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IN the bird’s cavity, it’s stuffing! YUM! In a sterile flavorless pan, it’s just dressing. EH! Besides, I like to live dangerously. I eat raw oysters, rare hamburgers and stuffing. I have been known to consume some things AFTER the expiration date! (Isn’t yogurt spoiled milk already anyway?) Okay, unclutch your neck and skip the shocked comments. Nobody’s asking you to eat that stuff. I bet the settlers ate a few things you wouldn’t! I don’t need to hear your superior crap anyway.

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Jews eat Chinese on Christmas, mofo; it's in the Torah (probably, somewhere)!

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You bastard! I hate to cook, and you tricked me into reading not one, but several recipes. Now I have just a few questions. 1) What the fuck is a craisin? 2) I can't wrap my head around how you could find fresh avocados in the winter, as far north as anywhere in Canada? How the hell did you do that? Are you a warlock?

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Dehydrated cranberries. Like raisins are from grapes, craisins are from cranberries.

I shit you not.

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Wow. Weird I've never heard of them. Thanks for the lesson!

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Up here in Canada, we have these things called grocery stores where we can buy all kinds of exotic fruit and vegetables such as avocados, mangoes, bananas, and even strawberries year-round.

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Down here in the US we have this word "fresh," (which you can see as an example of its usage in my previous comment) and we also have fresh avocados year-round in some parts, because they grow here in the south west portion of the country. We also, unfortunately, tend to have just as much fresh snark as you do up yonder in Canada (as evidenced by this totally unnecessarily snarky reply to your totally unnecessary fresh snark). We also, apparently, have much more refined taste than Canadians if y'all actually enjoy guacamole made from not-fresh avocados (which includes any avocados old enough to have been trucked from wherever the fuck they grew, all the way up to Canada in winter). I'm a fucking avocado snob. Sorry-not-sorry. Thus, my assumption that the uncommonly tasteful James Fell would only use fresh avocadoes, which I assure you, are not plentiful anywhere that it is realistic to wonder if fresh snow will be present on the day the fresh avocados are eaten. But thanks for the education on grocery stores. I'd never heard of them before. They sound interesting. I think I'll check 'em out. Possibly, I was wrong and James Fell is not only not a warlock, but also is not uncommonly tasteful where the freshness of avocados is concerned. Unless I receive evidence to the contrary, it is my preference to assume that James Fell is a very tasteful warlock.

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Sending on to the boy (who has taken over cooking the turkey although ‘mom, I really like the turkey you cook but let me help you out’ the liar.)

Great recipes and yes on the yams.

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The turkey prep wars 😱

The turkey cooking vehicle wars😱

The turking stuffing vs. dressing wars 😱

I’m in, like, 5 cooking groups on FB and these wars are brutal.

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FUCKING AWESOME!!!

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It’s the fourth Thursday.

We got married on Nov 29th and when the 29th falls on a Thursday it is the fifth one so no Thanksgiving anniversary dinners for us. 🤷‍♀️

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My BIL calls turkey sandwiches with cranberry sauce, Bitchin' turkey sandwiches. They are so good. I will need to add gravy to mine later this year. I have not done that before. And Drambuie? I will have to get some.

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I'm breathless from a combination of adrenaline from your story telling pace, memories of past dinners cooked, and laughter. Thank you James!

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THIS is fucking awesome. I especially will partake in the bacon eating (maybe share?) and adding Drambuie to the gravy. One happy bitch here! Thanks!

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