This cartoon by John Jonik was first published in the New Yorker exactly 41 years ago today, but I discovered it too late to add it to the Thanksgiving collection for 2023.
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The headline above is modeled after a quote by Sepp Herberger, coach of the German national football soccer team: “After the game is always before the [next] game.” Of course, discussing football (of either variety) can sometimes be even more explosive than discussing politics.
Mark H. submitted this XKCD (#2858) last year; although it did get embedded in comments (such as in the No-Politics Zone), it’s still worth a repeat in a post:
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P.S. The “mouseover” or “title” text reads: “An occasional source of mild Thanksgiving tension in my family is that my mother is a die-hard fan of The Core (2003), and various family members sometimes have differing levels of enthusiasm for her annual tradition of watching it.“
P.P.S. The link to the HuffPost article in the second panel still works (I already typed it in, so that you don’t have to).
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In Germany, it’s called “Erntedankfest” (literally: “harvest thanks festival”), and is celebrated on the first Sunday in October, but it is primarily an event for the liturgical calendar (both Catholic and Protestant), and is not (generally) celebrated by families at home.
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Several decades ago, my grandmother just happened to include a leftover bowl of (homemade) mac&cheese on the Thanksgiving dinner table, which resulted in some amused needling from my dad and uncle. However, both my sister and my aunt vigorously defended it, so that for many years thereafter, (fresh) mac&cheese became a standard component of my grandmother’s Thanksgiving menu.
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The final panel reminded me of the last scene in the song “Christmas Wrapping” by the Waitresses.
No cranberries? Frank and Ernest have suggestions:
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Still not a fan of the new stylesheet.
Here are the cranberries:
https://www.gpb.org/news/2021/11/19/us-thanksgiving-tradition-lost-on-2-former-members-of-the-cranberries
Mac and Cheese is a traditional Thanksgiving side in some families and some communities, especially in the South, and I just found Dolly Parton’s Thanksgiving mac and cheese recipe, which looks good. Fairly standard baked mac and cheese, nothing really out there, but a solid, right-down-the-middle-done-well one. Haven’t made it yet, but I might.
https://www.businessinsider.com/dolly-parton-mac-and-cheese-thanksgiving-2024-11?op=1&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=topbar
I don’t think I’ve ever heard of The Core, and it’s not listed in this week’s TV schedule.
And songs have scenes???
Hope all of you that celebrate are having a great Thanksgiving. Personally I’m in a mild coma from dinner, sipping coffee, having a toke, and checking on non-news.
Mac & cheese was not traditional in my family growing up, but it is now standard in my sister’s lineup. I like it so I have some. She also makes corn pudding, another new feature.
A couple of years after we were married we decided to invite both families to our small apartment for Thanksgiving dinner. See, my family wanted us to come for Jewish holidays and his family wanted to us to come for Christian holidays – so Thanksgiving was the only holiday both wanted us for. His family ate out for holidays, so he was a bit concerned – not only about both families in a small room, but also about them eating at a home for the holiday.
We borrowed and set up 2 tables totaling 11 ft long in our living room (long room). I ignored both families idea of the appropriate foods for same (no pasta, no kugel…) and went with traditional Thanksgiving. My grandfather and a least one of his grandmothers got along great. We were only missing his sister who was on a trip to Europe.
It worked so well we continued to make Thanksgiving dinner for the next 20 plus years until we had bed bugs and stopped having anyone in the house. We have a squarish shaped dining room and cut pieces of plywood to put over our table and make it square to fit more people in.
Now I cook the same meal (more or less) for just the two of us. Tomorrow will be a week since Thanksgiving – the leftovers after dinner tomorrow night will get frozen – and a turkey for 2 people results in a LOT of leftovers.