masthead #49 – turkey
By far, Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. There’s no stress, no traveling to multiple destinations, and the weather’s usually still warm(ish). Plus, there’s football.
Also, there’s plenty of stuffing, which is my favorite Thanksgiving food. I grew up on Stove Top (which I still love), but I can pretty much eat any kind of stuffing unless someone strays from tradition and weirds it up somehow. But the best stuffing I ever ate was at my college cafeteria, which was named Kise (rhymes with Easy), and which my friends and I (and our literal collective sophomoric humor) quickly renamed Queasy. Besides the breaded chicken sandwich that I had nearly every day for lunch (Friend who worked in cafeteria: Guess which item has the most calories! Me: I dunno. Friend: Your chicken sandwich! Me: Whatever), the only other meal I looked forward to was when we had turkey and stuffing.
The stuffing was actually horrible-looking, a damp, round lump that gave a literal SPLOT! when the lunch lady slapped it onto my plate, but I couldn’t get enough of it. It was gooey and flavorful and absolutely divine. In fact, after awhile, I just went through the line and asked them for two helpings of stuffing, hold the turkey. It’s a wonder I didn’t put on the Freshman 15. Or 50.
What’s your favorite Thanksgiving food?
I completely agree. It has to be stuffing. I, too, grew up on Stovetop, and it’s still a favorite! I do love pumpkin pie also…as long as there is a little whipped cream on the top.
Comment by lacetwo — November 1, 2010 @ 11:35 am
STUFFING STUFFING definitely the stuffing! omg i would eat stuffing EVERY DAY if it wouldn’t result in heart failure / 50 extra pounds. yummmm. cannot wait until thanksgiving
Comment by Alice — November 1, 2010 @ 11:42 am
Reading this has me hungry for stuffing. And I always loved the turkey and stuffing days of elementary/high school hot lunch. Yum! It sounds like basically the same stuff. Yum!
Comment by Becky — November 1, 2010 @ 11:48 am
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday too! We host every year & I love it. I eat so many side dishes that I don’t have room for turkey & that’s fine with me. My favorite is sweet potatoes – we slice them & fry with ungodly amounts of butter & brown sugar. Yummmmm.
Comment by Becky — November 1, 2010 @ 12:04 pm
Stuffing! I like it from a box as much as anything homemade. My favourite sandwich after Thanksgiving (which we celebrate in October) is 2 slices of whole wheat bread, mayo, cranberries and stuffing. I add turkey to the kids’, but eat mine without. Yum.
Comment by LoriD — November 1, 2010 @ 12:56 pm
Oh, I love stuffing. Stove Top is great – I still love it, too. And I like most any stuffing as long as there isn’t too much celery. I despise celery.
But my favorite Thanksgiving dish is my mother-in-law’s pecan pie. YUM-O.
Comment by Shelly — November 1, 2010 @ 1:17 pm
Pumpkin pie with all kinds of whipped cream! Plus all the turkey.
Comment by Jason — November 1, 2010 @ 1:57 pm
I love stuffing. Kise did have good stuffing. I had forgotten about that memory.
Comment by Michelle — November 1, 2010 @ 5:02 pm
We grew up on the Pepperidge Farm bag stuffing and oh my god do I love it. The last time I went to the grocery store I saw it and HAD to buy it. I ate the entire bag by myself! My favorite thing to do at Thanksgiving is to take a roll (my mom’s homemade variety) pile on some mashed potatoes and stuffing. It’s a starch trifecta! One year my mom bought some sort of organic “good for you” variety of stuffing, the entire family was LIVID! She will never make that mistake again.
Hey where does that turkey in your banner think it’s going? No way it’s running away from the pickle and the dime.
Comment by Emily — November 1, 2010 @ 6:48 pm