Saving foil was a WW2 thing.
"the imagined expressions on the faces " @frazzled2thecore, that’s where it comes in handy to rename a dish, as I said on another thread. Instead of Jello Mold and a chorus of Ick,
“What’s that?!!
“Oh, a French delicacy, Couronne de Gel.” All my friends have been talking about making one.”
“As for doggie bags - we ALWAYS took them home from restaurants, and so do my kids if they are returning to a place where they can safely store the food. They have in fact told me that they feel embarrassed to leave food behind in restaurants if they will have no place to store it. But, they take food from luncheons only if it is offered and do not take condiments.”
I don’t know if this is reference to my doggie bag statement, but I was referring to taking food home from the buffet tables, not the food left over on her plate.
I always take a doggie bag home from restaurants but it’s my leftover food I take.
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My mother is from the south, most of my childhood holidays were spent with my maternal grandparents, and we always had a two layer molded jello salad. Same one every year – some kind of whipped cream cheese base with lime green jello with fruit in it for the top layer.
We always had dumplings too. Never any other time of the year. It was just a TG thing. They were made out of a biscuit dough made into a ball and dropped into a broth that included some of the turkey drippings, then flower was added to make the broth more of a creamy, gravy texture. If you’ve ever had milk gravy, sort of like that. The dumplings were probably the most popular item on the table at our family TG’s, but I’ve never met anyone else who’s had them as part of their feast, so I’m not sure if it was a southern thing or just unique to my family.
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I live in a town under 8K, but technically it is part of a “metropolitan area” if you consider Portland, ME at 60K a metropolis. But it’s a sophisticated little city so I checked no.
I’ve also lived in a place where there were a lot of people without college degrees, but it was gentrifying, so no again. I worked in a factory, but it was only for a few months, although not in fact a summer job. I’ve been fishing, but it was only once and with a fly-fishing guide so I said no.
It actually goes back to the Great Depression. Knew several older neighbors in my old NYC neighborhood who grew up saving and reusing foil while come of age in the '30s.
Incidentally, I do attempt to wash and save foil. However, it’s more for art/modeling projects for artist friends and one of my personal hobbies I’ve had since childhood.
I scored 6 points on doschicos’ Thanksgiving quiz, 5 of which were for the canned jellied cranberry sauce, which is also my favorite.
I just had an evil thought: as you may know if you saw my pecan pie thread, I am cooking dinner for S and his GF at their new apartment. S has been talking up my cooking to her, as I discovered when they came for Labor Day weekend. 
She likes to cook also, but she’s working that day.
Could be fun if I showed up with store-bought pies, StoveTop stuffing, green bean casserole with the soup and canned onions (I have never actually seen this, much less eaten it.), sweet potatoes with marshmallows (again, never even seen it IRL), and a molded jello “salad” made with mayo and canned fruit and the like. I would pay to see S’s face.
Or maybe not? B-)
@1Dreamer , those dumplings sound delicious!
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@consolation Interesting that we both live in northern NE and have similar Tday points including the canned jellied cranberry sauce. Portland BTW is a metropolis for our neck of the woods. 
Your comments on showing up with showing up with a different type dinner than your son has talked up and expects reminds me how my kids have a little food snob in them. They come from generations of good cooks, mainly from scratch, and adventurous travelers and eaters. It has been problematic in the past in some of their romantic relationships. Picky eaters need not apply.
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Not sure what that means
Isn’t Jimmie Johnson both a race car driver and an ex football coach
My wife and I stopped going out to eat. Prior to that I went to everyone of those listed
Football coach (Cowboys) is Jimmy with a Y. That one I actually knew!
I laughed at some of these questions because it just shows how quizzes like these with multiple choice options don’t really work. Regarding the factory floor: I walked on a factory floor in the business my mother owned. She manufactured engraving presses used by artists. I also walked on factory floors when I OK’d the printing of brochures I had purchased as a marketing AVP for a luxury cruise line.
My husband recently went fishing–the financial company he works for chartered a boat.
My body hurt from a job I had. I was made to wear heels and a dress when I worked in a high end store selling clothing in college. By the end of a shift my feet and back throbbed.
Not sure about how the restaurant question was scored. I didn’t eat in any of those chains in the past year. Many of them I frequented just a few years ago when my daughters still lived at home. Now my husband and I go out for dinner frequently–but go to local higher end restaurants instead. However, my husband checked almost all of them (because he travels a great deal for business and often those chains are the better restaurant option to go to in some small towns.) His overall score was a 19 while mine was a 26.
I just tried the test again and my score went down (more of a bubble) when I entered I had been to all the chain restaurants at least once. Interesting, since many people (including myself) thought that your score would go up because they were inexpensive, middle -America options. But they were obviously scoring it that if you went out to eat at all that you lived in a bubble. They didn’t pick up on people not checking these restaurants because they were lower end options and people in a bubble usually spend more money.
@emilybee - NOT in reference to your doggy bag statement. I knew you were talking about taking food home, uninvited, from buffet tables, or packages of condiments.
I was just surprised that @cobrat knew upper middle class people who thought it was tacky to take home doggy bags, or perhaps I got something wrong? Perhaps this is a New York thing?
The upper middle-class people I have known would not hesitate to ask for a doggy bag if going straight home, rather than overeat or leave food behind. I myself tend to feel apologetic if I leave food on the plate.
Actually that experience took place in the Boston area where I lived and worked for ~5 years.
Let’s not assume about all Bostoners or NYers. Nor all UMC. It was offered anecdotally.
Every Thanksgiving and Christmas, we had ribbon jello at my in-laws. This is a masterpiece of alternating layers of jello and sour cream. The jello layers are different colors. We usually had red on the top. A lot of work to make. It turns out that after many years, my MIL admitted that she didn’t like it! We no longer make it.
I did buy some jello molds at Goodwill, all shiny and coppery. We had a family retro party and I brought jello and it was a huge hit as no one had had it in years.
I love taking a doggy bag home!
One thing to add - my wife probably gained about 25 points marrying me. She would have had lower point options, but met a townie and forked that family tree.
‘SOUR cream’ and jello? Not whipped cream?
Jello…salad? Jello with sour cream?
I’m just going to slowly retreat back into my jello-free bubble.