Hopefully those candy cigarettes have been vacuum packed! lol
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We still have these exact brand candy cigs at the gas station in my town!Candy cigarettes started me down this whole path. It was probably wise to take them out of all the grocery stores and gas stations.
The 51st staters? lol....
On the 23rd we usually drive the kids around to look at Christmas lights and then get Burger King to eat while sitting in front of the TV and watching the Jim Carrey animated A Christmas Carol.
On Christmas Eve we go to my parents' house for a Christmas ham meal that starts around noon. It's like Thanksgiving part 2, but with ham. Macaroni, sauerkraut, homemade muffins, desserts galore, mashed potatoes, beans, etc.
On Christmas we go to my in-laws' for a Christmas turkey with all of the same sides, but the star of the show for me are the Brussels sprouts my mother-in-law makes with sriracha and bacon!
That is not nearly as funny as you may think it is. In actuality, it is incredibly insulting and offensive.
Home cured Country Ham on Xmas Morning... All the good stuff, red eye gravy, homemade biscuits, hashbrowns, followed by bourbon boiled custard and a few lines of crushed blood pressure medicine...
Christmas Eve: a family dish from the old country of sauerkraut and sausages with potatoes and rye bread.
For Christmas Day I think we do a ham dinner if sorts but its always a crapshoot.
Does anyone here know what Tortiere is?
It's like a French-Canadian meat pie. When our kids were born we brought back this tradition from my wife's side. The idea is that it's a filling meal on Christmas Eve, then you have the leftovers for lunch on Christmas Day.
This thread is making me hungry.
By the way, my package arrived from my Santa yesterday! I took a picture of the box as visual proof for anyone who may wish to see it, but I usually wait until Christmas day to open it.
By the way, my package arrived from my Santa yesterday! I took a picture of the box as visual proof for anyone who may wish to see it, but I usually wait until Christmas day to open it.
You should explain to those outside the South what red eye gravy is. It is a wondrous, yet regional item.
The best part of PMSS 2025 for me, so far, is all the thanks I get for people getting these amazing packages LOL.
Mine is meandering it's way through the midwest, after leaving TN and winding up in Massachusetts. I am not "Worried" but neither am I "Confident". Still have 2 weeks though.
I am finalizing my package tonight and will be taking it to the post office tomorrow, so I'm not a top-lister yet. But the funny thing is, as of yesterday I was not "worried" about mailing my package too late. However, today I'm a bit more worried now that we are at the 2 week threshold. i.e. not "confident" either
I rehydrated them, they're smoking wonderfully
When I used to fish for walleyes, Christmas Eve was pan fried walleye and northern pike fillets with onion rings as the main and some sort of potatoes. As a kid (and seemed typical in our era) it was always chili (yum) and/or oyster stew (bleh) before Xmas Eve service.
The last few years we're almost always prime rib or beef tenderloin (a daughter requested it as Beef Wellington this year - happy to oblige); cottage cheese in the style of the Amana Colonies; a hash brown/cheese casserole; broccoli; homemade bread or biscuits or dinner rolls; and some desserts that must include chocolate - sounds like fudge, possibly a chocolate pie and what has survived of the traditional Christmas cookies the wife and I are already eating - she'll have to make another batch, lol. I sleep very well one night a year!
Christmas Day - I make homemade doughnut balls which are very liberally coated with cinnamon and sugar that we have with coffee or hot chocolate (I have both, lol) while opening presents after seeing what Santa brings and then it's a full on brunch after that (takes us a long time to open presents - not because there are millions, we just take our time). The past few years the main at brunch has been a southwestern influenced egg, cheese and sausage casserole (thick and fluffy not thin and greasy) and my wife insists on some sort of fruit I don't eat. Much later in the day it's leftovers from Xmas Eve however someone wants to enjoy them and whatever is leftover from the meal on the evening of the 23rd - this year a bacon/potato/cheese soup and an artisan bread loaf have been requested by one of the daughters - yum. That one is the "light" meal, haha.
Family and food!!
