<p>So my friend just invited me to stay over at his place during thanksgiving. I am an intl so dont know the custom.</p>
<p>Do I bring presents for him and his entire family when i go there?</p>
<p>Nope, presents aren’t necessary. Sometimes people might bring a bottle of wine. Just bring your good spirit.</p>
<p>Presents for the entire family aren’t necessary, but a small “thank you” gift would be nice. A box of chocolates or a bottle of wine or something along those lines should suffice.</p>
<p>A thank-you note is always a good idea- send one a few days after you leave.
And, it is always appreciated when a guest (male or female) offers to help in some way. It just makes you seem like a nice kid. Hope you enjoy it.
ps. ha! definitely forget trying to bring wine if you are underage</p>
<p>I agree- some sort of small thank you present is appreciated. </p>
<p>Also, if they’re making a big dinner- offer to help. 9 times out of 10 you’re going to be pushed out of the kitchen, but the offer is always appreciated.</p>
<p>I agree with a lot of the above posters.</p>
<p>-A box of chocolates or something would be nice.
-Send a hand-written thank-you note a couple days afterwards.
-Whether the dinner is big or small, I think you should offer to help both before and after the dinner. As romani said, they’ll probably push you out of the kitchen, but it’s polite to offer (and mean it when you offer).</p>
<p>The turkey will likely be dry, because most Americans don’t cook their T-giving turkeys properly. Fair warning.</p>
<p>It’s not really a gift holiday, it’s a day of feasting, relaxing, and for many people (but not me) football-watching. American football, that is.</p>
<p>Helping with the cleanup will make you as popular as possible.</p>
<p>Also, make sure to take the time to reflect on what the settlers did to the Native populations of North America.</p>
<p>play some Maiden</p>
<p>[YouTube</a> - Iron Maiden - Run To The Hills](<a href=“Iron Maiden - Run To The Hills - YouTube”>Iron Maiden - Run To The Hills - YouTube)</p>
<p>You should probably dress up a little and maybe also bring clothes to play football in during the halftime show.</p>
<p>Don’t forget to bring a peace pipe (and then offer your hosts a smallpox-filled snuggie?)</p>
<p>TomServo- you should experience a southern thanksgiving then.</p>
<p>Deep fried turkey is amaaaazing.</p>
<p>Deep fried turkey is indeed delicious.</p>
<p>“You should probably dress up a little”</p>
<p>Traditional pilgrim dress is considered proper form.</p>
<p>I’ve experienced nothing <em>but</em> Southern Thanksgivings, and deep fried turkeys are relatively new on the scene (they are also notoriously dangerous) as far as I’m aware. I’ve had deep-fried turkey one time. Turkey really ought to be cut up before being cooked, so the white meat and dark meat can be cooked separately (they are done at different temperatures and different times).</p>
<p>“New”? My family has been deep frying turkey since we moved to the south when I was 4. And it’s really not dangerous if you have a rigging system and you do it over cement & outside. Plus hours less time consuming than in an oven. And we’ve never had an issue with the white vs. dark meat.</p>
<p>Make sure to get a Cherokee Mohawk…or is it Apache?</p>