Give Thanks and Enjoy The Egg Bowl

Picture this: you're at Costco, watching someone load up on an absurd number of pies, and it suddenly hits you—Thanksgiving is right around the corner, and it's time to start planning. This episode kicks off with a mix of humor and nostalgia as we tackle the intricacies of Thanksgiving food logistics, from the ongoing sweet potato versus yam saga to the joys and challenges of cooking for a crowd of 21 people. We also share some cheeky insights and time-saving hacks, like why you might want to skip experimenting with new recipes for your big feast—safety first, right?

As the conversation unfolds, we take a trip down memory lane, discussing the regional quirks of stuffing vs. cornbread dressing and recalling the delightful chaos that is the Thanksgiving kitchen. Expect laughs as we recount tales of smoke alarms, the trusty Thanksgiving Day Parade, and the unsung heroes of holiday dining—Hawaiian rolls. We also touch on modern conveniences that make hosting smoother, like the blessing of trivets and warming pads, while relishing in the traditions that make the holiday special.

No Thanksgiving chat is complete without football, and we delve into the colorful history of the Egg Bowl rivalry while pondering why it’s not called the Turkey Bowl. From humorous pre-game jitters to the tactical art of combining football with festive feasting, this episode is a vibrant mix of sports, snacks, and shared memories. Whether you're a fan of the Ole Miss vs. Mississippi State showdown or simply love the post-dinner tradition of attempting some backyard football, join us as we weave together the threads of family, food, and fun in our Thanksgiving celebration.

Transcript

Speaker 1 0:20

Welcome to hey. Real Quick with Amy and Marty.

Speaker 2 0:24

So Thanksgiving is coming up you ready to give thanks?

Speaker 1 0:31

Um, yes, uh, yes.

Speaker 2 0:35

Not yet.

Speaker 1 0:36

Um, not quite yet. I'll tell you this though I was at Costco yesterday, surprise. At Costco yesterday, surprise, and there were three women who obviously worked for somebody because they had their work badge IDs on, and it doesn't matter. But I'm over there in the cheese section, in the freezer, refrigerated aisle, and I see them with three flat carts.

Speaker 2 1:03

Oh, wow.

Speaker 1 1:04

And they bought all the pies. I think they had 400 pies.

Speaker 2 1:08

Oh, the pumpkin pies.

Speaker 1 1:09

All of them. I don't know where they've been going. I guess it was a pie convention, but it was like three flat carts and they were like balanced and I was like I don't, or maybe they ordered them, I don't know. I need to check because I'm getting my pies from Costco this year.

Speaker 2 1:26

All the pies.

Speaker 1 1:27

I think they they had to have because they had apple. They were like coming through and I was like, oh my gosh, if that falls, yeah, I just have.

Speaker 2 1:37

Just have pallet jacks at the front.

Speaker 1 1:39

Yeah, just get a forklift.

Speaker 2 1:42

And it was crazy and they each had a car and they were yeah, but so that gets me to.

Speaker 1 1:51

Well, this will be heard a few days before thanksgiving, but I was up in the middle of the night last night, the actual last night that I'm talking about right now yeah, this is what I'm saying today's november 13th there and I couldn't help it.

Speaker 1 2:07

I was doing that like, okay, if I'm on triple my sweet potato casserole and I'm not going to use fresh sweet potatoes, I'm just going to do the yams, and how many of the big cans do I get? Because how many does it equal if you're going sweet potatoes to yams? And then I was like, well, and then I guess, do you triple the, the topping, but then the pan's gonna be deeper, so do you have to add the cook time. I mean, I was in like the calculus of thanksgiving and my brain did not stop two and a half casseroles carry the cranberry right yeah, yeah, borrow from the dressing what is a yam Sorry?

Speaker 1 2:45

Is that?

Speaker 2 2:45

like a sweet potato.

Speaker 1 2:47

Well, I say they're canned sweet potatoes and they've already got a little syrup in them. Do you know what I'm talking about?

Speaker 2 2:55

I don't know what yams are.

Speaker 1 2:56

Yeah, so well.

Speaker 2 2:59

I mean, I know what sweet potato is, like sweet potato casserole.

Speaker 1 3:02

So here's the difference according to the pocket computer.

Speaker 2 3:08

I feel dumb.

Speaker 1 3:09

In America. I read somewhere that they just America, all the Americas. No, yeah. The states.

Speaker 2 3:16

Just the north one.

Speaker 1 3:18

Yeah.

Speaker 2 3:21

What's the difference?

Speaker 1 3:22

Hold on. This is not the site I went to earlier so I think it is well. This is here, so this is a picture which y'all can't see. The sweet potato is more orange, but the yam you see, that looks kind of like tree bark on the outside yeah, that doesn't look good I know, but it's delicious when you do it at the the can Anyway, otherwise you've got to peel the sweet potatoes. My big fat Greek wedding is what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 3:47

I ain't doing that.

Speaker 1 3:47

I peel the potatoes. But you've got to peel the potatoes, you've got to boil them and then you've got to mix them. I'm not doing that.

Speaker 2 3:55

Why don't you just do canned sweet?

Speaker 1 3:56

potatoes. That's what a yam is.

