David: Welcome to Fun Fact Friday wasn't
Leila: ready, but we're gonna. We'll read here. It was like,
are you ready? Okay.
David: A little early this week. Yeah, we're doing Thanksgiving
episode releasing on Thursday. So if you, you check your feet
and you finished eatin and you're dozing off you can doze
off to our soothing voices. Yep.
Leila: So it is the middle of the day, which means we're
either going to be more chaotic or less chaotic than we usually
are.
David: We got the turkey in the oven, Leila Oh my god. Why don't
you talk about setting up your turkey Friday's weekly podcast
where discuss topics to topic each week back we try and try
and do a good new segment and I'm
Leila: he's David Leslie over there. Yeah.
David: So what why don't you tell us why don't you tell us
what this morning's been like for us this
Leila: morning. I got up late by accident. I was gonna get up at
like seven because they wanted to be up to like eight to make
Cineworld but I got up at like 750 And I was like, Ah, dang it.
So I got up, made some rolls and turn on the Macy's Thanksgiving
Day Parade and then they got up ate the cinnamon rolls. We had
to do the turkey. So we got out Turkey dried it all off. Well he
got out of Turkey and then he like pulled out the bag and
stuff from inside of it. It was apparently freezing cold if I
heard Yes,
David: the mannequin that was inside and then like, the bag of
like, all the other stuff. gizzards Yeah,
Leila: that were
David: I pulled that and it was like because the you know you
saw the turkey but you don't want it to get too. too warm. So
anyway, anyway, it was super cold no huddle a region there is
so
Leila: so good. Mom was like she handed me a bowl of salt and
pepper. And I was like, what's this gonna do? It's just salt
and pepper. She was like, you're gonna put this in the turkey and
I'm like, in the turkey. And she's like, Yeah, and that
cavity just want to like rub it all around. And I'm like there's
bones in their bones and I don't want what? So I took it I rubbed
it the turkey I gagged a couple times. But then stuffed a folder
like apples, onions, and lemons, I think and then sage, rosemary
and thyme.
David: Fresh, fresh fresh seasonings to to enter the
inside inside of there.
Leila: I was Madre mom made some sage rosemary, thyme, butter.
And I had to rub that garlic and garlic so much. A full bulb of
garlic. Yes. And I had to rub it all underneath the skin and
around it and oh my gosh, if you could have seen how much butter
was on Turkey. It was just like literally a butter block. Yeah,
David: it was done with it. It was maybe maybe it was just so
much butter because we got we had to get a huge Turkey we got
a whole lot of people coming over today. Oh yeah. So you know
oh yeah. Good having butter for them. And my monitor keeps
turning off for some reason. will maybe have you I'll tell
you hey monitor. Stop turning off. I think one of my settings
is off. If you're hearing a little bit of a buzz in the
background sorry about that. We got a space heater on out in the
studio. cold out here it is.
Unknown: It feels cold chilly usually.
David: But yeah, so we got the turkey all good to go. And we're
you know, straightening up the house. We got a whole lot of
people going over so the missus is inside, getting getting
things finished up. She's probably playing Stardew Valley
and this because
Leila: we told her to not stress out because she was stressing
out and she's like, I'm not stressing out.
David: It's not stressing out. Now she's She just wants
everything to be nice for everybody. Yeah, but yeah, yeah,
Thanksgiving. We were big fans. We're big fans. And we know we
were we were thinking about doing like the history of
thanksgiving. Everybody knows that. We're just gonna give some
fun little tidbits of of fact, information and facts
information. Yeah, just some some fun little facts. Maybe if
you if you get this before you have dinner, maybe you can. You
can, you know, have some fun facts to share around the dinner
table. Yeah. So before we just started I do have a good news
story from NPR. Hope. And now, Thanksgiving edition of
Unknown: fun we didn't say
Leila: now, good news, Thanksgiving edition.
David: The end Gotcha. Okay. We're professional. podcasters
Leila: go fast.
David: Oh, Wally. Isn't an emotional support. Alligator.
Leila: Oh my god. I'm a Miraculous Ladybug, jagged Stone
and his crocodile Fang.
David: Oh, I didn't know. I know some of the lady that the movie
was actually decent, decent movie. It's still cool. So
Wally. Yes, it's called I'm aware. The went to a Phillies
game, which is uh, yeah. He went to the ballpark. Baseball. Yeah.
