# Who Is Doing Non-Traditional Thanksgiving This Year? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 23, 2016, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-doing-non-traditional-thanksgiving-this-year/772841 "2016-11-23T21:33:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2016, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-doing-non-traditional-thanksgiving-this-year/772841/21 "2016-11-24T19:48:46Z")
We’re gonna have some raggits, and some rolls, and some reezinrizins. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2016, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-doing-non-traditional-thanksgiving-this-year/772841/22 "2016-11-24T20:40:13Z")
Schedule: I hoped to get some overtime work today, so I set up to have our family feast tomorrow on Friday instead. Its now 3pm on Thu and no sign of overtime today. Damn. I hope they don’t call tonight or tomorrow because I’ll have to say no. I hate it when I zig when I should have zagged. Menu: Tonight is just us two for grilled lamb steaks, green beans, and brown basmati with onions. Tomorrow is our Thanksgiving-as-celebrated. We’ll have two other extended family members over. Which is pretty much every relative in the state. I do the traditional turkey about half the years and something else the other years. As much as I love a good turkey I love variety even more. This year will be a small caprese salad to start, slow roast pork loin with a stewed carrot sauce, crisped roast butternut squash with a browned butter & hazelnut sauce, a whole-grain rice / wild rice / oat / quinoa / etc. mixture, and sautéed asparagus. Plus cranberry sauce as a nod to Tradition. Plus assorted olives & nuts for appetizers and berries & cheese for dessert. And aperitif, wine, liqueurs, etc. Eclectic but Fall-themed and bursting with healthy vibes. Cheap & easy too. With lots of leftovers for easy meals for a week to come. We’ll eat on the patio since the temps are in the upper 70s with a nice sea breeze. We have much to be thankful for this past year. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2016, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-doing-non-traditional-thanksgiving-this-year/772841/23 "2016-11-25T02:02:26Z")
> [@jtur88](#): > > Being near home is pretty non-traditional for me. I believe I’ve spent Thanksgiving in ten different countries, and I was usually unaware that it was Thanksgiving at the time. [Really](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=19804767#post19804767)? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![OleOneEye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f14d63/32.png) [@OleOneEye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OleOneEye)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2016, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-doing-non-traditional-thanksgiving-this-year/772841/24 "2016-11-25T02:59:40Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > [Really](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=19804767#post19804767)? :dubious: How is that contradictory? He could have visited those ten countries more than ten years ago. ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2016, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-doing-non-traditional-thanksgiving-this-year/772841/25 "2016-11-25T03:22:31Z")
> [@OleOneEye](#): > > How is that contradictory? He could have visited those ten countries more than ten years ago. It seems to me that being at home for the last decade makes “being near home” rather traditional. ETA doing anything every year at the same time for the last decade counts as “traditional” for me. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2016, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-doing-non-traditional-thanksgiving-this-year/772841/26 "2016-11-26T16:50:54Z")
Let’s see. Thursday I had tea, cereal and yoghurt, coffee, coffee and donut (at work), large fries and coffee (at work), cereal and yoghurt, chocolate sorbet and tea. Does it get any more non-traditional than that? ---
**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:** [November 26, 2016, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-doing-non-traditional-thanksgiving-this-year/772841/27 "2016-11-26T17:37:25Z")
I work every Thanksgiving. Smoke a turkey & have dinner with my family on Friday. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2016, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-doing-non-traditional-thanksgiving-this-year/772841/28 "2016-11-29T20:33:46Z")
We decided to do a non-traditional Thanksgivng this year. We decided to do a ham instead of turkey and do Easter instead of Thanksgiving. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Bredin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@John\_Bredin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Bredin)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2016, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-doing-non-traditional-thanksgiving-this-year/772841/29 "2016-11-30T03:10:38Z")
My sister and her husband hosted Thanksgiving for our family this year, and they served a full Irish breakfast instead of turkey, potatoes, cranberry, etc. Nobody was complaining … mmmmm, black pudding and white pudding! Which made much more welcome leftovers than cold dry turkey. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-doing-non-traditional-thanksgiving-this-year/772841.md?page=1)