Yes the "kids" table became.the cousins table and was for people in their 20s to 40s still, lol like a folding table and kiddos got the coffee table and stools if they didn't fit on laps.or in high chairs..and the chairs are a mixed bag for sure!
Last year we hosted a friend from overseas and it was the highlight of my culinary life that she gushed about how our Thanksgiving celebration was just like what she'd seen depicted in movies/tv. That's it. I can die a happy woman now 😂😂😂
Oh My me too. I made a thanksgiving dinner for a friend from Romania . It was his first Thanksgiving Dinner . He was in aww of the food and the amount of food on the table.
Here’s another unofficial commandment Matt. Thou shall not interrupt the post-feast nap. Because those who live a ways away from Grandmothers house need that energy to stay awake on the drive home, especially the driver.
Also it's a fight to the death who gets to take their nap in Mawmaw's bed because that bed is always the softest coziest thing ever. The same witches that make Waffle House so healing enchant the beds of mawmaws everywhere
Kinda forgot one: Do not ask the cooks “what they are cooking for dinner” for the 2 days after thanksgiving. You will be eating leftovers and saying “thank you” for their hard work.
An aunt waaaay down the family line decided to tell my Nana that her banana pudding didn’t taste the same a few thanksgivings ago. My Nana slowly lifted her head from whatever she was preparing in the kitchen, turned around bright red and I haven’t seen that aunt since. More banana pudding for the rest of us 😋
When I worked at a grocery store bakery, I loved the Thanksgiving shift. It was hilarious. People buying 20 lb frozen turkeys for 3:00 pm dinner and looking for long-gone pies and fresh baked rolls (actually baked the day before), and the lost souls asking- “How do you make mashed potatoes?”- while holding up a 10 lb bag of reds. Such fun.
I’m an old retired meat mgr. One of my favorite questions asked yearly was, “What’s the difference between a fresh turkey and a frozen one?” I always replied, “One’s colder than the other.”
My sister once deviated from the accepted sweet potato casserole recipe AND the potato salad recipe on the same Thanksgiving. My Mama never let her forget it - for 20 years! I'm the designated macaroni 'n cheese cooker (so proud) and when that same sister volunteered to make it 1 yr because I'd had surgery, Mama said "No. Your sister can sit down while she makes it. She makes the mac 'n cheese like me. I'm not taking any chances!" Um, thanks?! (My husband helped, bless him.) My Mama's been gone 5 years and I'd give anything to hear her praise my cooking...and fuss at my sister, hahaha! Happy Thanksgiving, y'all!
I make 5-10 pounds of mashed potatoes every year, skin on, loaded with butter. Gathering I go to is over 40 people normally, and half are teen/twenties boys.
I feel this whole heartedly 😂 I got out of the hospital the morning of Thanksgiving one year and my mama still made me make the Mac n cheese 😅 others volunteered and she said absolutely not!
I completely felt this comment. According to my brother's children I'm the only one allowed to make the turkey. One year my sister in law didn't make a pan of baked mac and cheese. The kids were in full revolt until I walked in with the pan of mac and cheese. I was told I saved Thanksgiving while they all side eyed their Mama the entire meal.
My MIL taught me how to make a proper Southern Thanksgiving meal, including corn bread dressing and collards, before she passed away. No written recipes, you just have to remember it.
Agreed. If you need a recipe, you don't need to be making it. You learn it watching the older generation make it. Perfect it practicing on your family at home before " taking it on the road".
As a person from the Pacific North West who has family in the south that I have visited for Thanksgiving... all of this was accurate. Especially that Granny does whatever she wants... no questions asked lol
One time a cousin and I were goofing around, when all of the sudden great grandpa looked at us from his chair with a stern look and said, “Sientete.” I don’t know a lot of Spanish, but we settled down pretty fast. Never upset great grandpa. 😂
Yes! The table sitting is non existent😂 patio furniture, hoods of vehicles, steps outside, borrowed chairs from the church…..that’s a good Thanksgiving ❤️
Yep. Sometimes it's cold on Thanksgiving and sometimes it's so hot that with the inside cooking plus the heat, one can only stand to eat out on the porch! Done that a plenty of times!
I want to take a moment to say a thank you for the communities who share their thanksgivings with those around them. Be it victims of natural weather, the kind old man next door, or whoever you decide. Southern Hospitality is, in my opinion, one of those commandments that is ingrained in us, and we're always happy to share.
Even the smallest Thanksgiving gatherings I've been to always have some random person or three that are not related--coworker, a neighbor, someone from the VFW, friends from church etc and that's what makes it special. Sometimes it happens around Christmas too. There's always enough food for another plate, so come on by!
Number 10 is actually a hard rule at our house, but we say, "Whoever shows up gets fed!" We've hosted Marines who couldn't get back home for Thanksgiving, friends and relatives of friends and relatives, and people I still don't know. But everyone is welcome, and everyone gets fed. A lot. Like multiple turkeys, a ham or 2, and a duck.
I'm retired military and actually miss being able to host a bunch of youngsters who weren't able to make it home for Thanksgiving. Always so polite and appreciative, and it made my heart sing to always see a house full of people coming together to count their blessings. ❤❤❤
My family loves duck, but I would think it's more trouble than it worth for how many folks it'd feed? We add brisket when we need more meats, and I just saw some one suggest Salmon which sounds fun, I may have to try that. Bonus to salmon is you could cook up more fast when some one brings a +3 ;D
I guarantee you those Marines will defend you with their life now that you gave them edible food. You may not expect it, but they will never forget you and will come to your aid at a moment's notice, especially if y'all had any alcohol for them to drink.
Same with my family. My extended family were kind of jerks so growing up we rarely got invited to the extended family thanksgiving, so my dad and i would have our own thanksgiving and often invited people who had nowhere else to go, occasionally including homeless people, immigrants, or soldiers stationed nearby with no family in the state.
I grew up in Tampa where every Thanksgiving the British Navy assigns a one-week stopover for one of their naval vessels doing a tour of duty in the Caribbean/Bahamas. Every year the various ship crews would wait for the yearly schedule announcement to see who got the assignment. Locally the radio stations and newspapers would announce how to sign up to host 1 or more sailors/officers for Thanksgiving dinner and the sign-up list would fill up quickly. After a few years with a week of shore leave some of the men with families would arrange for them to fly over to spend the week so you might end of hosting a British family instead of just a sailor. Some of the sailors and families took the tradition of Thanksgiving home with them. Other days young women would hang out at places frequented by the sailors and try to talk them out of the caps...until the Royal Navy cracked down on penalties for "losing" their caps.
That is so cool! I was a military brat and we always hosted some of my dads airmen for Thanksgiving. It was a tradition that my husband and I continued for many years throughout our military careers.
I did sign up for Operation Homecoming (host an airman from the AF) when I was in tech school. It felt like home. Years later, I did the same for airmen from basic training from Lackland AFB.
@@wheramiyeah, the curried sweet potatoes were not a big hit when I tried lol! And I tried to make real dressing lol. My family is very Yankee proud, I should have known I have only instant stuffing skills...
I have to share my “Country Crock” story! Back in the 1990’s my household went through a massive amount of County Crock margarine and of course we saved the empty containers. One of those I used to store random screws, nuts and bolts etc. One day I was replacing the mini blinds in the kitchen and had the country crock screw container out on the kitchen counter. Later that evening after dinner I put some leftover corn in an identical container. I got distracted by the kids and when I came back into the kitchen I quickly grabbed one container that I thought was corn and put it in the fridge, the other went in the junk drawer. A few days later I started to smell something funky in the kitchen. I looked and looked for where that smell was coming from. I finally traced it to the junk drawer. Thinking it was a dead mouse, I carefully opened the drawer only to find the country crock container that I thought held the screws bulging! I immediately realized what I had done and looked in the fridge. Sure enough the screws were in the fridge and the corn was in the junk drawer! Every time I see a country crock container I think of that corn….. Happy Thanksgiving in advance ya’ll!
Spot on! I have received the honor of making the dressing each year, using my grandmothers recipe. It calls for THREE different kinds of cornmeal, which can only be found at IGA or Piggly Wiggly in Alabama or Georgia, just for the cornbread!
LOL my great grandmother would ONLY use cornmeal from a Piggly Wiggly in Lumberton NC. That's where she bought her liver pudding too, in natural casings. Once or twice a year someone would drive her there and whoever else in the family wanted to go.
I am physically disabled making me unable to prepare a large dinner from scratch. Last year I was thrilled to host my nephew and his family. They came all the way from my home state of Alabama to have Thanksgiving with us in Texas. So, for the first time I used Cracker Barrel’s catering service. It was all a very good experience, but I had forgotten to order dressing.😱 It was already Thursday morning and of course absolutely no time to make any dressing myself. So, I wondered if the stuffing mix could be converted to dressing. I googled my question and VOILA! There was a recipe for the conversion. I tried it and it turned out acceptable. I hope I don’t have to repeat that experience of forgotten dressing again, but accidents do happen. If you ever find yourself in a similar situation, remember this conversion trick and remember: the moisture level of the batter will determine the moisture texture of the dressing-make sure you add enough broth, but not too much. Anyway, the disaster was averted, we had dressing and a wonderful thanksgiving! I thoroughly enjoyed this segment! HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!! THANK GOD!! AND ROLL TIDE!!🙏✝️🕊️🐘❤️‼️
When we went to my nanny’s the adults gots the chairs in the kitchen and in the game room if there wasn’t any more get the brown chairs or stools the kids got the black seats under her little tables we would pull them up to the little table in the living room or the floor
We kids ate at the kitchen table at mammals house. That's where the extra food was piled in the center so it was better than the dining room with the adults. No one to limit your intake of dessert either. 😊
This year I have officially moved up to elder. I am glad about getting a good chair, but sad that there is only one person left on the family older than me. I'm only 64!
God bless you, Matt Mitchell. This is spot on. The sad thing about the chair hierarchy? The only way to move up is...death in the family. Memories of Thanksgivings past make every year even more special. Thanksgiving mornings spent watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, staying out of the way of the kitchen work, that's a commandment addition.
We saw you in the Little Debbie bakery store today stocking up on merch. We should have said hello but didn’t want to bother you with your family. My wife and I both work at Little Debbie and enjoy your content. Take care!
My grandmom insisted the family come to her place for Thanksgiving. She lived a simple life, and lived in a small mobile home. So nobody could eat at the kitchen table, because it was loaded with food and most any flat surface available. There were people eating in the living room, the front and back porch, and a bed room. Those were the best Thanksgivings of my youth, because we were together and it made my grandmom happy.
agreed I can't think of one thing that belongs on a Thanksgiving table that should have raisins in it. Granted I think that applies to anytime of the year 😂but especially Thanksgiving
As my dad always says ‘don’t be putting those bugs in the cookies!’ … or anything else for that matter. I always have to translate for friends that don’t understand raisins = bugs 🐜
As the traditional bringer of thanksgiving collard greens (I tried to quit one year and the whole family text message yelled at me at once😂) I always look forward to meeting all the nice older ladies in the produce aisle to fill up my cart - they’re good cooking role models ❤
Every year I (jokingly) suggest to my husband that I try a different way of doing the turkey. Every year he looks at me with the biggest, saddest, eyes and says "Well. If you want to. I think your normal one is great though......" My dressing recipe will never change, though. That's Grandma's recipe. We had to translate it from German, and then decipher what she really meant. It gets baked in a giant turkey bag, in a turkey roasting pan. Because there's no other dish that it can fit in.
Oh my goodness. I laughed so hard at this. It’s like you have been to my family’s dinner. We have a past thanksgiving that we call “dressingate!” The step grandmother (which no one liked) said that she would make the dressin. I show up and no dressin. Our thanksgiving revolves around Turkey and dressin. She said she didn’t like the way it came out and threw it out. I am not going to lie, I was about to cry. lol and with each family member we had to have the “nope, no dressin” conversation. We blessed her heart a lot that day. Lol After that, we only let her bring the store bought pumpkin pie. Lol
That was a good one. The dressing commandment…amen! I was born, raised, and live in the West but my family, both sides are from the South so I was raised like a misplaced Southerner, lol. I never trust anyone with the dressing because most of these people never ate cornbread dressing until they come to my house.
Oh Darlin, your what we call a Transplant! You can take the Southerner out of the South but you cant EVER take the South out of the Southerner! Happy Thanksgiving Darlin!
Several years ago, my niece decided to get married, outdoors, in the mountains, on thanksgiving Friday. Thanksgiving, itself, to be celebrated on location. We both catered the reception and we also made thanksgiving meal for 120. While camping. Outside, camping, thanksgiving meal for 120. We deep fried 15 turkeys. Cast iron Dutch ovens everywhere. It was quite a spread, and an impressive achievement.
Preach, Matt, Preach! Went to Thanksgiving at my aunt's house in Mississippi one year. My mother followed protocol and brought what she said she would, but my cousin tried to upstage my big mama(grandma) by not only making the turkey but baking a sweet potato pie. Ain't seen her since.
williambanks2223: I can remember a few years back we had some of my husband's family from out northwest, and they were just bound and determined not to like sweet potato pie. We told them that was okay because we had pumpkin, apple and several varieties of cakes in addto the sweet potato pie. I told my husband later that I was glad they didn't "like" it - I barely got a sliver of the last pie because they ate it all. Everything else was eaten, too. I did a 28 lb turkey and a 24 lb ham and all the other usuals of a Southern Thanksgiving. My sister and I were cooking for several days, but it was a great dinner. Unfortunately, my health won't let me do that anymore, and miss it.
its crazy how some stores start selling Christmas stuff before Halloween. Last year my dad and stepmom had christmas lights up AND on for thanksgiving.
Right? It's more like an exchange. I bring ten pounds of mashed potatoes; I leave with some mashed potatoes, dressing, green bean casserole, turkey, gravy, and a slice of Aunt Susan's apple pie if there's any left by then.
@@wordforger exactly! My family is part Thai and they treat everything, even religious festivals, like potlucks and just about everyone brings a big platter of something, then everyone grabs a little of everything from the leftovers to take home. You'll see people showing up to temple functions with plastic bags and tupperwear along with the food they brought.
I actually just hope that he enjoys himself. I know that some people, who are expected to be funny, get tired of being "on" at family get-togethers. (I'm not funny enough for people to expect me to be funny).
Thank you for all the reminders about cooking and entertaining. Unfortunately, I do this now without my husband who died the day before Thanksgiving 6 years ago. It has been a solemn occasion for more than 50 years since my grandfather's passing as well. Thanks to this Southern group of people who keep me cheered up. I know I can laugh when I watch your videos.
Having a full-on Thanksgiving at our Egg Bowl tailgate this year for about 13 people so we'll all be sitting in camp chairs: Smoked ham, oyster dressing, regular dressing, green bean casserole, baked beans, fried okra, corn, peas, potato salad, rolls and who knows what else. Doing shrimp and grits the night before while the prep work is ongoing. It'll probably take a week to clean up the kitchen after this. But, it'll be worth it!
@thomasflynt1764 : Heck YES - we do Oyster Dressing too. A must have for the whole family with the same recipe from over 75+ years. Made by loving hands, and comes with wonderful memories of those who have earned their wings. Hallelujah! ❤
My cousin in-law (RIP) was a chef from Austria. He made the most AWESOME oyster dressing for one Thanksgiving dinner. I'd never eaten anything but homemade cornbread dressing, and it blew me away!
"Those things are too dang small" That's why we have large wooden plates/trenchers we use for thanksgiving instead. they're like 2.5 times the size of a normal place and they look real nice. A real pain to clean up afterwards, but when everyone is able to plate up all the greenbean casserole, potato salad, and fruit salad they want on top of a slab of turkey meat AND salmon, everyone agrees its worth it.
Salmon, that's a new one, may have to try that. We have brisket when we have enough family over we need to stretch the meats (I refuse to try to cook a bird more than 18 lbs, because it will not cook properly without a commercial oven) But we also have a few extra sides/substitutions, like cheese covered broccoli, beans, mash potatoes instead, and strawberry/banana jello salad which should not be counted as a side, but it's a salad so it's not desert! Only pies for desert..... ALL the pies: Pecan, molasses pumpkin, open-top apple with strussel, cherry, and lemon meringue.
Nailed it!!! I added a chocolate bourbon pecan pie in one year…ten years ago! Haven’t heard the end of that yet. I just remind my husband that I’m the cook and if he doesn’t like it, he can cook. That’ll NEVER happen! But I haven’t made one since. Too bad, it was awesome.
That's a shame, a chocolate bourbon pecan pie is the perfect dessert. There used to be a restaurant called Mimi's Cafe that had a chocolate chip pecan pie on the menu. It was delicious. The last time I ate there I was told they took it off the menu. I never ate there again, it was the single best dessert I had ever had at a restaurant and I just couldn't stand to sit in there knowing it was gone lol.
As a Kroger employee, I definitely agree with number 3. I have heard many horror stories from my coworkers about customers coming in at last minute and complaining about us not having enough Stove Top stuffing mix (1. That's not real dressing. And 2. Our location isn't the only location in Little Rock. )
@@debrap7137 I worked at Walgreens back when it was the only store open on Thanksgiving day and Christmas day, and it was WILD. I'd get people coming in asking for last minute things like onions--not french fried in a can, but like whole ones. LOL
I love your last commandment. My sister and I used to do Thanksgiving at my house and invite all our friends who didn't have another place to go that day. One year I was talking with a friend who had a bit of an ego problem, and the problem wasn't that his ego was too small. He was saying he didn't have a place to go on Thanksgiving because his mother was doing something and his sister was traveling, so I invited him to join us. He immediately asked, "Who's going to be there?" After I stopped laughing at what a jerk he was, I told him he probably wouldn't like the guest list.
Thank you for this advice. My family and I just moved to the south a few months ago. Things are very different from where we came from. Although nobody has invited us to Thanksgiving, nor do we have family to go be with, I'll be sure to remember this list should we suddenly find ourselves at somebody else's Thanksgiving.
@cnsohm This has got to be the coolest thing to ever happen on the internet. Risky since we don't know each other, but really cool. We're in west Florida. So far west that an accidental wrong turn puts us in Alabama.
@@domin8ssthere's a restaurant where you're at that is kinda like cracker barrel. There are/were only 2, one in Missouri and one right there in Alabama. It's been so long. I want to say it begins with a B. Brandons or something like that. Got it, it's called Lambert's. Home of the throwed rolls. So much fun and really good food.
Florida might be differently southern but most of these rules apply, there just may be more for Florida…they’re different, they have a genuine mix of everyone and that’s just different.
Preach, brother! 😂 On the dressing, my mom usually made three. One for stuffing the turkey, and two (one with oysters, one without) as sides dishes. Then there was the home made cranberry chutney with orange peel & pecans, spiced (or pickled) peaches, green beans, etc..! Then there were the years we had ham too-she’d make this sweet mustard sauce that definitely made you use your roll to sop the extra up! 😋
We had the cranberry orange peel chutney too, and also spiced peaches (soaked in brandy for weeks). Grew up in NJ, was always glad my Mom was from the South.
If your goodbyes don't take over an hour and you haven't hugged and kissed everyone at least twice your not doing it right.😂 My family knows I'm a hugger and it's not a quick hug and a pat on the back, I want the to know they are loved and I hold them close to my ❤❤❤
@@alperdue2704 Your right!!! That's a good extra 30 minutes of everyone saying Bye, Goodbye, so glad you could make it and then more goodbyes and blowing kisses.🤣🤣🤣🤣 I'm a good southern (SoCal) girl and these things matter. Have a wonderful and blessed Thanksgiving and gooble till you wobble!! 🦃
My cousin and my mom got into it one Thanksgiving and within about 3 seconds Grandma had already come from the other side of the house with a "NOT IN MY HOUSE, NOT ON THANKSGIVING. FIGURE IT OUT OR GET OUT." I had never seen grandma yell before that and never want to again. And the last rule is definitely true, every year we have someone be it a veteran friend of my grandpas who talks to nobody and sits in his room with him all day then disappears or the psuedo family that just shows up every year because they have nowhere else to go. Its Thanksgiving and grandmas door is always open on thanksgiving.
