Do you celebrate it?
Do you cook a Turkey with all dem fixins’?
Do you gather the whole family at the table and talk about all the things/people in your life that you are thankful for?
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oh god. trolling again. repeat of the halloween thread fiesta 
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trolling? how?
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No! not a holiday in Europe.
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New audience every year..like you dear fraand 
-I like thanksgiving. never celebrated it as a kid and hated that we didnt’ celebrate it. though I don’t remember the reasons why we didn’t…though one of my relatives does so now we gather at his place for the holiday…so I guess its a tradeoff , everyone comes to my moms for Eid and thanksgiving is their domain.
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we do NOT celebrate but a day before or a day after we do cook turkey and have a lavish meal but that has nothing to do with thanksgiving. since we do NOT have turkey year round so once a year our taste buds encourage us to have it...i personally do NOT like turkey. i find the meat too dry even though we use butter turkey and baste it with butter during cooking as well.
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Yesss yes yes!
Thanksgiving is my fav holiday (fatty). :sid:
Yea, we cook a turkey with all of the expected Thanksgiving dishes, most of which we have year round. But there’s just something special about thanksgiving!! Lol
Yep, everyone at the table (family and/or friends) goes around and says at least one thing that they are thankful for.
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^Lucky @MM, I always wanted that kind of a traditional atmosphere...
We don't really celebrate it, I felt the same as Sara516... it bothered me more growing up but not now. Also, we don't have any turkey fans in our family tis the real reason. After trying turkey out a couple of times, we now go with chicken instead, with different side dishes, mashed potatoes, macaroni and cheese, steamed veggies, and/or sweet potatoes, nothing "celebatory/thankful" or traditional about our menu or Thanksgiving. (Even though, I personally do not mind turkey.)
I remember more often than not that Thanksgiving was usually a good day to throw a dinner party because everybody had a day off, last year was the same we were invited to a dinner party menu wise-->just your regular desi feast. There are so many memories of waking up to dawat prepations and realizing we forgot to pick up something on our grocery list, and being at a loss because the grocery stores were closed. It's been a long while now that the grocery stores are usually open in the mornings, some open all day.
And then we have the black friday sales to loot in the morning which are evolving into Black Thursday. I cannot stand shopping in the mad rush, but people now go to burn off the calories from their hefty dinner.
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Yes we do! We either have it at our house or one of my uncle's every year. Turkey is a must and so are all the sides. And mmmmm pumpkin pie!
We all live far away from each other and only get to see each other on special occassions. So the Thanksgiving holiday gives us a good excuse to get together, see each other and have a good time.
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Sometimes, if someone invites us. :D
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We are making the whole feast and everything-minus turkey (chicken instead) but we don't do the whole 'what are you thankful for'
I see nothing wrong with it, it is just an excuse for everyone to get together and eat :D
I don't really care. If someone invites us, I would go but I don't do the whole dinner thing myself yet.
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I've been to some awesome Thanksgivings. When I had more cousins living in the tri-state area, we used to go all out. It was a potluck, and there would end up being tons of variety. We had a few food snobs in there as well so would get some real cool dishes too.
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An AV?? really muzna?
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Do you celebrate it? Do you cook a Turkey with all dem fixins'? Do you gather the whole family at the table and talk about all the things/people in your life that you are thankful for?
yes, yes and yes. (the last one is suppose to be funny. We have the funniest conversations around it).
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Yes
Yes
Yes
All American Thanksgiving lunch w/turkey & all the fixings (no desi khana at all if we can help it) followed by lots and lots of football (on TV & outside)
The meal is preceded by a dua thanking Allah for that we have been given and a pray that we live to see another year
And this has been taking place for about 30 years in my family....
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Yes!!
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wendyji you should make a turducken. turkey is for amateurs like muzna. :\
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who said anything abt cooking 
I don’t do cooking!!! 
I just do eating 
And turducken sounds horrible .. what is it .. a mix of turkey, duck and chicken ??
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Turducken - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
You shouldn’t have asked Wendy :no: