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[@RumikoOhara]lol American thanksgiving feast or something?
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In America there are two days out of the year that seem to be like the Yule Feasts of old and they both happen at this time of year


Thanksgiving is the Biggest of the two though saying that the Christmas meal is small is misleading as it is just less required


Thanksgiving was meant to be a meal they had to give thanks that the Puritans were able to land safely and establish the Plymouth Rock colony and it developed over the years as America became more successful it became a contest between the women of many families to showcase their cooking talents.


How the contest began I can’t really say but it did and like anything competitive in America it was pushed to the extremes.  In most families the feast is a shared event that happens at the Family Matriarch’s home and the women of lesser rank bring dishes they’ve cooked at their own homes or spent the previous day at the Matriarch’s home cooking a dish or dessert. Everyone is polite to  each other in the kitchen and most often female members only though on occasion males attempt to navigate this estrogen filled domain. (Men have recently made some headway into the contest by using their former fish fry and BBQ propane cookers to Deep Fry Turkeys)


This contest is as I mentioned polite on the surface but are actually bloody fights for the praise of the assembled family who are presented a meal that is staggering in its inclusion of every member of the animal kingdom and vegetable which can be found. The Family cast its votes by emptying the platters of their favorites and leaving those dishes deemed unworthy barely being touched; it's brutal.


I could go on but in Simple terms it is a Feast on steroids