BRITISH REACT TO AMERICAN THANKSGIVING!

[@Leva.Xterminator]

The reason there is so much food even for that size of a family is because leftovers is literally part of the holiday.

[@shaninnmarie]

One of the best parts of Thanksgiving is making turkey noodle soup and turkey sandwiches for the whole week afterward.

[@nikkim7647]

Right! There is nothing better than eating leftovers for the week after, . It’s like thanksgiving for 7 days

[@unbelievablemoments7622]

Yes we love too eat thanksgiving leftovers all week lol

[@tedharvick9010]

Omg, Turkey sandwiches from the leftovers are what I look forward to, and of course, the pies and other sweets.

[@k.stacey7389]

Why it’s on Thursday, lol! You eat it for the three days after.

[@firefly24601]

"Green bean casserole?" "That must be a vegetarian option." I about died. LOL :D

[@wayneogle5576]

"burnt cheese in a good way" It is crispy fried shallots

[@KatyWatson173]

Not shallots those are French fried onions.

[@cherylann9781]

Didn't have the heart to tell Joel they have Mushroom Soup in it. In can either have French fried onions or shallots!

[@KatyWatson173]

I’ve never seen it with shallots just the French fried onions I don’t eat it not a huge fan of green beans.

[@RH-tv9hk]

It's vegetarian but not vegan

[@karens8633]

We generally don’t worry about healthy food at Thanksgiving. It’s all Comfort Food! 😂

[@commonsenselogic]

I've always said that when it comes to Thanksgiving, all BS goes out the window.

[@petebondurant58]

We generally don't worry about healthy food ever, really.

[@dcrezz]

It is right before winter. You want to store more fat during winter.

[@Blighted_Ashes]

@David Santosuosso thank you it covers all food groups.

[@k8nno650]

Karen S comfort food is healthy

[@marcialamr6746]

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday.There are no expectations except fellowship with family and friends and great food. I am proud to be an American, and thankful to live here with so many freedoms.

[@TheRapnep]

Your said it! 👏👏

[@volt6008]

How can you be proud? I guess you can continued living your brainwashed life with your pagan lifestyle. You Americans are something else.

[@josephinebournes8212]

@@volt6008 I am black, daughter of immigrants, mostly liberal and I'm a proud American 🇺🇸

[@thestrawberrywhale]

@@volt6008 I'm incredibly proud of being American, thats something that can't be taken away from me :D

[@simonpowell2559]

And your freedoms are...?

[@HPv1000]

"Where are the steamed vegetables?" Thanksgiving is NO PLACE for healthy dishes.

[@himoime]

Hersson Preciado I agree with this statement. Pumpkin pie is THE best part!

[@AshleyOlivia90]

This!!!!

[@littleflower9536]

Yes!

[@blondee84]

I'm a registered dietitian, but I still agree with this 100%!

[@abcw114]

"Is that a raw vegetable? Without cream, cheese or butter? How did you get here?"

[@willwatson4040]

"Bread rolls... seems a bit informal" Americans generally expect some form of bread with most of their meals.

[@loisavci3382]

@Bad Cattitude Yes! Bread is too plain for Thanksgiving. Has to be rolls.

[@lucylulusuperguru3487]

Some ppl don't like dressing/stuffing, so rolls are often a side offering.

[@kristinewenrich2779]

In my personal experience, bread rolls are more of a formal dinner expectation.

[@lochinvar00465]

Actually, here in the us, Rolls are a bit more formal than bread, In fact if you want really good rolls, go with "Kings Hawaiian" brand.

[@MrWhoevr]

Bread is very appropriate if it’s freshly made. Yum

[@TitanicTruths]

Oh god no, theres no way to do this every week. Some people actually take a week just to get everything ready. Its definitely a once a year event.

[@plaguedoctor605]

True, my mom's been marinating the Turkey for like almost 2 days. It's a lot to prepare

[@esthermelchor9681]

Right, too much work is involved. That's part of what makes Thanksgiving special.

[@SLOBeachboy]

Its not really all that much trouble for me because all I’m craving on Thanksgiving is the basics; turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy, stuffing, cranberry sauce, some kind of vegetable dish, and the pumpkin pie of course. Like many Americans I tend to only crave the things that I had as a kid on Thanksgiving (in the 1960’s in my case). These days however the dizzying area of dishes that some people prepare for Thanksgiving just boggles the mind. Anyway for me the most labor-intensive part of the meal is probably making the piecrusts. Of course I always bake the pies the night before, which is also when I start brining the turkey, and this leaves me with a lot less to worry about the next day. And while I could certainly do this every week or so I never would because one of the things that makes the Thanksgiving feast so special is that it only comes once a year.

[@esthermelchor9681]

@@SLOBeachboy That is a correct summary of what a normal Thnksgiving feast should be and I'd be happy with only that for dinner but nowadays people want to add other pies, ham and a different array of side dishes. The more people there is the more types of food there is.

[@christine2931]

@@Farming101 this is definitely what it has become... thank you for informing the Brits and posting this!

[@Krisgenx]

Many folks live Thanksgiving more than Christmas because it is less commercialized. Just about the family, food and thankfulness!!!

[@jaelynn7575]

For me, it's basically the same holiday, but Xmas has more decorations and we don't do a turkey. Usually tenderloins or roast beef.

[@jacimackie5608]

A lot of families eat buffet style because they don’t have room to formally seat everyone attending. It is an extended family holiday.

[@dalesplitstone6276]

When I was a kid, the buffet was on the dining room table, a separate table was set up for the kids, and the adults generally ate in the living room while watching the parade.

[@Salsuero]

We're also not all plantation owners and don't have butlers to serve us.

[@mslrod2006]

In my house we have at least 20+ people for Thanksgiving. We have a 8 seated table. The elders sit at the table. Everyone else is a free for all. We have people sitting outside, eating in the counter and on lamp tables. Nothing formal for the holidays. Basically a family reunion without the extended family.

[@KatherineBoleyn]

If the dining table is ‘formal’ then where do you eat normally for any random day ?

[@billysledgehammer]

The more I watch these types of videos the more I realize how glad I am to be American.

[@lunarikariko981]

I feel like it has the opposite effect on me. I want to move to the UK.

[@ambertrask1]

Americans love holidays and celebrations, makes me happy to be American too 😉

[@philsexton5761]

pndaaa it’s just a shame that Americans hardly have any holidays compared with the almost ‘month off’ that most Europeans get

[@ambertrask1]

@Sheila Koala That's why you have an insane amount of Americans trying to move to England 🙄...not! Snobby class systems and pretentious royals is nothing America is jealous of.

[@MelMeltalks31]

Me too!!!!

[@angiebrown2508]

Next year you should visit one of your american friends and really experience Thanksgiving. Its a day of peace, Gratitude, and love. Also the food is always amazing for everyone. I feel that Thanksgiving does not ruin the Christmas spirit but rather starts off the whole holiday season.

[@veronica978]

In all actuality, they should experience Thanksgiving in the different regions of America. Traditions and food is so different depending upon the family and the region. Canada also has a Thanksgiving, I cant remember what day it is celebrated on though...

[@sandrafaith]

@@veronica978 It falls on the same day as the US Columbus Day / Indigenous People's Day. This year it was 8 Oct.

[@talksolot]

peace, Gratitude and love, and don't forget the gen0cidal displacement by euroids.

[@MrsBeachPerson]

This is a pretty typical Thanksgiving feast but many families have their favorite ways of preparing certain dishes. For example I don’t care for candied yams (I’d rather have pumpkin pie after dinner which isn’t as sweet) so I will bake whole yams and offer them with with butter. Green bean casserole is usually served. It’s ingredients typically are cream of mushroom soup (yuck) and almond so our family recipe is a different recipe with French green bean, sour cream and velveeta cheese. Many years ago stuffing would be cooked inside the turkey but it was proven not to be safe so it’s cooked on the side. We don’t usually eat these recipes throughout the year as they are too rich. So it makes it more special we we do gather. The best part of the day is being able to reflect on our blessings, freedoms, family and fiends. Please come and visit America and participate in a Thanksgiving celebration. You may enjoy it!

[@ajohnsal]

Instead of thinking of Thanksgiving as informal... remember that it is a family dinner/feast. As a Mayflower descendant, this started as a potluck meal between Pilgrims and the Wampanoag allies. It's meant to be comfortable.

[@aspenrebel]

It can be formal or informal or laid out as a Buffet. As a kid our thanksgiving dinners were always formal - suit and tie and dress shkes, white tablecloth in the dining room and silverware, crystal water glasses. Elizabethian china my mother got in London.

[@TheMusachioedBrony]

Not everyone in the US is Christian, so Thanksgiving is a holiday we can all share together, regardless of our religion. When the Pilgrims first arrived in the New World, they had a horrific journey across the Atlantic, full of delays and insane winter storms at sea. All they had left to eat was hard tack, which was just hard bread dough. And it was infected with weevils-yuck! By the time they got here they were really weak from the journey and the lack of Vitamin C from not eating any fruits or vegetables. The first winter most died of scurvy-apparently a really bad way to go. The Native Americans saw these English people suffering and dying, and actually took pity on them. When Spring came some Native Americans befriended the settlers and gave them corn (maize) seeds and showed them how to plant this new crop. (Hint: they put a dead fish in each hole before planting the corn seed). When Fall arrived (we say “Fall”, which is the Middle English word for Autumn), there was a bountiful harvest of all the crops. Plenty to put away and survive on through the winter. To thank their Native American friends for all their help, the settlers invited them to a big feast. And that was the first “Thanksgiving”. Because they were giving thanks for surviving and now thriving. P.S. In part because of the massive first winter deaths from scurvy of the Pilgrims in the New World, the English began to realize they had to improve their diet on these long journeys across oceans. Without refrigeration they had to be creative in transporting fruits and vegetables. The sailors began putting pots all over the decks full of small lime trees. They were fairly hearty and could withstand the rigors of being shipboard. Sailors used to suck on limes for the Vitamin C. English Sailors became known for their love of limes and lime trees, and so other countries gave them the nickname of “Limey’s”. Don’t know if you know that nickname in England, but growing up in America I heard it often enough.

