# Thanksgiving season ... good or bad for you?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanksgiving-season-good-or-bad-for-you/802179>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 20, 2017, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanksgiving-season-good-or-bad-for-you/802179 "2017-11-20T10:24:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2017, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanksgiving-season-good-or-bad-for-you/802179/61 "2017-11-24T04:47:40Z")

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Turned out to be another holiday alone for me.

Did get time-and-a-half pay at work, though, so I got something for the day.

And made myself some green bean casserole for lunch.

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**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2017, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanksgiving-season-good-or-bad-for-you/802179/62 "2017-11-24T06:32:29Z")

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> [@Broomstick](#):
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> Turned out to be another holiday alone for me.

Yeah, same here. The pizza wasn’t bad, although I wish I could get the crust a bit crisper in the center.

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**Author:** ![DummyGladHands](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/49beb7/32.png) [@DummyGladHands](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DummyGladHands)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2017, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanksgiving-season-good-or-bad-for-you/802179/63 "2017-11-24T15:30:13Z")

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> [@Broomstick](#):
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> Turned out to be another holiday alone for me.
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> Did get time-and-a-half pay at work, though, so I got something for the day.
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> And made myself some green bean casserole for lunch.

Widowed 15 years now. Hated holidays, still not a big fan. I would plan something for early early on the holiday morn. Because I found the nite before a holiday depressed me so badly, thinking about people being together. So an early walk in the mountains or a park, an early yoga class, the gym, whatever. Working was good too. I just avoid the holiday as well as I could and breathed a sigh of relief when the damn thing was over.

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**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2017, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanksgiving-season-good-or-bad-for-you/802179/64 "2017-11-24T16:30:51Z")

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My plan to have T-day dinner with my brother at Harry’s Hofbrau was derailed–there was a line out the door and around the corner (probably 100+ people) when we got there. We ended up going to Whole Foods and getting turkey and fixin’s from their hot food section…a poor substitute(and twice as expensive).

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**Author:** ![Mr\_Quatro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bc8723/32.png) [@Mr\_Quatro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Quatro)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2017, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanksgiving-season-good-or-bad-for-you/802179/65 "2017-11-24T17:29:41Z")

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Great Thanksgiving with shrimp cocktail, lasagna and iced coffee mocha and the best present of all the LA Chargers beating the Dallas Cowboys on national TV 28-6.

Rain didn’t even get me down … no more fires :eek:

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