primitives discuss Thanksgiving disasters

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/115748283

Oh my.

This is offered as relief from the tedious boring tiresome primitive threads about Ferguson, Missouri, an issue long ago stale and dead, and one wishes the primitives would stop making themselves look like idiots and quit harping about it.

By the way, thanks to the NJCher primitive, the "what's for supper?" threads have resumed in the cooking and baking forum.  I dunno why they quit doing that, but it's good to see they quit quit doing that.

Tab (9,553 posts)    Mon Dec 1, 2014, 03:52 PM

Any new Thanksgiving horror stories?

Mine isn't a major horror story, but usually I do all the cooking - at least the turkey if not all. This year, for medical reasons, I wasn't cooking and my (dear) wife wanted to do the whole shebang. This wouldn't be a problem, except she normally doesn't cook at all and doesn't mentally "monitor" the progress (relying instead on timers).
 
Anyway, as it turns out, she put the turkey in the oven to preheat. Then there was a brief (second or so) power failure which reset the oven (basically, turning it off). She didn't notice, and it wasn't until about 2 1/2 hours later that she went to baste it or something and found out it hadn't cooked at all - the oven was still off.
 
We ate side dishes, followed that by dessert. Everyone went home, and finally about 8 p.m. I carved the turkey into leftovers.
 
I couldn't even have stuffing, because it was in the turkey.

Kali (39,880 posts)   Mon Dec 1, 2014, 04:00 PM

1. I am usually so late getting the bird in the oven we always eat late.

One of my raw turkey disasters was a year we attempted to pit-roast it. Yeah, that takes longer than you think. It was gross, we had guests and tried to hurry things along with the microwave after we dug it up and saw how uncooked it was. Not the best T-day meal that year.

Phentex (10,082 posts)    Mon Dec 1, 2014, 04:18 PM

2. Otther than the pink gravy, no real horrors.

I kept a list nearby with a timeline so I wouldn't forget stuff and it all worked out well.
 
Sorry about yer bird!

dixiegrrrrl (38,247 posts)    Mon Dec 1, 2014, 05:11 PM

3. Well, there IS this one:

Woman, 47, Stabbed Boyfriend For Starting Thanksgiving Dinner Without Her

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025895599

So, by comparison, we had a peaceful dinner.

[GOBUCKS]

Kali (39,880 posts)   Mon Dec 1, 2014, 04:00 PM

1. I am usually so late getting the bird in the oven we always eat late.

One of my raw turkey disasters was a year we attempted to pit-roast it.

I'll never get over how uncaring, how sloven, how lazy DUmp women are.

Every year for more generations than I've been alive, women in my family have been up before dawn on Thanksgiving to prepare a huge turkey, so as to have it perfectly done sometime between noon and 2 o'clock.

It's a tradition, a labor of love, things DUmmies can't comprehend.

And then to joke about ruining the family's Thanksgiving dinner?

[Big Dog]

dixiegrrrrl (38,247 posts)    Mon Dec 1, 2014, 05:11 PM

3. Well, there IS this one:

Woman, 47, Stabbed Boyfriend For Starting Thanksgiving Dinner Without Her

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025895599

So, by comparison, we had a peaceful dinner.

I guess no one was raped at the dinner table, then.

Rape is dixiegrrrrrrrrrrl's "thing".

[Chris_]

...so as to have it perfectly done sometime between noon and 2 o'clock.

I never understood eating dinner that early.  The family down the street always ate dinner at an hour past noon on Sundays.  With seven kids, it was the only time their house was quiet.

I suppose that leaves more time for dessert.  I dunno.

[Chris_]

She didn't notice, and it wasn't until about 2 1/2 hours later that she went to baste it or something and found out it hadn't cooked at all - the oven was still off.

How are you not dead?

That's disgusting.

[GOBUCKS]

I never understood eating dinner that early. 

You finish in time for the second game kickoff.

[thundley4]

I never understood eating dinner that early.  The family down the street always ate dinner at an hour past noon on Sundays.  With seven kids, it was the only time their house was quiet.

I suppose that leaves more time for dessert.  I dunno.

We do it because Thanksgiving involves people driving quite a few miles and Illinois weather can turn treacherous very quickly.

[lastparker]

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lamin lib (6,052 posts)
3. I wouldn't keep any meat simmered more than an hour,

after all it's already fully cooked. If you let the bones go for 6 hours the stock gets like jello when it's cooled with all the collagen dissolved from them. Gives the stock a really nice mouth feel.

FREAKS.

[franksolich]

I never understood eating dinner that early.  The family down the street always ate dinner at an hour past noon on Sundays.  With seven kids, it was the only time their house was quiet.

I suppose that leaves more time for dessert.  I dunno.

The southern culture versus the northern culture.

In the south, the big dinner (supper) tends to be in the evening; in the north, or at least in the middle west, the big dinner (lunch) tends to be around noon.  On ordinary days, too, not just holidays.

[Dori]

Every year for more generations than I've been alive, women in my family have been up before dawn on Thanksgiving to prepare a huge turkey, so as to have it perfectly done sometime between noon and 2 o'clock.

This year we had dinner about 2:30, with a huge crowd.  The turkey was perfect.  The hostess who prepared the meal, said she put it in at midnight at 200 deg.  It was a 28 lb bird, stuffed, cooked in a large covered roasting pan.

[GOBUCKS]

Our big meals are always evening, except for holiday family occasions.

Decoration Day, July 4, Thanksgiving, Christmas are always early afternoon.

The first two are outdoors, and for the winter holidays we don't want people travelling after dark in bad weather.

That's just the way it's been since long before I was born.

[zeitgeist]

It seems to me we ate around one or two in the afternoon, based on getting out to go hunting bright and early in the morning.    Then too where I grew up you didn't lay about even if you weren't going out hunting.