It’s not all about the turkey
NVOT’s Favorite Thanksgiving Foods
The fourth Thursday of November. A large table surrounded by family or close friends. An assortment of potatoes, greens, sauces, rolls, and stuffing all surrounding the centerpiece: a big, roasted turkey. This is a typical Thanksgiving dinner. Whether it be the bird, the stuffing, or any other dish, Thanksgiving favorites vary from person to person. Students and staff at NVOT–who celebrate the holiday–have different opinions.
Click on the slideshow below to hear different opinions of what people like to eat on Thanksgiving:
Chemistry Teacher Kevin Hughes: “My favorite Thanksgiving dish is the stuffing. It makes you stuffed and it’s yummy. We have shrimp cocktails, oysters, and clams on the half shell to start. There is turkey on the charcoaled grill. Friends stop over on their way to and from places–my house is open. Then we have the stuffing, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, gravy, sweet potatoes with jalapeño–to make it spicy and sweet–and then pie. We have blueberry pie, pumpkin pie, and chocolate cake.”
Junior Mia Kwon: “My favorite food on Thanksgiving is the turkey. I can’t have Turkey Day without a turkey. The best food at my house on Thanksgiving, though, is stuffing. My aunt makes two different kinds and I help her make it.”
Senior Ian Erickson: “In my opinion, the best possible dish to eat on Thanksgiving is my mom’s baby back ribs. She changes the way she seasons it, and it gives me a feeling of excitement towards how it would taste. In my house, a typical Thanksgiving dinner would include yellow rice with noodles and pancetta, some sort of salad, the amazing ribs, and for the big meat, my parents usually buy pernil. Pernil is a roasted pork leg that people in South America and the Caribbean eat during the end of the year holidays.”
