# I think I'm done with Thanksgiving **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 12, 2024, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-im-done-with-thanksgiving/1010145 "2024-11-12T14:21:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2024, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-im-done-with-thanksgiving/1010145/161 "2024-11-29T20:35:26Z")
Exactly. Nobody in that family, AFAIK, has a job that requires presence on holidays. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2024, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-im-done-with-thanksgiving/1010145/162 "2024-11-29T23:43:15Z")
I once lived a mile up the Kenai River from Cook Inlet in Alaska, and beluga whales swam past my house in the spring when the hooligans were running up the river. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2024, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-im-done-with-thanksgiving/1010145/163 "2024-11-30T00:06:14Z")
> [@Moriarty](#): > > The _best_ part of Thanksgiving is how chill the holiday is. That sounds nice. I wish my family could master that. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2024, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-im-done-with-thanksgiving/1010145/164 "2024-11-30T00:14:37Z")
> [@Moriarty](#): > > I don’t think anything I described necessitates misogyny. It may be the dynamic amongst the people that _you_ spend time with for the women to do all of the work, but that’s hardly required. > > In this very thread, there have been men who have described the labor of cooking. And cleaning up the dishes is certainly not gender specific. I concur. Many women love football (was that part of the misogyny?). And usually my baking Thanksgiving desserts starts on Wednesday and I get up early on The Day to cook the main meal and stay in the kitchen while everyone else gets to socialize until the dinner is served. After that, I don’t care who cleans up as long as it ain’t me. Most of the time it’s my daughter in law does it because she loves to clean but sometimes Mrs Cad and I tag-team it. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2024, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-im-done-with-thanksgiving/1010145/165 "2024-11-30T00:31:42Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > I once lived a mile up the Kenai River from Cook Inlet in Alaska, and beluga whales swam past my house in the spring when the hooligans were running up the river. Crime-fighting whales! What will they think of next? ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2024, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-im-done-with-thanksgiving/1010145/166 "2024-11-30T01:03:53Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > Crime-fighting whales! What will they think of next? I had to look it up; hooligan is a transmogrification of eulachon, aka candlefish or smelt. I always knew them as smelt but I’m calling them hooligans from now on. ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2024, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-im-done-with-thanksgiving/1010145/167 "2024-11-30T01:08:27Z")
> [@Moriarty](#): > > I don’t think anything I described necessitates misogyny. It may be the dynamic amongst the people that _you_ spend time with for the women to do all of the work, but that’s hardly required. Misogyny is never, you know, required. It’s merely traditional. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2024, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-im-done-with-thanksgiving/1010145/168 "2024-11-30T02:25:59Z")
Yep, and the dogs wake me up at 6 am as usual and I’m still uncomfortably full. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2024, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-im-done-with-thanksgiving/1010145/169 "2024-11-30T05:24:45Z")
Hehehe, the greatest horror of this Thanksgiving was due to 3 out of 5 cats DEMANDING turkey. Both when it was fresh, and every time we’ve returned for leftovers. We’ve lost an entire wing to one particularly poorly behaved giant orange bandit, but they’ve been mostly well behaved other than the literal caterwauling. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2024, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-im-done-with-thanksgiving/1010145/170 "2024-12-05T07:42:27Z")
My family always used to visit the same family for Thanksgiving. And even as the matriarch and patriarch got old and passed on, one of their daughters and her husband took up the mantle and things seemed to be pretty set for the next few decades. But all that kind of fell apart, and now Thanksgiving just doesn’t feel like a very big deal anymore. I still went home for Thanksgiving this year, but it probably had more to do with the fact that my employer gives us that day and the next off, meaning I only had to burn three vacation days to get the whole week. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2024, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-im-done-with-thanksgiving/1010145/171 "2024-12-05T17:12:37Z")
I’m done with Thanksgiving 2024; almost all the food has been et (or frozen for later feasting - Saturday is another day of cooking - smoked turkey jambalaya!). There’s still some smoked provolone left but cheese lasts for longer than a week. The smoker racks have been cleaned up & put away, & if the smoker wasn’t I’ll do that tomorrow when I’m back where it is tomorrow. Only 51 weeks until we do it all over again! ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2024, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-im-done-with-thanksgiving/1010145/172 "2024-12-05T19:18:54Z")
I’m finishing up the turkey soup, which will be tomorrow’s supper (and the leftovers frozen) but other than that we are done with Thanksgiving 2024. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2024, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-im-done-with-thanksgiving/1010145/173 "2024-12-05T19:47:58Z")
I got 4 turkey skeletal remnants from my MiL - I’ve rendered down one, and will do the other 3 over the next three months. The resulting stock will probably last through the beginning of summer. So Thanksgiving will linger on for quite a while by that standard! ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2024, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-im-done-with-thanksgiving/1010145/174 "2024-12-05T19:54:01Z")
Is it everyone else’s experience that dogs lose their ever-loving mind over turkey? Every dog we have owned over the last 30 years goes insane when turkey. Our new rescue Biscuit is 15 and when fed will wander around a bit and check in on the other dogs before maybe having a few bites. Put turkey in her bowl and she is muzzle deep chowing down - move quickly or you’ll lose fingers. And that is like every dog I’ve ever known. Tonight I’m cooking a turkey and the dogs will be, “Aww shit! It’s turkey night tonight.” and will stake out the kitchen thinking. “If I had opposable thumbs on my paws, I’d open that oven and that turkey would be so eaten by now.” ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2024, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-im-done-with-thanksgiving/1010145/175 "2024-12-05T21:01:40Z")
“Sons o’ bitches! Bumpuses!” ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2024, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-im-done-with-thanksgiving/1010145/176 "2024-12-06T02:07:05Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > Is it everyone else’s experience that dogs lose their ever-loving mind over turkey? Every dog we have owned over the last 30 years goes insane when turkey. Naw, it was yummy people food but no more begging than any other people food. **Cite:** I carved about 12lbs of turkey meat into bite sized pieces for jambalaya; let’s just say they were happy. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2024, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-im-done-with-thanksgiving/1010145/177 "2024-12-06T02:47:10Z")
I’ve done three turkeys and a chicken. The stock has had the fat skimmed and saved seperately, it can give extra turkeyness to a roux when making gravy. My grandmother’s genes for not wasting anything are coming out. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2024, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-im-done-with-thanksgiving/1010145/178 "2024-12-06T03:53:05Z")
Nothing wrong with making the most of the bird. But since I’m the only one who will use the stock in my house (just the wife and I, and she’s vegetarian) I use it reasonably slowly. 🙂 Well… that’s not _completely_ true. I’ll make a big batch for the cats (salt, onion, and seasoning free) for their Xmas enjoyment - extra concentrated and used as a kibble topper for the whole week of X-Mas through New Years. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2024, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-im-done-with-thanksgiving/1010145/179 "2024-12-06T04:36:31Z")
> [@ParallelLines](#): > > I’ll make a big batch for the cats (salt, onion, and seasoning free) for their Xmas enjoyment - extra concentrated and used as a kibble topper I never thought of that! I do sometimes buy those grocery store chickens and save the bones for stock, I think I’ll try that for my Atilla. He’s 17-1/2 and I want him to have all the pleasure he can. Although the dog will be jealous. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2024, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-im-done-with-thanksgiving/1010145/180 "2024-12-06T05:26:10Z")
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