Speaker 2 3:59

Wait a minute, no, like already done. Do people do? That or is everybody doing this from scratch.

Speaker 1 4:06

No, no, some people are, but they buy the canned yams, man. Oh, you've seen them. They're called Bruce's, you've seen that.

Speaker 2 4:12

Oh, I've seen that. Yeah, yammer time.

Speaker 1 4:15

So here's what it says on the label of Bruce's Cut sweet potatoes in syrup.

Speaker 2 4:21

Yeah, but do people do like sweet potatoes from casserole from scratch?

Speaker 1 4:26

I did the first year I was married.

Speaker 2 4:27

Oh my gosh.

Speaker 1 4:28

Yeah, trying to impress, I guess I just was like, well, I'm gonna do it the right way. No, that's not the right way. That's the stressful way. The right way is Bruce's yams.

Speaker 2 4:37

Yeah, People don't even do iced tea from scratch anymore. They're like I got my lows.

Speaker 1 4:41

I got my my lows. Yeah, I had to add that to my list.

Speaker 2 4:44

How many gallons of tea do you get? How many people is it?

Speaker 1 4:48

Well, I think it's going to be 21.

Speaker 2 4:51

That's a lot of.

Speaker 1 4:53

So we're probably going to do.

Speaker 2 4:55

It's a lot of yams.

Speaker 1 4:57

It's a lot of yams Green bean casserole. I'm going to do that Mashed potatoes, but I'm getting that from Martin's what's up, do you do mashed? Potatoes. Potatoes, whatever they're called, some people do really like them and you've already got gravy, so I'm just doing it. And we've got lots of big eaters.

Speaker 2 5:15

It fills them up, yeah.

Speaker 1 5:16

Yeah, I also ordered from Martin's which is not stereotypical Thanksgiving side their broccoli salad. Because a lot of Randy's family that have come up here are like oh, I like that broccoli. It's kind of fresh, you know whatever.

Speaker 2 5:30

It's something different. Are you getting wings?

Speaker 1 5:33

No, I'm just kidding, I was tempted.

Speaker 2 5:35

Yeah.

Speaker 1 5:35

You can order anything you want, and then I'm doing it. Little people. I know People like it. Okay, so let's get into it. So, because we had a little video on the, didn't you post a video? Or you showed me a video of a guy talking about like look it's not the day for new recipes. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, the long-haired guy, I can't remember his name, yeah.

Speaker 2 5:56

But but yeah, you don't try out new stuff on things no.

Speaker 1 6:00

It's the sweet potato casserole with the pecan brown sugar, and then a strip of marshmallows. For what's up? Braxton Carter Shout out.

Speaker 2 6:08

Yeah.

Speaker 1 6:08

Because some people like the marshmallow.

Speaker 2 6:09

I like the.

Speaker 1 6:11

I like the crumbly with the pecans and the butter and the yeah, oh my God, I'm getting hungry now.

Speaker 2 6:17

And then yeah, go ahead.

Speaker 1 6:21

Why do we only I guess we do it again at Christmas, but you can switch. You got a little more freedom at Christmas.

Speaker 2 6:24

I know I feel like.

Speaker 1 6:24

Christmas is a little different, but there's still a Christmas ham.

Speaker 2 6:28

But I love how we get all into Thanksgiving and everybody loves it, yeah. And then you're like man, that was good, let's do it again in 364 days. Yeah, I know why don't you eat that at least like once a quarter, like three or four times a year, Once a quarter, like three or four times a year, have like a big meal like Thanksgiving.

Speaker 1 6:44

Our mom makes dressing, though once or twice a year. You know, sometimes she'll be like I made dressing.

Speaker 2 6:48

That's the best. That's one of my favorite things to eat ever.

Speaker 1 6:52

Ever, ever, like, if I just had that, oh yeah.

Speaker 2 6:56

And a little bit of cranberry sauce.

Speaker 1 6:58

Oh yeah, and I ain't booze you with a cranberry, you just give me that straight up.

Speaker 2 7:02

ocean spread, there's a put it in a little thing and you slice it comes out like canned dog food. You see the ridges? I don't see the ridges.

Speaker 1 7:09

Uh-uh, mix it up in that dressing oh, now we'll say this so yeah, a lot, of a lot of our family likes that. And then randy's family was raised on the like the whole cranberries with oranges and maybe I know there's walnuts or a little bit of pineapple, pecans or something, and she puts it in a that's good too.

Speaker 2 7:28

I like that. I mean I'll do whatever it's kind of like a fresh fruit relish.

Speaker 1 7:32

That's also good on the turkey and in the drink. I'll eat all of it, yeah, but so my mother-in-law will probably make that, which is, and like people, just eat it like dessert or salad, but I will straight up, oh they eat that by itself. Sometimes, oh, if it's like day after and there's leftover. Yeah, I'll say my brother-in-law would like just a bowl of that and be like, oh, this is good.

Speaker 2 7:52

No, I got to mix up my dressing.

Speaker 1 7:53

Yeah, well, assuming there's still dressing. Oh yeah, but I will straight up have dressing for breakfast the next day. Just heat it up, just have breakfast with the dressing.

Speaker 2 8:03

Speaking of dressing, should we talk?

Speaker 1 8:05

about dressing versus stuffing Versus stuffing.

