# 'A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving:' "But my grandmother lives in a condominium!" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 13, 2017, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-charlie-brown-thanksgiving-but-my-grandmother-lives-in-a-condominium/804392 "2017-12-13T14:00:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-charlie-brown-thanksgiving-but-my-grandmother-lives-in-a-condominium/804392/21 "2017-12-15T00:59:27Z")
> [@SmellMyWort](#): > > I think it’s pretty much this. The juxtaposition of fitting a modern, urban experience into an old-timey, country setting. > > That said, my condo was warm, cozy, and inviting, and was even across the street from a small patch of woods (before it was developed into duplexes:(). See? There goes the neighborhood! ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-charlie-brown-thanksgiving-but-my-grandmother-lives-in-a-condominium/804392/22 "2017-12-15T01:02:26Z")
> [@](#): > > Also, at the very end, Snoopy has prepared a turkey and real Thanksgiving goodies for him and Woodstock. Earlier, for the kids, he had made toast and pretzels. Well, yeah, but he’s got a lot more room to entertain in his house. ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-charlie-brown-thanksgiving-but-my-grandmother-lives-in-a-condominium/804392/23 "2017-12-15T13:32:04Z")
> [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#): > > Also, at the very end, Snoopy has prepared a turkey and real Thanksgiving goodies for him and Woodstock. Earlier, for the kids, he had made toast and pretzels. Well, why should Snoopy waste his Thanksgiving dinner on that round-headed kid and his annoying friends? Do you think Woodstock, who is a bird, feels any existential horror at the idea of eating a turkey? ---
**Author:** ![DrCube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@DrCube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrCube)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-charlie-brown-thanksgiving-but-my-grandmother-lives-in-a-condominium/804392/24 "2017-12-15T15:10:59Z")
> [@MrAtoz](#): > > Do you think Woodstock, who is a bird, feels any existential horror at the idea of eating a turkey? Well, I’m a mammal, and I have no problem eating beef, lamb and pork. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-charlie-brown-thanksgiving-but-my-grandmother-lives-in-a-condominium/804392/25 "2017-12-15T18:58:57Z")
> [@MrAtoz](#): > > Do you think Woodstock, who is a bird, feels any existential horror at the idea of eating a turkey? Maybe he’s a bird of prey still waiting for his growth spurt. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-charlie-brown-thanksgiving-but-my-grandmother-lives-in-a-condominium/804392/26 "2017-12-15T19:05:00Z")
> [@DrCube](#): > > Well, I’m a mammal, and I have no problem eating beef, lamb and pork. What about Great Apes? Or other primates? :dubious: 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Turpentine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecd19e/32.png) [@Turpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turpentine)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-charlie-brown-thanksgiving-but-my-grandmother-lives-in-a-condominium/804392/27 "2017-12-15T21:18:08Z")
Yecch, the idea of eating a great ape is pretty grody. But turkeys are Galliformes. Unless Woodstock is a turkey, quail, pheasant or some kind of chicken, his eating turkey should be no less unsettling than a human eating a cow. ---
**Author:** ![Turpentine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecd19e/32.png) [@Turpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turpentine)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-charlie-brown-thanksgiving-but-my-grandmother-lives-in-a-condominium/804392/28 "2017-12-15T21:19:43Z")
Then again, a coyote will cheerfully feast on a cat if given the chance and they are both of the Order Carnivora. So there are a lot of animals within the same Order that have no qualms over eating eachother. Why should Woodstock be any different? ---
**Author:** ![Backwater\_Under\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ba8739/32.png) [@Backwater\_Under\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Backwater_Under_Duck)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2017, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-charlie-brown-thanksgiving-but-my-grandmother-lives-in-a-condominium/804392/29 "2017-12-16T02:26:06Z")
> [@MrAtoz](#): > > I think the joke is simply the contrast between the song mentioning “Grandmother’s house,” and the reality that they were going to “Grandmother’s condominium.” Yes. It’s just a joke. We used to go to my grandmother’s farm house. To Grandmother’s house we go. Except Grandma don’t live in a house anymore. It’s a condominium. Get it? Seriously, Get it? On the other hand, what’s with Charlie Brown knowing all these latch-key kids who have no family to give them Thanksgiving dinner? Do they go to some homeless camp under the freeway after their free meal at Charlie Brown’s grandma’s house? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-charlie-brown-thanksgiving-but-my-grandmother-lives-in-a-condominium/804392.md?page=1)