And to avoid the dressing from being allegedly on the dry side, use chicken stock or broth instead of water...and put TWO sticks of butter just to be safe. The bacon or sausage protocol is for another time...or now (See section on Family Recipe Secrets and Hacks in your Southerner's Handbook)😃🤣🤤🍗🍁@@sid2112
Whoever likes the dish the most, makes it. If you can't cook, you're learning. I demolish a full loaf of monkey bread every year, somewhere around 15-16 my granny asked me to make two, she couldn't move her hands like she used to for the prep, and she wanted me to have a full loaf to myself that year, for my birthday. So i did. I ain't never seen my granny prouder than when everyone complimented that monkey bread, said it was the best they'd had, and she got to tell them i made it.
My grandparents and my parents both had a really big dining room table with matching chairs. Our family Thanksgiving when I was a kid actually did look like a Norman Rockwell Thanksgiving.
When we got too many to sit at the table, my dad bought a HUGE piece of plywood and set it on top of the regular table. You learned not to lean on the table, and if everyone had to shuffle their way around it, at least we all had a seat!
My mother made the best dressing you ever tasted. It was famous in the family (both sides!), everyone loved it, and everyone looked forward to it every year. Very sadly, she passed away a few years ago, but I am so blessed and grateful that one day a few years earlier, I asked her if she'd show me how to make it. We had a grand time that day, and it's one of my cherished memories with her. AND I ALSO KNOW HOW TO MAKE HER AWESOME DRESSING. I actually haven't made any in a while, and this video has reminded me that I need to do just that, very soon. Thanks Matt!
I've lived in Alabama my entire life, and every year after Thanksgiving, my Mom would have 3 or 4 of the big empty tubs of butter that she used as bowls to put leftovers in. How many containers of butter do you have to open before you find the butter?
Mom had a roll of masking tape in the kitchen and would label each crock. Worked okay, if the kids remember to match the label when we would put the leftovers back in the fridge.
You are so right about the Cornbread dressing. It’s taken my wife 40 years to perfect the Cornbread dressing…and yes it’s more important than the Turkey !!!
You nailed it! My Aunt Lou and Uncle Billy (siblings) had an annual argument about how much sage goes in the cornbread dressing. We looked forward to it.
You forgot the couch rule! Elders get the seats first pick The Adults get what’s left The pets sit in whatever spot is open And the kids get the floor or pull out the camping chairs and sit around the couch
pets sit on laps if they fit, next to the kids if they dont. Just be careful because most dogs are willing to try and fitting on your lap even if they weight as much as grandma.
This one is spot on. Especially the dressing/stuffing debate. My bf is from Alaska. He was used to STUFFING, in the bird. This Southern girl doesn't play that unless I have no choice (meaning I am helping cook in someone else's house). No, we'd be having DRESSING, I explained. He wasn't sure about that, he said, but he'd try it. One taste of my mom's dressing and he was converted. Now that we have been guests at a couple of other Southern homes, he is a changed man. He often does the big grocery trip for holidays (he is actually quite helpful and pretty good at the grocery shopping). Now he always reminds me to put down the ingredients for dressing.
This will be my daughter's first year hosting Thanksgiving and has taken all of my restraint to keep from badgering her about timelines, ingredients, etc. Letting go is so hard! 😂
Happy Friday Matt. Another possible commandment when dipping the turkey in the deep fryer stay far away when it is dipped or be prepared for a hospital stay when you receive 3rd degree burns from the splatter oil.
Matt, you forgot. . .YA GOTTA HAVE GOOD GRAVY TO GO OVER THE DRESSING!!!! One year my sister invited us to her house for Tday. She cooked a turkey but had some jars of store bought gravy sitting there ready to be microwaved… and I almost fainted. She had loads of pan drippings and I offered to make gravy for her. She ended up racing to her bedroom in tears because I had insulted “her cooking.” Good grief, we had some drama but we also had some delicious homemade gravy to cover that dressing and dry white meat. Good gravy can fix a Chinet platter full of miscues. Happy Turkey Day!
Growing up all we had was canned cranberry sauce, and I could stand it. But my uncle married a Cajun, and she introduced me to homemade cranberry sauce. Buddy it’s so good!
The one thing I looked forward to every year, for as long as I can remember, was my Gami's cornbread dressing. The best tasting food I've ever eaten. This'll be our 2nd thanksgiving without her and even though my aunt's comes close, it's just not the same.
I've spent most of my life eating my Thanksgiving din on the arm of the couch as my table and now as an adult, I still sit on the couch. This spares me the need to answer nosey people's questions at the adult table and I get to watch tv instead of chit-chat about crap I don't care about...
@@YSLRD Bless your heart, I'm a fully-grown adult LOL. I love older people but, not nosey people. There's a difference between wise sage types (obviously nothing like you) and those who spend their lives meddling in other people's business for the sake of being nosey and gossiping lol. I spent most of my teenage years and twenties surrounded by really really really old people because they are by far the best types to learn from and don't behave like highschoolers gossiping. The biggest thing about older people is they don't talk about useless things or small talk, so if my choice feels childish or selfish there's a good chance you are one of the shallow gossipers types I'd avoid like the plague lol. People like you seem to forget there are people who like to keep their lives private from meddlers and don't feel the need to be the center of attention or broadcast their lives to people you only speak to once a year at most lol.
@@YSLRDbingo Was just going to write that When u grow up you will like the adults lol It’s called socializing n interacting with UR FAMILY Why did u go if ur just going to watch tv instead of speaking to others interested in u, their relative??
YUP! My Mom starts prepping on Tuesday and cooking on Wednesday Night. On Thanksgiving morning, the dishes go in the oven or the fridge. Luckily, my parents have a double oven so she can get everything done. Tradition!
I start my holiday menu before Halloween, and begin purchasing ingredients the first week of November. I cook in batches and there is an entire section of the big freezer dedicated to pre-Thanksgiving prep. I am convinced Southern Thanksgivings are the reason double ovens became a thing in residential houses. 😂
Proper prep is essential, I buy my turkey as soon after Nov 1 as I can. Then the week before I roast it I prepare the brine and let it sit in the fridge a day or so while the turkey thaws. Then I brine the bird 24 hrs or more before roasting. A well brined turkey is the most juicy and tender thing you'll have on Thanksgiving.
Thank ya kindly. Your giving out good advice . I start preping TG a week beforehand. Even the buttermilk biscuits are in the freezer until the morn . All come out delicious. Don't forget the gunshots . Always hear them in the back ground . Them out there deer hunting. Everything stops at 4 so they can get on home . 😅😅😅Boom 💥 God bless you hope you an your family have a wonderful Thanksgiving. 🙏 Hug😊
YASSSS! The sounds of Thanksgiving Day hunting! THAT is Southern Thanksgiving. Where the conversation centers around hunting, football, kids, and the absolute new craziness the neighbors have got up to 😂
I would kill to eat Thanksgiving dinner at 2pm. My wife's family eats around 6 even though everybody arrives around 1 oclock. I'm ready to start eating my arm by 3 o'clock.
Sounds like you should introduce them to the concept of a meat and cheese tray with some crackers,ma bowl of olives and a bowl of pickles that sits out while everyone finishes everything up all day. It keeps you from being absolutely ravenous by the time dinner is ready but if you just nibble a bit, you won't get full before dinner. Some pepperoni and summer sausage, a couple of sliced cheeses, box of Ritz or Club crackers or Triscuits or something. Or just a plate of cut celery carrots, cucumber and some cherry tomatoes with some dip works as well.
@@mommy2libras They do stuff like that but stuff like cheese and crackers only gets you so far. And they also do a lot of experimenting. Like the year they put onions in the mashed potatos.
Happy Thanksgiving, Matt and to your family. All these _Commandments_ should be followed like the _OG Commandments._ The world would be a better place.
Well kids, I am the official Granny that cooks for 30 family members every year from scratch. Every word is true, but in my home (was raised Old World Southern!) we wouldn't be caught dead using paper products at Thanksgiving! To this day, I would set fine china, crystal, and silver out with a floral arrangement and candles in the. I have a full set of china for every holiday! I cooked for a solid week in prep. but this year, I am ill and not able to do it. Everyone said they wanted to go to someone else's house so this year, I am not cooking. Just doesn't feel right. But your video made me smile. Happy Thanksgiving Yall.
Number 11: Thou Shalt Prepare for Devilled Eggs. These may as well be a snack, since everyone's gonna be eating them all the time. It's also best to keep more than one can of Febreeze on hand at any given time unless you want the entire house to reek of Egg, and keep a stockpile of cans next to any bathrooms so the next person to enter isn't walking into the trenches of Verdun.
We have similar rules for Cheusok (Korean thanksgiving), but you are observing this holiday for three days. If you aren’t cooking, helping with prep, or bussing food to whatever space is available, you stay out of the cooking area or you will be trampled and shoved around. Your plate or bowl will never be empty for more than 5 seconds before another mountain of food is plopped on. You will have enough butane canisters and charcoal to run an army for several months or you will run out and may god help you if you run out. Depending on the size of the gathering you will consume at least one large animal or a quarter of a large farm. Either way you will eat very well for three days straight.
For me ... the honor is for the one making the fresh gravy. That is my favorite by far. I may be the only one that tries to use a straw at the table and it is for the gravy. MMMmmm ... good stuff.
Marvelous vid, Matt. My family includes a child who grew up on packaged stuffing, so they still get a bowl of it, right next to the cornbread dressing.
You’re a gem among gems. I grew up with my grandma’s stuffing both in the bird and out of the bird (and the argument about whether it was stuffing or dressing. She called it stuffing-I honor her.), but my dad always made his “secret recipe” Stove Top. Now that he’s gone, having someone make that just for me would be the kindest thing they could do for me on Thanksgiving.
Last year, I had to endure a thanksgiving dinner which was only seasoned with garlic salt. Gluten free stuffing was used as well as I was denied making my homemade cornbread dressing. This was at my now ex fiancé’s mothers house AND SHE’S FROM OKLAHOMA!!!!
