Let’s start an over 30 selfie thread. 😏

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Dwarfs/dwarves, and he admitted to a friend he had simply gotten it wrong but decided to bluster his way out of it (and managed to).

Of course, they could brandish a publication of the American Chemical Society, which still follows Janet Dodd's idiosyncratic practice of "logical punctuation." That she says this practice "differs from other authorities" (ACS Style Guide, p 63) shows there should have been questions.

Now I want to make mincemeat pie on Thursday.

Homemade mincemeat isn't difficult to make and using prepared mincemeat is dead simple. Making a mincemeat pie is trivial.

Getting people to eat mincemeat pie is well nigh impossible.

The abolitionist view was that people who grew pumpkins could be self-sufficient (like a New Englander) and they didn't need a plantation of enslaved people to make their food. Pumpkin pie was supposed to taste of freedom.

I know in these wonderful times, we can have blueberries whenever we want, but I keep my Thanksgiving pies seasonal, and blueberry pie just does not say "autumn" to me.

Apple, pumpkin, or sweet potato. I've made mincemeat, but it's a tough sell.

For the completist there's the 1925 silent, with Betty Blythe (Sidney Blythe, the cinematographer on the film is unrelated. Ayesha rules over a tribe of racist stereotypes.

Continuing on the Thanksgiving theme, let's turn to green bean casserole? A bizarre (and ugly) dish created to sell Campbell's Cream of Mushroom soup. It's another one of those monstrosities of 1950s convenience-food cooking.

Marshmallows on sweet potatoes strike me as a post-WWII invention, after marshmallows became a mechanized extruded product. Do we really need to be putting the worst excesses of 1950s food on our Thanksgiving tables? Are sweet potatoes so awful we need to dress them with a thick layer of sugar?

No, no, no. I remember a food piece on "changing up Thanksgiving" in which the writer specifically excluded New Englanders, because she knew they would be vehemently opposed.

Marshmallows and pecans? What kind of weird non-Thanksgiving dish is this?

How do I do it? Butter, cinnamon, and nutmeg.