If Turkey's Could Vote

"A turkey never voted for an early Christmas" - Irish Proverb

My favorite holiday food quote...

We elves try to stick to the four main food groups: candy, candy canes, candy corns and syrup. -Buddy the Elf (2003 film)

Unbroken Rules of Thanksgiving

“There are four unbroken rules when it comes to Thanksgiving: there must be turkey and dressing, cranberries, mashed potatoes, and pumpkin pie.” - John Hadamuscin 'John Hadamuscin's Down Home' (1993)

Turkey Coexistence

"Coexistence...what the farmer does with the turkey, until Thanksgiving." - Mike Connolly

Cranberry Sauce is Essential

"It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it." -Alistair Cooke

Why is it called Thanksgiving?

What we're really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving? - Erma Bombeck, "No One Diets on Thanksgiving," November 26, 1981

Have a Merry Feast!

"Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast." - William Shakespeare

Amen

"Thanksgiving is America's national chow-down feast, the one occasion each year when gluttony becomes a patriotic duty." - Michael Dresser

18 Hours to Prepare

"Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence." - Erma Bombeck