Speaker 2 8:08

I don't think I've ever had stuffing.

Speaker 1 8:10

Yeah, you have when One of our grandparents.

Speaker 2 8:15

Oh yeah, I have had stuffing no, I think I have.

Speaker 1 8:18

It's more bready.

Speaker 2 8:19

Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.

Speaker 1 8:21

And kind of a lot of people make it with the stovetop. It's like a mix, but I mean I guess you can hand make it. I mean he'll make it with, like it's, bread versus cornbread Dressing is cornbread dressing and it's not dry. Stuffing is typically drier and they stuff it in the turkey I guess, but people also just make a side of it. Yeah, but I love that cornbread dressing with the gravy on it and so is it called wait a minute?

Speaker 2 8:56

is it called stuffing if you don't stuff it in the turkey?

Speaker 1 9:01

yeah, if it's bread, not cornbread dressing, it is. But that's why they call it If you bring a pan of stovetop stuffing in a casserole dish and you call it dressing. I guarantee you some older Southern lady is going to be like that, ain't cornbread, nuh-uh.

Speaker 2 9:18

Yeah.

Speaker 1 9:19

Yeah, they're different Some people. I mean the tastes are a little different, but my favorite is the cornbread dressing.

Speaker 2 9:27

When we go to Robin's parents, my wife's parents, I'm trying to think how many people we have. It's a lot, yeah, but there's three tables. You get the main table. It's like dining room, which I think. A lot of times I'm in there, the dining room, and then there's kitchen and then they have like a sunroom which is used to be like. I guess the kids are sometimes in the dining room. You know what I'm saying, but it's just funny when you got to like split up teams.

Speaker 1 9:59

Oh yeah, Cause you can't, there's there's nowhere to sit. No, you can't have everybody in one room.

Speaker 2 10:04

Which, if you were smart, you'd just be like I brought a TV tray. I was just sitting in the recliner.

Speaker 1 10:09

Yeah, and watch the Detroit Lions, it's okay. Or the parade.

Speaker 2 10:14

Oh yeah, the parade, and that's in the mornings.

Speaker 1 10:17

Usually I think that's like, yeah, that thing is too early.

Speaker 2 10:20

It is, but yeah the Thanksgiving, oh yeah, the Thanksgiving Day Parade.

Speaker 1 10:23

All the floats why?

Speaker 2 10:24

are we doing?

Speaker 1 10:25

that I don't know. Yeah, it's a little bit like, yeah, macy's Day Parade.

Speaker 2 10:32

It's kind of weird. It is a little weird, isn't it? Yeah, yeah, like a pilgrim in a turkey. Here we are, it's freezing.

Speaker 1 10:38

Same one, same thing thing.

Speaker 2 10:48

um, oh, look here here comes the snoopy float. Oh, it's getting a little tangled up the holders are okay.

Speaker 1 10:50

Yeah, and you know a few marching bands and people freezing, that's in new york right yeah, they're not making dressing. I don't know what they're doing um, but yeah, I'm hoping it's nice because I'm gonna put a table out on our porch.

Speaker 2 11:04

we've got that covered porch so I'm gonna try to Um, but yeah, I'm hoping it's nice.

Speaker 1 11:05

I hope it's nice I'm going to put a table out on our porch. We've got that covered porch, so I'm going to try to put at least one table out there, because if it's like 60 degrees, you know.

Speaker 2 11:13

Yeah Well, you don't have to. There's not like young kids anymore. So you don't have to have like a kid table.

Speaker 1 11:18

No, if not, it's going to be downstairs.

Speaker 2 11:30

And stairs and then, maybe there's another table in our kit. I don't know how we're gonna fit. It'll be fine. People just sit on furniture that's good.

Speaker 1 11:34

Yeah, yeah, nobody cares. Yeah, I just eat at the buff. You do it like? I guess everybody does it like buffet style. Oh yeah, yeah, I just got extra trivets for that perfect purpose oh, a trivet that's uh goes under the pan. So when you sit it down on your countertop, you know it's not hot.

Speaker 2 11:48

Oh, yeah, yeah, so I have everything set up. Sorry, social media. Have you seen that thing? It's like a giant, like, not a pad.

Speaker 1 11:58

Mm-hmm For air fryer. Sit your air fryer on it.

Speaker 2 12:02

Nope, oh, that's called a no, I'm just kidding. A counter no-transcript island counter, whatever.

Speaker 1 12:12

Yeah.

Speaker 2 12:12

And then you put all your and it keeps. You pick the temp If you want to keep everything at like 150 or whatever.

Speaker 1 12:18

Yeah, so you have your dressing. Oh, that's nice, your casseroles.

Speaker 2 12:21

You can lay them all out, turn it on and it keeps everything nice and warm.

Speaker 1 12:25

Otherwise there's not like three women in the kitchen, all like making sure the foil is sealed right.

Speaker 2 12:30

Let's keep that hot. Yeah, you don't have to keep putting that back on it, let's pop it back in for a minute, just warm it.

Speaker 1 12:36

Just make sure it's warmed through.

Speaker 2 12:38

I think I remember going to grandmother's.

Speaker 1 12:42

Yeah, mom's, mom, mom's mom and that oven.

