Strangest Thanksgiving meal?

elkaholic · 11-27-2003, 09:10 AM

I went to my prospective mother in laws for Thanksgiving one year and was served spaghetti, that's right spaghetti!!!!!!!!!! no turkey, ham or beef anywhere to be found. I assume some of you ifishers have had fish or water creatures but in NE Oregon it wasn't an option.

What has been your strangest?

Yes, I married her anyway :smile:

ampersat · 11-27-2003, 09:57 AM

It wasn't mine but a friend of mine. His family went to his aunt's house to Tday. Out came the Spam turkey. She had found a turkey mold somewhere, packed it with Spam and cooked it up. He ate it but he wasn't happy about it.

jocose · 11-27-2003, 10:49 AM

rice and some kinda mystery meat on the streets of olongopo phillipeans.... (i did manage to scrounge up a turkey sandwich on board the ship later that evening during midrats) joco

SMC · 11-27-2003, 12:03 PM

Green Chilies enchiladas. At my Moms house.

Fishfeet · 11-27-2003, 11:17 PM

Hey Jocose, Happy turkey day! I remember that mystery meat from those little barbQ`s on the streets of Olongapo! I always understood that it was monkey! Darn good though! I work with a Pillipino guy now, and he say`s it actually was monkey! Heck I practically lived off the stuff. :grin: Later all, Have a great one! Bob.

WaterDog · 11-27-2003, 11:40 PM

If you were in olongapo who cares what your eating. :grin: You should have been comsuming mass amounts of San Miguel and ESQ!!!!! :grin:

A co-worker was telling me they usually do steak or a roast and sometimes ham. No turkey. Personally I'm not a big turkey fan and only like it when I BBQ it. Otherwise I don't eat much of it and once a year is plenty.

Bob, Have a happy turkey day! :smile:

Steelhead Hound · 11-28-2003, 12:55 PM

JOCOSE & FISHFEET,

I'll bet it was dog.I have a phillipeno* friend and his parents cook dog all the time.

hmmmmmm Man's best friend hmmmmmmm

DAB · 11-28-2003, 04:51 PM

Jocose. Hey is there still a bar there that is called moms club

.I was there about 40 years ago. [img]graemlins/applause.gif[/img]
DAB

fishisabonus · 11-28-2003, 06:44 PM

There was a big demand for a BBQ salmon at Mom's this year. She did cook a turkey. But the way the salmon disappeared, she is rethinking next year and we just might have a strickly seafood spread!

jocose · 11-29-2003, 10:29 AM

happy t day to you too fishfeet its always a pleasure to find a fellow shipmate here.. dab the bar i think you referred to was called moms taco house? they served tiny tacos, no one asked too many questions about the meat in them either... i think that bar had a aligator in a enclosure, i remember you could buy baby ducks or chicks to feed the reptile... that was indeed a strange place... i suspect i left billions of brain cells there... thank god for sam miguel, it probably insulated us from the food we ate..they used to serve hot dogs on the pier in steamed buns, no relish just dry hot dogs... i think those dogs saved my butt a few times too, soaking up enough liquor so i could stumble up the afterbrow and resume protecting my country from asian girls all over the far east... monkey meat, dog, pigs feet, chicken feet, matters not its all good with rice,, pass another san miguel please,, make it two..

joco

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BigFishFever · 11-29-2003, 11:23 PM

Strangest was a full Turkey dinner, the works...mashed potatoes, turkey, stuffing,cranberry sauce, the whole 9 yards...but NO GRAVY..to this day we havent forgotten to "remind" the hostess about that!

Bluetick · 12-02-2003, 07:10 PM

What about the normal lutefisk and Lefsa. you couldn,t eat Turkey at my grandparents house without it. I still miss it. I always teased them about the boiled carp. LOL
Jeff

lilnorthfork · 12-03-2003, 09:15 AM

Soy protein gravy. T-day was always interesting at my in-laws... they are vegetarians. We took it over this year; put the sausage back in the stuffing where it belongs. :grin:

Woody · 12-03-2003, 09:40 AM

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Soy protein gravy.

<font size="2" face="verdana,arial,helvetica">Eeewwwww yuck

Radke · 12-03-2003, 09:54 AM

T-Day 1994, sitting in a wall tent out of Senaca (south of John Day), eating the full turkey meal, but it was 11 below zero. We had been elk hunting, had one animal down out of six hunters. We took thanksgiving off to drink & listen to football. It snowed a foot that night and we filled the other 5 tags the next day before noon. A thanksgiving to remember!

Miss B Haven · 12-03-2003, 10:20 AM

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Originally posted by Bluetick:
What about the normal lutefisk and Lefsa. you couldn,t eat Turkey at my grandparents house without it. I still miss it. I always teased them about the boiled carp. LOL
Jeff

<font size="2" face="verdana,arial,helvetica">Potato Tortillas

Never understood the fascination but then I'm not Scandahoovian. My wife is but that particular food group is NOT the reason I married her. :grin:

Strangest thanksgiving was in College I'm sure. We pretty much lived on Sacks of Onions and Potatoes and Tubs of Margarin (oh- and lots of pepper for flavor). T-day was just another fried tater and onion day. Had to save money for important things like BEER! [img]graemlins/eek13.gif[/img]

BigFishFever · 12-03-2003, 11:09 PM

mmmmm lefsa...gonna have to get the grill out this weekend...thanks for breaking the diet!!