Off-beat Turkey Day traditions
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- November
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What’s not to love about Thanksgiving?
A nice big turkey, pumpkin pie, football, family, more pumpkin pie, all those great leftovers, OK the last slice of pumpkin pie if no one else is going to take it…
It’s one of my favorite holidays. Everyone celebrates it, there is no mad rush to the mall because you forgot the Baby Alive, and there’s always some reminder on the table of your family’s unique history.
We usually spend Thanksgiving close to home, with my husband’s family, given my folks are a good 5 hours away and most of my brothers and sisters are scattered around the northeast. We have a great, great time, but a little part of me misses one of the Ryan family’s most unusual Thanksgiving traditions — Grandma’s lime Jell-O mold.
It’s not just any lime green Jello mold. No, this is lime Jell-O made in a Bundt pan with apples, celery and walnuts magically suspended throughout.
As a kid I thought it was just the most amazing, delicious thing. How did Grandma get everything to float in there? Sweet, crunchy and jiggly all at the same time.
Sure, some of you are thinking this is just plain gross (or wonder if we also skinned squirrels on the back porch with cousin Gomer) but I assure you, ours was not the only family to feature this sort of Jell-O concoction at the harvest table.
I haven’t subjected my in-laws to it — yet.
What’s your strange but beloved Thanksgiving tradition? What do you remember most from your childhood Thanksgivings?
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