Speaker 2 12:48

Oh yeah, I think it was kind of an older. Of course the oven was older.

Speaker 1 12:52

It was yellow. Yeah, it was yellow, but Of course the oven was older. It was yellow.

Speaker 2 12:54

Yeah, it was yellow, but I think she was the only person that really like everybody else would be like you mean, set the oven. I think I remember her being like now it's not just knock it down Now. Most time it says three what I do on this one.

Speaker 1 13:08

It was like, yeah, I'm out. Yeah, that's complicated.

Speaker 2 13:18

And always the smoke alarm went off when they take the rolls out. That was somebody's job. To grab like a. Can you fan it? Yeah, to grab like a paper plate.

Speaker 1 13:23

And fan, yeah, fan it, just fan it.

Speaker 2 13:26

Fan that smoke alarm.

Speaker 1 13:27

Open that front door.

Speaker 2 13:29

Why was it? Why don't we just take that thing down? I don't know it was too close to the oven and stove.

Speaker 1 13:37

Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 13:39

Somehow always got smoky.

Speaker 1 13:41

I know Okay, rolls real quick.

Speaker 2 13:44

Ooh.

Speaker 1 13:44

Hawaiian. What do you like? Because I haven't bought rolls. I mean, I'm not going to buy rolls until let's go to.

Speaker 2 13:50

Costco and get that two-pack Hawaiian.

Speaker 1 13:52

That's the easiest, those are easy.

Speaker 2 13:54

I like the old school. You know the old school rolls that grandparents would do and they kind of get a tad like the little bitty ones like little rectangles. No, but they kind of like. They kind of almost look like a muffin, but the top would be like a little crisp to it.

Speaker 1 14:11

Oh, and it had a little crease in it.

Speaker 2 14:15

Yeah, Robin's parents still do those, and her dad will come to the table and have like a basket and he's got the little cloth over it. He's like who wants another roll?

Speaker 1 14:23

I love that.

Speaker 2 14:24

Something about those. It's just like nostalgic rolls.

Speaker 1 14:27

They're good. They're good for sopping up stuff. Yeah, hawaiian rolls are too, though I know I like a crescent roll.

Speaker 2 14:35

I can straight up tell you, I can you can get me one color on Thanksgiving.

Speaker 1 14:40

Yeah, give me some turkey, some dressing and some rolls. Yes, potatoes.

Speaker 2 14:45

Yeah.

Speaker 1 14:45

Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 2 14:47

Man.

Speaker 1 14:48

Yeah, you don't need a lot of color on that holiday. It's just everything's brown. It's just like the leaves Pumpkin pie, pecan pie it's brown and kind of orangish.

Speaker 2 14:57

Everything turned orange and brown and we ate it Right, we ate it.

Speaker 1 15:01

We're matching the season. Okay, let's talk pies.

Speaker 2 15:06

Pecan pie.

Speaker 1 15:07

I like pecan pie. I used to not like pumpkin pie. I love pumpkin pie.

Speaker 2 15:11

I used to hate pumpkin. Yeah, I couldn't stand it.

Speaker 1 15:15

I love it. I'll eat it now, but it ain't got nothing. On pecan pie Pecan pie is good.

Speaker 2 15:20

And I remember my grandmother would always make pecan pies forever, and then she always made all the pies and then, our uncle, uncle Butch he started making one that was pecan and chocolate chip.

Speaker 1 15:38

I remember there's chocolate in it. Oh, I don't remember that. You don't remember that, no.

Speaker 2 15:42

It was chocolate and pecan pie.

Speaker 1 15:44

Wow.

Speaker 2 15:45

Which I don't know why we didn't think of that sooner.

Speaker 1 15:48

Excuse me, I just sneezed.

Speaker 2 15:50

Bless you Thank you, yeah, are you allergic to chocolate? Pecan pie'm allergic.

Speaker 1 15:56

No, I want some of that now. Gosh see, I might buy my pies I. I'm thinking about our grandmother. She had that one stove.

Speaker 2 16:05

It wasn't a double oven uh-uh, anybody had no double oven and, like the, and how did they get it all right?

Speaker 1 16:12

I just that's like witchcraft. I don't even know what's happening. How did that work? I don't know and then the pies and then the, you know, and keeping it warm. I guess she'd put it back on the probably the burners, you know like low and keep it warm. I don't know, but it was always like hot and ready to go.

Speaker 2 16:31

I remember this at her house we would their house, we would stand around. Oh, yeah, and then you have that like who's going to say grace?

Speaker 1 16:42

Oh right. So then it was always like not awkward but yeah, it's a little bit like everybody looks down. We had two preachers in the family too.

Speaker 2 16:50

There was two preachers and most of the time they took the reins.

Speaker 1 16:53

Yeah.

Speaker 2 16:54

I'll do it. They handled it, but everybody's like there was steps going down to the shag carpet in the den, in the den. Yeah, so everybody's just kind of in the kitchen, kind of in the den. Everybody's starving because we've been waiting on everybody to get there.

Speaker 1 17:09

Everybody's there, oh yeah.

Speaker 2 17:10

We finally say the blessing, but then no one will help their plate.

Thanksgiving Dinner Traditions and Plans

Speaker 1 17:15

Yeah, they're just staying there. That's so Southern.