[@cherylann9781]

Mary Anne Brown Thanks for the insight about the term Limey, I did not know where that term came from. Very interesting!

[@shanehanson6013]

While they were thankful to the Native Americans, you really should read the original Thanksgiving Proclamation (1676). And I quote; "The Council has thought meet to appoint and set apart the 29th day of this instant June, as a day of Solemn Thanksgiving and praise to God for such his Goodness and Favour..." Further read the Continental Congress Thanksgiving Proclamation (1782), George Washington's Thanksgiving Proclamation (1789), and Abraham Lincolns Thanksgiving Proclamation (1863); all clearly and unambiguously are giving thanks to God. Just because you don't like that fact, does not give you license to so carelessly change the true history and meaning of that day.

[@lynnmcmurdo3048]

The Pilgrims were escaping religious (and other types of) persecution from the king of England. They wanted to worship God in their own way, not the way he commanded. Failure to obey his rigid laws could have meant imprisonment or worse.

[@silvergrizzly316]

@@shanehanson6013 Well stated FACTS!!! 👍👍HAPPY THANKSGIVING and God Bless you and yours.

[@TheMusachioedBrony]

Shane Hanson Um..what? Was that last line in your response meant for me? About me not personally liking that the Pilgrims were celebrating Thanksgiving as a means to give thanks to God? Where did you ever read or understand that in what I wrote? I never said anything about God at all-that doesn’t mean that Thanksgiving was not about them thanking God for a beautiful harvest and alliance with the Native Americans. To me that is just a given they would be giving prayers of thanks to the Lord-they were Pilgrims, after all. Fleeing religious persecution from King James I, who was the head of the Protestant Church in England. The same King James I who did not want dissenting Catholics or breakaway Protestant faiths. You do know that the Pilgrims did not emigrate directly from England to the New World, correct? They had already mostly left England and were living in exile in Holland. But the political situation in Holland changed and was no longer favorable and they felt they had no where else to go except the New World. I cannot even imagine what those poor people went through. They must have had very strong faith indeed.

[@sevenfigurebootcamp9993]

Generally speaking, these foods are reserved for thanksgiving.

[@1pcfred]

Generally speaking Thanksgiving is putting 10 times as much food on the table as you normally do. Then we all get good and rip roaring drunk, pull our 6 shooters out of our waistbands, fire them into the ceiling while shouting 'Murica! OK maybe it doesn't get that out of control. But almost. Someone in the family has to start a blood feud at least.

[@usafvet100]

Generally reserve turkey for Thanksgiving and Christmas, but smoked turkey legs work well any time of year

[@kylenichols6904]

It’s turkey gravy that’s why it’s such a light color

[@adelia988]

Kyle Nichols yes and do you boil up the bones for the stock?

[@ferrellcatdragon2017]

I loooove turkey gravy

[@camillawilliams8648]

But, your's is too thick and you need to add gravy browner. If you don't have any browner, just add a bit of instant coffee to brown it. It does not alter the taste.

[@mellissagolemon7310]

Adelina Hammond, sometimes it’s called giblet gravy. We use the stock that’s in the bottom of the pan that the turkey was cooked in.

[@MeanLaQueefa]

Adelia Hammond bones are already cook with the turkey, you take the dripping from the roasting pan, add it to slightly browned flour and broth

[@biggerock]

I'm pretty sure the "light gravy" was turkey gravy, which is always that color (or "colour" for you).

[@lgempet2869]

🤣🤣🤣….& every Thanksgiving Dinner has some primary dishes in common, then some side dishes & add-ons that are culturally-specific or even from family-to-family, including the gravy which can vary based upon the cook’s tastes & what the family likes.

[@MarySpain1958]

Right Turkey is a white meat

[@saltydog7038]

I've seen other people reacting to American foods/holidays and the people reacting always seem surprised by any gravy that isn't dark beef gravy. I know sausage gravy is a Southern US thing but I would have though poultry gravy would be more universal.

[@ImSpun13]

Yeah, homemade Turkey (or chicken for that matter) gravy is always a light color. Any homemade gravy should take on the color of the meat it’s made from. If you make sauce from blueberries is it red? No, it’s a blueish-purple color because that’s the color of the blueberries. Homemade gravy is essentially meat sauce that’s been thickened up with flour (or cornstarch). Also, homemade gravy is mostly there to go on top of the mashed potatoes not necessarily for the meat.

[@aspenrebel]

@@ImSpun13 what? I put the turkey gravy on top of my turkey and my mashed potatoes and a little on the snothin

[@littleflower9536]

"Some people put milk in their mash" ummmmm everyone does!!!! Milk and butter!!!! And to make it really special for Thanksgiving, it would be heavy cream maybe!

[@lisar1684]

Oh yes, heavy cream and real butter in the Thanksgiving mashed potatoes. We have potatoes cakes for brunch on Black Friday with the leftovers. The leftovers are always awesome too. We just move the family gathering to another house on Friday, bring the leftovers and play board games.

[@gulfgal98]

I use sour cream and butter in my mashed potatoes.

[@tamarakaddatz9955]

My family uses cream cheese and a little milk to thin the mash.

[@jbmiller3280]

Yes, Milk and butter and sometimes I sneak in some cream cheese.

[@susanoakeshauf]

Little Flower Doesn’t everyone do that? 😜

[@cinfirefly3058]

Everyone’s interpretation of their Thanksgiving Dinner is different in America. This is depending on their nationality, location and family traditions.

[@ivetterodriguez1994]

Yes, but just about all of us remember the turkey, ham, and mashed potatoes.

[@esthermelchor9681]

@@angelawilson6751 For me it's Christmas #1, Thanksgiving #2 and Halloween #3, though Halloween is not an official holiday. Since I don't like summer, I don't care for summer holidays. When Christmas is over I start anticipating October. Yes, it's a long, grueling wait!

[@snow5962]

@@esthermelchor9681 lol same here! Spring is meh, summer... (making a cross with my fingers lol, I do not tolerate the heat well), Fall is the absolute best! And winter is beautiful. But get togethers and water games can be fun around the 4th of July, just have to protect against the sun.

[@goldenageofdinosaurs7192]

Snow I get it. I live in southern Arizona & summers here are horrible. Oct through May I’m happy. The rest of the time I just try & get by. I’ve been giving some thought to moving back to the upper Midwest. The winters are harder, but summers are more tolerable (except those damn mosquitoes!!).

[@Icybubba]

@@snow5962 I live in Florida, summer sucks (Though this summer has actually not been too bad for heat), Fall and Winter are gorgeous weather

[@alanpeterson4939]

By the way... Thanksgiving became an official National Holiday in 1863 by a proclamation from Abraham Lincoln. So, in the middle of the bloodiest war in America’s history, in which more Americans died than in all our other wars COMBINED, the president asked us to set aside a day to give thanks for our blessings. Think about that for a minute.

[@gigimarie5325]

Damn

[@spookygirl7761]

Oh jolly good.

[@williampaz2092]

On the first official Thanksgiving Day 1863 the Confederate Armies held their fire and did not attack out of respect.

[@chaost4544]

This is one of the more beautiful stories in American history.

[@animationlynx5054]

U lie !!

[@sydludwig1826]

No, Thanksgiving doesn't take anything away from Christmas, it just gets us in the mood for Christmas. A lot of people start decorating for Christmas right after thanksgiving. ;)

[@mattslupek7988]

And of course, BLACK FRIDAY!!

[@DevlinIdell]

I don't think Thanksgiving takes away from Christmas either. Personally, thanksgiving has always been acknowledging all good things that G-d has given to us.

[@CavemanSynthesizer]

When I was growing up, everyone sat around the table. I think the casual seating evolved from not having enough seating for everyone in large family gatherings.

[@roymerritt6992]

And televisions. Nowadays everyone has to be watching the television and usually the annual NFL football game which inevitably has the Detroit Lions featured as the losing team.

[@LucidMagi]

I agree. It is because the family out grows the table.

[@jackyfelder2563]

We had the adults at big tables and children at card tables.

[@sethfrisbie9840]

My family still does that.

[@AltCTRLF8]

yeah too many people and dishes lead to everyone eating scattered around the house.

[@CCrispyyy]

Dark brown gravy in America is usually only served with beef or pork. We have turkey gravy and chicken gravy which is light.

[@victoriarobinson9016]

Caitlin Crisp my Turkey gravy is dark since the roast Turkey is dark! Never ever heard of Frog eye salad

[@IChooseJesus9091]

@@victoriarobinson9016 - Riiight?! Frog eye salad?! What the heck is that? Never heard of it. I'm Texan.

[@wtf9535]

Lol it’s turkey gravy. Made from the drippings. Only beef gravy is dark brown.

[@bigc8300]

yep two young idiots that need to go back

[@c.michellesparks2925]

@@bigc8300 ???

[@racafritz]

Unless you use a kitchen bouquet to darken it.

[@deniselatorre-rasmussen4057]

No it is not....

[@pattisue5739]

My turkey gravy is brown. You've got to use the pan drippings.

[@amandajones661]

BTW: sweet potato and yams are two different things, but most people use the names interchangeably.

[@Positiveenergy68]

#truth

[@chiprbob]

Yes, I find it interesting that you can buy fresh sweet potatoes and yams that are correctly marked but, if you read the ingredients on a can of yams, it's sweet potatoes not yams.

[@johncremeans969]

@@chiprbob there are sweet potatoes it's just a name if you wanna get technical yams are ginormous roots growing in Africa everything in America so sweet potato

[@chiprbob]

@@johncremeans969 It's not just a name, sweet potatoes and yams are two different things.