And was asked to leave. Oops, yeah. But he wasn't there to
watch the game. He was there to meet the players and he was
invited. Oh my god because apparently he is a a tick tock
star. We don't we don't do tick tock so we'll see a tick tock
here and there. If they're posted elsewhere, they end up on
X or YouTube or something but has 115,000 followers on Tik Tok
and 27,000 followers on Instagram. So basically, there's
this woodworker dude. His name works in the store. Any, any,
any? Nope, nope. This is one of his fans. Hold on, hold on. Keep
talking about this story is overly long. I think it's very
long. It's a very, very long story and the good part npr.org
Yeah, I think they get paid by the word there. So. Okay, so
yeah, it is Henny and he is his owner and he is a woodworker.
And he, he had some some tragic events happen his life, not not
had some family members pass away. Yeah, he had some cancer
and had to have some treatments. And Wally was his best friend,
because he rehabilitates lizards. And, you know, other
amphibians and stuff like that, and nurses and back to health
and stuff like that. But Wally, the alligator was particularly
friendly to him. Like he's the only alligator ever that doesn't
like try and bite you where this take place? This is wow, it
mainly talks about I don't know. It mainly talks about the
Phillies game so I don't know. Might be between Yeah, yeah. It
says he lives up there near Philly. He's like two hours away
from the ballpark. So he's up north. Cool. So yeah, I just
thought was cool. And Wally was actually the reference alligator
was used for visual reference on the low key series for alligator
alligator Loki. Because there's a version of Loki on the show.
That's an alligator.
Leila: He's obsessed with the show right now.
David: It was just a finished up the second season. And it's
probably the best thing that Marvel's done in my opinion
story wise. It the character arcs are good and Paul review or
anything but it was pretty good. But anyway, yeah, Wally, Wally,
these emotional support alligator. And he's he's making
the rounds. He's doing his thing, but he seems he seems
like a very sweet alligator. Yeah, like in this article on
NPR. There's like a picture of of the guy any, like holding
him. And he's just like, it was like a like a puppy in his arm.
But good stuff. Good stuff. I thought that was a good
uplifting story.
Leila: So my news, I think we do this one every year. Oh, yeah.
But
David: there's a little twist here. Is there? I'll tell you.
Okay.
Leila: So there's this old grandma. I don't know how old
she is. But yes, super, super. Oh, she doesn't look super old.
But she, her name is Wanda. And she texts this dude, saying,
hey, Thanksgiving dinner at my house. And then he was confused
because he didn't know anyone named Wanda. And he wanted to
know who this person was. So it was like, Who are you? You're
not my grandma. And then she was like, we still want to come
over.
David: I mean, we got food. Yeah, we
Leila: got food. And so they've had Thanksgiving together since
2016. It's eight years. So Good grief.
David: That's awesome. My wife likes the the Hallmark style.
Not necessarily Hallmark brand. But that style, you know, real
cheesy, very romantic, lots full of lots of writing tropes. Well,
there's a new one this year called Twas the text before
Christmas. And apparently they use this story, this real life
story as kind of a jumping off point for the story. This woman
ends up texting the wrong grandma, she ends up getting
invited to their place in Vermont, you know, and then goes
and meets the sun. And the sun is like, Mr. Handsome guy, you
know how those those shows are? Yeah. And but they use that as
like a jumping off point for the movie. And like every year, she
goes back and blah, blah, blah. But I don't really know that
much about the plot. I just know that it was kind of based on
loosely based on this story that mom would like it. And yeah, my
wife would like it. So all right, so I think they'll wrap
up. Fun Fact Friday news. Thanks, guys. addition and why
don't we go ahead and get into a couple of just just fun little
fast facts about about Thanksgiving
Leila: apparently female turkeys don't gobble. What?
David: Yeah. Are you telling me that there's a species? Where
the where's the women? The female doesn't talk your ear off
are you? Are you giving me a look right now?
It's funny because there's like a there's a woman stereotype.
The stereotype that women are just like
oh my gosh, I talked more than you do on this show, especially.
So they do they do they make noise or does it say?
Leila: Oh yeah, let's do like a, like a purring or a cackling
weird.
David: I wonder if you can find that find. Maybe things that you
find. Why don't you do that and I'll talk about pumpkin pie
pumpkin pie.
Unknown: I'm not a fan. I like
David: I like like a bite of pumpkin pie and has to be thin.
Like, you can't have too much of the topping. I'm probably gonna
get we're probably gonna be like, you don't have any tastes.
But it's just on the thing. It's not my thing. The dessert.
Pumpkin pie has been an important part of Thanksgiving
meals since the 1700s which before Thanksgiving was
officially a thing. There's a whole history. Check it out.
I'll actually put a link in the show notes. Rush Limbaugh is one
of the big ones that goes around of the story of thanksgiving.
I'll post a link
Leila: alright, I found it.