That's insane. Do they not realize that you can serve both types of dressing? I do. I make GF cornbread and a small pan of dressing just for my sister who has a wheat allergy and the rest of us get the regular stuff. In fact, it's the exact same recipe except for the cornbread I use, which hers is just cornmeal and corn flour. Depending on where you are, you may have to do some looking- a lot of the cornmeals are actually a "cornmeal mix" that contain stuff like baking soda and flour or whatever. I can usually find the small 1 lb pack of plain cornmeal- I think it's Dixie Lily- at one particular store though. Other than that, they're identical. The GF has a slightly different texture once it's all done but it's really not much extra work aside from the actual cornbread. And I actually cook that ahead of time. I'll be doing it this weekend, in fact.
Commandment 8 is best kept in check with plenty of tryptophan foods offered. If that doesn't work, it's time for Nyquil and Benadryl cocktails! Don't upset Granny!!! I gave a switch, and I'm not afraid to use it on my kin.
The 11th Commandment of Southern Thanksgiving: Dinner will be over by 3:15 Central Time to provide Granny a chance to start the dishwasher before the Cowboys game... and you'd better not take her recliner. She earned it just like she earned her nap during the 2nd Quarter. But you'd better wake her up for the Halftime Show... especially this year- It's Dolly!
No lie every Thanksgiving I have family that will borderline fight each other for that homemade Apple Butter and Jelly which is always funny to watch despite there being like 3-4 mason jars of that stuff. Though after my grand ma died a few years back I ended up having to be the one that makes it since me and one of my cousins are the only ones she taught how to make it.
I was so proud of myself this year for southern thanksgiving. I remembered my own to go containers to both friendsgiving and my family thanksgiving. I have nobody else’s country crock, Tupperware, glassware, or utensils to wash and return in 6 months when I finally remember again. I’ve achieved this twice in my life completely lived in the South. I’m 36. Proud I tell you!😅
Chinet plates should at minimum be doubled due the psi load stress levels placed. And don't bother using those silly generic paper plaes!! And specially if there's no second's "and I'm not mentioning any names". Thanks Matt and everyone for another wonderful Thanksgiving.
If you have any grandmas, great aunts, or other elderly relatives that make special dishes for holidays, MAKE SURE YOU ASK THEM FOR THE RECIPES!!!!! Many delicious and irreplaceable recipes have been lost because everyone thought the maker would be around forever 😢.
That happened with my Great Aunt's Fig Preserves. We were able to cobble the exact recipe from a few family members and I wrote a little book about the journey. But I wouldn't wanna go through that again.. GET THE RECIPES, FOLKS!
Had a sister-in-law a few years ago who decided she was gonna bring something other that her assigned dish ( she's a yankee) needless to say it didn't go over well.( She's now my ex sister-in-law) no one misses her at all
@@cindycchesney5716 The quickest way to get disowned from a family is to bring the wrong dish to a Southern Thanksgiving. You might as well have done a DNA test while you're at it considering you're never going back.
@@lordpumpkinhead265 Thank You for the great reply! My Mother-in-law was in shock at the time as former sister-in-law said that "she didn't feel like making it" assigned dish I think it was a simple tossed salad. . She decided to make Jiffy corn bread muffins. Might as well said no football today. Believe me when I say it wasn't pretty we no longer know of her whereabouts!
At my ex wifes Thanksgiving and other events, we were in our 30s and still essentially at the kids table as her family was old. But my nieces and nephew did have to sit on a piano bench.
As the oldest grandchild, I was 33 before I was able to sit at the adult table. By then I'd been doing a lot of the work for several years already so I'd earned it. The kids - like my siblings and cousins when we were little and then our kids when we became adults- got stuck eating at a table made of a plank of 5 gallon buckets and sitting on cinderblocks in the driveway.
Wait, wait. We have always had a "kids' table", even at non-holiday meals. It's a card table surrounded with whatever old folding chairs we can find.
With part of it butted up to a couch. :)
And that card table is at least 20 years older than the oldest kid, and may or may not be able to stand up on it's own.
And “kids” is always very loosely defined. I was in my 30’s before I graduated to the adults’ table!
Yes the "kids" table became.the cousins table and was for people in their 20s to 40s still, lol like a folding table and kiddos got the coffee table and stools if they didn't fit on laps.or in high chairs..and the chairs are a mixed bag for sure!
Us too!
Last year we hosted a friend from overseas and it was the highlight of my culinary life that she gushed about how our Thanksgiving celebration was just like what she'd seen depicted in movies/tv. That's it. I can die a happy woman now 😂😂😂
Love this!
Aww!! What country was she from?
Oh My me too. I made a thanksgiving dinner for a friend from Romania . It was his first Thanksgiving Dinner . He was in aww of the food and the amount of food on the table.
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Ukraine @@haveialigned
Here’s another unofficial commandment Matt. Thou shall not interrupt the post-feast nap. Because those who live a ways away from Grandmothers house need that energy to stay awake on the drive home, especially the driver.
? Nobody in the South lives "a ways" away from Grandma....
@@ragdoll49 My branch of the family does. We live in Tennessee, she lives in Alabama with the other three branches of the family.
Also it's a fight to the death who gets to take their nap in Mawmaw's bed because that bed is always the softest coziest thing ever. The same witches that make Waffle House so healing enchant the beds of mawmaws everywhere
Never mind those who may have a bit of a drive to reach home. We all require a spot to get through our post-turkey coma in. 💤
@boohooter23 I thought she was called "mee-maw"
Kinda forgot one:
Do not ask the cooks “what they are cooking for dinner” for the 2 days after thanksgiving. You will be eating leftovers and saying “thank you” for their hard work.
And those meals made with the abundance of leftovers are usually awesome.
And those meals made with the abundance of leftovers are usually awesome.
And those meals made with the abundance of leftovers are usually awesome.
Pie for breakfast on Friday!
A week! That’s how long the leftovers last!😅
An aunt waaaay down the family line decided to tell my Nana that her banana pudding didn’t taste the same a few thanksgivings ago. My Nana slowly lifted her head from whatever she was preparing in the kitchen, turned around bright red and I haven’t seen that aunt since. More banana pudding for the rest of us 😋
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Just a heads up: if anyone says dinner doesn't smell or taste- they have covid. Send them home with a plate.
@@ADHDqueenB 😂😂😂
I believe that 100%.
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When I worked at a grocery store bakery, I loved the Thanksgiving shift. It was hilarious. People buying 20 lb frozen turkeys for 3:00 pm dinner and looking for long-gone pies and fresh baked rolls (actually baked the day before), and the lost souls asking- “How do you make mashed potatoes?”- while holding up a 10 lb bag of reds. Such fun.
Yes! Haha. This! I also worked at a grocery store bakery.
I think you have achieved sainthood.
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I’m an old retired meat mgr. One of my favorite questions asked yearly was, “What’s the difference between a fresh turkey and a frozen one?”
I always replied, “One’s colder than the other.”
@@einy2crikey😂
My sister once deviated from the accepted sweet potato casserole recipe AND the potato salad recipe on the same Thanksgiving. My Mama never let her forget it - for 20 years! I'm the designated macaroni 'n cheese cooker (so proud) and when that same sister volunteered to make it 1 yr because I'd had surgery, Mama said "No. Your sister can sit down while she makes it. She makes the mac 'n cheese like me. I'm not taking any chances!" Um, thanks?! (My husband helped, bless him.) My Mama's been gone 5 years and I'd give anything to hear her praise my cooking...and fuss at my sister, hahaha! Happy Thanksgiving, y'all!
I'll take your mac n' cheese recipe, please!
Good for you!😊
I make 5-10 pounds of mashed potatoes every year, skin on, loaded with butter. Gathering I go to is over 40 people normally, and half are teen/twenties boys.
I feel this whole heartedly 😂 I got out of the hospital the morning of Thanksgiving one year and my mama still made me make the Mac n cheese 😅 others volunteered and she said absolutely not!
I completely felt this comment. According to my brother's children I'm the only one allowed to make the turkey. One year my sister in law didn't make a pan of baked mac and cheese. The kids were in full revolt until I walked in with the pan of mac and cheese. I was told I saved Thanksgiving while they all side eyed their Mama the entire meal.
I’m a Southerner, and I approve this message.
Me too
I'm a Midwestern gal from NE Indiana, and I second that! God bless us all with enough to share, and make us thankful to live in the USA 🇺🇸!❤
The Country Crock Container bit at the end sent me because if you're from the South you know it's 100% true. XD
And your Mamma and your Grandma have a stash of those things that regularly fall out of the cabinet.@@angelousmortis8041
me too
My MIL taught me how to make a proper Southern Thanksgiving meal, including corn bread dressing and collards, before she passed away. No written recipes, you just have to remember it.
Agreed. If you need a recipe, you don't need to be making it. You learn it watching the older generation make it. Perfect it practicing on your family at home before " taking it on the road".
That’s how MILs let you know you’re loved!
@@jesseauer7649 mine was the best!
Still remember my MIL's recipes. "How much flour?" answer: Oh, just enough. "How long do you cook it?" Till it's done.
@@jesseauer7649so true - my MIL taught me too. I miss her.
"A good cornbread dressing is piece of art and a labor of love"
Preach Matt!!! AMEN!!!
AMEN
As a person from the Pacific North West who has family in the south that I have visited for Thanksgiving... all of this was accurate. Especially that Granny does whatever she wants... no questions asked lol
One time a cousin and I were goofing around, when all of the sudden great grandpa looked at us from his chair with a stern look and said, “Sientete.” I don’t know a lot of Spanish, but we settled down pretty fast. Never upset great grandpa. 😂
Lol . same here live in PNW. Relatives in the south on one 1/2 of the family . Sientete! On the other 1/2 .
Granny has Queen energy and we say absolutely nothing about it. We even like it.
I am from PNW too :D
With any luck, some day YOU will be Granny, and then everybody will be required to obey YOU!
