Usually do Christmas morning breakfast with my family. Scrambled Cheese Eggs, grits, maple sausage links, bacon, maybe coffee cake, maybe toast, coffee (I usually bring my own Dunkin Donuts pods, they only drink Green Mountain and Peets and shit).
Thanksgiving is usually turkey. Usually it's pretty dry and chewy and shitty, even though mom always puts it in a browning bag to supposedly seal in the juices. Usually it's Publix brand turkey. This year she got a Butterball, and it was 10x better, probably the best thanksgiving turkey we ever had that wasn't deep fried... which I can't do anymore cuz my dad can't eat fried shit because of his heart and his fucked up liver. She said from now on she's gonna say piss on the Publix turkeys and get a Butterball.
My old lady (and me) sometimes does a greek lamb shank for Christmas dinner when her folks come over. Takes ALL DAY to cook it, but it's damn near the best shit in the world. Nearly. Because nothing beats Carolina style hickory smoked BBQ pork. Which also takes all damn day to cook.
One of these years I want to find a way to smoke a turkey for Thanksgiving. When I was a kid in the Boy Scouts, one of the dads on a camping trip brought a turkey and a new metal trash can, which he used to rig some shit up and smoke a turkey one night when we were camping down by Providence Canyon in SW Georgia (I think). We were all laughing about "Nobody is gonna eat your trash can turkey, are you crazy?" But then we tried it. Everyone there agreed, best fucking turkey any of us ever had in our whole life. That was almost 30 yrs ago, and still to this day, I remember how insanely good that turkey was. None of my fried turkeys, as good as they always are, came anywhere close to it.
Smoking is the way to go. It's hard to spend $600 on an electric pellet smoker.... which is why I spent 320:
It's small, but it's top tier. Big enough to do a massive Turkey, two Boston butts, whatever. Don't waste money on a traeger.
Greenwise publix lamb is some good stuff lol. Truly really good lamb. I've smoked a leg of lamb before on a rotisserie. It was New Zealand lamb so I really had to put the extra effort in for it to taste nice(olive oil, garlic, rosemary, etc).
American and Australian lamb are the best. Middle east BS tastes like shit.
I'm working during christmas just like Thanksgiving. 3 years in a row doing so.
Cooking is probably my biggest hobby and I associate food with the holidays. Good eating kinda brings everyone together. Thanksgiving is Turkey, Christmas is a prime rib roast(no ham), and new year's is a corned beef brisket with black eyed peas and collards. But I'm stuck in a hotel for all of them. Oysters are sort of mandatory on Christmas and new year's too.
The analysts at espn think ND is the #4 seed in the playoffs. Everyone still has NC in the orange bowl, but it's split on who the opponent is. Texas a&m or florida.
Saban obviously didn't say that. Anyway.. now that all the games are played.
+Florida did hang with alabama +Clemson beat ND by 24, although it was worse than that number if you watched it.
So it made the committee's decision tougher. With both the playoffs and the orange bowl. I think they love ND so much that ND will get the #4 spot.... That is the most likely outcome at least.... maybe. Texas a&m's resume is more deserving. But the committee may use the Florida Alabama game result against Texas a&m a bit to favor ND. It's how you finish, right? Jimbo's only loss was to Alabama but he got destroyed. And ND went undefeated in the ACC(without playing Virgina tech, nc state, or Miami). It'll be bullshit, but nc might still be a part of the biggest bowl because of it. . .
Damn. Trevor Lawrence whipped ND's ass a little too hard. The committee loves ND, but after that shellacking....I don't know. If ND is forced out of the playoffs then they'll get the orange bowl over NC.
Whatever. I don't like ND as much as the next person, but I was looking forward to UNC playing someone good. They'll still get a decent game but it might be cinci/cc/Indiana now.
I hope USC loses tonight to Oregon. Seeing people act like they're a playoff contender is absurd.
A scenario that affects the teams of the three posters here:
If Clemson beats Notre Dame, north Carolina is locked in the orange bowl. Their most likely opponent is texas a&m. Things that could change this up:
-if northwestern beats ohio State -if tennessee breats texas a&m
Ohio State should win likely, but NC's opponent is basically the best non-playoff big 10/SEC. If tennessee wins then Florida and Georgia are the obvious ones that come to mind. If alabama tears florida up, then Georgia goes. If Florida plays alabama evenly and barely loses, then it's gonna be close. If Florida somehow defies odds and wins then that's chaos.
Obviously if Notre Dame 2-0s Clemson then UNC's out of that bowl. But I think Clemson will win. And NC's most likely(and only) opponents as of now in order are probably:
1. Texas a&m 2. Georgia 3. Florida 4. Ohio State
I could perhaps mention Indiana but there's no way. It's those 4 in descending likelihood. Obviously I'd love northwestern to beat OSU and give me my dream matchup, but that's the least likely
A guy I went to school with is the best and most known photographer on the island. He is always snapping shots when the hurricanes/northeasters hit, and this photo made Time Magazine's top 100 photos of 2020:
The first surge entering a ground level game room.
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