Unknown: Let's see. Okay, see if we can get my volume up
okay, it's kind of quiet. Oh, it's fine. All right.
David: Crank it up. We're like yeah
Unknown: like chirping Yeah.
David: Hey, yeah. So that's the female not doing gobble gobble.
That's what male turkeys is a perfect rendition of what a male
turkeys sounds like. Gobble, gobble,
Unknown: gobble, gobble, gobble. Gobble now.
David: Wonder if the Hamburglar got the his robble robble thing
from playing turkey.
Leila: Turkeys. Turkey. Burger turkey burger turkey. What?
David: You just started Oh, wow. So Thanksgiving was originally
celebrated in mid October. Oh, wait. I didn't finish talking
about pie. Talk about pie. wins. Canadian pies are America's
favorite with pumpkin pie coming in second on Thanksgiving,
Canada. Thanksgiving, something big down here. And in the South.
Is we like we like to have what they call they call them pecan
pies. It's not P cans. It's pecans. But they call them pecan
southern say PKS and pecan pie. We're gonna get some pecan pie.
We're gonna put some whipped cream on it. None of that fancy
stuff. We're going to use the CANS Thanksgiving
Leila: in Canada is held in October. Yep. Yeah, yep. So
doing alright. Yep. And yeah. Yeah, I remember hearing.
David: I had a different page. This there's my page. I like
this one. Okay, what the average number What do you think the
average number of calories each person consumes on Thanksgiving?
average, average. So like in the middle? Yeah. Because there's
because there's me that I'm going to consume about 76
billion calories today. Oh,
Leila: you know, uranium has about 70 per gram. I was gonna
say I'm probably about
Unknown: 250 250 Calorie No.
David: That's like a Snickers. Let's go with 3000 Yeah, no,
3000 is a date is your you know, so it's 3100 to 4500. Okay, for
reference, there's too many daily recommended calories are
between 18 to 2000 1800 to 2000. Okay, so it takes about nine and
a half hours to burn 4500 calories.
Leila: Yeah, but that's without your body. Without
David: your body. No your body burns a lot of calories average
amount of time it takes the average male to burn 4500
calories. Oh, so without seeing I don't know if that's I don't
know if that's exercising, know that what does that even that
has to be with exercising heavy exercise because you burn about?
I don't know, I'm not gonna dig deep into this. I don't know if
parade.com has done a whole lot of research, but that's a lot of
calories to burn in nine and a half hours.
Leila: calories to consume in a day. Yeah, I don't think that's
the average calories
David: now. Yeah, this is something's wrong with this. You
know what? We're going to take this entire segment out in the
in the post process, aren't we?
Leila: No. We're too lazy for that. It's too much
David: work. It's too much work. Yeah, when we hit export, unless
something's unless we have a slip up in name or something.
Yeah, personal identifiable.
Leila: Information where we get like a call, like an important
call we have that happened before.
David: Very rare. Yeah. So have you heard about the tradition of
pardoning a turkey?
Leila: Didn't the White House do that or whatever? Yes.
David: So what happens every year? Ever since 1989? When
George HW Bush, that's the dad. The first president or not the
first. Out of the two, President Bush's is the first one. He
officially pardoned a turkey. You know, a pardoning is what a
president does a pardon. Okay, so like, presidents and
governors have this legal authority to pardon a prisoner,
especially one that's like on death row. They can call and say
now now that you know their pardon, let them go.
Leila: Okay, so it's just letting a turkey live its life.
Yes.
David: So what happens is they they pick the turkey to pardon?
They take it to the White House. And the President's like, yeah,
your part and you're good to go. And then the turkey goes off to
some farm and lives off the rest of his life.
Leila: You don't have to have clearance. A whole America.
David: So a whole traditional thing. It's cute. is probably
good. I
Leila: wonder turkey.
David: Okay, you know what? I want to know what how much money
does pardoning this turkey cost? Probably a lot.
Leila: That's where our taxes are going.
David: That's okay, I'm gonna give you look up some you read
some stuff. I gotta, I gotta look this up.
Leila: Okay. Well, I didn't have one of the hopper because I'm a
bad podcaster Jingle Bells was originally a Thanksgiving Day
song. Before becoming Christmas holiday anthem Jingle Bells was
an 1857 song titled One horse open sleigh 1857 that's like
really long ago.
David: That's at least five years ago. Yeah. At least.
Leila: It became so popular around December 25. That it's
1859 title was changed to Jingle Bells. Well, that doesn't really
tell me much.
David: Well, if you listen to the words of the song, it
doesn't necessarily it doesn't actually say anything about
Christmas. When it was open say hey, yeah, yeah, you go about
Christmas.
Leila: Who has a sleigh? Santa?