Yes! The table sitting is non existent😂 patio furniture, hoods of vehicles, steps outside, borrowed chairs from the church…..that’s a good Thanksgiving ❤️
Yep. Sometimes it's cold on Thanksgiving and sometimes it's so hot that with the inside cooking plus the heat, one can only stand to eat out on the porch! Done that a plenty of times!
I want to take a moment to say a thank you for the communities who share their thanksgivings with those around them. Be it victims of natural weather, the kind old man next door, or whoever you decide. Southern Hospitality is, in my opinion, one of those commandments that is ingrained in us, and we're always happy to share.
Very well said. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your loved ones. 🙏
Even the smallest Thanksgiving gatherings I've been to always have some random person or three that are not related--coworker, a neighbor, someone from the VFW, friends from church etc and that's what makes it special. Sometimes it happens around Christmas too. There's always enough food for another plate, so come on by!
Amen to that!
Imma go fix you a plate 😉
The more the merrier!!! Ya’ll come!
Number 10 is actually a hard rule at our house, but we say, "Whoever shows up gets fed!" We've hosted Marines who couldn't get back home for Thanksgiving, friends and relatives of friends and relatives, and people I still don't know. But everyone is welcome, and everyone gets fed. A lot. Like multiple turkeys, a ham or 2, and a duck.
I'm retired military and actually miss being able to host a bunch of youngsters who weren't able to make it home for Thanksgiving. Always so polite and appreciative, and it made my heart sing to always see a house full of people coming together to count their blessings. ❤❤❤
My family loves duck, but I would think it's more trouble than it worth for how many folks it'd feed? We add brisket when we need more meats, and I just saw some one suggest Salmon which sounds fun, I may have to try that. Bonus to salmon is you could cook up more fast when some one brings a +3 ;D
I guarantee you those Marines will defend you with their life now that you gave them edible food. You may not expect it, but they will never forget you and will come to your aid at a moment's notice, especially if y'all had any alcohol for them to drink.
Same with my family. My extended family were kind of jerks so growing up we rarely got invited to the extended family thanksgiving, so my dad and i would have our own thanksgiving and often invited people who had nowhere else to go, occasionally including homeless people, immigrants, or soldiers stationed nearby with no family in the state.
And Roast Beef and smoked pork butt.
I grew up in Tampa where every Thanksgiving the British Navy assigns a one-week stopover for one of their naval vessels doing a tour of duty in the Caribbean/Bahamas. Every year the various ship crews would wait for the yearly schedule announcement to see who got the assignment. Locally the radio stations and newspapers would announce how to sign up to host 1 or more sailors/officers for Thanksgiving dinner and the sign-up list would fill up quickly. After a few years with a week of shore leave some of the men with families would arrange for them to fly over to spend the week so you might end of hosting a British family instead of just a sailor. Some of the sailors and families took the tradition of Thanksgiving home with them. Other days young women would hang out at places frequented by the sailors and try to talk them out of the caps...until the Royal Navy cracked down on penalties for "losing" their caps.
This sounds like a nice tradition to celebrate.
That is so cool! I was a military brat and we always hosted some of my dads airmen for Thanksgiving. It was a tradition that my husband and I continued for many years throughout our military careers.
I live near an airforce base in Texas that trains NATO pilots and every year host families share Thanksgivings with the those who are away from home
I did sign up for Operation Homecoming (host an airman from the AF) when I was in tech school. It felt like home. Years later, I did the same for airmen from basic training from Lackland AFB.
That sounds like fun
Y'all don't be experimenting on the holiday!
Unless you don't want to be invited to Christmas dinner 😂
I experimented once … never again lol
You just got an “Amen”!
@ToddRobinson13- Better yet, I'll taste test each of your experimental dishes for free. I just like being helpful. 😂
@@wheramiyeah, the curried sweet potatoes were not a big hit when I tried lol! And I tried to make real dressing lol. My family is very Yankee proud, I should have known I have only instant stuffing skills...
I have to share my “Country Crock” story! Back in the 1990’s my household went through a massive amount of County Crock margarine and of course we saved the empty containers. One of those I used to store random screws, nuts and bolts etc. One day I was replacing the mini blinds in the kitchen and had the country crock screw container out on the kitchen counter. Later that evening after dinner I put some leftover corn in an identical container. I got distracted by the kids and when I came back into the kitchen I quickly grabbed one container that I thought was corn and put it in the fridge, the other went in the junk drawer. A few days later I started to smell something funky in the kitchen. I looked and looked for where that smell was coming from. I finally traced it to the junk drawer. Thinking it was a dead mouse, I carefully opened the drawer only to find the country crock container that I thought held the screws bulging! I immediately realized what I had done and looked in the fridge. Sure enough the screws were in the fridge and the corn was in the junk drawer! Every time I see a country crock container I think of that corn….. Happy Thanksgiving in advance ya’ll!
Thous shall remember the brown masking tape and use on the sacred crocks.
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Spot on! I have received the honor of making the dressing each year, using my grandmothers recipe. It calls for THREE different kinds of cornmeal, which can only be found at IGA or Piggly Wiggly in Alabama or Georgia, just for the cornbread!
I honestly didn't know there was more than one type cornmeal and I took culinary in high school lol
TIL ... there are three different types of cornmeal. The more you know 😂
I need to know what the 3 are please..
That sounds amazing
LOL my great grandmother would ONLY use cornmeal from a Piggly Wiggly in Lumberton NC. That's where she bought her liver pudding too, in natural casings. Once or twice a year someone would drive her there and whoever else in the family wanted to go.
I am physically disabled making me unable to prepare a large dinner from scratch. Last year I was thrilled to host my nephew and his family. They came all the way from my home state of Alabama to have Thanksgiving with us in Texas. So, for the first time I used Cracker Barrel’s catering service. It was all a very good experience, but I had forgotten to order dressing.😱 It was already Thursday morning and of course absolutely no time to make any dressing myself. So, I wondered if the stuffing mix could be converted to dressing. I googled my question and VOILA! There was a recipe for the conversion. I tried it and it turned out acceptable. I hope I don’t have to repeat that experience of forgotten dressing again, but accidents do happen. If you ever find yourself in a similar situation, remember this conversion trick and remember: the moisture level of the batter will determine the moisture texture of the dressing-make sure you add enough broth, but not too much. Anyway, the disaster was averted, we had dressing and a wonderful thanksgiving! I thoroughly enjoyed this segment! HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!! THANK GOD!! AND ROLL TIDE!!🙏✝️🕊️🐘❤️‼️
That is possibly one of the most Southern Thanksgiving stories ever 😂
The hierarchy chairs is exactly the thing that I've gone through every year I've had family Thanksgiving.
When we went to my nanny’s the adults gots the chairs in the kitchen and in the game room if there wasn’t any more get the brown chairs or stools the kids got the black seats under her little tables we would pull them up to the little table in the living room or the floor
We kids ate at the kitchen table at mammals house. That's where the extra food was piled in the center so it was better than the dining room with the adults. No one to limit your intake of dessert either. 😊
This year I have officially moved up to elder. I am glad about getting a good chair, but sad that there is only one person left on the family older than me. I'm only 64!
God bless you, Matt Mitchell. This is spot on. The sad thing about the chair hierarchy? The only way to move up is...death in the family. Memories of Thanksgivings past make every year even more special. Thanksgiving mornings spent watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, staying out of the way of the kitchen work, that's a commandment addition.
Oh see, I was always put to work. Peeling potatoes when I was 5 was how we figured out I was ambidextrous-- my aunt noticed I was using my left hand.
We saw you in the Little Debbie bakery store today stocking up on merch. We should have said hello but didn’t want to bother you with your family. My wife and I both work at Little Debbie and enjoy your content. Take care!
I’m more in awe of someone who works for Little Debbie than him…can we be friends? I’m a huge fan!
You’re basically an American hero for working at little Debbie 🇺🇸 thank you for your service
@@heathermullins3799 thank you for the kind words! Of course we can!
My grandmom insisted the family come to her place for Thanksgiving. She lived a simple life, and lived in a small mobile home. So nobody could eat at the kitchen table, because it was loaded with food and most any flat surface available. There were people eating in the living room, the front and back porch, and a bed room. Those were the best Thanksgivings of my youth, because we were together and it made my grandmom happy.
That sounds AWESOME!
If you bring something to my family’s house with raisins in it on Thanksgiving, you can just leave!😂
agreed I can't think of one thing that belongs on a Thanksgiving table that should have raisins in it. Granted I think that applies to anytime of the year 😂but especially Thanksgiving
As my dad always says ‘don’t be putting those bugs in the cookies!’ … or anything else for that matter. I always have to translate for friends that don’t understand raisins = bugs 🐜
Bite your tongue, thanksgiving isn't complete without the broccoli salad and no raisins is a broken commandment (unspoken)
@@SleepyPea 🤣 Not at my house!
@@stephaniecasey9100 Yes! At NO time of the year!🤣
As the traditional bringer of thanksgiving collard greens (I tried to quit one year and the whole family text message yelled at me at once😂) I always look forward to meeting all the nice older ladies in the produce aisle to fill up my cart - they’re good cooking role models ❤
Every year I (jokingly) suggest to my husband that I try a different way of doing the turkey. Every year he looks at me with the biggest, saddest, eyes and says "Well. If you want to. I think your normal one is great though......"
My dressing recipe will never change, though. That's Grandma's recipe. We had to translate it from German, and then decipher what she really meant. It gets baked in a giant turkey bag, in a turkey roasting pan. Because there's no other dish that it can fit in.
Oh my goodness. I laughed so hard at this. It’s like you have been to my family’s dinner. We have a past thanksgiving that we call “dressingate!” The step grandmother (which no one liked) said that she would make the dressin. I show up and no dressin. Our thanksgiving revolves around Turkey and dressin. She said she didn’t like the way it came out and threw it out. I am not going to lie, I was about to cry. lol and with each family member we had to have the “nope, no dressin” conversation. We blessed her heart a lot that day. Lol After that, we only let her bring the store bought pumpkin pie. Lol
That was a good one. The dressing commandment…amen! I was born, raised, and live in the West but my family, both sides are from the South so I was raised like a misplaced Southerner, lol. I never trust anyone with the dressing because most of these people never ate cornbread dressing until they come to my house.
