You'll want to check the GC
16.11.2025 03:58 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@irritatingly.gay.bsky.social
Former child. Editor in chief of "Polite Chuckle" magazine. No longer welcome on Lake Havasu.
You'll want to check the GC
16.11.2025 03:58 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0OPERATION SPITTING COBRA
16.11.2025 03:45 β π 7 π 0 π¬ 1 π 1This was back in the day when the grannies enforced a strict holiday meal rotation.
Things are much better now that we've moved beyond that, and the cooking and hosting duties are left to those of us that actually enjoy it. π
My aunt Sally was by far the worst when it comes to culinary crimes.
Her mashed potatoes were boiled potatoes, mashed. No fat, no dairy, no salt, no pepper, just dry-ass potatoes.
Her gravy was flavorless and had unpleasant chunks of giblets floating in it.
Her turkey? S O D R Y
Nobody ever even suggested that I take it. I just took the SAT and a handful of SAT-II's.
16.11.2025 03:29 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 03 of my 4 aunts, and they all deserve jail for crimes worse than this π
16.11.2025 03:27 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 3 π 0OPERATION ENDURING LUBRICITY
16.11.2025 03:12 β π 8 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1I gotchu
16.11.2025 02:42 β π 14 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0My only secret for turkey gravy: when you make your stock (neck, wings, giblets EXCEPT for the liver, plus aromatics, bay, and whole black peppercorns)...
... add about 2 Tbs of apple cider vinegar to the pot.
(this is also a good place for broccoli stems or kohlrabi)
16.11.2025 02:32 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0We don't do it for Thanksgiving, but I enjoy a good vinegary (no mayo) slaw with red cabbage, julienned granny smith apple, just a bit of grated onion, and a healthy amount of whole grain mustard
16.11.2025 02:30 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I make a compound butter with salt, black pepper, Bell's seasoning, and smoked paprika that goes under the skin.
Then I take some roughly chopped celery, carrot, onion, and a lemon - toss that with a little more salt and poultry seasoning, and lightly fill the cavity.
Never had a complaint!
Too many people just take the turkey out of the bag and put it in the oven.
It needs seasoning! Inside the cavity and under the skin!
If you don't treat your turkey with respect, you're going to get a dry, tasteless turkey, and you'll deserve it.
Gravy is absolutely the key. Mom and I have been cooking the holiday meals together for a loooong time now, and I'm always responsible for the turkey, gravy, and stuffing. Mom usually does the pies and potatoes, and we decide on other sides a few days beforehand.
16.11.2025 02:20 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0when hiring a head of T&S it is vitally important it be a generic white dude who's never once attempted to view life from any other perspective, bonus points awarded if he's incredibly condescending about it in the replies
16.11.2025 00:18 β π 79 π 11 π¬ 7 π 0that man is a side [derogatory]
16.11.2025 00:27 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Never ending soup and salad (threatening)
15.11.2025 22:22 β π 214 π 43 π¬ 6 π 1iβd be more comfortable with the olivia nuzzi coverage if every story was headlined something like βseduced by a guy who eats roadkill: the story of an extremely stupid ladyβ
14.11.2025 19:02 β π 9463 π 1215 π¬ 92 π 31my ADHD brain will be like "Unfortunately i do not have energy to complete this task, however I do have the energy to feel guilty for not completing this task every day until I complete it, if that helps at all?"ποΏΌ
15.11.2025 23:43 β π 70 π 17 π¬ 2 π 1Get in loser β¦ weβre reinventing the rule of law from first principles
15.11.2025 22:35 β π 398 π 43 π¬ 6 π 0Rocky Dennis Christopher Titus Burgess Meredith Wilson Casey Kasem
15.11.2025 17:38 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0"The Lincoln Project" is what I call my efforts to spend four years sharing my bed with a man named Joshua who has nice thighs.
15.01.2025 17:15 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Brassicas
Microsoft Windows
Having a beard
Communism
I don't believe in that kind of superlative, but here are some that I think are very good for a variety of reasons:
Sweeney Todd
Pippin
Urinetown
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Chicago
Merrily We Roll Along
Assassins
Little Shop of Horrors
if I were in the Epstein files, somebody would have told me by now, right?
15.11.2025 02:10 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0The best and worst thing about adulthood is that nobody can stop me from taking a nap right now
15.11.2025 19:39 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0hmm, it turns out leftists were correct and you cannot rely on liberalism to protect you from fascism
interesting, I wonder what else they're right about!