David: Lots of people have slaves. This
Leila: is her. He was like
David: turkey slaves and Biden pardons. Oh my gosh. I want to
know how much it costs a pardon is Turkey because they have to
get they have to get it to the White House how much money they
have to plan this whole event. They probably have to have extra
security because the prison is going to be out. How much does
this cost? The cost? get
Leila: a straight answer. How much is pardoning Turkey costs
it's gonna be somewhere. I can't find it. It's got to be
somewhere. Looks
David: like we're gonna have to do a Freedom of Information Act
request. What? Oh, no, that's not hard. You just put a lot of
work. Yeah, it probably costs 20 bucks because they have to get
the pay him to do a Freedom of Information Act request. Which
is not that big of a deal because you are making them do
extra work that's taking them away from their other work. I
was I don't know if I knew you're the one. I don't know.
I'm not gonna get into that. Okay, that's not the right page.
Sorry. Anyway, Thomas Jefferson. Oh, wait, did we talk about
Lincoln yet? No, we didn't Abraham Yeah. Oh, eight all
honest. A Be Honest Abe was the one that set the date for
Thanksgiving into into November to coincide with the Pilgrims
landing on Plymouth Rock that we talked about.
Leila: recently. It's
David: just a little bolder. It's just a little
Leila: guy. So but not always know he's been October Yeah. But
did they know that the Pilgrims landed here?
David: I'm pretty sure we know. Yeah,
Leila: but did they know when they made Thanksgiving?
David: Okay, so thanks. Okay.
Leila: What? Okay, hold on.
Unknown: Do you know the story of thanksgiving? No.
Leila: What did they teach you in school about it? Not much.
They never taught us about Thanksgiving. Okay, so
David: the the first Thanksgiving was celebrated in
1621 as a harvest festival. It included around 50 pilgrims, who
were the 50 that were leftover that survived the first winter.
And about 91 One gram per node Indians.
Leila: So we learned about this a tiny bit, right. And we had
like a sentence about it in a book.
David: Yeah. So it was like it was a three day festival. And
they had, they said, There's only five women were present.
That's like, okay, but I mean. So the the Wampanoag women were
present. Yeah, the Wampanoag brought five venison or five
dead deer. And they ate the venison. And then they also had
corn, which Squanto had taught the Europeans how to
Leila: grow new English. He's the only one that knew English.
David: Which there's a whole story behind how he learned
English. The whole deal. He was a Yeah, interesting, interesting
character in history. And but yeah, so they had a really good
harvest that year. And they were like, Hey, let's have a party.
And so they did a three day party. So relations were not
great before or after. But it was, it was it was a whole
thing. But they did. They just had a big three day party. And
by all accounts, everybody just had a good time. They all shared
stories and taught each other stuff. And it was just a big, a
big good time for the three days. Now, you know, but like I
said, before and after. But we're not going to go into all
that. Yeah. So football on Thanksgiving is a big tradition.
And it has been since the 1800s. But the first football game,
played on Thanksgiving was an 1876. It was a game between Yale
and Princeton colleges. So football on Thanksgiving started
with the colleges now it's a big NFL thing. Yeah, yeah. So we, we
like, what, where is you? Yale is in America. Where? Yep. Well,
in Boston,
Leila: there's Boston Tea Party.
David: Can you not hear Boston without saying Boston? I see. Do
you think Boston Tea but I think Boston baked beans even though
don't like baked beans. University?
Leila: In Boston,
David: Connecticut. Okay, what's in Boston?
Leila: Even Connecticut?
David: There's a College in Boston. Boston is college Ivy
League ones, right?
Leila: Is it Boston College? No. What?
David: I really call
Leila: it all college is in Ba you look that up
David: and I'm gonna talk about Benjamin Franklin. Bad guy pops
up into so many conversations in our house. When he wanted the
turkey,
Leila: yeah, it's just Boston College.
David: Because we're Harvard, his Harvard and Boston.
Leila: I don't think hers I think Harvard is in
Massachusetts or in Connecticut. Where
David: do you think Boston is?
Leila: Boston, Harvard. Cambridge,
David: it's in Cambridge, Cambridge. What? Okay. That's
not what we're here to talk about. Okay, so, Benjamin
Franklin wanted the turkey to be the the official bird of America
instead of the bald eagle. Yeah, he says, quote, for my own pot.
I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen. The sorry. Benjamin
Franklin talks weird. For my own part. I wish the bald eagle had
not been chosen the representative of our country.
