Dressing and cranberry sauce is my favorite Thanksgiving bite!

Turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes, and gravy. Cranberry salad separate, more like a dessert.

Stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy. I never understood the role of cranberry sauce, haha. I know I'm the odd one out!

Anything I can get on my plate, turkey, ham, noodles, mashed potatoes, dressing, candied sweet potatoes, whatever vegetable, and a yeast roll. I probably did not have room on my plate for much else!

Sue

turkey, stuffing, cranberry and gravy!!

I asked our 6 year old granddaughter to tell me her favorite bite of Thanksgiving dinner. She really considered it and I gave her a few suggestions because I know she likes mashed potatoes with corn or with gravy, and she loves turkey. After several minutes she came back and said she'd decided her favorite bite was pumpkin pie..... I have to agree with her that it's one of my favorite bites too!

Not dinner but my favorite is leftover turkey on rye spread with cranberry sauce. Yum!

I'm a picky clean eater. LOL meaning I don't like mixing foods. I don't want my cranberry to touch anything nor my potatoes ect ect. Except gravy can be over certain things.

My favorate bite, Hmmm that's a hard one. The turkey...no wait the stuffing and my stuffing is sooo good...or maybe its the deviled egg. Heck I can't pin it down. But I think its probably the turkey I sneak a bite of while its resting right before carving.

Turkey, cornbread dressing, and gravy.

I've always been a 'food mixer'. My brother, 2 yrs older, couldn't allow any foods to touch. My father worked in a pottery, designed a divided plate and made it up special, just one plate. Put his name on it. Probably made it on midnight shift. It was a present to my brother for Christmas. This would have been in the early 1950s. He always used that plate for meals that had more than one food.

Same as cooper....turkey, cornbread dressing and gravy....as long as it is made from scratch gravy and not from a jar or a mix.

A slice of turkey thigh with mom's sage, sausage, breadcrumb stuffing, slathered with giblets gravy, and some sweet potato (NO marshmallows or brown sugar).

Chi, I'm with you on the cranberry sauce.

A handmade divided plate! I would have swooned! Now I just look more formal when I set the table with separate plates and bowls.

Most in my family were never wild about the foods others consider to be Thanksgiving classics and so we've evolved away from most of them. We've developed our own traditions now, dishes and foods that likely most of you wouldn't consider to be standard holiday favorites. And we've mostly stopped having turkey. Some years, because of schedules, etc., we may have Thanksgiving weeks early or late or not at all. I think we had sushi one year, it was enjoyed by all.

I normally don't put more than one thing on my fork (I eat European style holding knife and fork at the same time, one in each hand, so it's doable, I just don't). But food touching isn't an issue for me, nor any rituals of this like this or this like that.

The creamed onions go in the middle so that the cream sauce touches everything--turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes, and rutabagas are all great with the oniony cream sauce.

You all have to stop with these threads. I'm dying for Thanksgiving to get here now!

I was raised by a family who held their silverware European style. I was taught it was more polite than all that switching your fork from one hand to the other. DH thought I was left handed when we first met. LOL.

My favorite bite use to happen the next morning. For breakfast I would combine the leftover turkey, gravy, mash potatoes. mushrooms and stuffing and heat them up together in a pan and eat with a roll. I miss those breakfasts. 20 years ago I found out I was gluten intolerant. Bummer. Gluten free stuffing just doesn't taste the same.

Turkey, stuffing, gravy. Second favorite, my pecan pie.

My son makes a leftover bowl the next day. A plop of each thing with gravy on top and into the micro. ( I can barely look at it. )

I'm a mixer. A bit of cranberry to add tartness, a dab of mashed potato to add a rich mouth-feel, gravy to add warm salty-smoothness. Now I'm hungry!

Mayflowers, rutabagas! My grandfather was a rutabaga farmer, so they are always present! I now hide them in the gravy. I make a mean turkey gravy!

gadgets, what a wonderful story about the gift your father made for your brother- a true treasure.

Sealavender, rutabagas are great in stew. You don't even need to bother with the potatoes if you use rutabagas.

I am a mixer, I love the flavor of the mixed items. My favorite bite would include a little bit of turkey, dirty rice and sweet potatoes with some good gravy on top. My husband eats each individual item separately. He is not a stickler about the food touching. Buy he will eat all the dirty rice, then all the potato salad, then the turkey etc. I couldn't do that! I do like for it to come out evenly so I don't have one thing left all by itself lol.

"I was raised by a family who held their silverware European style. I was taught it was more polite than all that switching your fork from one hand to the other"

I'm not sure if it's more polite or not but I guess some can look at it that way. I picked it up when living over there, where the "American" style looks uncouth and can draw scornful stares in public. I've stuck with the habit ever since because it's a lot easier.