[@sharpaycutie2]

Yea depends on the area and the family what they cook tbh

[@mellissagolemon7310]

Not everyone makes their stuffing like that. I’m from the south and we call it dressing and make it with cornbread

[@lacysolis3840]

🙌🏻🙌🏻

[@sethb9545]

You Southern Bell

[@lacysolis3840]

Same , we do cornbread, bread, celery, chicken broth, onions, sage, eggs, and bake. We absolutely do not stuff the turkey with it! 🤣🤣 I can't even fathom the idea. Texas native here btw. I currently live in AR, and they have what they call Turkey dressing, which isn't stuffed into the Turkey, but it's dressing that's a little more wet, and has Turkey in it. 🙊🙊 But even in Texas I noticed from house to house dressing/stuffing was different.

[@mellissagolemon7310]

Lacy Solis, Yes! But we don’t put sage in ours, mainly because we don’t like the flavor. I was born and raised in Louisiana, still live here! Can’t imagine living anywhere else, lol

[@Laaaa]

Yep, I live in the south as well and my mom adds chopped up Cornish Hen to the dressing. It basically becomes a meal of it own lol.

[@pwbmd]

I've never found Thanksgiving to take away from Christmas. It complements it. It's nifty if you have a significant other because you can plan to do Thanksgiving with your family and Christmas with your significant other's family. Rather than alternate years or manipulating your schedule to travel for two Christmases. Thanksgiving also kicks off the Christmas shopping season. Stores have massive discounts on "Black Friday" which is the day after Thanksgiving. The day after Thanksgiving is also when it is generally seen as the right time to start getting out your Christmas decorations... so it serves as a transition between Fall and Winter. Thanksgiving food varies **widely**. You will see regional differences as well as differences among racial/ethnic groups. The food you saw was the traditional foods that (white) people tend to associate with Thanksgiving. But a Mexican-American family or an African-American family may have some dishes that reflect their heritage. A friend of mine who is of Italian-American heritage has pasta at her family's Thanksgiving. Really, the kind of food is not as important as the values behind it, which is to see and appreciate your friends and family. You can probably make something pretty close to pumpkin pie with any kind of squash. The pumpkin doesn't really offer any flavor. The pumpkin pie flavor comes from the spices (e.g., cinnamon, nutmeg) that go into the pie mix.

[@esthermelchor9681]

When I was growing up we always had jalapeños and tortillas at the Thanksgiving table. My parents always had the turkey and mashed potatoes but no gravy or cranberry sauce (Mexicans aren't accustomed to that). When I became an adult and expanded my horizons, I learned to like my cranberry sauce and gravy with Thanksgiving dinner. We always had dinner rolls, though, and eventually we ditched the tortillas and jalapeños. Not for good, we still have them with our Mexican food, lol!

[@heatherfantana1912]

You ain't kiddin with "regional differencs"! I'd never heard of eatin macaroni & cheese with thanksgiving dinner! Not until i met a southern man & his family anyway😜 Apparently it's a southern thing. And it's not the same as kraft mac N cheese you have with hot dogs for lunch 😮😃😮 This stuff is BAKED! I added some crumbled bacon & bread crumbs to mine this year. My hubby couldn't stay out of it! 😍😍 I'm not a huge fan of the jellied cranberry sauce in a can, but it certainly seems to be on a LOT of tables- both northern & southern 😉

[@lip7636]

@@heatherfantana1912 many families have macaroni & cheese in the Midwest for Thanksgiving as well and it's a popular side dish throughout the year in most homes and restaurants that serve "country" and "soul" foods like fried chicken. Its typically always homemade (like you described) or Velvetta for convenience. Only kids eat Kraft Macaroni with that powdered cheese...GROSS!

[@someonerandom256]

I'm southern and I'd never have Mac and cheese at Thanksgiving.

[@brat46]

@@someonerandom256 Not even when there are kids at the table? Sometimes it was the only thing toddlers would eat.

[@masterplots]

You keep comparing it to a roast dinner. We have Sunday dinners as well. It is not the same as Thanksgiving. As far as gravy goes, you match the meat. You don't have brown gravy with turkey or ham. It is turkey and not chicken. That is why it is so big..lol

[@user-ww3rm3mz3i]

There is chicken/bird gravy that is brown btw, so yes you do have brown gravy with turkey. Ham as well. What other colour gravy is there haha

[@prestigeworldwide5239]

@@user-ww3rm3mz3i beige and white

[@TheSorakiba]

@@user-ww3rm3mz3i There is white gravy, brown gravy, and dark gravy. Brown and Dark gravy are usually pretty thin, and sometimes "soupy" compared to white gravies, which are usually very thick and hearty. For the record, I only eat mashed potatoes with white "pepper" gravy.

[@user-ww3rm3mz3i]

I was speaking from a UK perspective that you can get brown gravy from birds. Can I ask what goes into your white gravies? Surely if it was white there would need to be some cream or something that goes in?Just because in england gravy is made predominantly from the juices of the meat (there are some veggie alternatives) and that's what makes the brown colour for us. The thickness depends on taste really, I tend to have thicker gravy when I know others like it v think.

[@TheSorakiba]

@@user-ww3rm3mz3i This is a good "pepper" gravy, also called a "country" style gravy (kzbin.info/www/bejne/oX-1pKd9bc2DqZY), which is a must have ingredient for mashed potatoes and yeast rolls - also, you can substitute out the flour, for corn starch, and make it MUCH smoother, and less clumpy... at most fast food places, such as McDonalds, BurgerKing, Wendy's, Krystal's, Hardee's, ect... you can order a "gravy biscuit", and 99% of the time, you will get a white sausage gravy - which is basically just pepper gravy with chunks of pork sausage added to it. I've also had white beef gravy, and white rabbit and white squirrel gravy. White Rabbit and Squirrel gravies are delicious, but much harder to get your hands on.

[@oliviacushman1985]

you guys calling thanksgiving informal is the funniest thing ever because its the fanciest thing we do all year.

[@dinadelvalle6910]

Thanksgiving is less about the food that we make, which, other than a full roast turkey, aren't necessarily unique to the holiday, but it's a feast to celebrate the harvest. The mythology is that after the Native Americans helped the pilgrims survive the winter and make it through the harvest, the two groups came together to celebrate. That's the highlight reel. The actual history is a lot darker. And turkey wasn't part of the original meal.

[@MDWLRK7]

Dina del Valle Thank you!

[@jadeashlee9664]

Thanksgiving is right before winter starts hah

[@JohnnyG919]

Aracelis Morales Garcia de Ramos I think she meant less about the specific foods. Each family has their own traditions although turkey, stuffing and mashed potatoes are very common.

[@esthermelchor9681]

@Rhiahl I believe it's the fourth Thursday of November. Usually the fourth Th is the last Th but this year we have one more left.

[@esthermelchor9681]

@Rhiahl I actually had to look it up myself because it seemed like it came so early this year. Happy Birthday to you and your dad.

[@angiehh516]

I’m from Tennessee...and I’ve never heard of frog eye salad. Weird....I’m learning as well.

[@fandomewhisper]

Must be those East Tennessee folks

[@callherfoofoo]

Tn in the building and I dont know wtf that is.. all I know if it says frog.. there is a frog in it literally

[@jordanhurd1988]

I’m certain that they’re from Utah. I’ve had it here.

[@stuie6269]

[@angiehh516]

Yeah, I’m from Chattanooga. No clue. 😂

[@starsantheoriginal]

Thanksgiving and Christmas are both equally important to us.

[@noahdixon885]

Dont speak for all of us. The US is a prodominently christian nation any christian why truly walks in the ways of jesus well you that they christmas is way more important than thanksgiving.

[@nunnie768]

@@noahdixon885 Jesus isn't even the most important part of Christmas

[@aaliyahstevenson2291]

Nunnie Wait are you serious?!!😂😂😂(I hope your joking...even though a lot of people use it as a chance to get gifts it is all about Jesus because it was the day Jesus was born)😂😂👌🏽👌🏽

[@nunnie768]

@@aaliyahstevenson2291 Most religious scholars don't believe he was born on christmas base on the clothes mentioned.

[@dalesplitstone6276]

I prefer Halloween. Thanksgiving is mostly about Christmas now anyway, with Black Friday sales starting on Thanksgiving.

[@jewellsmith7860]

Thanksgiving is a day of rememberance and thankfulness for the many blessings in our lives.

[@megs1633]

Thanksgiving is usually more low-key than Christmas. It comes before all the crazy Christmas shopping, and there’s no stress about gifts. Just the coming together of family and friends to be thankful.

[@VerbaleMondo]

So, it is part of Christmas? I still don't get it. As a Brit, this is hard to grasp.

[@davidwolfe7309]

Thanksgiving is not part of Christmas. Retail stores have expanded shopping for Christmas to the day after Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is a legal holiday on the fourth Thursday of November. The following Friday is called black Friday and now begins the shopping season.

[@1stAmbientGrl]

@@VerbaleMondo No. It is a holiday based on what happened to the first settlers in what is now Plymouth, Massachusetts. As the story goes, the pilgrims were a very religious group of Protestant Christians called Puritans who came here to escape religious persecution in England during the 1600s. Their first Winter here was very difficult and many people died. The next Spring, they and the natives befriended each other and the natives taught them how to grow maize (an early variety of corn), beans, and other local crops. When harvest time came, they were thankful to God and the natives for the success of the crops. They invited the natives for a feast to celebrate. I think it's so unfortunate that English students are not taught early American history. I suspect "the powers that be" don't want you guys to learn about revolution and freedom. They are afraid of this particular history repeating itself. ;-)

[@LindseyBurda]

@@VerbaleMondo it's not part of Christmas. It's completely separate. Thanksgiving signifies end of our harvest season so we come together to eat all the good food and be thankful haha. I'm from the US and Thanksgiving is in November but Canada also has a Thanksgiving but it's a month earlier because their haven't season is earlier than ours. Hope that helps explain it!

[@YvonneCClaes]

@@1stAmbientGrl Yes, like the part where the settlers turn around and rape and slaughter the native Americans.