For the truth, the turkey is in comparison, a much more
respectable bird. As Benjamin Franklin's already sounded like,
I have recordings
Leila: leading this
David: I'm on how House House beautiful.com/lifestyle/a 2292044
slash Thanksgiving desks on best facts slash slash. Okay, it will
be in the show notes so you can just click it. Franklin didn't
get his wish. But the letter did inspire a song in the Tony
winning musical 1776 about the drafting of the Declaration of
Independence. So there you go. There's another Have you heard
That song is that a that's a song was that?
Leila: I just made that up. Oh, there's
David: a song that no, I'm 1776 It's a stage play about the
drafting of the declaration. No, you're into stage plays right
now. So a little check it out. 76 So our tradition is to get up
to the cinnamon buns. Watch the Macy's Parade while we're eating
the cinnamon buns and then get up and start working on food.
Right. But while we're working on food, The Kennel Club is
doing the thing on the TV. We really enjoy the the dog show.
Oh, yeah. Dog Show after the thing. So speaking of Macy's
Thanksgiving Day Parade, it was originally called Macy's
Christmas parade to kick off the holiday shopping season it was
held 1924 The first parade included monkeys bears, camels,
elephants that were borrowed from the Central Park Zoo. Cool.
Today, I saw two floats. Get Ripped by a tree. The Wimpy Kid
float. And what's the what's the guy from today? Yeah.
Leila: And then what was the water in the brain? Yes.
David: The wimpy kids handles all deflated. And then what's
the guy from one piece? Movie? Yeah, his hat in a tree and get
deflated?
Leila: The round seven of my friend.
David: She's obsessed with one piece. Snoopy has made the most
appearances in the parade. New out. Now.
Leila: I'm gonna say Snoop Dogg.
David: But so the the lady who wrote Mary Had a Little Lamb is
known as the mother of thanksgiving. Why? She wrote a
letter to President Abraham Lincoln, would
Leila: you say? I'm glad you asked.
David: Oh, I'm glad you asked. The name seemed fitting after
she wrote a letter to President Abraham Lincoln, the Secretary
of State William Seward in 1863, calling for the declaration of
Thanksgiving as national holiday. Her hope was that the
holiday would help heal the nation from the trauma of the
Civil War. So people have been celebrating Thanksgiving since
the 1600s. They've been celebrating the harvest and, and
being together and being thankful for things. And but it
wasn't an official American holiday until old honest. He
turned it into one because the lady who wrote Mary Had a Little
Lamb. Okay,
Leila: wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait,
wait, wait a minute. Okay. This website says the average cost of
a Thanksgiving dinner is $53.31 for 10 guests. Yeah. No, no,
it's not. That's like the cost of a turkey. That's like the
costume article written? Like today. Look 16 hours ago?
David: No,
Leila: no. What's the what?
David: No, because I put that I put that in our OneNote more
than 16 hours ago. Okay, so have you got one of those autos?
Yeah, they've got one of those auto refreshes, that makes the
articles look fresh. Is what they've got. Because I've seen
stuff that was written. Long time ago. Say it was written
today. Yeah, yeah, they've got a little bot that cheats the date
on things.
Leila: Okay, so. Okay, so
David: now if you think about well, no, if you think about it,
think about it. So what do you have for Thanksgiving? turkey
stuffing Turkey cranberry sauce. Okay, turkeys? 30 cents a pound.
Right? So 10 people you are a 10 pound bird. So you're looking at
three bucks for the turkey? What? They're 30 cents a pound.
Nine times 10 pounds is $3
Leila: That's too little for a turkey attend. It's like too
late.
David: It's a pound a person is what James?
Leila: Yeah, no, but so $3 you can get steak for more than
that. Well, yes, I mean burger stuff.
David: I know Turkey. at Thanksgiving. Yeah, the turkeys
go on sale because what they do is like down the street food
line. Food Lion entices you to come in with the 30 cent a pound
turkey. And you're like heck yeah, I can get a big old turkey
for five bucks right? Yeah. And then while you're there, well
shoot I'm already here. I might as well go ahead and get my
rolls get my sweet potatoes get my you know my pie and and they
don't mark that stuff down as much. Plus there's competition.
Different grocery stores want your money. So they mark off the
most expensive thing because our turkey if it had not been on
sale would have been $57 Yeah, but it was like 26 We got the
the name brand one instead of the 37 because we had too many
people. So I'm done with this fact. You're done with a
veteran. I think that is a reasonable amount. We went a
little overboard this year with getting all the stuff we got. So
plus we got stuff For the week two, so we can't we didn't like
break out what we spent on just Thanksgiving so,
Leila: and my gosh, this fact scared me when I first read it.
Each year, Americans collectively consumed 3 billion
calories from Turkey alone. So I thought it said each American.
