The first thing: do not dress 'well', wear PAJAMAS
DISCLAIMER: If you want to live this date 'like an American', you can make reservations at the best restaurants in Madrid that will honor the American tradition this 2019.
TRACKSUIT OR PAJAMISM
Do you remember when your mother put you in the bib dress for Christmas Eve dinner, or the mini bow tie? And the sequins, glitter and gold for New Year's Eve? Well, forget about Thanksgiving. . Although it is a great party to meet and celebrate with the family, they are very clear about what the objective is: eat and drink . And what better than a tracksuit to fit the whole turkey and 30 sides? no formalities . You can also follow Joey's advice at friends and borrow maternity pants.
The pants of the professional eater
CHINESE THANKSGIVING
Thanksgiving It is the quintessential great American family party. Above Christmas, New Year's Eve, birthdays. But what happens when you have to stay in New York for work or bad weather? What if you can't get together for the family and everyone is with their families? Or do you just not feel like spending 24 hours this year cooking a feast that will be devoured in half an hour? What is left open? What options do you have? Years ago, not even a measly restaurant opened. Well, yes, the Chinese restaurants in the city. That's why, New Yorkers started a strange tradition of eating spring rolls and Peking duck or sweet and sour chicken in the absence of turkey. This tradition has now spread and is preferred by some over the big bird and cranberry sauce.
His thing is not to get up from the table for hours
THEY CALL IT DINNER WHEN THEY MEAN FOOD
First Thanksgiving in America. Everyone talks to you about "dinner" , how good, how rich. And suddenly someone comments: “But don't even think about eating anything all day, there will be a lot of food”. How? What? Don't eat anything until seven or eight at night? But how big is that turkey? And then they reassure you: "No, if we have dinner at 3." HA! Dinner at 3. Seriously, why do you call it dinner when you mean food? Or well, call it brunch.
hours and hours eating
DEAR, JOHNNY, HOW DO YOU LOOK
The turkey is bought days before. There are those who do it weeks before if they want a specific turkey, from a specific farm. They freeze it, thaw it, keep it in the fridge, put it in a bucket with water and salt 24 hours before and then they have to roast it. In all this time, the turkey becomes one more . You end up taking affection for him and calling him Johnny, or Mickey, or Ted, or Jessica, or Megan . Baptizing the turkey is a more common practice than it seems. And you will say: "Then it will be more painful to eat it." No, on the contrary, you are willing to lose sight of it. Thank you, Johnny, for being so rich.
Give it whatever name you want, but name it
NIGHTS OF DEBRONATION, MORNINGS OF TURKEY
They say that the night before Thaksgiving is the busiest night of the year. Above New Year's Eve, Christmas Eve, the Superbowl. It will be the joy of coming home and reuniting with family and friends. Or the sorrow of not being able to return home drowned in beer. But it is tradition to do a pub crawl on the eve. Get back on all fours, put it to sleep and wake up happy with the smell of roast turkey and soak your hangover in its juice. Or, failing that, in the three delights rolls and rice.
Don't go overboard with alcohol. Oh yeah, what the hell!
** SPOTYPAVO **
Surely this custom is not very widespread, but from here we want to spread it: the application that Spotify created to help you cook the turkey. It is both a timer and a playlist. You add all the details of your turkey and the type of music you want to listen to and they will notify you when Johnny is ready.
PELICULERO TURKEY
There are two types of Thanksgiving: those that end quickly to watch football. As a family, yes. And those that finish just as quickly to watch a movie marathon. With family, of course. But this is how it is, it ends quickly eating, because the desktop concept has not arrived or at least they don't understand it as something that is done “around a table”. And after the turkey, sides, and various pies, cousins, uncles, sons, grandparents, and parents gather around the heat of the television to watch three football games or all of The Hunger Games together. Ironic.
And that's all my friends
*** Article originally published on November 26, 2015 and updated on November 28, 2019**