Non-traditional Thanksgiving Dinner

We do not. Traditional Thanksgiving food is one of my favorite meals of the year.

When we go to the big family gathering there are most of the traditional stuff along with non traditional things like a roast. Basically just a ridiculous feast of about 20 items.

I did a duck last year. Not outrageously different but not a turkey.

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But why don't people do it more often?

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Cause it's a huge pain in the arse. It's delicious, but it's 3-4 hours of prep work, days of thawing a turkey, another 3-4 hours (minimum) of cooking.

It only lends itself to a meal when you have a day or two off work.

Plus, it (typically) makes a ton of food, so you need lots of people at your place to eat.

I think that's really the only reason.

My family basically makes the same meal at thanksgiving and again on Christmas eve, cause it's freaking delicious and we like to eat (shocking, I know).

Just do turkey on Thanksgiving baw.

You have 364 other days to do something other than turkey.

My grandpaw for years has been doing a pork roast stuffed with garlic, onions and red pepper (shite ton of garlic) to go with the turkey. I end up hardly eating any turkey because pork roast kicks arse.

My grandmother's health has gone downhill this year, and the stress has worn him thin. Therefore, I'm thinking of taking over the pork roast tradition.

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I get that. But why don't people do it more often?

I buy one turkey a year. It's on Thanksgiving. If it were so great, we'd do it more often, no?

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I think part of the reason I like it so much is that we don't have it multiple times a year, so I look forward to it. On occasion, I'll do a mini version of it during the year. I love turkey, though.

We usually have some other kind of meat like a rump roast for those who don't love turkey, but mostly it's pretty traditional or traditional to us, anyway.

We have a big non Thanksgiving meal on Wed night with everyone, so it's sort of a marathon at Thanksgiving for us. It's sort of like having both non traditional and traditional within 24 hours. We eat TG at night on Thursday.

That's just what we do. If you don't care for the traditional, definitely do something else or mix it up and have a little of both.

We used to go to the beach for Thanksgiving, and we'd do steak and lobster

seasoned boneless stuffed turkey breast from Joey's in Lafayette

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I buy one turkey a year. It's on Thanksgiving. If it were so great, we'd do it more often, no?

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Because buying a whole turkey is expensive. I absolutely love fried turkey and we used to do it different times of the year with tailgates and stuff.

Its a hassle, its expensive, and its not very practical. Plus thanksgiving is a time to be gluttonous which most people besides arse want to avoid but a couple times a year.