As another year seemingly flies by, one of America’s favorite holidays has come once again, and people are starting to look forward to another traditional Thanksgiving feast. However, traditional might not be the right word for many people’s Thanksgiving experiences.
As most families go out to buy a frozen turkey from the supermarket, freshman Luke Martin’s family does something a little more unique. “Every year, my uncle and I go and hunt for turkeys in Texas for Thanksgiving,” he said. However, that’s not the only way in which Martin’s Thanksgiving is less than traditional. “One year, we were eating dinner one Thanksgiving when our oven exploded. The door flew open and smoke came pouring out.”
And even once the cooking’s been finished, there will be some surprises at the dinner table. “Every Thanksgiving, my family and I head up to New York to visit some family,” explained sophomore DT Kuang explains. “We make tofu wrapped around salad and kimchi. It’s delicious.”
And sometimes people don’t even make it to the dinner table. “[When I was little,] we were never at home for Thanksgiving,” said English teacher Ms. Mary Landis. “We’d go to my grandpa’s house, and when we got to the city, all the stores would be closed, so we’d find ourselves having Thanksgiving dinner at a convenience store eating candy.”
But once dinner’s been finished and the table’s been cleaned up, things get back to normal. Of course, normal is a relative term. For example, senior Joe Brown has an interesting tradition to close off the day. “I wear a turkey suit, run around the house and put confetti on the bushes.”