2008.11.24
Stuffing or mashed potatoes?
For that matter, sweet potato or pumpkin pie?
As for me, stuffing and sweet potato!
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1) Yes, as long as there is gravy on it.
2) Pumpkin
Did I mention gravy? Don't come to the table without gravy.
Gravy.
I'm not sure, Ed. Do you like gravy!?--s
Comment by Ed S. — November 24, 2008 @ 8:59 pm
Pumkin has way more calories than sweet potao, and I adore sweet potato!
Stuffing and mashed potatos, with a tad of gravey sliding around on both.
Real mashed potates, with lumps, no electric beaters, just like my Granny Zola taught me. With real butter... oganic please.
Comment by Dona Wheeler — November 25, 2008 @ 12:29 am
Anything but turkey for me. I believe we'll try steak for a change of pace this year, something like ostrich to get the steak flavor and retain the "bird" tradition.
Comment by Mike — November 25, 2008 @ 3:06 am
Not knowing where Ed S. is from, but we southerners slather (yes, I do mean SLATHER) gravy over just about anything. It doesn't matter what you put on your plate Thursday, the final step is slathering turkey gravy over all of it. And then, once your plate is empty, you then practice the fine art of "sopping". For those of you unfortunate souls living up nawth, that's where you take a biscuit or a roll and sop up the remaining gravy 'til your plate is clean enough you don't need to bother either cleaning it or letting the dog finish the job for you. Then it's NAP TIME. Know why they aways show a snoozer of a football game on Turkey Day? Just to aid you in napping on front of the TV the remainder of the day..... Gotta love tradition......
Comment by Purvis Ledbetter — November 25, 2008 @ 9:42 am
Purvis,
I'm from just around Galax. Right now I'm displaced to northern Virginia, but hope to return to my beloved South in a few years.
Shanna,
I can understand the grits...but please tell me you eat your biscuits with gravy?!
I eat sausage gravy with biscuits on rare occasions. It's delicious, but I just don't eat it that often.--s
Comment by Ed S. — November 25, 2008 @ 2:20 pm
Ed S.
My deepest sympathies for having to endure life up yonder way. Too many people, heck too much of just about everything except for elbow room and peace and quiet. While I was hatched up there many moons ago, thankfully I was raised down hyar from a very young age. Here's to hoping for your sake you can get back to God's country as soon as possible.
Is there any other way to eat biscuits except with sausage gravy on them? Personally, I eat my grits with salt and butter, my wife eats 'em with sugar, and we were both raised on southern cookin', so go figure. Just so long as you eat 'em, we'll let this one slide......
Comment by Purvis Ledbetter — November 25, 2008 @ 2:43 pm
1. Stuffing (but hey, why not both?)
2. Pecan (my own personal Kryptonite)
Shanna can have my share of the sweet potatoes, never cared for them and happy to save the calories for another slice of pecan pie, thank you very much.
And Purvis, I am originally from Indiana, a state that is "rural" for Northern folks and "Yankee" for Southern folks, and where biscuits are hardly ever served naked and usually smothered in sausage gravy.
Grits is a personal choice to most Hoosiers: Some like it sweet, some like it salty. Personally, I don't care for them at all, it's a texture thing for me. But my dad loved them very much just like you do, with butter and salt.
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Comment by Karen Sparks — November 27, 2008 @ 6:08 pm
Northerners slather too!
Comment by Di — November 29, 2008 @ 10:47 pm