Green bean casserole is just an overkill of heaviness on a day already filled with heavy foods. Plus, why fuck up a good vegetable by drowning it in a heavy cream sauce.....
Wait, did I just say that?
The problem arises when people equate heavy cream sauce with a can of Campbell's Cream of fucking mushroom soup. Personally, I enjoy most casseroles, including green bean, but then I know how to make a freaking sauce. There's also a certain nostalgia aspect to it.
Frankly, it's the stupid-ass turkey that's always the weak link in a Thanksgiving meal; sorry-ass birds. As a single guy, I get to go small. It's Cornish game hen for me, and since this is Texas, chorizo and jalapeno cornbread stuffing.
And black Friday is just another example of how we've totally ruined the holidays over here. Thanksgiving and Christmas used to be pleasant. Now we've just made them exhausting and stressful. Aside from the fact that I get to drive like a lunatic since all the cops are guarding parking lots, there's really nothing pleasant at all about having to get out this time of year. Stores are crowded. You've heard every Christmas carol too many times to enjoy them anymore. Commercials calling you a loser if you don't buy your wife a stupidly overpriced ring (or for us single guys a bigger TV). It's starting to appear that people have actually been conditioned to think they enjoy rampant consumerism, despite how much of a PITA it is this time of year.
Anyhoo, I actually go out of my way to eliminate as much stress as possible by planing ahead and blowing off most of the so-called tradition. I'll chill all day and watch football, let family members feed me, and have nothing whatsoever to do over the weekend since I largely ignore Christmas. So, everybody enjoy Thanksgiving and try to not actually work for a change.
Topic: The Thanksgiving Day Thread v. gooble goble! (Read 3620 times)
