A Thanksgiving-Related Poll, Suggested by autotruezone

[gnomi]

[Poll #1797455]

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[mabfan.livejournal.com]

Narf! Must have narf!

[fauxklore]

The day after Thanksgiving is You'reWelcomegiving.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

. . . this, I had not thought of. But it is an excellent point.

[autotruezone.livejournal.com]

Wow, that was fast!

[autotruezone.livejournal.com]

I forgot to mention the most important one: This Friday is Challah Baking Day, one of the few Fridays when I actually have time to bake fresh challah for Shabbat!

[stormsdotter.livejournal.com]

You left out my favorite dish: candied sweet potatoes. This surprised me, because I could have sworn that you or mabfan posted about how much the girls like them.

[pocketnaomi.livejournal.com]

She did say "something yam-related."

[aunt-becca.livejournal.com]

narf! The answer is always narf.
You forgot to add "irrational family members" as part of the poll. They are the thing that makes every Thanksgiving dinner complete :)

[sorek.livejournal.com]

Word.

[cellio]

Yes, this.

[elrhiarhodan]

Friday is a work day this year. I will be spending quality time with the office's industrial sized shredder.

And writing fic on company time.

[tsuki-no-bara.livejournal.com]

friday is "oh thank god i don't have to go to work and can sleep late" day. :D also possibly "maybe i should take this opportunity to get my car washed" day.

[half-double.livejournal.com]

Thanksgiving isn't complete without 1) uncomfortable family interactions, and 2) rolls, which are not so much for Thanksgiving day but for making leftover sandwiches the day after.

[rikchik.livejournal.com]

I'm a fan of Buy Nothing Day. In practice it is often Board Game Day.

[scarlettina.livejournal.com]

You are a silly, silly person. This is why we love you. :-)

[cellio]

It's only Thanksgiving Sheni if you're doing another big dinner gathering. (Which I remember doing once when I was a kid and logistics prevented everyone from being together on the same day -- though we didn't call it "sheni". :-) )

[autotruezone.livejournal.com]

Do you typically have a seder on Pesach Sheni?

[cellio]

We do, though not motivated by yom tov sheni but by fragmented families. (I'm assuming that by "Pesach Sheni" you mean the second day of yom tov and not the make-up Pesach" that comes a month later. If you meant the latter, I've got no idea how that should be handled these days.)

[zsero.livejournal.com]

Pesach Sheni is indeed the one a month after Pesach. The day after the first day of Pesach is just the second day of Pesach. And, as on the day after Thanksgiving, on Pesach Sheni we eat leftovers from Pesach, in the form of matza.

Still, I vote for "isru chag"

[cellio]

Oh! Ok, I meant to refer to "yom tov sheni" with "thanksgiving sheni", not that second Pesach. Oops.

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

"It's only Thanksgiving Sheni if you're doing another big dinner gathering."

Actually, we are...

[tapuz.livejournal.com]

In addition to it being Buy Nothing Day, the day after Thanksgiving is also the ein ma'arbevim simhah be-simhah celebration of adjacent birthdays. (Though I suppose that under tadir ve-she-eino tadir, tadir kodem it's just plain old erev/Shabbat.)

[chaiya.livejournal.com]

Also roasted brussel sprouts and some sort of carrot dish and something with parsnips in it! And some sort of soup served in a pumpkin tureen!