Thanksgiving Grub

[sadesdrk]

What are your favorite things to grub on at your family's Thanksgiving extavaganza? Note* my poll is a POLL:POLL..heh.:D

double note* I voted for everything because I'm a pig at Thanksgiving...I'm drooling as we speak thinking about my mom's mashed potatoes with lumps....:yup:

[jungerpants]

Hell yeah! Stuffing rocks!

[sadesdrk]

thanks for posting HBaseball...I was begining to think the members are all a bunch of holiday party poopers!:p

Stuffing does rock...as long as my grandpa doesn't make it. He puts the turkey's guts in it. Bleh!

[ryanpaige]

I don't celebrate Thanksgiving. I usually end up having Mexican food of some sort (usually Chicken Enchiladas with Sour Cream sauce) on Thanksgiving day.

[sadesdrk]

Mexican Food rocks!!!!!!!! I should know...I'm a quarter Mexi-Sexy.;D

[Yoda]

I voted for the same thing Spud is likely to vote for when he sees this poll. :)

[Holden Pike]

Veggie whatever: I'm a Vegetarian.

[Yoda]

Awww man, there goes my last chance at actually liking you. :)

[The Silver Bullet]

Two of my best friends are vegetarians.
You always expect them to be a minority. But there's an awful lot of them [you].

[Yoda]

Well, they are a minority...which is why I expect them to be. I don't have any specific numbers in my head or anything, though. I surely don't understand the logic, however. If someone thinks it's healthy, well, they can do what they like, but personally I think it's beyond obvious that our bodies were specifically built to eat meat. If they do it for some kind of political reason...well, that's even worse, IMO. :D

Alright, so, when shall the flame officially begin? Now? Okay then. :)

[sadesdrk]

I think veggie people are not as healthy as people who eat meat. I work at a gym one day a week, and sometimes I have the unfortunate duty of changing diapers. There's this one family that drops their kids off that are veggies, and BOY HOWDY! Those kids diapers stink! LORDY! Way worse than the meaty kids! Don't know why that is...maybe it's like compost or sumptin, I don't know...but it's just not right.:p

[jungerpants]

Originally posted by sadesdrk
There's this one family that drops their kids off that are veggies, and BOY HOWDY! Those kids diapers stink! LORDY! Way worse than the meaty kids!

lol... that's the greatest thing I've heard in a long time! :laugh: :laugh:

[Steve]

I'm a vegetarian too, but I chose Pumpkin Pie, because that's my favorite.

"Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet." - Albert Einstein

"I don't understand why it's considered drastic to ask people to eat a well-balanced vegetarian diet, while it is medically conservative to cut people open" - Dean Ornish, MD

[sadesdrk]

Whatever you want to put in your mouth, is all up to you. I just think it must be awfully boring to eat produce all the time...not to mention tofu...blech...let's change the subject. This is bound to spark debate.:)

[patti]

STUFFING!!! but it can't have any meat or meat broth stuff in it.....i can really stuff myself with stuffing.

...HOLDEN, i'm a veggie and have been since about the 8th grade. and i agree that just because someone is vegetarian it doesn't mean they have healthier eating habits or are healthier. i am super fit but i don't necessarily eat the best stuff. i love veggies and grains, but i'm a "sugar whore" as i like to call it.

and SADES!! i work at a gym too, in the childcare/playroom (three to four afternoons a week); i get my free membership and get to work with my little girl...and get to work out before my shifts whenever i want to. i prefer the toddler room to the infant room....but i know what a single diaper can do to any room.....especially if the kid is sick or in your story...eating rank food.

[Yoda]

So, Steve, if I throw a quote or two at you from someone famous in support of meat, will that convince you? :) Say what you like, but our bodies are built for massive amounts of protein. The most athletic people in the world (and especailly the strongest) eat meat. No decent argument that I've seen can be made to try to claim that a human's ideal diet does not consist of meat.

[Steve]

Originally posted by TWTCommish
So, Steve, if I throw a quote or two at you from someone famous in support of meat, will that convince you? :) Say what you like, but our bodies are built for massive amounts of protein. The most athletic people in the world (and especailly the strongest) eat meat. No decent argument that I've seen can be made to try to claim that a human's ideal diet does not consist of meat.