Speaker 2 17:18

That's so Southern. Everybody's like no, you go first.

Speaker 1 17:20

Y'all go first, and then you kind of want to let your grandmother, or whoever is at the helm of the cooking of the whole meal, go, and she won't go.

Speaker 2 17:29

Which, why don't we just go through the line and set it down at the table and go? Here you go, Grandma.

Speaker 1 17:34

Like, why don't we just help, like fix her plate.

Speaker 2 17:38

But we're always like nobody would ever go, and I think usually I was like fine.

Speaker 1 17:43

Little kids, yeah.

Speaker 2 17:44

Well, even as a teenager, yeah, I'd be like.

Speaker 1 17:47

I guess Okay, somebody's got to start it.

Speaker 2 17:49

Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 1 17:56

Are we going to stay here until Christmas? I'm hungry, let's eat. Yeah, and the whole. Like I used to be, like you know, our uncles and dad would be. Like you know, the food would be piled on.

Speaker 2 18:04

Oh my gosh, I'd be like.

Speaker 1 18:05

I can't believe all their food is touching. And now I'm like that's the best part of being an adult. I want the cranberry stuff in the dressing and the dressing with the turkey and a little bit of ham and if it's fine, if it's in the sweet potato casserole, that's good whatever just put gravy, yeah, just everything.

Speaker 2 18:22

I remember we'd eat it. So you there, which the fact that we had desserts was insane I know, because you just had not not stuffing dressing Don't fall asleep.

Speaker 1 18:39

I'm sleepy from thinking about the turkey.

Speaker 2 18:42

I'm allergic to sleep. That's why I'm sneezing and yawning.

Speaker 1 18:46

Pre-tryptophan.

Speaker 2 18:49

But we would have all that and I think I would look at desserts. I would sit in the dining room.

Speaker 1 18:55

I'd be staring at desserts the whole time.

Speaker 2 18:57

But I'd get so into the meal and then people would be like, what do you want for dessert? And I'd be like, oh man, my stomach hurts. Yeah, I got to think about this.

Speaker 1 19:05

Yeah, you got to walk outside a little bit.

Speaker 2 19:07

But I remember we would eat all that and then, I think at the age of like 10 and 12, somewhere around there, like as soon as we got done eating.

Speaker 1 19:18

We went outside to play football.

Speaker 2 19:19

As soon as we got done.

Speaker 1 19:21

Now, if you did that, you'd be in the ER. If you ate that much and tried running around.

Speaker 2 19:26

But I thought about that because our boys are always like you know if they ever want to do something outside, which is not a whole lot.

Speaker 1 19:33

Yeah.

Speaker 2 19:34

I'm like, OK, just give me a second.

Speaker 1 19:36

Yeah.

Speaker 2 19:37

You know, but I used to get so mad. Is that because we try to get the dads? To come outside our dads and they'd be like, yeah, give me a minute. And we're like, good grief, it's been 30 minutes, get off yeah.

Speaker 1 19:50

Come outside and throw the football.

Speaker 2 19:57

And eventually they'd mosey out. I know They'd get a burst of energy for like four minutes and the front yard was on like a 45 degree angle it was yeah, which is the worst way to play a football game?

Speaker 1 20:05

Right, who wants to turn their ankle? Let's go, yeah.

Speaker 2 20:08

I'm going to start up here so I can run downhill and catch it, yeah, but if my kids ask me to do that after a Thanksgiving meal, I would say no.

Speaker 1 20:15

I'd just be like dude, that ain't going to happen. No, we're going to schedule that for Saturday.

Speaker 2 20:20

You can go down the street and ask another father if they want to play. I ain't doing that.

Speaker 1 20:26

And then somebody like brews a pot of coffee and you smell the coffee and you hear people talking, but you're kind of nodding off, you know.

Speaker 2 20:32

Yeah, oh yeah talking, but you're kind of nodding off, you know. Yeah, oh, yeah, yeah, that's some good sleep, right there, oh which I think, uh, or go for a walk. Do y'all go for a walk after?

Speaker 1 20:42

like, like later we probably will yeah, well, this brings up this question because y'all are coming to my house. Yeah, um what time okay, first of all people that do it at noon. That's cray cray. I don't know how anybody read it.

Speaker 2 20:57

You know we're going to be there at noon.

Speaker 1 20:58

No, but what I'm saying is if I can have people eat outside what the egg bowl? No, I meant oh kick off the food, oh yeah, but like if it's nice and say it's going to be 65 and I can have a table outside. I'd like to eat before it gets dark, which is like 445 now.

Speaker 2 21:17

I say you say one o'clock, that's my go-to, because it ain't going to happen at one. And if you say you can't say two o'clock, because then you're eating at like three.

Speaker 1 21:26

Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 21:28

One o'clock.

Speaker 1 21:29

That means, guess what you got to fend for yourself for breakfast.

Speaker 2 21:34

Everybody can come over around 12. We're going to eat around 1. Right, that's what I say, because then you're done no matter what, at like 3.30.

Speaker 1 21:42

Yeah, and then everybody's going to come back after watching football for a couple hours or whatever it is and get some more and just say that was dinner.

