Thanksgiving

Do you like that malls/stores/etc. bring out their Christmas items, music, and decorations before the Friday after Thanksgiving?

Kaz — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:38:55 -0400

* Yes. * No. * What about Christmas Tree Shops stores, huh?

Thanksgiving Comes First

adamg — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 11:17:41 -0400

Some of you may recall how Jim Sullivan got fed up last year and started demanding action against stores and radio stations that get all Christmasy before Thanksgiving.

He's getting an earlier start on his campaign this year:

... Can you imagine how sour the pusses of some corporate execs would be if they received printed-out copies of blogs that say "Thanksgiving Comes First"? What if all of us called or wrote some radio station, telling the programming director that we decided to stop listening? If we all wrote a "letter to the editor" at our local papers, we could definitely expect some to be printed. ...

Something to be thankful for

adamg — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 09:22:32 -0500

Seth Gitell discovered somebody yesterday with something to really be thankful for - right in his Roslindale backyard.

Liveblogging a meatless turducken

adamg — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 12:37:06 -0500

Sushiesque is promising live as it happens reports from the creation of a vegetarian turducken, whose name sounds sort of like an old-English four-letter verb.

So which stations will be playing "Alice's Restaurant" at noon today?

adamg — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 10:22:20 -0500

Just in case, Spatch posts the lyrics.

The Universal Hub Thanksgiving Dinner

SwirlyGrrl — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 18:13:05 -0500

Sad to say, I don't have a kitchen this Thanksgiving. We're ripping out the walls and ceiling of the now-empty room where it stood. I don't even own an oven! So instead of my usual 24-hour cookathon, I'd like to host a Vitual Thanksging this year on Universal Hub.

I hear that there are fresh turkeys to be had in Brookline (as a public service of course!). I'll start with that. I usually cut the skin in places and shove in garlics. Then I annoint the beast with a mix of melted butter, sage, old bay, and gravy master. Stuffing contains the usual things, with some onions for flavor and water chestnuts for crunch. Sometimes, bacon or chicken sausage gets tossed in too.

What are you all going to bring for sides and desserts?

Hell on earth: The Roche Bros. parking lot the day before Thanksgiving

adamg — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 16:09:23 -0500

Nancy just returned from an expedition to Roche Bros. in West Roxbury (ay carumba: No candied yams!) and reports the sheer insanity of the sort that only people who have survived getting in and out of the parking lot there can really understand:

It was like being in a training video! You're backing out, and there's one person behind you, and another person coming the other way, and then a pedestrian comes out of nowhere - and then somebody else starts backing out. . ... Somebody's trying to make a big swing into your space, so now they're on your side of the road and you have to go around them. You have to swivel your head constantly. And then, of course, there's always some joker parked in the no-parking zone right in front of the entrance to the store, today it was a Brink's truck, and so you have to go around them and hope nobody's coming the other way and there aren't any pedestrians coming into the crosswalk, because they never look.

Thanksgiving miracles, meals and things to be grateful for

adamg — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 11:45:47 -0500

Lily von Schtoop reports she gets
her turkeys at Diemand Farm
in Wendell and says they're
well worth the 160-mile trip.

It's a cornucopia of Thanksgiving thoughts:

Mini will give thanks that her mother and dog were not at home when burglars broke into their house on Monday - and that their loud car and the dog barking apparently scared the robbers away when they came back from an errand.

Ian makes pies. The staff of the Somerville Journal buys theirs. Michelle makes cranberry sauce with dried cherries and mashed sweet potatoes with caramelized apples. Miss Diana makes stuffed peppers (filled with quinoa instead of meat). Kate makes way more stuff than you. Gnomi makes far less stuff than you. Eeka explains how to make a vegetarian-inclusive Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving comes first on Hyde Park Avenue

adamg — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 13:49:42 -0500

Leave it to these folks, who go all out for every major holiday, to show which holiday is next on the calendar.

Earlier:
Thanksgiving Comes First.
Why so sad, giant inflatable doggy?

Thanksgiving Comes First comes up in Google

adamg — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 12:19:00 -0500

Jim Sullivan's campaign to put the thanks back in Thanksgiving, um, to hold off the Christmas stuff until, you know, the day after Thanksgiving, keeps attracting new backers. He says thanks.