Whatever. :rolleyes: You know what? I don't care. Why do we do the things we do? I smoke cigarettes and don't do my homework and boo rudely at Pearl Harbor screenings, but I still don't eat meat. I guess I'm just a terrible person.

[Yoda]

If you didn't care, you wouldn't have written the post...or that last post, either. And no, you're not a horrible person. I don't really give a crap if you eat meat or not, so long as you don't try to stop me, or others, from doing so. I think you're making a mistake when you choose not to eat it, but other than that, knock yourself out. Eat bark and tofu if you want...I couldn't care less, so long as I get to eat meat.

I think you're misunderstanding things: this is not about whether or not I think you're stupid or horrible, just making the wrong choice. It's disgustingly clear that our body is meant for meat...and no, "Whatever" does not debunk that claim. :) Why do we do the things we do? Uh, depends on what you mean, specifically. Why do you smoke? I imagine it's because you had a little bit of a predisposition to it, and, as a result, only need a puff or two to head down that road. Why are you a vegetarian? I don't know...but I doubt it's for a reason that would stand up to much scrutiny.

[sadesdrk]

You know what I love? Grabbing a huge @ss turkey leg at Thanksgiving, and walking around nibbling on it. Makes me feel like a cavewoman.

[spudracer]

Im a pumpkin pie man. Gotsta have that pumpkin. Yum yum.

I like a good turkey leg just like Sadie does. If it's seasoned just right with all the 11 herbs and spices...it's finger lickin good...

Oops...that's chicken..not turkey...:rolleyes:

[patti]

i would bypass grabbing the turkey leg,sades, but i WOULDN'T HESITATE at grabbing a big ol' caveman's thigh and dragging him around a bit.:idea: :D

and Commish, why does it upset you if someone chooses to be vegetarian? i mean, why would it compel you to debate that humans are built to be massive meat eaters? i'm not talking about the vocal anti-meat eaters vegetarians, just the plain ol' happy to be vegetarian vegetarians? i don't preach to anyone, and i will prepare a steak for a friend, and i serve my daughter some meats.....but i have no desire to eat any, and no cravings to do so. Humans might be designed to require lots of protein but we are unique in the animal world in that we have ethics and morals, and i'm NOT SAYING people are wrong or awful to eat animals! what i'm saying is that it adds another level to the INDIVIDUAL'S CHOICE OF DIET. i can't eat an animal, or a fish. i just can't stand the idea. steak swims in BLOOD, chicken has gross VEINS in it, and fish are eaten with the EYES still looking at you..not to mention picking out your own lobster in a tank, or breaking off a crab's leg to SUCK out the meat. OH GOD, it just makes me want to puke......so i don't do it. but i don't bring it up and say things like this unless i'm asked to explain why i'm vegetarian. i'm not imposing my vegetarianism on my little girl as much as i sometimes want to. BUT when i was pregnant i COULD NOT HELP but give in to the temporary craving to eat tunafish and fish filets- my body wanted it and my brain allowed me to stop thinking of the little fish swimming in the water for the period i needed to eat fish. i don't doubt that my body could benefit from more protein cause i don't do the nutrition thing as well as i should, but i just can't stomach the idea of eating something that was a living, breathing animal with blood pulsing through it's veins and heart. if i can "forget" what it is i'm eating, i would possibly be okay with it. i remember the taste of bacon, sausage, hamburger, turkey, chicken, steak, pot roast,pork chops, ring bologna and hotdogs (yes, i know), and i remember liking the taste. but it's been a couple of decades (with the brief pregnancy exception) since those days for me. :)

[Yoda]

It doesn't really upset me. What upsets me are people who try to act as if there's even a minorly good reason for ME not to eat it (which there isn't). I'm upset by people who think it's some kind of moral or social issue. A vegetarian who thinks that yes, meat would probably do the body better, and yes, I don't care if others eat it, it 100% okay in my book. A vegetarian who doesn't care if anyone else eats it, but still doesn't think meat is a healthy thing to eat, is just someone I think is incorrect...but I don't dislike them.

