We took a break from our usual Shaw's/Roche Bros. shopping routine today and went down to the Super-Mega-Humongo Stop & Shop in Dedham to take advantage of the 5% one-time discount you get when you sign your life away to Stop & Shop so they can data-mine your purchases to hell and back and bombard you with endless promotions (i.e., you register your new 'n' improved see-through Stop & Shop card).

They have so much room at this Colossus of a store that the deli department was able to devote an entire display case to a Thanksgiving diorama featuring two Pilgrim dolls giving thanks for nature's bounty, in the form of cold cuts, cheeses, olives and pumpkins. Don't worry, a few aisles away, they had a complete selection of Halloween candy.

Not the best cell-phone photo I've ever taken, but you get the idea:

Thanksgiving done right: Hyde Park Avenue near West Street in Hyde Park today.

In case you're not too busy with your own Thanksgiving preparations, you can join Nika.

Meredith O'Brien composes a Bingo card for a game the whole family can play on Thursday.

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:

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.

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?

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

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.