TODAY IS THANKSGIVING across the water in the US of A. A time when families gather to give thanks for love, friendship, and good health.
And also to stuff their faces with an enormous and strange array of foods.
Let’s be honest: Thanksgiving dinner makes Christmas dinner look like playtime. Here are six things that (some) Americans will be eating – and ENJOYING – today.
1. Devilled eggs
Eggs hardboiled, with the yolks scooped out and mixed with mustard and mayonnaise.
Originated when somebody looked at an egg and asked “How can I make this look like it just exploded?”
2. Sweet potato with marshmallows
Sweet potatoes not sweet enough for ya? Hell, why not chuck in some marshmallows and just bake the whole thing in a giant casserole?
Basically the American Dream in food form.
3. Jell-O salad
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That’s “jelly salad” to us on the other side of the sea. Literally: sweet jelly from a packet, with chopped-up vegetables in it. It’s Heston Blumenthal meets vomit.
4. Pumpkin pie
You know when you cut up a pumpkin and the inside is just a big mass of orange nothing-tasting goo?
Over there, they make it into pies of orange nothing-tasting goo.
Bonus points if your orange nothing-tasting goo comes out of a can:
5. Green bean casserole
Green beans cooked in mushroom soup, with fried onions.
Like taking a mouthful of the 1950s.
6. Turducken
One enormous waddling bird not enough? Then the Turducken is for you.
It’s called the Turducken because it’s a turkey, stuffed with a duck, stuffed with a chicken. Which is then stuffed with some stuffing. You’re basically biting into an entire farmyard.
Wondering what it looks like in construction? Happy to oblige:
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
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