I was very disappointed on Thanksgiving to find my SIL's table bare of any mashed potatoes. Stuffing and corn are all well and good, but no mashed potatoes? It's a holiday sacrilige!! At least Mom had made some the previous Sunday for the nephew's b-day dinner, and we had some potatoes at my stepsister's on Friday, so I wasn't completely bereft of mashed spuds.
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Kathy A - Nov 27, 2007 12:00:55 pm PST #4088 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Vortex - Nov 27, 2007 12:02:19 pm PST #4089 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
We had mashed potatoes for the first time, my SIL made them. Her first Thanksgiving with us, she'd been horrified to discover that we had rice instead.
sumi - Nov 27, 2007 12:02:39 pm PST #4090 of 10001
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Kathy, I had a Thanksgiving with no mashed potatoes one year too. Although, not this year.
Of course, the potatoes we had were instant.
Really not the same.
brenda m - Nov 27, 2007 12:05:25 pm PST #4091 of 10001
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My god, it's an epidemic. We almost didn't have them this year because we forgot to put them on. But we hastily threw on a small pot so Thanksgiving was saved.
SuziQ - Nov 27, 2007 12:10:25 pm PST #4092 of 10001
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Last year. There was no cranberry. None.
Wrong.
Kathy A - Nov 27, 2007 12:10:43 pm PST #4093 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
But we hastily threw on a small pot so Thanksgiving was saved.
Hee!!
It's quite pathetic how sad I was to have no mashed potatoes on the actual holiday. I mean, I had family around me, lots of good food, including other traditional items (which, for my SIL and her Italian family, began with lasagna and eggplant parmesian), and here I was, pouting over one thing that I just had four days earlier.
Kat - Nov 27, 2007 12:13:09 pm PST #4094 of 10001
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Vortex - Nov 27, 2007 12:15:32 pm PST #4095 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
(which, for my SIL and her Italian family, began with lasagna and eggplant parmesian),
mmm. Reminds me of when I lived in London. One of my housemates was a NY italian. We decided to cook Thanksgiving dinner, and we asked our housemates what was traditional for their Thanksgivings. Sal said "well, we always start with lasagna" Quite a surprise. He was willing to be overruled :) Of course, his dad saved the day because he came over a few weeks earlier and brought canned pumpkin (which we could not find in England!)
shrift - Nov 27, 2007 12:19:49 pm PST #4096 of 10001
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