Main course being jambalaya and crab legs with gluten free hushpuppies, deviled eggs w/ smoked fish, a lemon poached shrimp dip, French bread and baked corn pudding. My wife did the heavy lifting in the kitchen and I made hurricanes/kept the wine flowing
Acting like all your family has perfect communist beliefs and you aren’t just glad when you can enjoy a meal together without some uncle saying the n word
aren’t just glad when you can enjoy a meal together without some uncle saying the n word
I feel that a ton. I don't talk to extended family much because, yeah. Last time I had a meal for my birthday it was a disaster because my grandparents went full boomer and got super angry over nothing. Really not looking forward to Christmas
Every holiday is anxiety inducing wondering whether meemaw will praise the third reich and start a huge fight while I try to load everyone up with the booziest eggnog available so we all just go straight to bed as soon as possible
For the record it’s not my house it’s my parent’s. I would never hang that myself. I can’t afford a house lmao
No worries man just was wondering haha
I can’t afford a house lmao
:yea:
Bro, have you thought about maybe getting your side hustle on? If you work 2.5 jobs, you might be able to afford a house you'll never see because you'll be at work the whole goddamned time.
The American Dream!
can't wait to overwork myself, get injured, go into medical bankruptcy and still never be anywhere near owning a house
Would be deserved :rat-salute:
Idk if it’s worse or better that it’s usually a yankees flag instead (ps we don’t live anywhere near NY)
Utensils are for the PMC; real Leftists eat with their hands. Also, its frowned upon to eat fresh meals. Best practice: Leftists only eat leftovers at other people's house.
Come on, though. Just look at that picture. That is some hgtv shit. That is some "thinking about redoing the kitchen this year but our marble guy is all booked up and we don't want to go to any of the other marble guys in town" shit. Napkins aren't necessarily reactionary but those are literally gold napkins! in matching deflt napkin rings. That room is in the house from Get Out
Look, I like seeing a nice holiday setup as much as the next slob but lets at least be honest about the gold napkins crab feast and not be too quick to hop in with the 'obscene wealth is actually perfectly normal' talk when people wanna call it what it is, bitterness is all some of us have left after rent lol
The picture is literally Rockwell's Freedom from Want minus the people
Just checked it out. The food in OPs pic looks waay tastier. In any case Rockwell didn't show the napkins but I guess it's implied they're on the laps so they could be gold, idk, but besides that the two images actually make a good study of bougieness cause in almost every way that they differ, the Rockwell is more humble (room size, elaborateness of the table setting, window type, spread, silverware (the presumably silver tureen being an exception). A lot of that is due to the age ofc, styles change
Also everything in my picture is for show. My family never eats like this except for holidays when extended family is coming to visit. My parents are petty bourgeois putting on airs. This house is massive but so far in the sticks that a studio apartment in my neighborhood in the city costs an equivalent amount of money. The gold napkins are hilarious too when you realize that normally they don’t even use napkins with a meal they just keep a roll of paper towels nearby.
There’s something to be said about a 70 year gap between my pic and the Rockwell painting but I also think there’s a cultural difference in the facade put on by people trying to emulate a class lifestyle they can’t normally afford and going overboard because they weren’t raised in that class culture to have the “manners” of that class. I could write a book on my family’s weird political economy-caused psychological ticks
That looks delicious, Ive always wanted to try big crab legs like that but sadly some members of my family despise shellfish so I've never gotten a proper chance.
when you do get to, don't let anyone stop you from just biting into the legs to break the shell. suck out all the meat you can, it doesn't matter how savage you look. crab meat is not meant for elegant meals.
My whole family hates turkey. It took a long time to get every one of them to admit it after faking it so long through decades of thanksgivings, but we finally all agree.
Yet for some reason we still cook the turkey, eat a tiny bit of it almost ceremonially, and then eat the actual good food we prepared. Then as to not waste food, we slowly eat that turkey in sandwiches for the next couple weeks.
Really wish we could do something like this for our thanksgiving next year, this looks great minus the flag.
We did lasagna one year, it's super easy to make gallons of good bolognese and you can use it for tons of things.
My family did lasagna yesterday as a side dish. Didn't make it ourselves though, just a medium sized frozen one. I gotta convince them to let me do the cooking next year. A mostly pasta based thanksgiving would be wonderful.
Looks good! Those hushpuppies look similar to the South African vetkoek/amagwinya, nice.
Looks really amazingly tasty, curious if there was a ceterpiece decoration that had to be removed to make room for the food cause it would really complete the vibe
We poached shrimp in lemon and garlic water until just pink then shocked them with an ice bath. Chopped them up with Mayo, horseradish, lemon, hot sauce, cayenne, and Cajun seasoning. Go for healthy doses of each to taste when seasoning. More spice = more better