[@christins.1481]

Thanksgiving at my house is MASSIVE. It's only one time out the year where you get to have pecan pie, sweet potato pie and pumpkin pie and have ALL the pies for Thanksgiving lined up. We got a 22 lb turkey this year. Not sure how much the ham weighs. We have enough food to feed the main four people in the house. Anyone visiting. Then we have about three extra plates for the disabled lady down the street. And still more leftovers to last the week. Sometimes we get too much ham and have to take it to work. Giving is in the name of Thanksgiving. Your thankful for those around you, and in return give back. That's the whole point really of Thanksgiving. Just cook a whole bunch of food, invite a whole bunch of people, line it up on the table then let everyone loose to eat and watch Football.

[@peggydeffley2194]

Christin S. This is exactly correct. The bickering, the shouts of laughter, the joy. All of it, the work and the food and the love. AMERICA.

[@peggydeffley2194]

Also, RHE PIE. Me oh my, I love pie! At no other time do you get a slice of homemade pie with your coffee for breakfast!

[@cassiereroni]

Your Thanksgiving sounds more like mine! I have a table that seats 12 and it is filled from end to end with food and I have to have a 4 shelf bookshelf for all the pies! But my family, including great grandparents, grandparents, children, grandchildren and great grandchildren makes it 28 people for Thanksgiving! I finish cleaning up just in time for Christmas! 🤣

[@Kingfisher1215]

Cool story. We eat paint chips.

[@mescko]

@Cannabis Dreams Never mind any of that, where's the *mince* pie??

[@TheMetrored]

The phase "I love Cool Whip" disqualifies you from any claim to food snobbery.

[@paulboy9101]

Charles Henry Bell - Real whipped cream only!

[@LeoTheShortGuy]

@@paulboy9101 I don't think they know what Cool Whip really is. lol

[@cherylann9781]

Now, now! Cool whip has its place, well only one I can think of...Watergate Salad.

[@molly2643]

For us lactose intolerant folk, Cool Whip is a cheap way to get some white fluff on our dessert.

[@janielewis1475]

She didn't, he had had it.@@LeoTheShortGuy

[@edisonwato]

Never ever heard of Frog Eye salad in my life and I've lived in various parts of the USA.

[@diorocksmetalon5993]

Me neither. What the heck?

[@thom8728]

Just looked up the recipe, it sounds disgusting. I have never heard of it either.

[@jennybird6268]

About 25 years ago I worked in a deli and we served frog eye salad. It’s acini pasta with mini marshmallows and whip cream

[@amye.8000]

@@jennybird6268 So...like a weird version of ambrosia, I guess?

[@tandiparent1906]

@@jennybird6268 lol, thanks for the explanation; I'm in Oklahoma but have been all over the country n I've totally never heard of it 🙂🎄🙂

[@TheGreatPooky]

To the whole Joel and Lia universe, Happy Thanksgiving!

[@danak8185]

Happy Thanksgiving to you too!!

[@mikeyikeygamer2489]

Thanksgiving is like Christmas’s side kick it like helps start up the holiday season

[@lindataylor2131]

Mikey......it's sad that you think that. ::sigh:: It's more a thanks for all the blessings of the year, and asking for more for the year to come. It's about being with family even if it is just one or two days. Does Christmas really need a start up? Just go to the store if you need that. They start putting out stuff the day after Halloween. No need to spent over twenty dollars for a turkey to do that. Get a freaking TV dinner.

[@indiedavecomix3882]

Don't dip your bread in your gravy with people around? What a bunch of prudes! How do you clean up the extra gravy on your plate?

[@racafritz]

IndieDaveComix I don’t think they’re prudes maybe it’s frowned upon to sop the gravy.

[@dalesplitstone6276]

My family used the thick gravy for gravy sandwiches and generally doused the potatoes and stuffing with the thinner gravy. We also generally had both turkey and beef gravy for potatoes and stuffing, with a thicker sausage gravy for gravy sandwiches.

[@racafritz]

Dale Splitstone Turkey and beef gravy we did as well. I just found out that with the left overs for sandwiches you put a piece of bread sopped in gravy in the middle of it. Gonna have to try it this year!

[@nitay8248]

IndieDaveComix I will pick up my plate and lick the gravy off if I feel like it!👅😂😂

[@gigicollins3498]

"Extra gravy"? I don't understand.

[@marlenreads]

Best time of the year, you decorate for Halloween and then Thanksgiving and then the day after thanksgiving you decorate for Christmas! I love decorating for each holiday.

[@sandyloveday7292]

Thanksgiving feels like an end of harvest feast. Decorations are usually fall themed autumn leave colors, pumpkins, squashes as decoration (sometimes fake ones so you don't have the real thing on your table).

[@charleslewis8412]

When the English pilgrims first came to this country a lot of them starved to death before ships could bring more supplies. It was the Indians who tought them or helped them to grow corn and other things. Thanksgiving is in the fall because of harvest. The pilgrims invited the Indians to share a meal with the bounty of their harvest. Turkey was the new food and game they hunted. That's why turkey is associated with Thanksgiving. This is why family and friends get together on Thanksgiving. Its been a long time since I read this in grade school. But it's close. Every household will usually have the same basic theme, but can be somewhat different depending on what region and family recipe's that there are.

[@jemuzuotoko2746]

Charles Lewis this is completely wrong factually. Commercially it’s close. But historically way wrong.

[@zombie-pt4uc]

and then we killed and displaced all of them in thanks

[@PatriotParty]

This is the most accurate description of the true meaning of Thanksgiving.

[@jemuzuotoko2746]

Dillan Tyler not even close

[@AlanGresov]

So that's mostly true, the first Thanksgiving actually was a feast thrown by the pilgrims, then the neighboring natives found out about it, and the pilgrims invited them to dine together at that point.

[@BethCampbell-b9c]

For our family, that dinner is “twice” a year, Thanksgiving and Christmas. Easter is a bit different as well, we serve ham in place of turkey. This is a very formal meal for us...and filling!!

[@amye.8000]

This was three times a year for our family, we always had ham on Easter too!

[@sharimedleyed.s.166]

Thanksgiving is the remembrance of the friendship & harvest between the native Americans & the first settlers. That first video showed a fairly typical Thanksgiving Day dinner (except for buffet-style): turkey, corn-on-the cob, green bean casserole (green beans, cream of mushroom soup, & topped with canned French fried onions), cranberry sauce, sweet potato casserole (sweet potatoes, brown sugar, butter, topped with pecans & marshmallows), deviled eggs, & lots of pie… especially, pumpkin pie.

[@lb1984]

The buffet style comes into play with large gatherings. Most of us don't have tables that sit 12. If the gathering is smaller, it is usually done around the table. I can't speak for the enirity of the country, but for us, no we don't pull out most of this food until a holiday. It's the only time we make stuffing. It's French fried onions on top of the green been casserole. So yes, vegetables can be served, but not usually in a healthy way. "Is that a vegetable? Put cheese on it."

[@peepla7]

My family have a lot of the foods year round....but in a lighter version. Like the Mac and cheese will be one cheese, at Thanksgiving... might have 4 different cheeses and egg. Candied yams are amazing. For everything day meals...baked sweet potatoes. Greens.....big pot takes forever to cook...it's a stable of Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New year's,....a special occasion. The stuffed...or dressing varies family to family.

[@rickyricardo9710]

even when it's around a table though it's still buffet style, I don't think many people if any actually serve each guest a plate of food, everyone scoops their own onto their plate. Which is kind of a necessity given the large number of different foods cooked at most thanksgiving dinners and the large number of guests.

[@cherylann9781]

laura beth Belcher Or mushroom soup, or in my case, bacon and onions.

[@lb1984]

@@rickyricardo9710 agreed, I have never been served a plate of Thanksgiving food. I meant if the gathering is small enough, the food can be on the table while people eat it too. Granted, every time we do that in my home I tend to spend several minutes trying to figure out what every body has already gotten a serving of, returning that dish to the kitchen to declutter. So it basically turns into buffet style even if it didn't start out that way.

[@PapaLynn1]

Joel and Lia: when you do a family “do” and everyone sits around the table for a meal, does everyone serve themselves, as in pass the dishes around the table, or does someone (like the mother I guess??) plate it for you?

[@jameskoralewski296]

Turkey sandwiches are what you eat after you eat turkey several times and don't want any more of the bird. Then you make sandwiches of the leftover turkey meat.

[@johnericmartinez6806]

James Koralewski what we do usually is make what we call “turkey salad “ which is basically chicken salad but with turkey. you should try it !

[@audkarinen6875]

The sandwiches are why you buy a bigger turkey than you need

[@gigicollins3498]

@@audkarinen6875 Yes. We just have a turkey breast. It's enough for the three of us.

[@darincampbell5440]

The reason we have Thanksgiving is literally to give thanks for all of the blessings we have as Americans. It is based on the first harvest feast after the native Americans helped the pilgrims survive and taught them how to farm corn and other crops that could be raised in Massachusetts. It showed what could be between our cultures.

You sure? The natives tell a different story.

[@lameidk4209]

I mean there was lots of killing some rapping too and slavery

[@glasscardproductions4736]

@@lameidk4209, yeah, but that wasn’t until later.

[@user-vd2jk7dl3p]

@@lameidk4209 That was years later. Not the same group of people either.

[@dosgoat]

@@lameidk4209 you must be a real hoot at parties 🥳

[@evelynmcgowan2085]

Thanksgiven is my absolute favorite holiday of all. It's family, it blessings remembered it's giving thanks, wonderful traditional foods cooked. I love love spending days cooking for this special day. Sitting down with love ones.

[@victorsixtythree]

Probably the most iconic image of a traditional American Thanksgiving would be Norman Rockwell's "Freedom From Want" painting.

[@dawnpowers2473]

I love Thanksgiving because there are no gifts, no pressures, and we get to spend time with family. The thing about them being so close, is we may see one side of the family for Thanksgiving and the other side for Christmas.

