Are there any bonus points for six turkeys walking through your backyard? That was the best thing that happened to me last week.
@rosered55 No, not unless they show up on your dining room table with no feathers and nicely browned and crisped skin.
@srystress I think you deserve a bonus point for having raised turkeys. My dad grew up on a turkey farm as a child.
No extra points for showing up in a pickup truck for turkey dinner but if you ride your ATV or snowmobile over to mom/grandma’s house, that’s an extra 5 points.
@raclut Are those points for the original quiz or your Thanksgiving dinner?
Scored a 68…I guess living in the middle of nowhere upstate New York for long periods of my life has made my bubble pretty thin.
With the sweet potato addition I’m up to 23 points for our family Thanksgivings. I’m claiming points for both Cool Whip and canned whipped cream. But you completely forgot points for jello molds!
52 on the original quiz. Family moved from scrambling multiple job working class to middle class when I was a kid.
We’ve got wild turkeys in New England, too. But some law against disturbing them. So I guess getting arrested would count for something.
Thanksgiving quiz, 14 points: green bean casserole with everything out of cans; frozen turkey; cranberry sauce from scratch but only because I love to watch them pop in the saucepan; ice cream and Cool Whip!
I wondered about jello molds. And waldorf salad.
A friend told me a story recently that her first Thanksgiving with her husband’s family, out here where we both live, she was supposed to bring green salad. Her mother-in-law asked her Wed night why she hadn’t made the salad yet. Friend told her all the fixings were in the fridge and she’d make it right before the meal.
Wrong - green salad meant green jello salad. Luckily Mother-in-law had all the ingredients on hand.
Gosh, the point system for jello molds would be so complicated - what type of mold, how many ingredients in it. Extra points for lime jello. Just fruit or are you going all funky and throwing veggies in there as well? Are you putting some kind of topping on it, too? I don’t know if I have the bandwidth for that one.
And then there are the pudding based “salads” like Watergate salad with the pistachio pudding and the marshmallows (actually darn tasty!)
@doschicos I took the quiz on the first post in this thread. I am surprised to have scored so low. I never got a 29 on a test before.
I never heard of vegetables in the jello. And I thought I got out a whole lot.
adding: Bananna Pudding with vanilla wafers (nanner puddin) - that is a Thanksgiving tradition for many. I !love it!
Big hit in DH’s family was tom-ah-toe aspic. That has jello and was probably my biggest adjustment to his family.
Should we add Minute Rice to the list?
My brother-in-law’s wife’s family makes one that is tomato based like a jellied gazpacho. I’ve seen ones mixing fruity jello but containing carrots and/or celery. /
ETA: @lookingforward Maybe we have some relatives in law in common. I see we cross posted about the tomato based mold.
I think my former sister-in-law calls her green gelatin salad mold “green slime.” But’s it’s quite tasty.
I am getting so hungry.
And I think this Thanksgiving quiz is better than the NPR one.
Grandma made lime jello with finely chopped coleslaw floating on top.
I liked it because it was savory.
But black cherry jello is not awful if you are sick.
I had to quit the survey at the first question. How would I know the educational attainment of my nearest 50 neighbors??? I was going to guess but honestly I have no idea.
I love all those jello salads and desserts.
And I think I’m making banana pudding tomorrow. I just wish I had the ingredients, I’d make it right now.
Oh gosh - we had lime jello mold at every holiday for years. It died a slow death but it’s been a long time since it’s made an appearance.
One of my Aunt’s was a hoarder and I opened her pantry one day and there were literally hundreds of boxes of lime green jello mix @$0.08/box.
I got a 24… but maybe I missed some questions (skimming I see mention of Walmart?).
Yea - some questions are odd. For example, DH and I happen to not like trucks. But many of our friends do, and often they buy pricey high end trucks (whether they need the cargo space or not). I’d say we are all insulated from low income challenges.
Boyfriend of D2 went turkey hunting with a bow last weekend. He didn’t bring home a bird which made my D very happy.