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I'm in. My mom has a bread bowl with a cover shaped like a chicken. You lift a wing and take a roll. It is yellow and quilted. Very 1980s
 
Not an entry just a thanks for all you contribute, I've already been on the receiving end of your generosity, thank you and good luck to everyone.

I love those arrow shields. :)
 
Not enough posts to be an entry, but over the past few years of being a lurker on the forum, I have come to notice the generosity of the members here. All of you guys are class acts. Part of the reason I joined was that everyone is willing to share, not just tangible items, but info, wisdom, and stories. Keep it goin guys and good luck to the future recipient of the knife.
 
I'm in! Usually for the holidays no matter what we traditionally serve whether it is a ham or turkey, we'll make fried rice or pick up a fire roasted duck in five spice to honor our Chinese heritage!
 
Great knife - thanks for the chance, Dan. I'm in...

No stories, though, my family is boring I guess.

Cheers!
 
I'm in please.
The day after Thanksgiving, I always make a huge pot of turkey hash.
Just typing this and I'm drooling!
Thank you for the opportunity!
 
Bumping this one up! Thanks for all the entries, everyone. I went ahead and edited to original post to remove the post count requirement, so everyone that posted already is now officially "IN!"

I'll let this one run through Friday. Keep those entries coming!
 
I'm in, thank you. Every Thanksgiving I give my dogs a small plate of whatever I'm having. They have to stay outside the day after, but they don't mind :-)
 
I'm in. No unusual traditions here but this is my favorite part of the year. It's a time to see family I never get to see. Thanks for the chance.
 
I’m in, Dan. Thanks.

We always started the Christmas Eve dinner with oplaticy. Oplaticy was a thin white wafer about 4" by 6", with some sort of holy picture embossed on it. St. Christopher carrying the Christ child or such.

It was basically a communion wafer, made into a salt free cracker. The procedure was to drizzle honey over the thing and then eat it. The wafer itself was a mild, and tasted exactly like communion. Honey complimented it nicely.

You have to go to a Hungarian, Slovak, or Polish church to find the stuff. I don't know if the custom is still practiced, in the post-Vatican II church.
 
I'm in, and thanks for doing this!

Holidays are crazy here. My family is very close and we usually gather at the home of one of my sisters (the one with 8 kids) and her husband for Thanksgiving. There is usually at least 35 of us there, with half of the crowd being under 18 and with ages ranging this year from my 2 month old niece to my 86 year old great uncle.

Every year we have a 'turkey shoot' before dinner. We place a hundred or more balloon turkeys we have made by attaching two balloons together and taping a half-assed construction paper beak and waddle on them all over the very large back yard. We put them in the trees, on fence posts, in the bushes, and on the lawn. Those who wish to participate (adults are no longer allowed to since The Great Drunken BB Gun Battle of 1998) are called out onto the back deck overlooking the lawn. A BB gun is issued to each participant and each person stands at their designated place against the railing and the signal is given (usually in the form of a long, juicy belch by Uncle Mike, tradition, you know) and the massacre begins. Whoever shoots the most turkeys wins a large chocolate turkey the size of a basketball and sure to induce diarrhea if eaten in one afternoon. It is a lot of fun and the adults get to pick up the shredded balloons after the event. It is almost as fun as the 'Three Man Slingshot Egg Launching' contest, but that's another story and for another holiday.
 
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I'm in, and thanks for doing this!

Holidays are crazy here. My family is very close and we usually gather at the home of one of my sisters (the one with 8 kids) and her husband for Thanksgiving. There is usually at least 35 of us there, with half of the crowd being under 18 and with ages ranging this year from my 2 month old niece to my 86 year old great uncle.

Every year we have a 'turkey shoot' before dinner. We place a hundred or more balloon turkeys we have made by attaching two balloons together and taping a half-assed construction paper beak and waddle on them all over the very large back yard. We put them in the trees, on fence posts, in the bushes, and on the lawn. Those who wish to participate (adults are no longer allowed to since The Great Drunken BB Gun Battle of 1998) are called out onto the back deck overlooking the lawn. A BB gun is issued to each participant and each person stands at their designated place against the railing and the signal is given (usually in the form of a long, juicy belch by Uncle Mike, tradition, you know) and the massacre begins. Whoever shoots the most turkeys wins a large chocolate turkey the size of a basketball and sure to induce diarrhea if eaten in one afternoon. It is a lot of fun and the adults get to pick up the shredded balloons after the event. It is almost as fun as the 'Three Man Slingshot Egg Launching' contest, but that's another story and for another holiday.
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(Still not an entry)
Wow! Great tradition(s). Any chance that famed 1998 event is available on YouTube??

- GT
 
Please toss my name into the hat!!

About ten years ago my wife invited her cousin and Aunt over for Thanksgiving dinner. She hadn't seen her cousin in many many years, so it was a reunion of sorts. Her cousin had mentioned wanting to help make dinner because she wanted to learn how to cook. (How does a woman of 40 not know how to cook??) So, they came over early and they started with the turkey. We soon realized, the cousin knew nothing about cooking at all, she didn't even know how to peel a potato.


My wife showed her how to clean the turkey, by rinsing it in the sink, and making sure you get all of the innards out and not to forget to get the bag of organs out too, they get shoved down pretty far sometimes. Then it was time to stuff the bird... My wife showed her how to make stuffing, she mixed the bread crumbs, butter, etc etc with a spoon together in a big bowl and instructed her how to scoop all of the stuffing into both orifices of the turkey, “don't pack it too tightly, but make sure you shove some back into the cavity”.

Once the cousin was done scooping the stuffing into the turkey, my wife buttered the outside, seasoned and put the turkey in their grandmother's old roaster that mu wife had inherited. The cousin remembered the roaster from their childhood holidays at their grandparent's house and it was all fun and reminiscing for a while.


Hours later, the house smelled like turkey, the table was set, they are mashing potatoes and warming rolls, and my wife starting scooping out the stuffing from the bird...her spoon hit something hard inside... she fished around and pulled out another spoon,, from inside the turkey. The cousin had left her scooping spoon inside the turkey when she put the stuffing in. My wife pulled it out, held it in the air with an oven mitt and said, “You left a plastic spoon inside...we just roasted a turkey with plastic inside of it...should we even eat this?” We laughed and laughed and laughed. We served it up, everybody ate it and nobody died. However, the cousin hasn't been back.
 
I'm in. My family don't really have any traditions. Besides watching the football game, and fighting. Lol
 
Count me in. No unusual traditions to speak of, but I found out that the restaurant I bartend at is opening an hour early for Black Friday. Because people with a fridge overflowing with leftovers who just waited in line for hours to spend hundreds of dollars definitely wanna go out for a pricey lunch!
 
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