Speaker 2 21:49

Yeah, because you're going to have leftovers, so whatever, you got time to walk the neighborhood, yeah, and then you get back have a cup of coffee. Watch the Egg Bowl, horrible name for a bowl.

Speaker 1 21:59

I know Football game, whatever, I don't. Yeah, it's weird. Just call it the Turkey Bowl. If it's on Thanksgiving, I mean, I guess nobody wants to play in the Turkey Bowl, but it's.

Speaker 2 22:09

Ole Miss and who I don't know.

Speaker 1 22:10

If I want to, play in the Egg Bowl. It's Ole Miss, and.

Speaker 2 22:12

Ole Miss and Mississippi.

Speaker 1 22:15

State. Wouldn't that be a bummer?

Speaker 2 22:20

Is it always on Thanksgiving? It's always on Thanksgiving, hey y'all. A little edit here it's always on Thanksgiving, since 2017. No-transcript, but we did not know that.

Speaker 1 22:37

Enjoy. So those people let's just say that'd be like us having the Iron Bowl every year on Thanksgiving.

Speaker 2 22:49

Yeah, I would not enjoy that at all.

Speaker 1 22:52

I would be putting in a petition to switch that business.

Speaker 2 22:55

Yeah, because it's your family day, yeah. Oh my gosh, I just thought of that.

Speaker 1 23:00

Iron Bowl. Everything's ruined, the Iron Bowl's ruined and Thanksgiving.

Speaker 2 23:04

The meal's ruined.

Speaker 1 23:05

Yeah, we can't possibly cook all this stuff with the nerves, uh-uh I wouldn't like that at all.

Speaker 2 23:12

Yeah, kick six. How about throw pie, because I'm irate? Yeah. Yeah, because then it's just where you're all sitting at the table and you're all trying to.

Speaker 1 23:23

Yeah.

Speaker 2 23:24

Just keep it moving.

Speaker 1 23:26

Yeah.

Speaker 2 23:26

You know everybody's like yeah, how crazy weather.

Speaker 1 23:29

The topics are going to stay.

Speaker 2 23:31

Yeah.

Speaker 1 23:32

Real vague.

Speaker 2 23:33

We want the topics kind of bland, like the food, yeah, filling Right, good flavor.

Speaker 1 23:39

There's no cayenne in this conversation.

Speaker 2 23:41

No politics, no religion, nuh-uh.

Speaker 1 23:44

No like.

Speaker 2 23:45

You plant some flowers. What kind you get? Right, that's what I'm talking about. Yeah, yeah exactly.

Speaker 1 23:51

You know Home Depot's going to have their so-and-so on sale tomorrow, whatever. That's why they have.

Speaker 2 23:57

Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, it gives people stuff to talk about. Now we were thinking we might get up and go to Best Buy First of all.

Speaker 1 24:04

No, yeah, I think we're going to try to do a lot of like. We might go to Ellington and do a hike. Some of the relatives might go that morning, you know, before Thanksgiving, because we got people coming in from out of town. I just hope the weather's good, but we'll know.

Speaker 2 24:29

Yeah, we'll find out. Well, yeah, we shall see. But I'm just glad the Iron Bowl does not happen on that day, because that's bonkers. That's, yeah, that's, that's. That's crazy, uh, but I did look it up and the egg bowl. Yeah, it's called that because they play for the golden egg, which that halfway answers it. Why is it a golden egg?

Speaker 1 24:53

what is this? A mother goose sponsored by cadbury? I don't know why whatever. Is this a nursery rhyme? What's going on?

Speaker 2 25:04

Yeah, I do not know.

Speaker 1 25:06

So they've done that forever or a long, long time. I just want to ask some of my old Mississippi State friends how y'all even doing Thanksgiving every year.

Speaker 2 25:16

Yeah, do y'all just yell at each other and eat dressing? I don't know, that's weird.

Speaker 1 25:18

Okay, anyway, sorryall just yell at each other and eat dressing. I don't know, that's weird. Okay, anyway, sorry, I mean it's not weird, it's just it's not for me.

Thanksgiving Food and Family Chatter

Speaker 2 25:27

Wow, okay, okay, all right. Well, history lesson. In 1926, Ole Miss ended Mississippi State's 13-game winning streak with a 7-6 victory. Ole Miss fans rushed the field to take down the goalpost. That's been happening a lot lately.

Speaker 1 25:44

It's been happening so much and y'all need to stop it.

Speaker 2 25:47

Somebody's going to get hurt.

Speaker 1 25:48

And Mississippi.

Speaker 2 25:49

State fans used wooden chairs to defend themselves. This was 1926.

Speaker 1 25:55

Oh, oh, my gosh.

Speaker 2 25:56

And then in 1927, students from both schools created the golden egg, a large football-shaped brass trophy. Maybe they just tried to make a football and somebody's like that looks like an egg. Mounted on a wooden base. The trophy's shape is similar to avoid blunter footballs used in the 1920s, which is why it resembles an egg to modern eyes. Oh, so that was kind of the shape of I don't know whatever a blunter football is Egg-shaped, I guess.

Speaker 1 26:29

Yeah, they did look different.

Speaker 2 26:31

Whatever, but yeah, yeah, they need to stop it. When are they eating their dressing?