[@thebeyer8321]

No pressures except for the host/hostess & the chef/s!!!!! Other than that, the most pressure of all will be felt by your struggling BELT!!! haha

[@BRUXXUS]

@@thebeyer8321 RIGHT?! I've hosted a few times... by myself! I'm one of the "kids" in the family and it's so stressful! Although, we generally do pot-luck style in my family, so whoever hosts usually does the turkey, potatoes, and usually rolls, then others bring the rest. Fortunately, I've always had a lot of help cleaning up after and it's always been such a warm and fun time with family. :)

[@thebeyer8321]

I’m glad you have a lovely time, but hosting sounds like total stress- especially cooking the BIRD!! At least your family brings most of the side dishes. And clean up help- that’s something to be thankful for right there!! Well, brace yourself, in no time at all it will be here once again!!!! Hope you enjoy!

[@jonok42]

@@thebeyer8321 cooking the bird is actually the easiest part. The stressful part is doing all the baking. I'm an only child, and my husband and I host. This year my daughter and I baked four pies, and the bread. It was very stressful. I love doing it, but the older I get the harder it is. My daughter and her husband will take over hosting soon.

[@loisavci3382]

@@jonok42 The hard part with the pies is getting them out of the oven in time to put the turkey in. Depending on the size of the bird, this can involve getting up really early.

[@tabithaburns5954]

Oh man there’s so much I’d like to say but not enough room to say it! To answer Joel’s question about Thanksgiving versus Christmas for me I have a hard time picking a favorite. The traditional theme of Thanksgiving is to be thankful and to celebrate being thankful. For that reason I think I tend to lean toward Thanksgiving as my favorite because it’s basically sitting around with family and friends enjoying time together and enjoying really yummy food. Whereas Christmas tends to focus more on gifts. Not to say that’s bad- giving gifts is so fun! And so is getting them haha! And don’t get me wrong I absolutely love Christmas as well, but Thanksgiving takes that out of the equation so you’re not thinking about giving or getting but enjoying what you have.

[@brealistic3542]

Exactly right

[@jettqk1]

I agree. For me, Thanksgiving and Christmas are two individual holidays and don't take away from each other. Even though in the U.S. we view Thanksgiving as the official kickoff to the Christmas season, since it falls between 4 and 5 weeks before Christmas, I don't see it as competing with Christmas.

[@brealistic3542]

It really doesn't whatsoever. :)

[@wordscrafter]

This!

[@Ev_deGallery]

Thanksgiving VS Christmas: Remembering the Colonists and their first successful harvest in the new world. Christmas celebrates the birth of Christ (although granted it actually took place in August)

[@sueza6322]

You guys are the best. I came to the US in 1983 and tried to embrace Thanksgiving tradition. So now it’s something we have to do in our home. We do the sit down dinner if we have a small group or buffet style for large group.

[@MeanJohnDean]

It's such a chore plucking out all those frog eyes to make the salad. Kidding.

[@standupp2885]

LMAO

[@Apollonos]

You should try frog eyes with chilled monkey brains. Yummy!

[@phillipbranch8291]

J&L, I'm sorry that the two of you are having a hard time understanding the Thanksgiving holiday in the US. In a nutshell, Thanksgiving began with the Pilgrims who landed in what is now Massachusetts. The feast of Thanksgiving was their way of giving thanks to God for surviving a brutal first winter in the New World. Many Pilgrims died during their first winter in the New World. When spring came, the local Indian tribes showed the Pilgrims what to plant and how to hunt wild game in the area so they would survive. After a bountiful harvest the following autumn, they decided to have a harvest feast of "Thanksgiving" to give thanks to God for their survival. The idea of giving thanks during a autumn harvest basically remained unchanged through the years. It was Abraham Lincoln who established the precedent of the 4th Thursday in November as a day of Thanksgiving. FDR tried changing the time in November but was unsuccessful and it was reestablished as the 4th Thursday in November. Thanksgiving has become a time for people all over the US to return home to be with family and to share a delicious meal with the ones they love. Just check out US news reports that show how the highways, airports and train stations all across the country become madhouses with people trying to get to be with family and loved ones and how the Sunday afterwards is in reverse with those same people going back to where they currently reside. If the two of you were here, I (along with countless others) would be graciously inviting you into our homes to share Thanksgiving dinner with us. We'd start out the day watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade on tv, then sharing a delicious meal and then spending the rest of the day digesting the day's meal watching football! (BTW, I make a mean green bean casserole!)

[@Ad_Astra1123]

Phillip Branch that’s a very thorough explanation. Good job!👍🏼

[@Bxr12]

Phillip Branch you rule.

[@annabella2528]

Real research will provide them this info. It's not difficult to actually educate yourself especially with the new fancy laptop they bought

[@GypsyFairy85]

They don't care. Its easy enough to do a bit of research or watch a doc. Its all about making supposedly funny comments about the oddities of American life.

[@TheTerrylwg]

You just watched the Charlie Brown Thanksgiving special, didn't you?!

[@Ev_deGallery]

I haven't finished the video yet, but I wanted to share something: My son (10) gained a new friend this school year (well, a month ago) "Jaden from the UK". He was so excited as they are very much into all things British (Thank you Dan TDM :) ). Anyway, imagine my sons surprise when 2 weeks ago this same new friend walks into his Sunday School. 500k people in our little city in California, hundreds of churches, over 2 dz elementary schools... and this family lands in both of our hoods. Needess to say, I sent a hand written invitation to the family and invited them to spend an American Thanksgiving with us. They are so excited and so are we. I'll take some pics and maybe post a video of our own. Thanksgiving by the way is my 2nd favorite holiday next to Easter.

[@judyl5260]

Evelyn deGallery y

[@lsportner]

Thanksgiving can be formal or more casual. A lot of times it depends on the size of the family and the size of the host's home. In my family when the guest list is larger, buffet-style is more common just because it's easier and it's harder to get EVERYONE around the same table because there just isn't enough space.

[@kristenwrenn8070]

The nice thing about Thanksgiving family gatherings vs. Christmas is that there is no expectation for gifts or anything like that. So the family gatherings do feel a bit different because of that. No worries about gift giving; all about including people and quality time.

[@Nate-xv7el]

Kristen Wrenn That’s my favorite part over Christmas

[@brennus190]

Fascinating to read the comments of how much difference there is in how Americans celebrate the same holiday!

[@TamiMarieIsAGardener]

That sums up America.... we're all uniquely different.

[@hollyberryjoan]

Thanksgiving is a harvest festival that celebrates that Indians shared with the first pilgrim settlers and taught them to farm--saving their lives. At the first harvest they celebrated with a feast all together out of thankfulness to the indians and to God for thier lives. So we do the same--eat ridiculously large amounts of ridiculously rich foods with those we're thankful for gathered around. We spend time being thankful for the wonderful bounty we've been blessed with. Everyone's formality is different. My family makes it more formal than Christmas. The reason for buffet and couch sitting to eat is that there's too much food to fit on the table and too many people to sit around it.

[@shadowchief2788]

Actually No, it celebrates Native American Genocide...

[@johnnyjaee1417]

Shadow Chief hell yeah I just love talking about murdering native Americans while I eat turkey with my family !

[@shadowchief2788]

@@johnnyjaee1417 if you don't like talking about it don't celebrate it

[@gracewaddell4439]

Shadow Chief, while I understand ( and agree that things went really bad for the indigenous people), I don't think any of us celebrate Thanksgiving for such a terrible reason. Cut us a little slack, please.

[@shadowchief2788]

@@gracewaddell4439 do you believe in truth or theory?

[@susandunsmuir6610]

Thanksgiving starts the holiday season including Xmas and New Years. It’s a harvest theme holiday celebrating the first Pilgrim colony surviving, hence the feasting and gratitude. Turkey is the main dish but everything else is basically family and local traditions. It’s a big day for football too.

[@andreadelong2811]

My friend from high school here in Washington state has moved to Scotland firstly for Uni then she has gone on to get her doctorate. And every year she invited all her friends and colleagues over to her flat for a proper American Thanksgiving.

[@Fortheloveofhorses459]

I like Thanksgiving best because it's about getting together with family, watching football, grazing on food all day long, napping because your so damn full, then last but not least planning on going out at midnight for black Friday! On this holiday there is no stress about presents or spending a ton of money like Christmas....just getting together and eating delicious food. Happy Thanksgiving y'all🦃

[@tinkmarz1]

Thanksgiving has changed with idea of more casual living in the US. I was born in 1949 and growing up Thanksgiving was eaten at the table. We had a large formal dining room and a table that could seat 14. We had roast turkey (of course), dressing (it's called stuffing in the US if it's actually stuff it into the bird), mashed potatoes, candied sweet potatoes, steamed and buttered Brussel sprouts with cheese sauce (which later changed to green bean casserole...no, not cheese on top, but fried onion rings, but these days I'm sure there are those that now put cheese on top as well...or instead of the onion rings), cranberry sauce and various side salads, usually the type with fruit, nuts in jello that's been mixed with whipped cream, and of course gravy to top the turkey, mashed potatoes and dressing, rolls with butter. Dessert was pumpkin pie, apple and/or minced meat pie, ice cream.

[@LJBSullivan]

We still have a formal dinner like the one described above. It's a day to remember all our blessings and be truly thankful for all you have and for each other family and friends.

[@nadachance2442]

In the South we call it dressing.

[@wildhogs1ful]

Thanksgiving is celebrating the murder of 70 million Natives

[@prgunnels7679]

In the South, it's called dressing and we eat it on the side. not stuffed in a bird.

[@alexsmallwood9944]

Sara Israel L

[@boondocksaint8088]

Don't forget about the Macy's Day Parade on Thanksgiving and football! Our family always always watch those 2 on the TV every Thanksgiving.

