Every year as November rolls around many of our Thanksgiving days are spent talking to relatives, watching football, and of course, stuffing our faces at the dinner table. At the center of that table is the most iconic dish of the holiday, a golden brown turkey. Despite the iconic status, the turkey receives way too much credit as all it leaves us with are truckloads of leftovers that you’ll still be eating by January.
I understand. “It’s tradition.” But if we’re being real– the insane amounts of leftovers, bland flavor, and mountains of gravy needed to give the disgraced bird any sort of flavor definitely makes it the most overrated thanksgiving dish.
The leftovers alone make me despise the feathered beast that we’re pressured to buy come every November. Days, weeks, and even months after the holiday has passed we somehow haven’t gotten through half the leftovers that keep being recycled into turkey sandwiches, turkey soup, turkey casserole, and dozens of other variations that are impossible to escape.
Come this thanksgiving I propose we let a side dish take over the spotlight and leave that turkey in the freezer section of our grocery stores. Instead we should let the pies, casseroles, or even mashed potatoes become the new main dish of thanksgiving. Anything but that dang bird.