What Thanksgiving dinner should be: turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, coleslaw, squash, cranberries, carrots, bread, and often a couple other salads or vegetables. Pumpkin pie and one other cake or pie for dessert. Appetizers are less rigid, but are generally of the vegetable tray/bowl of chips/cheese and crackers variety.
What Thanksgiving dinner should not be: lamb with garlic potatoes and assorted vegetables. Calamari appetizer and chocolate cake for dessert. Nothing that sounds like it could have been ordered off a menu. Nothing that *was* ordered off a menu. Nothing where you don't have some personal connection to the cook. Different people eating different things.
Thanksgiving is the one holiday where tradition still trumps commercialism.
Let's not do this again.
--Ryan
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