Do you celebrate Thanksgiving?

Question

Do you celebrate Thanksgiving with family and friends or do you celebrate it alone or maybe not at all?
Also if you do celebrate Thanksgiving what do you eat? We always have both ham and turkey.

Answer 1

Yes, we usually celebrate it with family AND friends by attending the annual University of Texas and texas a & m football game.

Answer 2

When you're in a relationship - it's 2 Thanksgiving dinners!!!!! His family and mine.
In my family, I am the cook. I learned to cook for my brother and sister when my mom worked different shifts (and I'm the youngest - I learned to cook at 9) so I read recipe book after recipe book and now I have made flavor a major issue.
My mom doesn't cook food with flavor and so I am always nominated to cook most everything and bring it to the family dinner (I'm now 41).
I make brown sugar glazed ham, turkey with cornbread, sausage, and mushroom dressing - green bean casserole, garlic mashed potatoes with turkey gravy, pumpkin custard pies, and fresh cranberry relish with oranges and cinnamon. I leave the dinner rolls, salads, and yams to everyone else.
I once had a Thanksgiving dinner and as I was setting up the buffet table, I came back to the table with another dish from the kitchen to find all the brown sugar glazed ham on the platter already eaten. I was pi$$ed at first and then was honored that it was worth eating before anything else. That is always a compliment to a cook to have a whole dish eaten because it was the most memorable flavor to many people.
When we finally do sit down to the meal, we all give a prayer of what we are thankful for and then enjoy a meal together as a family again.
After dinner it's the game for the sports fans and traditionally it's the beginning of the Christmas season for everyone else (especially the children) so the tree gets decorated that nite and everyone starts getting into the Christmas spirit for the start of the next holiday.

Answer 3

For the past few years my husband and I have celebrated Thanksgiving in Las Vegas. We fly out there on Sunday and come home on either Thanksgiving day or Friday. When we fly home on Thanksgiving day, we stop at Cracker Barrel on the way home and eat their traditional meal. When we get to stay until Friday, we go to one of the casinos and have a traditional meal. It's become our tradition. I'm more of a turkey person, and prefer it over ham. But I want everything else ... mashed potatoes and gravy, sweet potatoes, corn, rolls and pumpkin pie! We are going again this year and staying for a full seven days, so we won't have to go home the day after Thanksgiving.

Answer 4

We celebrate Thanksgiving as a family. What we eat depends on what the cooks feel like making: turkey, ham, roast, etc. Green beans, rolls, turnip, and pies almost always make a short-lived appearance.

Answer 5

Yes, I celebrate my Thanksgiving in October. I serve ham.

Answer 6

We celebrate Thanksgiving with family every year. Turkey is one of the Delicious dish we have.

Answer 7

yes i celebrate thanksgiving always with my mothers side of the family because my mother always says "no matter how old you get, you always spend thanksgiving with me. The rest of the holidays you can spend with your friends."

We always have a smoked, baked, and fried turkey. We also have two honeybaked hams, stuffing, mashed potatoes, collard greens, chiterlings, deviled eggs, potato salad, apple pie, red velvet cake, carrot cake, sweet potato pie, and sooo much more. I mean we eat alot of that food on that day. That's just one of the rare days my momma throw down.

Answer 8

Yes. I celebrate mostly with family. But I live far from my family so if it happens I can't get home, I spend it with friends, what we call our "California Family".

We eat turkey, green bean casserole, ham, pumpkin pie and whatever else people feel like bringing.

Answer 9

OMG...my family celebrates Thanksgiving every year!!! Our whole entire family goes to my grandma's house and we have a HUGE feast... most of the food is turkey/ham, corn, bread, cranberry sauce stuff, and bunches of othe tasty stuff!

Answer 10

Yes!
It's a great time for family and friends to come together and share a great meal. Talk, laugh, sing and just have a great old time. Turkey, bake macoroni cheese, sweet potatoes, rice, corn on the cob and much more. I would like to see how it is going to be now that I am becoming a vegetarian!