And I was like, No. Good grief, that's too many calories, 3
billion. But it's collectively, I didn't see that collectively,
my brain just skipped right over it. This is a lot of copies too.
I wonder if they just like used AI.
David: That's possible. A lot of these sites are doing that now
having an AI write their article and then they throw ads on it.
So butterball, the turkey people have run a turkey talk line for
40 years. You know, a turkey talk line is no yet called the
butterball Turkey line, Turkey talk line and say, oh my gosh, I
got 14 people coming over what do I do with this turkey? And
they say, Okay, here's what you want to do. You want to and they
give you the instructions on how to cook the turkey. Right? Well,
then you got an hour left and something's gone wrong with the
turkey. You call the turkey talk line. Say I got an hour left and
this has gone wrong with my turkey. They're like, Alright,
calm down, buddy. Calm down. What you're gonna want to do is
get the ham out of the fridge and serve that because your
turkey is not fixing it. Yeah, no, it's uh, yeah, it's a turkey
helpline.
Leila: So pretty cool. So it's like an emergency service. But
for Turkey. Yep.
David: Open US and Canadian homes every November and
December, unique hotline opened up in 1981. And take they also
take questions online via email and chat. There is and they also
have multi language multilingual people. And they eggs each year
they answer about 100,000 Questions about Turkeys about
cook a turkey. So
Leila: the average amount of time it takes for a host to
prepare a feast is 9.6 hours.
David: I don't know. Okay, that there's a whole lot of downtime
in there, too. Yeah. Because because we're cooking a turkey
right now. It's like, you know, if you count the time, it that
it's brining and then the time that it's in the oven. Yeah,
that's like, right. Well, yeah, thongs, whatever. But yeah,
brining and cooking is nine hours. So at least, but you
you're not doing anything while it's while it's cooking. So I
mean, what are we what are we having this year? None of that
stuff. It doesn't take nine hours. So anywho, anywho,
anywho. There's downtime. It's like when you're doing laundry.
Like a lot of the time that it takes to do laundry is waiting
for the laundry to get done. I used to sit at a laundromat and
play tic tac toe. And then that little game where you have the
dots and you draw the squares one line at a time. I used to
play with this little kid who had I guess his mom was on the
same schedule as me for laundry. And he was almost always in
there when I was in there, and we would just sit there and play
play those games is fun. So
Leila: according to most Americans, the best part of
Thanksgiving is actually the leftovers. Oh, yeah. Apparently,
according to most Americans. Hmm.
David: I do love a good leftover turkey sandwich.
Leila: Just pretty good.
David: Yeah. Put some hot sauce on it. Yeah. Now I'm excited
about that.
Leila: So dad, yes. Do you want to do a tear list?
David: A tear list? Okay, so I don't understand tear lists. I
don't understand the is it? Because there's like Grade A
Grade B, Grade C? What is it?
Leila: Yeah, S A, B, C, D, and F. Okay, so
David: we're gonna do a tear list. We're going to try and get
this done. Excuse me. And we're going to do a tear list. I've
never done these before, but I have watched them on YouTube. of
Thanksgiving, turkeys. Turkeys, food, Thanksgiving food.
Leila: Let me see if I went onto your list. maker.com Okay.
Thanksgiving
David: food dot Thanksgiving foods. Your list.com Oh,
Leila: that's a lot of fun. Okay. So tear maker.com I found
it. Alright,
David: so we're going to do a new segment to your lists. Let's
do it. So
Leila: the tears I'm leaving. It's not there. Okay. I love it.
Okay, it's okay. All right. I'm good. Or I won't even look at
it. Gotcha. Apple pie. I'm not a fan. I'm good. Yeah, I'm not.
I'll eat it. But I won't. You know, I'll be like, Okay, thank
you. Big squash.
David: Won't won't even look at Yeah, not a fan of squash.
Leila: I love squash. Put it in. I'm good. Okay. Big sweet
potatoes. Man. Biscuits. Oh, I
David: love this. I love biscuits, but I'm not leaving
Leila: if they're not there. I love it. Okay, brown gravy.
Emily. Even if it's not absolutely brussel sprouts, love
it. Love it. Collard Greens boy you
David: know your mom. Your mom would put that in the love it.
Unknown: Yeah. Cool Whip
David: is it can cool whip or Cool Whip cool. Whip joke. See,
I like this type of spray. Yeah, you know what? It's okay. Let's
put it. Let's put it on it's okay. I can take it or leave it.
I could take it or leave it. corn casserole corn cat wherever
corn casserole today we are. Yeah, well put put it put it in
love it. Oh, okay. I love corn casserole, especially when our
tastes good corn bread. Oh yeah. I love corn, Brussels you put
jalapenos in it or in bread. You haven't had my corn bread.
