Thanksgiving games

by Nick Vagnoni, Posted Nov 20th 2005 @ 8:03PM

Assuming you plan on doing anything else following Thanksgiving dinner, columnist Doreen Nagle has some “old-fashioned family games” for after your meal.

Now, I think I had a fairly traditional upbringing with a regular Thanksgiving celebration every year. That said, Nagle’s “turkey, turkey, who has the turkey” game is totally new to me. After dinner, the youngest person leaves the room and the rest of the group hides a drumstick (I guess calling the game “hide the drumstick” was a little too suggestive). When the little’n returns, people do the hot-or-cold thing by shouting “sweet potatoes” for hot and “cranberries” for cold.

A few questions: Who truly has the energy for this kind of thing after eating Thanksgiving dinner? If you’ve hidden that drumstick in a secretive place, say under the sink, do you really want to eat it afterwards? Why is there drumstick leftover anyway?

Other games include bobbing for apples and trolling with pumpkins.

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Tags: dinner, poultry

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11-21-2005 @6:20PM Barbara said... I think she made up "hide the turkey."

My cousins and I used to go outside after Thanksgiving dinner and have sack races, play red rover, and do all sorts of crazy stuff, including shoot skeet and the like.

It was my Grandma's idea. It kept us from lolling off to sleep, amused the adults who were not staring at football, and burned off the excess calories so we could eat some of the half-dozen pies she had baked.
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