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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

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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

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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

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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:

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5. Green bean casserole

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Green beans cooked in mushroom soup, with fried onions.

Like taking a mouthful of the 1950s.

6. Turducken

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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:

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Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

Pic: What happens when Americans fly home for Thanksgiving>