Sorry if I gave some of you the wrong impression. I think I tend to remember the "political" vegetarians most of all, and as a result, I sometimes forget that I'm not always talking to vegetarians like them. :)

[patti]

commish; do you ever think about the difference between eating animal flesh and something most people consider "repulsive" like eating bugs, or human flesh? i don't bring this stuff up on a regular basis because i don't like arguing about meat eating versus vegetarianism...that's why i steer clear of bringing up slaughter issues and animal curelity eventhough those are issues that bother me...for the same reasons i can't eat meat or fish...i feel an empathy for the living creatures........ i don't want to battle anyone who likes to eat meat, and i guess i don't want to learn too much about what goes on in slaughter houses and in places like veal farms.:( :eek:

i wasn't raised around any vegetarians....on the contrary, when my family would be eating hamburgers and i wouldn'my siblings would say "mmmmmmmm, great dead cow mom" or in the case of chicken they would "cluck". i can't often eat eggs either simply because my thoughts gross me out....i know they aren't baby chickens, but i think of them as embryonic fluid/chick potential. i know, i know, i've got problems;D

i lived in southern france for a junior year abroad (college) and one night i was treated to a fancy restaurant by the parents of my roomate....i tried to be flexible and not refuse "new" foods (in terms of remaining vegetarian or being too picky) but i still avoided a ton of stuff......the french eat "brain" a lot....packaged and sold in grocery stores on a piece of styrofoam and covered with saran wrap just like how we tend to buy ground beef.... BRAIN !!!!! yeeeegaaads...anyway, at this restaurant i decided to have "des grognons avec le moutarde"...i nibbled on one of the little rubbery pieces in mustard sauce and pretty much just ate bread and salad. the next day in one of my classes i told my prof what i'd eaten...he literally rolled on the ground laughing....he knew i was a bit nervous in my attempts to not be too picky but also to not puke if i tried to eat eat something that repulsed me (like rabbit). he laughed out..."patti ate calf balls!!!!!" wrote home that i'd cut off a calf in his prime and that's the end of my story.:D :p

[Yoda]

Well, I think human flesh is repulsive for many reasons...I see us as above other creatures...in that sense, it almost becomes religious, so it's not worth going into. Is eating bugs gross? To me, yeah...but I admit that some bugs are healthy to it, and I don't mind if everyone else wants to eat bugs...as long as they keep the bugs away from me. :) That's my general thinking. I don't have a problem with someone being a vegetarian...just with some of the ideals that quite often tend to go hand-in-hand with it.

[patti]

i think i need to change my vote from stuffing to pumpkin pie......i've got such a craving going right now....think i got's ta' get myself some tomorrow.

[sadesdrk]

Don't forget, the pumpkin pie has to have Cool Whip...no dessert is complete without it; breathing or otherwise;)

[spudracer]

Originally posted by sadesdrk
Don't forget, the pumpkin pie has to have Cool Whip...no dessert is complete without it; breathing or otherwise;)

And don't stir the cool-whip!! My dad used to raise a fit about that, and it says it right on the bowl. :laugh:

[sadesdrk]

He's right. Eat it just like it comes baby!:laugh:

[patti]

is there any kind of dessert that used to breathe?? candied pigs feet? :D
no really, is there any meat dish that is served as a dessert?

and sades, you forgot peeeeecaaaaaan pie! isn't it a typical thanksgiving pie in additon to pumpkin? geez, i'd almost kill a relative for a big hunk of peecaan pie.;D

commish et. al., sorry i elaborated so much on the vegetarian thing....wasn't sparring- just blabbing my thoughts on the subject.:p

[sadesdrk]

Originally posted by patti
is there any kind of dessert that used to breathe?? candied pigs feet? :D
no really, is there any meat dish that is served as a dessert?

I laughed so hard at this...oh man.

you didn't get my little joke patti.?I said,"... on dessert, breathing or otherwise"...does a man not breathe?;D

*laughs like a maniac*:laugh:

[patti]

PREFERABLY, YES :D