Speaker 1 26:36

I can't even like, my brain can't even comprehend that. Yeah, I couldn't do it. I don't, I can't even like, my brain can't even comprehend that.

Speaker 2 26:40

Yeah, I couldn't do it. I'd be like if we get up 42 to nothing, I'll get some dressing.

Speaker 1 26:44

Yeah right, you know what we're having for Thanksgiving Rolaids. That's what we're having. Remember Rolaids. Remember our uncle would eat a. He'd eat a. Yeah, the nerves are intense, yeah.

Speaker 2 27:00

All right, this is turning into football, but it goes with Thanksgiving. Yeah, I'm on Iron Bowl day. On the day of the Iron Bowl, I am quite nervous or anxious.

Speaker 1 27:13

Yes.

Speaker 2 27:19

Even the night before I'm like, oh, we win. And then I go to bed and then um, but I can't imagine be like, all right, we got this giant meal that everybody worked on yeah, let's all just eat up and then you're just like okay, how much yeah 42 minutes before kickoff is it still pre-?

Speaker 1 27:37

What is it?

Speaker 2 27:37

You want some pecan pie?

Speaker 1 27:39

No, I'm gonna go to the bathroom. I gotta I'm gonna be nauseous, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 27:46

Maybe they just eat it at night, when it's over. Y'all crazy. Mississippi got it wrong.

Speaker 1 27:54

Mississippi what is going on?

Speaker 2 27:56

I'm gonna tell you right now yeah. I'm not a fan of DVR in a game.

Speaker 1 28:01

If that bad boy is on Thanksgiving, oh, I'd be DVRing it, yeah. And I guess there was other sports on, but I don't know. So Pumpkin pie, pecan pie. But your wife likes to make other desserts. Yeah, she does, by the way, the egg bowl this year is at $2.30.

Speaker 2 28:20

But your wife likes to make other desserts. Yeah, she does, and she is. By the way, the Egg Bowl this year is at 2.30. Right in the middle, Like right when you're eating. Let us pray.

Speaker 1 28:28

Yeah, y'all want seconds. That's about when that's hitting, yeah.

Speaker 2 28:33

Let me prove something. Hotty toddy, this dressing is good. I guess that's right.

Speaker 1 28:39

I don't know how you use that, just combine it.

Speaker 2 28:41

Ring a cowbell when it's time to eat.

Speaker 1 28:43

Yeah, yeah, toddy, when it's time to start when it's over I don't know. Wow, so is Robin going to make dessert. I guess I need to.

Speaker 2 28:55

She does not have to make it, she likes making other stuff too.

Speaker 1 28:59

I know she does not have to make it.

Speaker 2 29:00

She likes making other stuff too. I know she does a. What is it? Just corn casserole oh, she was like I could do that.

Speaker 1 29:07

Oh, we don't have that. Maybe I should.

Speaker 2 29:10

She'll do that.

Speaker 1 29:11

Oh, I'm volunteering her right now, oh my God, corn casserole, and I'll make my famous napkin casserole.

Speaker 2 29:18

I'll bring those. You can bring some ice. Why?

Speaker 1 29:21

don't you bring the ice? Bring the ice. Yeah, I'll bring the ice. I can't mess that up. We need two bags of ice.

Speaker 2 29:26

I can bring a Sharpie yeah.

Speaker 1 29:28

I can bring some Solo cups. Yeah, so I like the square Solo cups because they don't tump over as easy what. Yeah, they're squared off.

Speaker 2 29:39

Oh okay, I was just thinking like a straight up, yeah yeah, so we'll have tea.

Speaker 1 29:46

What do your boys drink? I'm getting menu items right now.

Speaker 2 29:49

This is like the to-do list.

Speaker 1 29:50

Sprite.

Speaker 2 29:51

What kind of drink they like that this is what my kids want for Thanksgiving. They like that Crystal Light. Oh, that's what.

Speaker 1 30:00

What kind of Crystal Light?

Speaker 2 30:02

Well, it's like tea flavor, it's like peach tea, and then there's like a oh, Crystal Light peach tea. Well, it's all the like tea flavors, but there's a raspberry tea, a peach tea or whatever they like those.

Speaker 1 30:12

But it comes in the jug too right? I don't know, we just get those little stick packs like the big stick packs. Okay, Check them out.

Speaker 2 30:21

Yeah, they got a lemon one too. I'm sure it's good for you right.

Speaker 1 30:26

Oh yeah, Aspartame, that's great for you.

Speaker 2 30:30

How many yellows y'all got in?

Speaker 1 30:32

here Red, yellow, blue, I'm like first of all, yeah, If the ingredients look like Skittles.

Speaker 2 30:38

It's probably not healthy yeah.

Speaker 1 30:40

Have you heard that? That that's like the worst thing you can actually eat is Skittles. Oh yeah, for your body ever.

Speaker 2 30:44

I saw that after Halloween.

Speaker 1 30:47

Oh.

Speaker 2 30:47

I think I read it as our boys were eating a bag Eating them and you're like, yeah. Which I still eat Skittles, I know.

Speaker 1 30:53

Well, if they're that bad, just take them off. You know what I mean Take them off the market.

