelled (replace the 'c' with an 's')

Posted by: As not seen on TV at November 27, 2025 01:30 AM (f46OK)

467 Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at November 27, 2025 01:19 AM (eStot)

Yeah, in the moment you're battling the demon telling you it's not your problem. Telling that demon to fuck off and then do what's right is our mission.

You done good, and sleep will return eventually. Here's hoping your good friend remembers your bourbon and cigar preferences...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 27, 2025 01:34 AM (nbLIj)

468 >>> AFIB and it's not that big a deal -- if he did have a TIA, then it's really not the end of the world to get them to forestall a stroke.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon
---

Had an ablation. Weaned off blood thinners, drink coffee (moderately), daily potato juice (moderately), wish I had done it sooner.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 27, 2025 01:41 AM (30Ppx)

469 Call me a heathen, but Ilike ocean spray cranberry juice! Delicious!

Posted by: JM in Illinois at November 27, 2025 01:43 AM (amjpL)

470 >>>
(No, not due to cl0tsh0t, this was long before coof)
Posted by: JQ
---

There's an old time remedy for that, not oil of cloves but something like that. My aunt had it when she was younger - been a long time.
You doing OK? How are things going.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 27, 2025 01:45 AM (30Ppx)

471 Cran-apple is my favorite. But I also like reg. cranberry with peach schnapps. LOL. A guilty pleasure.

Posted by: JQ at November 27, 2025 01:46 AM (rdVOm)

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