I was born and raised in SoCal and have been seeing celebrities all my life. My elementary school was the other side of MGM Studios from my house, so that’s where I saw some when I was little and life was less threatening. But I’ve always played it cool. Most celebrities don’t appreciate being gushed over while they’re out being a private citizen. Decades ago my BiL was inebriated and gushed over Cloris Leachman in a restaurant. I wasn’t even there, and I felt embarassment for him.
I voted to compete on Jeopardy, because, hey, Jeopardy.
But I think I would do best on Wheel of Fortune.
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I’m also somewhat faceblind. I have been in an airport and my friends recognized a celebrity that I know. And I didn’t. He just looked like a guy with a vaguely familiar face to me. That’s partly because celebrities look different when they aren’t all made up. And partly because yeah, partially face-blind.
When I have been in a room with someone I knew to be a celebrity (because someone pointed it out to me, or I was introduced, or whatever) I was pretty cool about it, though. Because I know that it’s weird and awkward to have people “know” you when you don’t know them. So I voted “other” but could have voted that I’d be perfectly calm. Because I have been perfectly calm in the closest similar situation.
I voted “let’s make a deal” because I suck at all the relevant skills to win those shows, and that one doesn’t require a lot of skill. at least as best as I remember it.
Jumping up and down and squealing like a piglet on crack? Is that a skill?
Everybody looks vaguely familiar to me. (With the exception of a very few people who I can recognize, even out of context. I’ve never been able to figure out why those people – it does require some repeated exposure, but the same amount of exposure or even much more doesn’t do it for other people.)
I didn’t vote on the game shows because I don’t know enough about most of them to pick one. I think I’d be bad at the couple I do have a relatively good idea of, but don’t know whether I’d be better at any of the others.
Shortly after the OJ trial, I was walking through the Atlanta airport. I saw a nattily dressed black guy who looked an awful lot like Johnny Cochran. He noticed me looking, smiled, and said, “Yeah, it’s me”.
I smiled and nodded, thinking, “what an asshole”.
Why was that assholish?
His smile was a smirky smile. He just radiated attitude. For all he knew I was looking at him because he resembled a neighbor of mine.
Ah. That the smile was a smirk didn’t come through on the earlier post.
I described it poorly. He also swaggered a bit once he realized he was recognized.
I ordered a turkey (which will be delivered, raw). I bought cranberry jelly. I went to the farmstand and bought Idared apples for pies. But I still need a lot of stuff for Thanksgiving. “I’ve started my shopping but still need most of it” wasn’t on the list.
I went to Wegman’s yesterday afternoon. It was surprisingly tame for 8 days before Thanksgiving.
Didn’t need a lot of stuff, it’s just going to be three of us. I got a pre-brined turkey breast I will sous vide Thursday afternoon, then throw it under the broiler at my dad’s house when we get there. Got a Field Roast vegetarian loaf for my wife. Going to roast a butternut squash, mash some potatoes, make some boxed stuffing, pan fry some green beans in butter, make some onion gravy. Already had a can of cranberry. That should be plenty, if not way too much.
On a tangent, yesterday I learned that almost all Stove Top stuffing contains meat, except for the pork flavored one for some reason.
We get our thanksgiving turkey from the nearby turkey farm. They remind us to place our order in early October, so we do. We have a date/time for pickup and he will still be warm when we pick him up. We take him to my MIL’s house where he will be roasted. I make two sweet potato pies, my gf makes a couple of side dishes.
In a brilliant move, I got tickets to the Seahawk/49er game on Thanksgiving. No cooking whatsoever this year. And, I think I got my wife to agree to no Christmas too!
For the first time in my adult life, I’m not responsible for any part of Thanksgiving dinner! My daughter and son-in-law will be hosting, and he’ll be the main chef. I’ll offer to make a pie or whatever, but I imagine they’ve got it handled. He’s been itching to host Thanksgiving for a long time, and they’re finally in a house instead of an apartment, so he can!
Also, now that I know how much he likes to cook, I’m plotting to have him make Beef Wellington when they come here for Christmas. I can be the sous chef inmy own kitchen!
Thanksgiving is my MiL’s holiday (I moved to a town in which my wife has probably 20ish members of her extended family) - her time to host and she loves it. Generally she cooks the turkeys (3) for the 30 or so guests that will be there (family, extended family, a few close friends of hers), along with gravy, and everyone else brings one of more dishes.
My wife and I are different in that we bring all sorts of different things each year, trying to bring something different. We’ve brought challah rolls (fist sized unbraided challah bread), parker yeast rolls, cheese and bacon stuffed jalapenos, Tzatziki sauce and mini pork souvlaki kebabs, cilantro chimichurri and chips, whatever we think will be different and fun. This weekend we’re doing a tryout on a southwest inspired spicy sweet potato dish and a modification of our favorite butter mochi (one with matcha powder, one with lemon extract) and will decide which we will bring. Not that anyone will go hungry.
I looked at my immediate answer and then rapidly changed it. Canada also holds Thanksgiving but does so in October, correct?
Which makes sense. A harvest festival, as I’ve pointed out to quite a few people, is held right after the harvest is over. During the harvest, you’re too busy to do any such thing. Once everything’s safely dealt with, there’s lots to eat including things that won’t last all winter and should be eaten fairly soon, the weather’s at least maybe still fit to travel in – that’s when you have a harvest festival. Presumably October in much of Canada; certainly November in much of the United States (the USA covering enough N to S territory that no date’s going to be right, or even close, all over.)
We’ll be spending the week in Vermont with my in-laws, so I have not yet had, and very likely never will have, to shop for our Thanksgiving feast.
My mother-in-law, the last of the older generation of the family, passed in 2020. Now there are only 3 of us left in the family: my husband, his brother, and myself. There are no kids and we’re all in our mid-50s. We’ve been celebrating Turkey Day at Cracker Barrel for the last 3 years. No cooking, no cleaning, and there’s a gift shop!
One of our people is broken and another just can’t be arsed to do it this year, so the annual Thanksgiving camping trip will be skipped this year. I have an invite to spend it with Broken Boy’s family (who are quite bitchen in their own right) but I think this year I’m going to hit the local Indian casino instead. Play a little, hit the food mightily, and not have to deal with anybody.