[@molly2643]

Not every American celebrates Christmas, so Thanksgiving is kind of a unifying holiday in that sense since it's non-religious. Some families have a more relaxed dinner that is buffet style and some do a more formal dinner. It's often less formal when you have a very large family since not everyone is going to fit at one table in most homes. It's usually a time when extended family gets together, probably more so than Christmas. If you want to have an authentic Thanksgiving, you have to have jellied cranberry sauce straight out of the can (I'll fight anyone who says otherwise).

[@Leon-wz1js]

In a sense, even when you sit at a table, it's buffet style because everyone passes around the food to serve yourself what you like. Whereas more commonly, all your food is put on your plate before you for regular meals. So, serving yourself, even while sitting down, is, in a sense, buffet. (I won't fight with you over the cranberry sauce.)

[@molly2643]

I have strong feelings about cranberry sauce : )

[@teebes2009]

Out of a can! For shame! 😅 My mom made proper cranberry sauce using fresh cranberries. She even has a hand crank device to smash the cranberries and remove most of the skins.

[@molly2643]

@@teebes2009 yes we make that too, but the jellied in a can is its own thing. It's like how Snapple isn't really iced tea, it's it's own thing.

[@stephaniesmith8210]

Yes! I have an aunt and cousins who are Jewish. The only time I saw them growing up was on Thanksgiving.:)

[@johnsummers9808]

To understand "Thanksgiving", you need to understand the origin of the practice. The practice of Thanksgiving was established in the 16th century North America by British citizens who had relocated to "The New World". These individuals were commonly known as "Pilgrims". The feast was called Thanksgiving because these British citizens celebrated the fact they had survived a very harsh winter, and established homes in North America. The first Thanksgiving was also shared with the local Native Americans of that period. After The American Revolutionary War the practice continued, and became an American National Holiday, and part of American history.

[@IMChrysalis]

Thanks for sharing the origin of Thanksgiving! Saves me the time! LOL I LOVE the holiday, because it makes me think more about the blessing of living and sharing the world with all the special people I've met... in my life and online!...

[@SuperLaurajo]

I’m from the Uk. Thanksgiving makes sense now. Thank you for that. It’s a lovely tradition xxx

[@Icybubba]

Also since it was about North America, other countries like Canada and St. Lucia celebrate Thanksgiving as well, but on different days than America.

[@bb95969]

When America was mostly agrarian, after the harvest, a community would come together and thank God for another year of the blessing of food, family, and health. That's what the first Thanksgiving was all about. It's not about the food other than when sharing a meal, it brings people together.

[@miai1494]

We as Native Americans NEVER invited “Pilgrims “ to our dinner table. The pilgrims invited themselves to our country!! Columbus DID NOT discover America!

[@anamericanfriend2367]

The turkey is standard and traditional but the rest of the meal might vary. It can be formal or very informal. Depends on the family. Thanksgiving for me ushers in the Christmas season. Many communities have special concerts, plays and other events during the time between Thanksgiving and Christmas. It's a fun time of year.

[@vickilawrence3676]

I love Thanksgiving, it takes absolutely nothing from Christmas. In my family we put up the Christmas tree the weekend before Thanksgiving. I get up early start the turkey we watch the parade with the Christmas tree lit up in the livingroom. The diningroom is dedicated to Thanksgiving decorations of fall, turkeys, and such, we sit at the table we say what we are thankful for,we talk, we laugh, we eat it'a great day.

[@tgcali5150]

I come from a large family and our typical Thanksgiving starts with cinnamon rolls and monkey bread for breakfast. Then you have a veggie tray with dip, chips and dip/salsa (my Aunt made an amazing chili cheese dip!), black olives, etc. to snack on while you wait for the actual dinner. :D The main course consists of: turkey, honey glazed ham, mashed potatoes and gravy, fresh peas/corn, oven baked macaroni & cheese, biscuits and/or dinner rolls, stuffing, candied yams, cranberry sauce, green bean casserole (made with green beans, cream of mushroom soup, and crispy fried onions from a can, lol). But the BEST part is the dessert table. Not a dessert, a table full of desserts. Fudge, cookies, pecan/pumpkin/apple/chocolate silk pies, peach cobbler. Yes ... we eat ALL DAY! It's glorious. The treasured memories of a day with all the family, playing tag football in the street, helping to carry all the dishes in as people arrived. Amazing.

[@Leon-wz1js]

It's funny how most people talk about sitting in front of the TV and watching football. Nobody has mentioned yet playing football outside and working up an appetite. You eat breakfast? We don't usually eat anything except appetizers (carrot and celery sticks and dips), prior to the big feast!

[@tgcali5150]

@@Leon-wz1js The dads and uncles are watching the games. :D :D The older and younger cousins are playing. I know it's weird to have breakfast, but we literally eat ALL day. Haha!!!

[@Leon-wz1js]

+Trisa Gentry Pfft. My Dad never watched a football game (for thanksgiving) until years later when he went to other people's homes to have thanksgiving. Before that, we all went outside to have some roughhouse fun. playing some outdoor games of football, tag, baseball, what have you. Also, it kept the kids out from under my mom, so she could cook in peace. Well, I wouldn't say "weird" but more "odd." Does that sound less derisive? I hope so. I honestly don't recall ever eating breakfast or lunch. Something light perhaps, like a roll, toast or donut, maybe.

[@tgcali5150]

@@Leon-wz1js Not derisive at all. We all have our traditions. That's what makes Thanksgiving so beautiful in my eyes. It is, quite literally, all good. It's simply beautiful to me.

[@samiamisme]

Wow you do ham and Turkey? And cinnamon rolls? Will you adopt me? Lol

[@serpephone]

I am 43. I’ve always been taught that first and foremost living in Texas is the highest blessing but living in America is so wonderful. Thanksgiving to me is the unity between cultures where we have one day where we can all break bread together and celebrate life. Which is literally what my strange family did yesterday and it oddly worked out.

[@mikefelty2625]

California is glamorous, but she worded that correctly. I would definitely chose Texas over California any day.😁

[@null0byte]

Having grown up in California and moved to Texas for a job, I'll take the "this is going to get me into trouble" approach and split the difference. I've found California and Texas to be rather equal in terms of a lot of things. They each have their pluses and minuses. There are pretty easy things to nitpick about either place, and things that one does I wish the other did and vice versa. I'm blessed to have both. To respond to the one before me, If California comes across as glamorous to you, you simply just haven't been to enough places in CA, and you haven't looked very hard in TX.

[@mikefelty2625]

@@null0byte As a disclaimer, I'm biased because I've never lived anywhere but Texas. In all honesty, I do know that there are pros and cons, and good and bad areas with both places. It was mostly a tongue in cheek comment. There are a few reasons that I wouldn't want to live in California. The most important reason is that I don't have any family there. There are also some personal freedoms that are much more prohibitive in California than in Texas.

[@patteel]

Well I grew up in Florida 5 minutes from the beach. Great fresh seafood (shrimp, crab and other stuff) food we caught right off the dock or from our boat and fresh fruit, mangos, avocados, oranges, tangerines, pears pecans and walnuts from the trees in our back yards. And we could go to my uncle's house and pick strawberries, mulberries, watermellon, honeydews, cantaloupe or scuppernong grapes. I also lived in California for 3 years, it was a very pretty, very expensive place, full of smog and a lot of very odd people. I also lived in Texas, both in Dallas (3 years) and in Austin (15 years). Dallas was flat, hot as heck in summer and had very few trees but everyone stayed inside in the AC for half the year and had a good time going to plays directly from New York , concerts, sports games, symphonies Even tho Dallas was full of rich people (picture the people in the TV show "Dallas") they were not as snobby as the people in California. Austin was wonderful even tho it ran about 5 to 10 degrees cooler than Dallas in summer, and it was about 5 to 10 degrees warmer in winter. Austin is lovely with it's big beautiful shady oaks, nice hills, beautiful springs, lakes, and those breath taking fields of blue bonnet flowers in the spring. I have lived in 15 states and have visited every state except Hawaii. I have also been to other countries. I am now retired and back home in Florida living 1 mile from the Gulf.

[@gracewaddell4439]

Mike Felty The opposite is also true, Mike Felty!

[@wesalker3479]

The origins of "thanksgiving" were basically a celebration of bountiful harvest. Nothing to do with christmas. Nothing to do with patriotism. Just gratitude for the ability to provide and share.

[@beccam3629]

My other American friends and I hosted traditional Thanksgiving dinner when we studied in Cork for a fall and invited all of our Irish and European friends....we ended up having to make 3 full turkeys for the like 35 people who crammed into 1 student apartment. It was a TON of work but it was so much fun introducing everyone to Thanksgiving!

[@ruthmccarthy8281]

Oh my god! I'm from cork! UCC I presume!?

[@beccam3629]

@@ruthmccarthy8281 yup that was where we studied.

[@sugarbaby547]

Thanksgiving dinner in an African American home roast, smoked or fried turkey, picnic ham, collard or mustard greens, brocolli rice and cheese casserole, candied yams casserole, cornbread dressing with giblet gravy ( absolutely no boxed stuffing mix) mac and cheese, potato salad, peach cobbler, sweet potato pie ( pumpkin pie is a no no), buttermilk pie, sock it to me cake, and banana pudding. Oh yeah can't forget dinner rolls. pretty much the same for Christmas but gumbo maybe added and New year's Day chitterlings, black eyed peas, cornbread, cabbage or greens. Not everyone eats chitterlings but that is what I grew up on.

[@raymondweaver8526]

We all have our family traditions. My family always had roast pork and sauerkraut. My wife if from the south and had to have collards. Together we have all 3

[@just_peachy11]

Not just any gumbo..it has to be shrimp gumbo !! I am from Houma, La.

[@naturallaw1733]

nice when can I come over. 😋

[@stacey_d]

Southern white ppl eat all these as well. Happy Thanksgiving!

[@jamescook4289]

What time does dinner start? YUMMMMMMM

[@daycel13]

Y’all are talking about how your versions of the food is so funny!! Like “mash is for kids”. Sorry to inform you both but America isn’t posh or formal in anyway. Thanksgiving isn’t meant to be healthy either. 😂😂

[@Irv123]

Lol Happy Thanksgiving!