Leila: That's true. Make corn bread. Well put it in in love
it.
David: So one of the things you can do with corn bread is you
can put a layer of the mix down and then you put a layer of
sausage like spicy sausage, and then another layer the cornbread
and then put jalapenos on top. Just all over the top of it. Oh
my goodness. That's Oh, cheese. You have a cheese in there too.
Yeah, anyway, it's a really good like cornbread. sausage
casserole is good stuff. So
Leila: corn. And this is this is tough, because it depends on
what you season it with. Yeah.
David: Well, I mean, let's just assume that. It's our version of
that item.
Unknown: Okay, so we'll put love it. Yeah, let's put. We love
Leila: cranberry sauce.
David: I can take it. No, I don't. So I'm good. I'm good.
I'm good. No worries. I'm
Leila: good. creamed creamed spinach, but
David: we hate it. That's good for you. But it's got low iron
crescent rolls. Oh, well, any bread? You just automatically
love it or above.
Leila: Dinner Rolls?
David: Yeah, I'm leaving up dinner rolls if there's no.
Yeah. Glazed
Leila: carrots. It's okay. It's okay. It's okay. Grape salad.
Grape salad. Who was raped SAP? Never
David: even heard of grape salad? Either fruit salad I've
heard of. Yeah,
Leila: maybe this is just fruit salad. So we'll put fruit salad
and love it because I love fruit
David: I love for salty but I've just never heard called grape
salad salad. Yeah.
Leila: All right. What else we got green bean casserole.
David: My like green bean casserole when you're nine makes
it that's what she's with. Yeah, but the crispy is on top of it
and love it. So she uses on her green bean casserole she uses
like, it's basically just green beans and a cheese sauce.
covered and Ritz crackers crumbled all up. It's so good.
It's just so basic and so good. Absolutely.
Leila: Green beans.
David: Green beans are okay. Like by themselves. I'm not a
just I just don't like eating just a green bean. I'll put them
in it's okay. Now if you saw Tam with garlic and onions is
absolutely
Leila: green jello salad.
David: Know what? Get it out? Don't even look at just get
green jello. Sam have a ham. I'm leaving if it's not there.
Leila: Absolutely. Red Yellow salad. Millet, mac and cheese.
David: I like just jelly. It's not there. I'm
Leila: putting mac and cheese and leaving it there. I love mac
and cheese. Mashed potatoes but
David: we're not having mac and cheese. Are you going to leave?
Yep. I can make cheese make mac and cheese later? Yeah, my
cheese later it might do for lunch. Leila is a mac and cheese
fiend. Anyway,
Leila: mashed potatoes. Mashed potatoes
David: are a staple.
Leila: I love them. Yes, pecan pie. I'm good. I'm good.
David: Do you like I don't really like pecan pie that much.
Even though I love pecans. Especially candied ones with
like sugar and cinnamon.
Leila: Yeah, pumpkin pie.
David: Pumpkin pie.
Leila: I've never had it.
David: I think I'm good. I'm good. It's okay, but I'm
grabbing another dessert before it grabbed pumpkin pie. Yeah.
Unknown: Red potatoes.
David: Red potatoes. I love love butter. Garlic, little bit of
salt and pepper. roasted
Leila: carrots. roasted carrots. Pretty good. It's okay though.
David: They're okay. Yeah.
Leila: I don't like roasted carrots as much as I like the
not roasted carrots. Alright, what else? Yeah, roasted
potatoes.
David: I like roasted potatoes. Those are good.
Leila: scalloped potatoes. What are those?
David: Like? very thinly sliced and what's with toppings?
Leila: Okay, so what do you have it? i
David: Yeah, well, yeah, sir. Not like not like shreds, like
discs.
Unknown: Okay,
David: okay. Yeah, I don't know what you mean is kind of like
the ratatouille
Unknown: like a Cooney Cooney. Go ahead.
Leila: Steak.
David: Never had steak at Thanksgiving but I love it. I
love steak. Love steak. Isn't
Leila: there stuffing? Leaving?
David: It's not there stuffing is stuffing is as important as
the turkey.
Leila: I agree. I agree. I asked my mom if we had stuffing a few
minutes ago and she's like, Of course we do. Oh, somebody's
bringing bringing you sweet potato casserole so you can have
a casserole I like better than just baked sweet potatoes. I'll
put it in love it How do you feel about it? The only
David: way I like sweet potatoes as as fries? Okay, only like
sweet potato fries or sweet if they're waffle variety. That's
fine as long as they're like thinly sliced and fried. Yeah.
