Moonglow
Diamond Member
We just got burned out on having the same old same old and changed the menu and usually dine out on holidays at the Chinese joints, Indian places or Jewish eateries.My father always thought as "Turkey" as a dirty bird. For some reason he looked at some food that way. My mom had to take chicken pieces and use a tong to hold the pieces over a burner to burn each side as for any chicken feathers remnants left on them. He relinquished as he aged. We would eat raviolis, meatballs, braschole, chicken, small hens, and other food items on Thanksgiving in different years with combinations. And that is the main meal. Different groups use different ways in their homes. With different meals based on their affordability.My grandparents raised watermelons in Okiehoma and I ate them without guilt..My Grandma made fried chicken for trips back in the 1960's and a thermos of ice cold water and we munched on our trip across the state to see family...I never saw any logic in trying to make two food items something to feel guilty about or shame, it's just food. I do miss my Hebrew National hotdogs they stopped making.I love watermelon and chicken does that mean I am black, I think not.
I grew up in a town SO WASP REPUBLICAN-----that people would go "tsk tsk" if anyone
was SEEN nibbling a chunk of watermelon in the front yard-----that was then