True that
Oh Darlin, your what we call a Transplant! You can take the Southerner out of the South but you cant EVER take the South out of the Southerner! Happy Thanksgiving Darlin!
@@bettierusso5410 ❤️ you are so sweet! Happy thanksgiving to you and yours!
Several years ago, my niece decided to get married, outdoors, in the mountains, on thanksgiving Friday. Thanksgiving, itself, to be celebrated on location. We both catered the reception and we also made thanksgiving meal for 120. While camping. Outside, camping, thanksgiving meal for 120. We deep fried 15 turkeys. Cast iron Dutch ovens everywhere. It was quite a spread, and an impressive achievement.
Wow!
The last commandment touched my heart. I teared up. Thank you. Bless you.
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Preach, Matt, Preach! Went to Thanksgiving at my aunt's house in Mississippi one year. My mother followed protocol and brought what she said she would, but my cousin tried to upstage my big mama(grandma) by not only making the turkey but baking a sweet potato pie. Ain't seen her since.
aww man! poor cuz! lol 😂😂
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williambanks2223: I can remember a few years back we had some of my husband's family from out northwest, and they were just bound and determined not to like sweet potato pie. We told them that was okay because we had pumpkin, apple and several varieties of cakes in addto the sweet potato pie. I told my husband later that I was glad they didn't "like" it - I barely got a sliver of the last pie because they ate it all. Everything else was eaten, too. I did a 28 lb turkey and a 24 lb ham and all the other usuals of a Southern Thanksgiving. My sister and I were cooking for several days, but it was a great dinner. Unfortunately, my health won't let me do that anymore, and miss it.
Bless! This comment made my day!🤣🤣🤣
11. Thou shalt not hang Christmas decorations until black Friday. No sooner
THAT SHOULD BE COMMANDMENT NUMBER ONE! Christmas decorating is for the weekend AFTER THANKSGIVING!
@@asdisskagen6487 I agree
I have seen people decorate with Christmas decorations *THE DAY AFTER HALLOWEEN.*
its crazy how some stores start selling Christmas stuff before Halloween. Last year my dad and stepmom had christmas lights up AND on for thanksgiving.
No! Not until Dec. 15!
In my family it is also not considered bad form to bring your own containers expecting to take home leftovers. It is almost expected.
Right? It's more like an exchange. I bring ten pounds of mashed potatoes; I leave with some mashed potatoes, dressing, green bean casserole, turkey, gravy, and a slice of Aunt Susan's apple pie if there's any left by then.
@@wordforger exactly! My family is part Thai and they treat everything, even religious festivals, like potlucks and just about everyone brings a big platter of something, then everyone grabs a little of everything from the leftovers to take home. You'll see people showing up to temple functions with plastic bags and tupperwear along with the food they brought.
I would love to see Matt's place on Thanksgiving. That would be entertainment.
I actually just hope that he enjoys himself. I know that some people, who are expected to be funny, get tired of being "on" at family get-togethers. (I'm not funny enough for people to expect me to be funny).
Matt's place is empty. He packs up the wife and kids and drives them to Grandma's. The only question is which grandma.
@@HariSeldon913One for lunch and the other for supper.
@@alperdue2704 That's what I do, but Matt makes just one sound like an all day event.
Thank you for all the reminders about cooking and entertaining. Unfortunately, I do this now without my husband who died the day before Thanksgiving 6 years ago. It has been a solemn occasion for more than 50 years since my grandfather's passing as well.
Thanks to this Southern group of people who keep me cheered up. I know I can laugh when I watch your videos.
My grandfather died on thanksgiving day in 1983, he had just tasted the turkey , and sat in his chair and died .
I’m thankful for the constant joy I get watching your videos, Matt. These are 100% spot on - Granny (or Mammaw in my family) makes her own rules!
Having a full-on Thanksgiving at our Egg Bowl tailgate this year for about 13 people so we'll all be sitting in camp chairs: Smoked ham, oyster dressing, regular dressing, green bean casserole, baked beans, fried okra, corn, peas, potato salad, rolls and who knows what else. Doing shrimp and grits the night before while the prep work is ongoing. It'll probably take a week to clean up the kitchen after this. But, it'll be worth it!
Comin' over to your house!
@thomasflynt1764 : Heck YES - we do Oyster Dressing too. A must have for the whole family with the same recipe from over 75+ years. Made by loving hands, and comes with wonderful memories of those who have earned their wings. Hallelujah! ❤
My cousin in-law (RIP) was a chef from Austria. He made the most AWESOME oyster dressing for one Thanksgiving dinner. I'd never eaten anything but homemade cornbread dressing, and it blew me away!
"Those things are too dang small"
That's why we have large wooden plates/trenchers we use for thanksgiving instead. they're like 2.5 times the size of a normal place and they look real nice. A real pain to clean up afterwards, but when everyone is able to plate up all the greenbean casserole, potato salad, and fruit salad they want on top of a slab of turkey meat AND salmon, everyone agrees its worth it.
^ This person Thanksgivings
Salmon, that's a new one, may have to try that. We have brisket when we have enough family over we need to stretch the meats (I refuse to try to cook a bird more than 18 lbs, because it will not cook properly without a commercial oven)
But we also have a few extra sides/substitutions, like cheese covered broccoli, beans, mash potatoes instead, and strawberry/banana jello salad which should not be counted as a side, but it's a salad so it's not desert! Only pies for desert..... ALL the pies: Pecan, molasses pumpkin, open-top apple with strussel, cherry, and lemon meringue.
Doesn't anyone use real plates anymore?
Nailed it!!! I added a chocolate bourbon pecan pie in one year…ten years ago! Haven’t heard the end of that yet. I just remind my husband that I’m the cook and if he doesn’t like it, he can cook. That’ll NEVER happen! But I haven’t made one since. Too bad, it was awesome.
That's a shame, a chocolate bourbon pecan pie is the perfect dessert. There used to be a restaurant called Mimi's Cafe that had a chocolate chip pecan pie on the menu. It was delicious. The last time I ate there I was told they took it off the menu. I never ate there again, it was the single best dessert I had ever had at a restaurant and I just couldn't stand to sit in there knowing it was gone lol.
Give pumpkin cheesecake with ginger snap crust a try.
Make it for Christmas dinner instead!
@@quietone748 That is not an option. Pecan pie with no fancy additions. Since I can only eat a slice or two,(it’s so sweet), I’ll survive. 😔🤣🤣
As a Kroger employee, I definitely agree with number 3. I have heard many horror stories from my coworkers about customers coming in at last minute and complaining about us not having enough Stove Top stuffing mix (1. That's not real dressing. And 2. Our location isn't the only location in Little Rock. )
Having lived in Little Rock for over a decade, can confirm. The fact that Wal-mart isn't open on Thanksgiving is a cause for panic.
I worked at Publix for 2 years, and the day before Thanksgiving was always insane.
While in college, I worked at a Piggly Wiggly. We considered the day before thanksgiving halloween for grocery store employees, only scarier.
@@asdisskagen6487Then you're making the run to Walgreens! 😂
@@debrap7137 I worked at Walgreens back when it was the only store open on Thanksgiving day and Christmas day, and it was WILD. I'd get people coming in asking for last minute things like onions--not french fried in a can, but like whole ones. LOL
I love your last commandment. My sister and I used to do Thanksgiving at my house and invite all our friends who didn't have another place to go that day. One year I was talking with a friend who had a bit of an ego problem, and the problem wasn't that his ego was too small. He was saying he didn't have a place to go on Thanksgiving because his mother was doing something and his sister was traveling, so I invited him to join us. He immediately asked, "Who's going to be there?" After I stopped laughing at what a jerk he was, I told him he probably wouldn't like the guest list.
Thank you for this advice. My family and I just moved to the south a few months ago. Things are very different from where we came from. Although nobody has invited us to Thanksgiving, nor do we have family to go be with, I'll be sure to remember this list should we suddenly find ourselves at somebody else's Thanksgiving.
Are y'all close to the north Florida area? Y'all are totally invited to our house for Thanksgiving!
@cnsohm This has got to be the coolest thing to ever happen on the internet. Risky since we don't know each other, but really cool. We're in west Florida. So far west that an accidental wrong turn puts us in Alabama.
@@domin8ssthis must happen!!! It was meant to be. Southerners don’t invite unless we mean it. ❤️
@@domin8ssthere's a restaurant where you're at that is kinda like cracker barrel. There are/were only 2, one in Missouri and one right there in Alabama. It's been so long. I want to say it begins with a B. Brandons or something like that. Got it, it's called Lambert's. Home of the throwed rolls. So much fun and really good food.
Florida might be differently southern but most of these rules apply, there just may be more for Florida…they’re different, they have a genuine mix of everyone and that’s just different.
Preach, brother! 😂 On the dressing, my mom usually made three. One for stuffing the turkey, and two (one with oysters, one without) as sides dishes. Then there was the home made cranberry chutney with orange peel & pecans, spiced (or pickled) peaches, green beans, etc..! Then there were the years we had ham too-she’d make this sweet mustard sauce that definitely made you use your roll to sop the extra up! 😋
I always make one dressing with oysters and one without, too! My father and brother must have oysters, the rest of us-ick.😂
Oysters and dressing
WTHeck
Yikes
We would have 2, one with chicken dark meat, and one without.
Oh, how I love Spiced Peaches! Might bring those as a surprise this year... Adding that to tomorrow's grocery list. ❤
We had the cranberry orange peel chutney too, and also spiced peaches (soaked in brandy for weeks). Grew up in NJ, was always glad my Mom was from the South.
I love how mat looks like hes riding in the buggy at 1:09 !
True Southerner calls it a buggy.
Matt,spoken like a true Southerner. Every thing you said is absolutely 💯 true and a fact. I do believe these are actually laws in southern state 😅.
Matt you are the best! Making me laugh with 1-9 then tear up on Commandment 10. And yes, we Southerners do like to hug!!!!! Love this😍😍😍
The Southern goodbye takes at least a half hour; minimum.