Speaker 2 30:57

That's what you do for dessert. Just everybody, bring your Halloween candy. Get rid of them. Oh, you got none left.

Speaker 1 31:03

No, no, y'all might have some leftover Halloween candy, but no, we'll have pies. We'll have pies. I did think about doing a s'mores bar, but that's too much on the day that might be on game day.

Speaker 2 31:18

That makes me tired.

Speaker 1 31:20

Yeah, on the day that might be, on game day. That makes me tired.

Speaker 2 31:22

Yeah, I might do it on Saturday. I'll go around a fire pit and make some s'mores. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 31:25

People will still be here, y'all are gone.

Speaker 2 31:31

Oh, we're going to be driving. Yeah, because we drive down to Auburn day after no, the Egg Bowl is Thursday. I won't miss it. Yeah, we drive down and we drive back. Monday morning Our kids miss a day of school. I will never in my life travel the Sunday after Thanksgiving. We did it. The last time we did it, it took us seven hours to get back from Auburn to here.

Speaker 1 31:54

Oh my, and what is it normally?

Speaker 2 31:55

Normally it's like five.

Speaker 1 31:56

That's too much.

Speaker 2 31:57

And I was like yeah, they just skip a day.

Speaker 1 32:01

It's fine. It doesn't matter yeah no, no, it really doesn't. Um yeah, so anyway, corn casserole. I'm excited, man, we're gonna have some sides. That's the thing. Last thing I will eat some turkey and I'll eat a piece of ham.

Speaker 2 32:20

I ain't in it for the turkey, but besides are where it's at.

Speaker 1 32:22

Ain't nobody in it for turkey, I don't care, I don't know, no, okay. Yeah, the last thing, yeah, turkey sidebar, here we go.

Speaker 2 32:30

And I've had it.

Speaker 1 32:43

I've had people that the people good, yeah, however, yeah, I will not cook a turkey in a way that may explode.

Speaker 2 32:45

I don't know every time I watch those videos and yeah, even when it goes well. Yeah, you're like, I can't imagine cooking anything else like going yeah, I know right put on your look away right put on your mask and protection and yeah, yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 1 32:58

But Do we need to deep fry other things? Didn't we learn from the 80s and before, Like that's?

Speaker 2 33:03

bad for your health. I don't know. It's like the Texas State Fair. Why don't you just deep fry that turkey?

Speaker 1 33:09

Yeah, yeah and a Twinkie.

Speaker 2 33:11

I'm all about honey-baked ham. Yeah.

Speaker 1 33:16

Let's go pick it up. You know what I'm saying. I know they cater like box lunches for businesses and such but.

Speaker 2 33:24

I used to go for lunch all the time. Really, they have good little like sandwiches Legit, okay, and they have a honey mustard.

Speaker 1 33:31

That is it is strong. Yeah, oh, okay.

Speaker 2 33:41

I used to get the turkey, I think it was just turkey club or turkey classic sorry, okay, I got no mayo extra honey mustard. I love some honey mustard, it's like a real, not sweet, but I don't know it's good, got some honey in it. Yeah, love it yeah and then they give you those little punch cards. I used to go so much that I cashed in on punch cards.

Speaker 1 33:58

Oh, wow. Yeah, it's probably an app on your phone now. Are you a member of the Honey Bait Club? Yes, I am. Can I get extra sugar on my ham?

Speaker 2 34:09

But if you go eat there, it's going to be you the workers maybe one old dude, yeah right, like older than me or like sitting in there eating.

Speaker 1 34:19

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 34:21

I didn't even know that. Or an older lady like eating like a I don't know some kind of I guess they got salads. Yeah, you in there with old people yeah, wow, you're gonna go in there be like a group of high schoolers like do?

Speaker 1 34:34

where you want to go after games. Get a honey, bake man yeah, um, yeah.

Speaker 2 34:39

Every time you go in there you're like I'm home, okay, yeah. I like it, though, because they're quiet, yeah, polite.

Speaker 1 34:47

Yeah, it's not too loud.

Speaker 2 34:49

Yeah.

Speaker 1 34:50

Because everyone's too loud.

Speaker 2 34:51

All right Well if you're stressed out and you live in Mississippi and you can't take it, just go to a honey bake. Well, they're probably closed.

Speaker 1 34:58

They close on Thanksgiving.

Speaker 2 34:59

Yeah, that's probably the only day they're closed.

Speaker 1 35:03

I know Everything's closed on Thanksgiving, which I mean should be, but like if you forget something.

Speaker 2 35:13

Well, no, that's not true, because there are certain restaurants that are like, if you're not cooking these places, do a Thanksgiving thing. If you're hurting for cash, just buy you some cranberry sauce all these things. French fried onions Get you a pickup truck go park outside Walmart or not Walmart? A grocery store on Thanksgiving Day. And when people roll up, just be like what do you need?

Speaker 1 35:30

Yeah, cranberry sauce is $5. Yeah, you need stove top. I got it. Chicken broth, what you need.

Speaker 2 35:36

I'll be out here all day watching the Egg Bowl. You need something. You just come right back, Okay.

Speaker 1 35:44

Well, everybody have a happy Thanksgiving.

Speaker 2 35:47

Yeah, give thanks.

Speaker 1 35:48

Give thanks. Thank you.