[@SuperMommav]

Also British food is terrible.

[@philsexton5761]

SuperMommav that’s actually incorrect

[@lsmith9249]

daycel13 Joel and Lia are so ignorant, i'm british and not everyone is so stupid and british people eat mashed potatoes here

[@m0zz4re11a1]

SuperMommav ???? british food is THE BEST i mean chicken casserole, meat and potato pie 😍 cottage pie 🤤 bangers and mash, battered sausage at a chippy 😋 sunday roast.if you haven’t tried them you haven’t lived, i’m serious

[@chrisser2088]

I feel Thanksgiving and Christmas are equally important in America. Personally I enjoy thanksgiving more because it’s less pressure, you can just eat and enjoy everybody’s company.

[@jannosmal5708]

NO... Thanksgiving is an opening act for Xmas :) On the night after Thanksgiving dinner, that's when Black Friday starts and it's when the radio stations begin to play Xmas music all the way til Dec 25th. Two totally different holidays!

[@danielengwall6237]

All of the (strange) foods are a staple of a traditional thanksgiving dinner. They're traditional. It wouldn't be thanksgiving without all of them.

[@PhillProbst]

Re: Joel’s reaction to the gravy ... that’s turkey gravy ... turkey stock thickened with flour. That’s the normal color. Beef gravy, OTOH, would be a darker brown.

[@helenholt1161]

My turkey gravy is darker. There is a lot of caramelized "stuff" at the bottom of my roasting pan.

[@jayt9608]

@@helenholt1161, we should not leave out the cream gravy. There are those of us who dislike the brown and turkey gravies.

[@mxmamma_774]

mine is slightly darker but i also add giblets in my gravy.

[@joro4117]

Turkey gravy is generally lighter than beef gravy because the drippings are lighter. My turkey gravy is slightly darker because I use Pinot Noir wine in mine.

[@jenamann3484]

Exactly!! Turkey gravy comes from the turkey juices as the turkey cooks!!

[@Matt-gr6us]

I don’t think I’ve ever had a “formal” thanksgiving. For my family the POINT was informality... relaxing and having fun.

[@joro4117]

Had formal Thanksgivings growing up, but things are no informal nowadays, that we're now a bit more informal, too.

[@Latte-girly90]

I never heard of it being formal either. That’s takes the fun out of it

[@chivalryalive]

Matt Willett -- My family has enjoyed the more "formal" Thanksgiving setting. Each of us dresses up in nice shirts, slacks and neckties - the ladies, similarly - in their long dresses styled for the season... Then we move our large meal out from the kitchen table to the magnificent dining room, the hard wood table, with embroidered table cloth and matching napkins, surrounded by antique place settings, other fine furniture and get out our true 'sterling silverware'. Wine is served in antique crystal glasses and all of the hand made food is spread out upon the table in the sliver dishes or other fine serving bowls. We make a real 'show' of things around my home. :-) --My mother grew up in a very prosperous family, so those traditions must be passed along from one generation to the next.

[@edwardvasquez3962]

Here is why Thanksgiving is so big in the U.S. It's one day a year our country shuts down for a National Holiday. It is a day that families travel to re-unite to Give Thanks for our family love, friendships, work, health, and our accomplishments. Life will end for us all. Great Grandparents, Grandparents, Parents, Aunts & Uncles, siblings & cousins. We gather to thank God for his blessings, to remind us how fortunate we were in the last year. We visit, we gossip, we play games, we watch two American Football games. We bond and stay close to our loved ones. Because tomorrow is never promised. The staple of any Thanksgiving Lunch or Dinner: Baked Turkey Stuffing Cranberry Sauce Optional Spiral ham Pumpkin Pie. Lots of planning and communication with family guest to mostly coordinate what we call "a pot luck" which everyone brings family dishes to add to the traditional items to more of individual family side dishes. Green bean casserole is traditionally: Green Beans, covered in mushroom soup, topped with battered fried oinions. Everyone has their family recipe tweeks on their families dishes. But nothing better than spending a day with loved ones, to appreciate all that God has Blessed you with. I think It shouldn't only be an American Holiday. I believe the world should set a side a day to just stop the routine, gather family and remember what is important in life. Which is FAMILY!

[@summeraneal4119]

The reason (at least in my family) that everyone sits around the house eating their meals is because you’ve got the whole *entire* family in your home. Most dining tables can’t fit upwards of 12 people or sometimes more. In our house, people sit at the dining table and at the kitchen island and in the living room during thanksgiving. It may appear informal because the point isn’t to have an uppity formal dinner, it’s to be around loved ones and appreciate one day a year that everybody can get together. Sure we get together at Christmas too, but Thanksgiving is no frills. It’s just food and love and thankfulness to be alive. (-: 💗 Also, of course families have delicious Sunday spreads when we can, however since most families are spread throughout the country, Sunday dinners are just enjoyed by the people who live in your household. At thanksgiving we travel far and wide to be with our families, that’s what makes it so special.

[@209kittycat1]

Exactly I think you said that well!! it is a day to be together all day and eat through out the day. One of the best days ever. Great family memories

[@FriendofWigner]

I will dip my bread rolls in gravy regardless of who is around because 1) it is delicious, 2) it is wrong to waste good gravy, and 3) I am a grown ass man and will do as I please. That said, my favorite thing to do while sitting on the couch after dinner, feeling bloated and watching a football game, is to get a small bowl of gravy and dip rolls in it. But only mama's homemade rolls.

[@FriendofWigner]

@Adversary American And of course Biscuits and Gravy are life.

[@DJN881]

Adversary American The rolls we have at thanksgiving are yeast rolls, and take a lot of time to make, not just baking powder biscuits.

[@kencramer1697]

I too used to abuse my rolls with gravy. My mother always make fresh yeast rolls with Thanksgiving. They are amazing dipped in gravy. However, she pulled a fast one a number of years back and gravy fell by the way side. She took a stick of butter and softened it, added a tablespoon of frozen orange juice concentrate, a dash of vanilla and a pinch of powdered sugar. Orange butter was born at our house. Over the years it has expanded to honey butter, orange butter, strawberry butter, and even cranberry butter. The gravy that is not used on potatoes or turkey gets left in the fridge until someone drizzles it on a sandwich the next week. Don't get me wrong, rolls dipped in gravy is, and always will be great eats. I just found something for me that is many times more enticing to slather on my rolls than the gravy. The saddest part to me is that I have not found a combination of these killer butters that work WITH gravy instead of against it. Though that is most likely a good thing as I don't know how much of both my arteries could take. And with that I will second the notion Happy Thanksgiving "grown ass man"! :)

[@FriendofWigner]

@@kencramer1697 My mom makes yeast rolls as well. It's a 'family recipe' in the sense that it's not written down and you just eyeball everything. This of course messes with my engineering sensibilities, but fortunately she is teaching some of my sisters to make them. Momma makes a HUGE batch, and uses half the dough for dinner rolls, and half for cinnamon rolls. There have been fights over those cinnamon rolls... It seems if you did the cranberry butter right, you could slap that on a roll with a bit of turkey and eat it with gravy like a french dip. I love how everyone comments on my misplaced hyphen. I would fix it, but it's a youtube comment. Since the responses aren't vitriolic, I will leave it for the levity and amusement of the people. Happy holidays everyone!

[@kencramer1697]

@@FriendofWigner I truly hope you had a great Thanksgiving today and got your hands on plenty of rolls & gravy. It is amazing how many similar situations happen in families all over. These special foods that we get only a couple times a year make for great memories. I can understand the fights over the cinnamon rolls as well. My mother gifted me with a batch of a special food today that I fight over. She took the left over ham and made me a batch of ham salad to go. (kind of made the same way as chicken salad but with ham). My general warning is - You touch my ham salad and they will never find your body. :P lol

[@jcfreeman4359]

Thanksgiving is by far my favorite holiday. It's perfect cool fall weather outside. You're surrounded by the 3 F's Family Food Football It's the best time of the year.

[@letitiajeavons6333]

You'd better clarify that as American Football. British peopl say football and mean soccer.

[@davids1854]

@@letitiajeavons6333 he most likley means american football but my fmailly watche sany sport for thanks giving

[@Reeces]

Thanksgiving is for relaxing with family, being thankful for the good things in our lives, and eating great (naughty) foods. You don't need to be formal or healthy this day. Get your healthy broccoli away from my table! XD

[@fantasticfoodfindsflair2879]

What you keep calling candied yams is really sweet potato casserole. Candied yams are generally chunks of sweet potatoes with a glaze. Sweet potato casserole is mashed sweet potatoes with a brown sugar topping topped with marshmallows. Also there are two kinds of stuffing/dressing. The kind you showed with the large pieces of bread (I've never had that) and something that looks more like what your stuffing looks like often made with cornbread which is the kind we eat in my family. Also traditional is mashed potatoes, gravy, green beans or green bean casserole, cranberry sauce either whole berry or jellied, which comes out shaped like the can. Pie is a usual dish, pumpkin, apple, pecan are probably the most commonly served. Turkey, of course is what most people serve. A lot of people don't have large formal dining rooms and since there are often a lot of people you sit where you can find a place. Sometimes the parents and grandparents sit at the table and the kids go eat wherever or they'll set up a "kids" table for the overflow. Honestly, food wise, Christmas is pretty much the same except we may have ham instead or in addition to the turkey. Maybe a cheesecake instead of the pie. I'd love to see you guys do a traditional British Christmas meal to see what might be different.

[@dchasehuneke]

Everyone does their sweet potato casserole differently - I top mine with crushed pecans and walnuts mixed with maple syrup, blackstrap molasses, and cinnamon.

