[Sca-cooks] OOP - Turkey, again!

[A F Murphy]

I'm used to having celebrations in a small family.  The one single
Thanksgiving I was married and my grandmother was alive, we got all the
way up to 6! Usually just 4.(None of our relatives are near...) So, even
with our pretty stripped down dinner, there were plenty of leftovers -
or have you ever seen a nice 3 lb turkey?

But I've never seen taking home only your own leftovers. Either in my
family, my in-laws (a bit more traditional - 9 or 10, if I was there,
and enough to feed about 30...)  or families I have visited. I've always
seen the hostess insist that she can't possibly use everything that is
left, and pack up a variety of foods for every guest. Extras for
young'n'broke or people who'll be sharing with friends or family who
couldn't come...

And I hope your mother's recovery is fast and uneventful.

Anne


Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius wrote:

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> *P.S.: Can anyone explain to me (and I know we've also had this
> discussion here before), maybe I should say, can anyone give me a
> compelling argument in support of either A) taking your leftovers
> home with you, or B) --to be fair-- not taking your leftovers home
> with you? The concept of bringing a casserole (or whatever, but this
> being America, it seems to be the standard) to somebody else's home,
> and then taking your leftover food home with you, seems so bizarre to
> me. I mean, you go to somebody's house, and bring a bottle of wine,
> do you say, "Okay, there's still a glass left in the bottle, I'll
> just take that back home with me..."? I'm sure there are good
> arguments to be made in favor of this practice, ranging from, "I want
> to get my casserole dish back quickly," or, "I want to make cleanup
> easier for my host/ess," or it may even date from some early funerary
> custom in America, and, "I want to take this food of affliction away
> from my host/ess, so that they can begin to heal." (Funeral-type
> situations being a common occasion for the pot-luck/casserole thing,
> it seems.) I always just thought it was weird.
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