@@alperdue2704 It takes HOURS for my husband and in-laws😆😆😆
If your goodbyes don't take over an hour and you haven't hugged and kissed everyone at least twice your not doing it right.😂 My family knows I'm a hugger and it's not a quick hug and a pat on the back, I want the to know they are loved and I hold them close to my ❤❤❤
@@HugsXO And don’t forget that extra time when they follow you out to your car.
@@alperdue2704 Your right!!! That's a good extra 30 minutes of everyone saying Bye, Goodbye, so glad you could make it and then more goodbyes and blowing kisses.🤣🤣🤣🤣 I'm a good southern (SoCal) girl and these things matter. Have a wonderful and blessed Thanksgiving and gooble till you wobble!! 🦃
My cousin and my mom got into it one Thanksgiving and within about 3 seconds Grandma had already come from the other side of the house with a "NOT IN MY HOUSE, NOT ON THANKSGIVING. FIGURE IT OUT OR GET OUT."
I had never seen grandma yell before that and never want to again.
And the last rule is definitely true, every year we have someone be it a veteran friend of my grandpas who talks to nobody and sits in his room with him all day then disappears or the psuedo family that just shows up every year because they have nowhere else to go. Its Thanksgiving and grandmas door is always open on thanksgiving.
I get to make the cornbread dressing this year! ... and a pumpkin pie!
You must be living right.
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Word of advice, make a couple before Thanksgiving to practice up.
And to avoid the dressing from being allegedly on the dry side, use chicken stock or broth instead of water...and put TWO sticks of butter just to be safe. The bacon or sausage protocol is for another time...or now (See section on Family Recipe Secrets and Hacks in your Southerner's Handbook)😃🤣🤤🍗🍁@@sid2112
Whoever likes the dish the most, makes it. If you can't cook, you're learning.
I demolish a full loaf of monkey bread every year, somewhere around 15-16 my granny asked me to make two, she couldn't move her hands like she used to for the prep, and she wanted me to have a full loaf to myself that year, for my birthday. So i did. I ain't never seen my granny prouder than when everyone complimented that monkey bread, said it was the best they'd had, and she got to tell them i made it.
My grandparents and my parents both had a really big dining room table with matching chairs. Our family Thanksgiving when I was a kid actually did look like a Norman Rockwell Thanksgiving.
What a nice memory. My grandmother would bring out her best china and we’d help set the table and it was always so pretty. Good times and memories.😊
When we got too many to sit at the table, my dad bought a HUGE piece of plywood and set it on top of the regular table. You learned not to lean on the table, and if everyone had to shuffle their way around it, at least we all had a seat!
My mother made the best dressing you ever tasted. It was famous in the family (both sides!), everyone loved it, and everyone looked forward to it every year. Very sadly, she passed away a few years ago, but I am so blessed and grateful that one day a few years earlier, I asked her if she'd show me how to make it. We had a grand time that day, and it's one of my cherished memories with her. AND I ALSO KNOW HOW TO MAKE HER AWESOME DRESSING. I actually haven't made any in a while, and this video has reminded me that I need to do just that, very soon. Thanks Matt!
I've lived in Alabama my entire life, and every year after Thanksgiving, my Mom would have 3 or 4 of the big empty tubs of butter that she used as bowls to put leftovers in. How many containers of butter do you have to open before you find the butter?
The butter is in the Cool Whip container......
Mom had a roll of masking tape in the kitchen and would label each crock. Worked okay, if the kids remember to match the label when we would put the leftovers back in the fridge.
It was cool whip bowls for us. 😂😂
"Granny does what she wants" No truer words have been spoken.
You are so right about the Cornbread dressing. It’s taken my wife 40 years to perfect the Cornbread dressing…and yes it’s more important than the Turkey !!!
As a true member of the south these are facts 😆
You nailed it! My Aunt Lou and Uncle Billy (siblings) had an annual argument about how much sage goes in the cornbread dressing. We looked forward to it.
You forgot the couch rule!
Elders get the seats first pick
The Adults get what’s left
The pets sit in whatever spot is open
And the kids get the floor or pull out the camping chairs and sit around the couch
Yup pets for sure get priority over the kids
pets sit on laps if they fit, next to the kids if they dont. Just be careful because most dogs are willing to try and fitting on your lap even if they weight as much as grandma.
This one is spot on. Especially the dressing/stuffing debate. My bf is from Alaska. He was used to STUFFING, in the bird. This Southern girl doesn't play that unless I have no choice (meaning I am helping cook in someone else's house). No, we'd be having DRESSING, I explained. He wasn't sure about that, he said, but he'd try it. One taste of my mom's dressing and he was converted. Now that we have been guests at a couple of other Southern homes, he is a changed man. He often does the big grocery trip for holidays (he is actually quite helpful and pretty good at the grocery shopping). Now he always reminds me to put down the ingredients for dressing.
True. A family holiday gathering is NOT the place for arguments, fights, or ANY type of drama. Behave yourself, and help others do the same!
I’m sending this to my kids. Do not mess with Grandmother 😊 especially on Thanksgiving Day
This will be my daughter's first year hosting Thanksgiving and has taken all of my restraint to keep from badgering her about timelines, ingredients, etc. Letting go is so hard! 😂
Happy Friday Matt. Another possible commandment when dipping the turkey in the deep fryer stay far away when it is dipped or be prepared for a hospital stay when you receive 3rd degree burns from the splatter oil.
As an additional caution ... do not set the fryer up under low-hanging foliage. Just sayin'😂
And make sure that turkey is dry dry dry before you submerge it in hot oil. Unless you want fireworks on Thanksgiving...
Make sure the Turkey ain’t still frozen, otherwise the fryer will explode.
Matt, you forgot. . .YA GOTTA HAVE GOOD GRAVY TO GO OVER THE DRESSING!!!! One year my sister invited us to her house for Tday. She cooked a turkey but had some jars of store bought gravy sitting there ready to be microwaved… and I almost fainted. She had loads of pan drippings and I offered to make gravy for her. She ended up racing to her bedroom in tears because I had insulted “her cooking.” Good grief, we had some drama but we also had some delicious homemade gravy to cover that dressing and dry white meat. Good gravy can fix a Chinet platter full of miscues. Happy Turkey Day!
Full of beans and probably stained from spaghetti sauce or chilli. 😂
I wish this was a part of my studies for my bachelors degree. It’s important knowledge everyone should know! So thank you!!🙏🏻👏🏻👍🏻💜
Hahaha! I make the dressing for 80 people so… I’m gonna start baking and freezing cornbread tomorrow!
Oh, Matt. This was spot on. On every single talking point. Thanks, and we love you! ❤
Growing up all we had was canned cranberry sauce, and I could stand it. But my uncle married a Cajun, and she introduced me to homemade cranberry sauce. Buddy it’s so good!
Congratulations on your uncle's good fortune! 😂
I can't do the foo foo cranberry sauce. Gotta have the canned stuff. It even comes with lines so you can properly slice it!
The one thing I looked forward to every year, for as long as I can remember, was my Gami's cornbread dressing. The best tasting food I've ever eaten. This'll be our 2nd thanksgiving without her and even though my aunt's comes close, it's just not the same.
I've spent most of my life eating my Thanksgiving din on the arm of the couch as my table and now as an adult, I still sit on the couch. This spares me the need to answer nosey people's questions at the adult table and I get to watch tv instead of chit-chat about crap I don't care about...
When you get to be fully adult, you might value those folks enough to be grateful for them and spend time with them.
@@YSLRDAmen to that!!!! Wise and true words.
@@YSLRD Bless your heart, I'm a fully-grown adult LOL. I love older people but, not nosey people. There's a difference between wise sage types (obviously nothing like you) and those who spend their lives meddling in other people's business for the sake of being nosey and gossiping lol. I spent most of my teenage years and twenties surrounded by really really really old people because they are by far the best types to learn from and don't behave like highschoolers gossiping. The biggest thing about older people is they don't talk about useless things or small talk, so if my choice feels childish or selfish there's a good chance you are one of the shallow gossipers types I'd avoid like the plague lol. People like you seem to forget there are people who like to keep their lives private from meddlers and don't feel the need to be the center of attention or broadcast their lives to people you only speak to once a year at most lol.
@@YSLRDbingo
Was just going to write that
When u grow up you will like the adults lol
It’s called socializing n interacting with UR FAMILY
Why did u go if ur just going to watch tv instead of speaking to others interested in u, their relative??
I will stand by this: the arms of the couch are valid seating options if the people beside you don't mind.
I honestly didn't think you could outdo your football clips, but this is awesome and perfect!! ❤
The Moment you mentioned the Country Crock container I said "there's baked beans in there"
This is your friendly reminder to get your supplies THIS WEEK and not next week.
I sat on a piano stool many times, sitting at the card table.
My mom hooks me up with a couple country crock tubs, a coolwhip bowl and maybe some rolls in a ziploc bag. I love Thanksgiving!
YUP! My Mom starts prepping on Tuesday and cooking on Wednesday Night. On Thanksgiving morning, the dishes go in the oven or the fridge. Luckily, my parents have a double oven so she can get everything done. Tradition!
I start my holiday menu before Halloween, and begin purchasing ingredients the first week of November. I cook in batches and there is an entire section of the big freezer dedicated to pre-Thanksgiving prep. I am convinced Southern Thanksgivings are the reason double ovens became a thing in residential houses. 😂
Proper prep is essential, I buy my turkey as soon after Nov 1 as I can. Then the week before I roast it I prepare the brine and let it sit in the fridge a day or so while the turkey thaws. Then I brine the bird 24 hrs or more before roasting. A well brined turkey is the most juicy and tender thing you'll have on Thanksgiving.
Thank ya kindly. Your giving out good advice . I start preping TG a week beforehand. Even the buttermilk biscuits are in the freezer until the morn . All come out delicious. Don't forget the gunshots . Always hear them in the back ground . Them out there deer hunting. Everything stops at 4 so they can get on home . 😅😅😅Boom 💥 God bless you hope you an your family have a wonderful Thanksgiving. 🙏 Hug😊
YASSSS! The sounds of Thanksgiving Day hunting! THAT is Southern Thanksgiving. Where the conversation centers around hunting, football, kids, and the absolute new craziness the neighbors have got up to 😂
I would kill to eat Thanksgiving dinner at 2pm. My wife's family eats around 6 even though everybody arrives around 1 oclock. I'm ready to start eating my arm by 3 o'clock.
