'The best Thanksgiving dinner I’ve ever had was from KFC.' Yes. Take a look at what howveryheather had to say.
"There was something about taking a break from tradition that felt so freeing, even as a 13-year-old," the author writes.The night before Thanksgiving in 2001, our entire household was exhausted.
In our household, we typically ate our big Thanksgiving dinner the night before the holiday. But that year, we had nothing prepared. Mind you, we were not a family of cooks. This was not a household where the parents used Grandma’s 100-year-old recipe to resurrect pie crust. We had frozen pumpkin and apple pies in the freezer. The potatoes were in the fridge waiting to be peeled. The canned vegetables waited stocked in the pantry.
There was something about taking a break from tradition that felt so freeing, even as a 13-year-old. We piled into the family van and drove to the store. It was snowing. Earl and I ran inside with my dad to order bags loaded with buckets of chicken and side dishes while my mom waited in the car with Neil and Ethan. We were laughing, trying to carry the buckets back to the car and working hard not to slip or fall on the wet ground outside.
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