[@patteel]

We made the candied sweet potato cut up cubes, brown sugar with pecans and marshmallow topping and if Mom was feeling the mood she would add some pineapple cubes or some diced apple. Maybe that was a Florida "thing". LOL

[@dlcalbaugh]

What they are calling candied yams is what my family has called candied yams for my whole 54 years of life. Sweet potatoes with brown sugar and marshmallows on top.

[@sharonshade4437]

D. Chase Huneke Tasty.

[@johnwjr7]

I'm glad you got them straight on the difference in candied yams and sweet potatoes. It saves me the trouble of having to find the words to explain it.

[@mattbrasko5915]

Come on down to Arkansas and we'll fry a turkey for y'all.

[@w41duvernay]

Sounds like a heart attack to me. Just slow cook it for 4/5 hours.

[@lucylulusuperguru3487]

@@w41duvernay it's actually not nearly as bad as you think since there's no breading on the bird.

[@arielfederspiel4431]

I won't lie, I love Thanksgiving more than Christmas because the focus is on being grateful for loved ones and the things you already have. The fact that it's not religious and just the basic concept of giving thanks means that everyone can participate, regardless of their roots or who they might pray to. Christmas is so commercialized and there is so much pressure to spend and buy shit we don't need, plus the religion aspect. The older I get, the less I love it. Some thoughts on potatoes and why most everyone's are usually mashed- when you're roasting a giant bird it uses up most of your oven space. There isn't room to chuck them in the pan like you would with a Sunday roast. My turkey this year was 23 pounds (just over 10kg). I think it's just simpler to boil and mash potatoes on top of the stove while the turkey is roasting in the oven.

[@prappsy]

Can you not cook the roast potatoes while the turkey rests after being cooked? That's what we'd usually do during a big Christmas dinner. It stays warm for ages.

[@sizemorej]

Thanks giving is more akin to a harvest feast. Thankful for the bounty of the year. In many parts it is the start of deer hunting season.

[@redditrtgirl]

Also, with the spread out families we now have, sometimes one "does" Thanksgiving at your mama's house and Christmas at your spouse's house and then swap it out and do it the other way around the next year. Thanksgiving is a wonderful, loving, get together, bring your best casserole or cake or pie, eat til you drop, watch football, tell old stories, be greatful for all your blessings time of year. It's a lot of work for the feast, but it is also a great time to just sort of pause and be together as a family and extended family and friends, and just soak up the love. Also, as to the comments about eating buffet style --We had 4 generations plus some neighbors and family friends at the last little humble Thanksgiving feast. I counted 43 in attendance and I probably missed some who came in late and just made a sandwich and sort of "grazed" from the plethora of scrumptuous delights available. Throw your banquet dining styles to the side. If you are hungry, you will learn how to eat with a plate in your lap in front of the TV or out on the porch or perched on a stool in the kitchen. And it will all be good. And you will feel the welcome and love and bonds of family, friendship, gratefulness and that sort of binding "togetherness" that so often escape us in the Christmas that the modern age affords us. Now don't eat too much because shopping starts tomorrow, but ain't we had a great time today!

[@Deedric_Kee]

I agree 'Ariel👍

[@phyllisfuchs9959]

Ariel Federspiel it’s interesting that you don’t see Thanksgiving as religious as for our family there is a deep sense of Thanksgiving to God. I agree though - I love that it is not a prescribed church holiday as that would steal the peace. 😊

[@deborahsheridan9343]

Its a time of year to remember to be thankful for your blessings

[@SLOBeachboy]

I would certainly not expect people from the UK to know anything about Thanksgiving but how on earth can they not know that the color of gravy is entirely dependent on what kind of drippings and broth its made from. Beef gravy is dark brown and turkey or chicken gravy is light brown. And obviously you would not have beef gravy with turkey or chicken. The one exception to this rule however is chicken fried steak, which uses a white gravy even though it’s a beef dish. That being said I have to admit that the gravy in that first family video was much lighter in color than turkey gravy typically is. Its certainly much lighter than my own turkey gravy.

[@kathleenoney4507]

Y

[@cjonesnealdeal7817]

color also depends on how long you brown the flour

[@prappsy]

I think they were wrong to say it's dark brown here. More a lighter brown for chicken or turkey, but certainly not the beige colour in the Thanksgiving video

[@douglasvilledarling2935]

Agreed, they are speaking of roast gravy which we have. I also love white cream gravy or thick brown gravy on bread slices

[@micahottaway8455]

The color of gravy comes down to how it is prepared!

[@toninelson1849]

My family decorates for Christmas the day after Thanksgiving. ❤️❤️

[@gdaym8y]

Same tho, I love ittttt 😍 when you can finally listen to Christmas music, have leftover turkey on sourdough bread, cut down the tree... it's a whole tradition 😂😂

[@THERAGGEDEDGE]

Thank goodness for that. Santa’s been machine gunning elves this year with all of the premature decorating and Christmas music, treating Thanksgiving like a sort of Christmas season halftime.

[@silviahammond6405]

Us too lol

[@BoxsterBox2164]

I’m American. I love thanksgiving. I love the turkey, the stuffing, the green beans, and the mash potatoes. I also love a nice slice of apple pie for desert.

[@shilohauraable]

Or pumpkin 🎃 pie w/REAL whipped cream! Yummo! 😋

[@SandAngels73]

Or the traditional thanksgiving pumpkin pie.

[@1pcfred]

Apple pie? What kind of a Nazi are you? You're supposed to eat pumpkin pie on Thanksgiving!

[@1pcfred]

@@shilohauraable yeah it's like fake American detected.

[@ALLforLOVE13]

Most people eat their meals on the sofas either because there's not enough table space or they're watching football. Can't miss a second! 😅

[@curtiscooks3772]

I personally feel that mashed potatoes are fancier than roast potatoes. Maybe because it's more work? This could just be my family, or maybe it could be an American thing. I'm not sure. Gravy differs in America depending on where you live. Down South they have what we Midwesterns call "country gravy". It's thick and white, and very creamy. In the Midwest, we make gravy from the turkey broth, and it's a little thinner. It really just depends on where your family is from! The difference between Thanksgiving and Christmas is that Thanksgiving is about giving thanks to God for our bounty while Christmas (which traditionally is about Christ's birth) is about gifts and decorations. Thanksgiving kind of kicks off the holidays here in America. We traditionally don't put up our Christmas decorations until the day after Thanksgiving. We start shopping for Christmas gifts like crazy the day after Thanksgiving, too. The weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas are special and we feel like we are celebrating the whole month long! Both holidays are important in America. However, Christmas is definitely bigger with more traditions, decorations, music, parties, gifts, and special church services.

[@flamingsword777]

@@trickykty I'm from new Orleans and we start with a roux FIRST, then proceed to make the gravy... My family is Cherokee and we always used the fat drippings from roasted meats to make our gravy... My favorite is red eye gravy my grandmother used to make for the ham... You talk about AMAZING?!? Ugh, wish she was still here to make some more!

[@Delgen1951]

@@flamingsword777 Yes i remember my Mom's red eye gravy and yummm is right.

[@flamingsword777]

@@Delgen1951 lol, the next time i ever have some, YOU will be in my thoughts amd prayers... 😂🙏😉

[@kurtinnewyork8154]

Most people don't have good dark turkey stock to make the gravy dark brown. There's Gravy Master for that.

[@jewelsm.2346]

mmm... no where is better for sausage, biscuits & gravy like in the south 👏

[@whiskeygirl1478]

The gravy is turkey gravy that’s why it’s that color

[@keitht24]

I was very confused by their extreme reaction to the gravy color. Do they not have gravy in different shades of color in the UK? Unless it was an extreme color, like purple, orange, or blue. It wouldn't even have warranted a mention from me.

[@ladybee883]

@@user-qp2qe5gf9b The darkness of the gravy depends on how brown you get the roux.

[@thebeyer8321]

I don’t blame them tho, mmmm brown gravy is the best!!

[@claynowland3333]

Thanksgiving is pretty much a day we eat, shop, watch American football and see random family members.Then everyperson say their thankful for food, family, a house, or every common day thing over and over and Hope's no one talks about politics.

[@donnac.3357]

Turkey for Thanksgiving, rib roast (prime rib) for Christmas in my house.

[@glenncocoslife]

And ham for easter.

[@1177kc]

Turkey for Thanksgiving, hanfor Christmas or both if we have a huge group of people.

[@1177kc]

*ham

[@wpl6661]

Thanksgiving does not take away from Christmas at all. They are completely separate entities about a month apart. The food is different and the vibe is different.

[@coyotelong4349]

wpl Yeah, only food they might have in common is Turkey, but nobody (no American, anyway) would ever confuse Thanksgiving for Christmas Thanksgiving is all about Autumn, Christmas about Winter

[@parisrichardson50]

Thanksgiving is better than Christmas. There's no hassle of gift shopping/giving, it's always on a Thursday so it's a long weekend, and there's no expectation other than a nice meal and time with family.

[@thisishowwebingham]

Hahaha love this!! We could definitely use some help in the vegetable department 😂 You’re always welcome at our table for Thanksgiving!

[@wendywarren5756]

We make Frog Eye Salad too! I love it!

[@HisWildFlower]

I love that y'all responded!! They should totally come to your Thanksgiving!!

[@amyhyde70]

I love watching you Binghams! I was very surprised to see a comment on this channel!! I’m a subscriber to your videos as well 👍 Nice work Bingham family.

[@PapaLynn1]

No idea what frog eye salad is

[@kourtblackwell6542]

So cool you guys responded, Bingham family! I was going to go tag you guys on instagram and when I scrolled down I saw there was no reason too! :) love you guys and watch you daily as well!

[@sherigrow6480]

Foods that are native to the Americas are at the center of Thanksgiving foods, such as turkey, potatoes, corn, pumpkin etc. At Thanksgiving, people go out of their way to make sure you have a place to go, people to be with, for the holiday. Much more than you would ever do for Christmas, which is for close family and friends. At Thanksgiving, you might have people at your table that are nearly strangers. Yes, we do say what we're thankful for.