Thanksgiving To Go

Imagine just spending all Thanksgiving morning standing over the hot stove, making sure the turkey is not dry, the stuffing isn’t to moist, the mashed potatoes are mashed enough, and the pumpkin pie has the right amount of  spices, to just pack up all the food into little bags and bowls to take with you in the car. Since black Friday is no longer really on Friday and all the stores are now opened around six on Thanksgiving it only make sense to take a Thanksgiving meal to go. All of the sales are much more important than spending time with the family at the dinner table. You can bond in the car as you eat your meal out of plastic bowls with plastic forks and knives together. Trust me you do not want to miss the new bath and body works bag they are giving out to the first 50 people who get there at six, or the new Victoria Secret underwear that they only have 30 pairs of. So it would only make sense to spend all that time cooking and preparing a meal to shove it into bowls and bags and throw into the car.

 

What would make things even better is if fast food restaurants had Thanksgiving happy meals, so people could just go through the drive thru of McDonalds and order their Thanksgiving food and then head straight to the mall, without the hassle of having to spend all that time making the food themselves they can just spend making sure they know all the sales available and plan out their routine.  The whole importance of sitting down at the table as a family is far less important than it is to go to the mall right away to get there when the doors open. To make sure that you get all the sales and the gifts you have to have. The new Xbox your son wants that you just got on sale probably tastes a whole lot better than the turkey you spent hours on to just scarf down in the car. Family bonding on Thanksgiving now means splitting up so each member can conquer a sale in a different store, so there will no longer be any worrying about whether or not they will make it in time for the sale. Instead of helping out making dinner, they are helping out by getting the shopping done. What could be more family oriented. The dinner was not important, what was most important was that while all other families were sitting down eating dinner reminiscing on all the things they should be thankful for your family was at the mall making sure the sales came first. Thanksgiving just needs to be a to-go holiday. Nothing sounds better than sitting in the car eating turkey and mashed potatoes out of a baggy on the way to the mall to get some black “Friday” shopping done.