6pm? Unless it's for someone's work schedule - like a first responder, hell no!
Sounds like you should introduce them to the concept of a meat and cheese tray with some crackers,ma bowl of olives and a bowl of pickles that sits out while everyone finishes everything up all day. It keeps you from being absolutely ravenous by the time dinner is ready but if you just nibble a bit, you won't get full before dinner. Some pepperoni and summer sausage, a couple of sliced cheeses, box of Ritz or Club crackers or Triscuits or something. Or just a plate of cut celery carrots, cucumber and some cherry tomatoes with some dip works as well.
@@mommy2libras They do stuff like that but stuff like cheese and crackers only gets you so far.
And they also do a lot of experimenting. Like the year they put onions in the mashed potatos.
Eat lunch before u go lol
Like every other day when u eat dinner
In case you'll wondering, it's currently 2:30 on Thanksgiving and food is not even in the oven yet.
Crackers and shrimp cocktail are almost gone.
Happy Thanksgiving, Matt and to your family. All these _Commandments_ should be followed like the _OG Commandments._ The world would be a better place.
STANDING OVATION! I'M STILL CLAPPING!!!!🙌
Well kids, I am the official Granny that cooks for 30 family members every year from scratch. Every word is true, but in my home (was raised Old World Southern!) we wouldn't be caught dead using paper products at Thanksgiving! To this day, I would set fine china, crystal, and silver out with a floral arrangement and candles in the. I have a full set of china for every holiday! I cooked for a solid week in prep. but this year, I am ill and not able to do it. Everyone said they wanted to go to someone else's house so this year, I am not cooking. Just doesn't feel right. But your video made me smile. Happy Thanksgiving Yall.
Thank you for keeping tradition all those years.
Happy Thanksgiving. I'm hoping that you get spoiled this year as much as you have been spoiling others the past 30 years!
Loved the video, but I am curious as to why you didn't mention anything about deviled eggs.
Number 11: Thou Shalt Prepare for Devilled Eggs. These may as well be a snack, since everyone's gonna be eating them all the time. It's also best to keep more than one can of Febreeze on hand at any given time unless you want the entire house to reek of Egg, and keep a stockpile of cans next to any bathrooms so the next person to enter isn't walking into the trenches of Verdun.
We have similar rules for Cheusok (Korean thanksgiving), but you are observing this holiday for three days. If you aren’t cooking, helping with prep, or bussing food to whatever space is available, you stay out of the cooking area or you will be trampled and shoved around. Your plate or bowl will never be empty for more than 5 seconds before another mountain of food is plopped on. You will have enough butane canisters and charcoal to run an army for several months or you will run out and may god help you if you run out. Depending on the size of the gathering you will consume at least one large animal or a quarter of a large farm. Either way you will eat very well for three days straight.
Perfect commandments. Happy Thanksgiving!! 🍂🦃
You better get that sage and poultry seasoning in the first week of November!
For me ... the honor is for the one making the fresh gravy. That is my favorite by far. I may be the only one that tries to use a straw at the table and it is for the gravy. MMMmmm ... good stuff.
Matt takes me back to a childhood memory so many times🙌
Lol, that Country Crock container. You know he's right.
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Or Cool Whip!
Marvelous vid, Matt.
My family includes a child who grew up on packaged stuffing, so they still get a bowl of it, right next to the cornbread dressing.
You’re a gem among gems. I grew up with my grandma’s stuffing both in the bird and out of the bird (and the argument about whether it was stuffing or dressing. She called it stuffing-I honor her.), but my dad always made his “secret recipe” Stove Top. Now that he’s gone, having someone make that just for me would be the kindest thing they could do for me on Thanksgiving.
My dressing sucks so we always use stove top.
I find that so sweet :)
Last year, I had to endure a thanksgiving dinner which was only seasoned with garlic salt. Gluten free stuffing was used as well as I was denied making my homemade cornbread dressing. This was at my now ex fiancé’s mothers house AND SHE’S FROM OKLAHOMA!!!!
Well... I can see why that's an ex 😂😂😂
You dodged a bullet.
Doing a pre-marital holiday feast with the potential in-laws is a VERY good way to determine whether that person is right for you. Just sayin' 😂
That's insane. Do they not realize that you can serve both types of dressing? I do. I make GF cornbread and a small pan of dressing just for my sister who has a wheat allergy and the rest of us get the regular stuff. In fact, it's the exact same recipe except for the cornbread I use, which hers is just cornmeal and corn flour. Depending on where you are, you may have to do some looking- a lot of the cornmeals are actually a "cornmeal mix" that contain stuff like baking soda and flour or whatever. I can usually find the small 1 lb pack of plain cornmeal- I think it's Dixie Lily- at one particular store though. Other than that, they're identical. The GF has a slightly different texture once it's all done but it's really not much extra work aside from the actual cornbread. And I actually cook that ahead of time. I'll be doing it this weekend, in fact.
Good lord that sounds horrible and sad. I hope this will be a better Thanksgiving for you, sincerely.
Commandment 8 is best kept in check with plenty of tryptophan foods offered. If that doesn't work, it's time for Nyquil and Benadryl cocktails! Don't upset Granny!!! I gave a switch, and I'm not afraid to use it on my kin.
Classic!
Even if thanksgiving is a yankee holiday.
We Southerners took it and made it better
Any celebration that includes food will be adopted and improved by Southerners 😂
@@asdisskagen6487 Replacing bacon based stuffing with cornbread on the side is not an improvement.
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And a properly brined wild turkey , roasted, is far superior to anything store bought
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😂 Stuffing is just nasty!
The 11th Commandment of Southern Thanksgiving: Dinner will be over by 3:15 Central Time to provide Granny a chance to start the dishwasher before the Cowboys game... and you'd better not take her recliner. She earned it just like she earned her nap during the 2nd Quarter. But you'd better wake her up for the Halftime Show... especially this year- It's Dolly!
No lie every Thanksgiving I have family that will borderline fight each other for that homemade Apple Butter and Jelly which is always funny to watch despite there being like 3-4 mason jars of that stuff. Though after my grand ma died a few years back I ended up having to be the one that makes it since me and one of my cousins are the only ones she taught how to make it.
What a blessing you must be to your family. Even if they fight over it!. I hope you and your cousins have apple butter protege's as well.
@@hillbillysceptic1982 Ha yeah, though I will admit the Pecan pie one of my aunts makes is even more addictive than that.
Apple butter and real butter smeared on a fresh home made biscuit is heaven lol.
@@McBernes I know right, add in either some thick bacon or two sausage patties and you get divinity.
LOL too true@@dragonace119
I was so proud of myself this year for southern thanksgiving. I remembered my own to go containers to both friendsgiving and my family thanksgiving. I have nobody else’s country crock, Tupperware, glassware, or utensils to wash and return in 6 months when I finally remember again. I’ve achieved this twice in my life completely lived in the South. I’m 36.
Proud I tell you!😅
Chinet plates should at minimum be doubled due the psi load stress levels placed.
And don't bother using those silly generic paper plaes!!
And specially if there's no second's "and I'm not mentioning any names".
Thanks Matt and everyone for another wonderful Thanksgiving.
If we didn't have enough for both seconds and enough extras to send home a weeks' worth of leftovers there would likely be a riot at our house 😂
If you have any grandmas, great aunts, or other elderly relatives that make special dishes for holidays, MAKE SURE YOU ASK THEM FOR THE RECIPES!!!!! Many delicious and irreplaceable recipes have been lost because everyone thought the maker would be around forever 😢.
That happened with my Great Aunt's Fig Preserves. We were able to cobble the exact recipe from a few family members and I wrote a little book about the journey. But I wouldn't wanna go through that again.. GET THE RECIPES, FOLKS!
I'm not giving anyone my recipes until I'm on my death bed!
@@pxn748 Bro is taking their secrets to the grave, and anyone who wants them better come prepared with a notebook and a quick writing hand.
Breach any of the 10 Commandments and prepare to have your heart blessed to braking point.
Had a sister-in-law a few years ago who decided she was gonna bring something other that her assigned dish ( she's a yankee) needless to say it didn't go over well.( She's now my ex sister-in-law) no one misses her at all
@@cindycchesney5716 The quickest way to get disowned from a family is to bring the wrong dish to a Southern Thanksgiving. You might as well have done a DNA test while you're at it considering you're never going back.
@@lordpumpkinhead265 Thank You for the great reply! My Mother-in-law was in shock at the time as former sister-in-law said that "she didn't feel like making it" assigned dish I think it was a simple tossed salad. . She decided to make Jiffy corn bread muffins. Might as well said no football today. Believe me when I say it wasn't pretty we no longer know of her whereabouts!
@@cindycchesney5716 *gasp* NOT THE JIFFY BREAD CORN MUFFINS... not a southern Thanksgiving, by the gods!
Ive been binge watching everything that has matt mitchell in it
So as a Texan: before this year I have never heard it called Dressing. Only stuffing
stuffing is inside, dressing is what 'dresses up' that big bird. Old lady Texan here, never called it stuffing.
Agreed. Back in the day, we stuffed the bird until it became unfashionable. Imo cornbread makes stuffing and white bread makes dressing
@@tracyking4518it might not be fashionable, but doggone if it doesn’t taste good.
Proving once again
Texas is not a southern state
At my ex wifes Thanksgiving and other events, we were in our 30s and still essentially at the kids table as her family was old.
But my nieces and nephew did have to sit on a piano bench.
As the oldest grandchild, I was 33 before I was able to sit at the adult table. By then I'd been doing a lot of the work for several years already so I'd earned it. The kids - like my siblings and cousins when we were little and then our kids when we became adults- got stuck eating at a table made of a plank of 5 gallon buckets and sitting on cinderblocks in the driveway.