Author Topic: The Official Inclusive Non-denominational Holidays 2020 Thread (and 2023 also) (Read 3514 times)

|iR|Focalor · « **on:** November 28, 2020, 12:13:06 PM »

Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hannukuh, Kwanza, New Years. Whatever!

I believe in segregation... which SOUNDS bad... but really I just wanted a place to put all the Thanksgiving and Christmas and New Years shit I find and want to share with all you assholes. And maybe some Kwanza and Hannukuh shit too, because I don't discriminate when I segregate.

On the first day of christmas my true love gave to me... a beer...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2oPio60mK4

|iR|Focalor · « **Reply #1 on:** November 30, 2020, 11:32:27 AM »

Xmas or Bust:
The Untold Story of “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation”

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/xmas-or-bust-the-untold-story-of-national-lampoon-s-christmas-vacation

|iR|Focalor · « **Reply #2 on:** December 19, 2020, 01:00:20 PM »

From the old Mister Magoo Christmas Carol movie, someone actually made some "woofle-jelly cakes".

(edit 9/28/23 - missing image/dead link: was a picture of woofle jelly cakes

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quadz · « **Reply #3 on:** December 21, 2020, 06:30:04 PM »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw89o0afb2A

quadz · « **Reply #4 on:** December 22, 2020, 11:43:04 AM »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fu2RqvKVwxQ

haunted · « **Reply #5 on:** December 24, 2020, 11:31:14 PM »

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.

haunted · « **Reply #6 on:** December 24, 2020, 11:35:58 PM »

Nothing special but I went back in my pictures. Obviously i wasn't entertaining company, but this is the mini-rib roast I cooked for myself last year.

Sgt. Dick · « **Reply #7 on:** December 25, 2020, 05:01:16 AM »

Merry Christmas everyone

|iR|Focalor · « **Reply #8 on:** December 25, 2020, 05:13:02 AM »

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.

quadz · « **Reply #9 on:** December 25, 2020, 02:19:43 PM »

haunted · « **Reply #10 on:** December 25, 2020, 04:22:16 PM »

Quote from: |iR|Focalor on December 25, 2020, 05:13:02 AM

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:

https://www.amazon.com/Green-Mountain-Grills-Crockett-Controlled/dp/B078RXH95C/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=green+mountain+davy+crockett&qid=1608941704&refinements=p_85%3A2470955011&rnid=2470954011&rps=1&sprefix=green+mountain+davy+crocket&sr=8-3

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.

|iR|Focalor · « **Reply #11 on:** September 28, 2023, 01:07:17 PM »

I had a bunch of posts in here that I deleted because they were empty from missing images/dead links.

Note to self... and anyone else who cares: probably not a good idea to hotlink pics from elsewhere on the web. Either attach them to the post or upload them to your TS webspace for future posterity so that they'll last as long as this messageboard manages to.

|iR|Focalor · « **Reply #12 on:** December 21, 2023, 09:07:25 AM »

One of many peoples favorite Christmas movies, National Lampoons Christmas Vacation.

They've show it damn near every day on TV this December... and I've seen it on TV plenty thoughout the rest of the year too. Hell, it's almost like they're TRYING to make people get sick of it. Here's a short video with some interesting info about several deleted and missing scenes that are likely hidden away in a vault somewhere. Maybe they'll dig 'em out one day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsWkgXyamvY

|iR|Focalor · « **Reply #13 on:** December 25, 2023, 05:57:55 PM »

Man. Is it just me or has this year, and especially this holiday season, gone by like lightning? I ain't getting any younger, and putting out all the Christmas decorations this year was a lot of work: digging out the 10 big ole plastic tubs of ornaments and decorations and doo-dads and everything. My god, it's SO MUCH. I gotta drag about 5 loads up from the basement around the side of the house and up the hill using big heavy duty handtrucks. And then theres my pre-lit 9-foot artificial tree that comes in 3 pieces and is like dragging 3 dead mooses up from the basement. And this year I added a whole bunch of big lighted yard decorations that took forever to hook up with 90-zillion different extension cords and 3-way adapters. I guess I've just been so busy this year with work and everything that it's taken up all my time and made things go by faster. Luckily I have JACK SHIT to do other than sit on my butt and watch tv and whatever the hell else I wanna do until the new year.

October, November, and December... without a doubt, my favorite 3 months of the year. It's great. Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. Leaves changing in fall (plus grass stops growing and no more yard work for a while, hooray), football season, nice cool weather.

But alas all good things must come to an end.

Anyway, like my lord and savior hath said, I hope EVERYONE, even my enemies, had a wonderful Christmas.

|iR|Focalor · « **Reply #14 on:** November 14, 2024, 11:35:28 PM »

I started to rename this the "Christmas in perpetuity thread" but... whatever.

I know I know... it ain't even thanksgiving yet. But I've been hauling up the 900-thousand boxes of Christmas decorations from the basement. I get into Christmas a little more than I used to. Been downloading a bunch of Christmas tunes. Classic shit mostly - stuff my family always listened to through the 80's.

When I was a kid, sometime just before Christmas, we'd load up in the car and go riding around all over the place looking at Christmas lights on peoples houses. Usually the tape playing in the cassette player was Nat King Cole christmas songs or one of those Mannheim Steamroller christmas albums that were all the rage in the 80's.

https://youtu.be/yzGFPQQj9BQ?si=sbhYxrt_gRP3-HnP

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