Turkey. Yeah. It's got to you got. You got to have turkey.
Well, one year we did do maroon was two years ago. Maybe last
year we did Chili's giving. Do you remember that? No. We just
made like, eight gallons of chili and already came over and
had chili. Really? Yeah. I don't remember. Yeah, remember that?
Leila: Oh my gosh, I just made
David: a huge huge vat of chili.
Leila: Garlic chilies giving whipped cream in the
David: can. There it is. There it is. That's the winner. white
gravy, white gravy and leave it if it's not there. Absolutely.
If I can't just pour a ridiculous amount of both white
and brown gravy all over everything. All of my food.
What's even the point? What's even the point? It's even the
point. So what ended up
Leila: leaving it's not there. We have brown gravy. Dinner
Rolls, ham, mac and cheese, mashed potatoes, stuffing,
Turkey and white gravy. In the Lovat category. Don't read
David: yet. It's really tough for me to see because it's kind
of small. Biscuits
Leila: brussel sprouts, corn casserole, cornbread, corn,
crescent rolls. Fruit salad, green bean casserole, red
potatoes, roasted potatoes, steak and whipped cream.
David: steak on Thanksgiving. I mean, I love steak. I'll eat
steak any day any day. Any time. It's just I've never thought of
it as a Thanksgiving food. It's so weird that it's on the list.
Leila: Maybe they had steak on Thanksgiving when they made this
list. Cool Whip. Isn't It's okay. Also think it's okay. Is
glazed carrots, green beans, roasted carrots, scalloped
potatoes and sweet potato casserole and nothing else
matters. Yeah, we have nothing against them. But we're not it's
not our pick. Yeah,
David: no. That'd be if it's if it's if it's their arm, maybe.
Yeah, but I'm not I'm not picking it for my menu. You know
and and everything else that we mentioned this to Taiwan. Yeah.
So yeah, there's our first tear list. A little little better
when you're doing visuals. But um, but yeah, that's our that's
our ideal Thanksgiving dinner. Now, we didn't go into a lot of
desserts that had your standard pies. Yeah, but one of the two.
Okay, two of the desserts that we always have is my wife makes
us angel food cake. Oh, my goodness. It is I believe it's
the Better Homes and Gardens recipe from the old old old
book. And she has been memorized by now. Yeah. And she she makes
it and she just puts so much love and care into it. For every
one of his birthdays. Yeah, it's my favorite birthday thing. And
then also, we're gonna make rice krispie treats. However, My
loving wife understands me. And she knows that rice krispie
treats are like my thing. And she's like, you know, if you
make the rice krispie treats after the guests leave. You can
have them all yourself. And as I love you
Leila: our family is gonna listen to this. Maybe and be
like he was holding us back from Rice Krispie treats. How dare he
is
David: any of our family members get this far on the episode and
listen and hear that I'm holding out on the rice krispie treats.
You're more than welcome to come on over and have some rice
krispie treats. Oh, wow. So a
Leila: YouTube channel, Evan and Caitlin is the name of it. Okay,
and they have a series on their channel named Willett rice
crispy.
David: Oh, yeah, you're showing me that last night. And they
take a drink of my drink. Yeah, they
Leila: do a whole bunch of stuff. They have one where they
tried other cereals and the rest was Petri. So they did just the
cereal and marshmallows and butter, of course. But they also
did stuff like bacon. And I can't remember the other stuff,
but I think it's hilarious. I
David: feel like any dry cereal. Could rice crispy. No. No. Like
what eats many wheats didn't really work. It's just hey, I
can see many wheats wouldn't really work. That's yeah,
Leila: I think their favorite was either the Honey Nut
Cheerios or the raisin bran. Or Special K.
David: Yeah, the the wheat ones.
Leila: Yeah, because they're just plain. They don't have any
sugar to them. Right. Other than honey nut cheerios.
David: Oh, yeah, Cheerios. I've seen I've seen Rice Krispie
treats of other cereals we we made I think favorite. We made
Fruity Pebbles and Cocoa Pebbles and the rice krispie treats
before because they're essentially Rice Krispies with
flavor flavor. Yeah. So yeah, that works. Well, like I am I'm
a purist. I make them by the book. Like the recipe on the box
is a recipe I use. However, I use about 25% more butter so
like It says you need to use four tablespoons on when it
says, I always look it up, but use four tablespoons. I'll use
five, you know, just a little a little more buttery, but a
little butter your butter here. And I will eat probably a third
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Unknown: To quack to quack to quack to quack ducks. Yeah.
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David: So I think everybody that's 51 minutes of
Thanksgiving talk and other jibber jabber, so everybody have
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