Here’s the situation: we’ve got Thanksgiving week off from classes, but instead of going home, my buddy Seth and I are going to pretty much live in the computer lab and work on our animation project for school. We still want to celebrate Thanksgiving, but we’re too lazy/busy to cook and we’d actually prefer something tacky and humorous.
So far, we’ve talked about buying these new hot turkey hoagies they have at Wawa (a convenience store) and some Tastykake Pumpkin Pies. Seth wants to shape some generic food, like fried rice or macaroni and cheese, into a turkey shape and eat that.
We’re looking for clever ideas from you, Dopers! Please suppress your natural instincts to suggest actual cooking or ( :eek: ) healthy food. Anything that we could buy at a convenience store or get delivered is preferred.
Ok, so you’ve got your basic turkey flavor covered, as well as pumpkin, now you’ve just got to do the rest.
Sweet potatoes are often served candied, with marshmallows, so I think a rice crispie treat, made with marshmallows and available at any of your finer gas stations, will fit there. Croutons are sorta like stuffing without the moisture, right? Hey, this is fun!
Potato chips for mashed potatoes, naturally. Corn chips are vegetable-ish, but you’ve got to figure something to get either squash or green beans represented. Hmm, can’t think of anything 7-11 might have that’d work for those.
Honey Bunches of Oats has these ganola-like bars now. One of them has cranberries in them. You don’t want to slave over a stove for 10 minutes making cranberries. Or even better you can pick up a couple of those Hostess packaged little cherry flavored ‘pies’. (great in the micro)
When I saw the thread title the first thing I though of was my grandmother’s “ambrosia” (if there was ever a more misnamed food item…). Ya know…jello with various bits of fruit and/of vegetables stuck in it. Which we had every year till I took over cooking (just becaue you’re a grandma doesn’t mean you can cook).
It’s traditional and it’s tacky…there must be something you can do with jello.
You could recreate the Thanksgiving meal from the Charlie Brown Thanksgiving special.
You’d have to find and watch it (or just post a thread here. If Dopers can keep track of the lineage of every character in LOTR, surely someone has committed that menu to memory), but it was something like toast, popcorn and cheetos.
Fill a 9x13 pan with Twinkies cut in half. Spread vanilla pudding over the Twinkies. Cover with sliced bananas, peaches, strawberries. Refrigerate until it’s cold.
For extra tackiness, you can use fruit cocktail instead of sliced fruit.
I love Jones sodas, but turkey soda just sounds icky.
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