thanksgiving
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Malia And Sasha Obama At The Turkey Pardoning Is The Blackest Thing That Ever Happened This Week
The youngest person at my family’s Thanksgiving dinner yesterday was my niece. She is the youngest child of my wife’s sister, and favors her (my wife) so much that people assume they’re mother and daughter when they’re out together. She is also either nine or 10 years old (I forget which), which means for as…
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Guys, Here's Why You Need To Make Your Own Damn Plate At Thanksgiving Dinner
The conversation over whether or not a woman should prepare her man’s plate has become somewhat of a Thanksgiving tradition on social media and I’m dumbfounded as to why or how we even got here. Every time I see it, I’m tempted to log off — mostly because of the people who are so pro-plate.…
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A Case For Why Turkey Is A Trash Meat We Should Never Eat Again
Let’s just cut to the chase: Turkey is wack. It tastes like mashed printer paper and primetime CBS programming. Yet, every year we find the bird back on our tables on Thanksgiving, in the refrigerator on Black Friday, on a sad-ass turkey sandwich on Cyber Monday, and in the trash sometime after that. Before you…
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Thanksgiving And Shit
My wife and I are masochists, apparently. Because that would be the only reasonable explanation for us deciding to host somewhere between 30 and 35 members of our family for Thanksgiving this year. Actually, the real explanation is laziness. We’re both from Pittsburgh, which means that every holiday we’ve spent together has been spent shuffling from…
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Dressing Vs Stuffing, Decided
I wasn’t even aware that people referred to stuffing as “dressing” until…shit, I don’t know when. Maybe I was 13 or 21 or something. Either way, I’d been on Earth for a while before I ever heard that shit. Apparently, as I learned on VSB yesterday, there are people who had the exact opposite experience.…
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Thanksgiving Foods You Won't Eat Unless You're Absolutely, Positively Sure Of Who Made Them
It’s November. And since it’s November, Thanksgiving — my favorite holiday — is right around the corner. Which means many of us will be traveling to or hosting family soon, and have already started making plans and arrangements. And, while determining things like “Is Uncle Frank bringing his kids?” and “Who’s picking Keisha up from…