In the olden days when you could have more than just you immediate bubble, what was the largest number of people you had over for Turkey. One time We had 24.
Our largest Thanksgiving was 28 people. Mostly family and a few friends or friends of family. Last year we were down to 10. We haven’t had a really large (>20) Thanksgiving in a decade.
My record is about 20. Zero of whom were relatives.
In the military it was common for the unmarried folks to form an impromptu “family” while all the folks who had actual family ran off to do their familial thing. It was one of my more memorable parties regardless of occasion.
Yes when we lived in Saudi Arabia we’d invite solders stationed there , or men whose families weren’t there.
When I was a kid, I think the largest Thanksgiving guest roster had 20 people or so.
As an adult, where I have had to do some of the cooking, the largest has been 15.
Not sure if this counts, but in 1991, we had just bought a new car, and I was so excited that kaylasmom and I loaded it up and drove 450 miles to my aunt’s house in Mill Valley, where I cooked the TD feast for maybe a dozen of us. Then we drove my Grandma back home to San Francisco and finished out the weekend with her.
The Olden Days are Before Covid19, so it counts.
My father was a professor, and similar to that, some university faculty and staff will invite students to their homes for Thanksgiving dinner. Sometimes, these are American kids who weren’t able to get home for the holiday (some live far away or could not afford to travel) and sometimes they’re foreign students, and it’s nice to show them a traditional American holiday.