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Happy Sweet Potato Day

Happy Thanksgiving for those who celebrate. I can’t stop worrying about shit but I have much to be thankful for, including/especially all the great people here, the fact that anybody still reads my reviews, takes my recommendations, recommends things to me, and wants to hang out and talk about it with me and the community here you’ve all helped create. I hope you can have some good food today, maybe see family or friends, maybe avoid them if that’s better. I’ll keep striving and I hope you do too. Thanks everybody!

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26 Responses to “Happy Sweet Potato Day”

  1. CJ Holden

    November 28th, 2024 at 10:32 am

    Happy Thanksgiving! Sadly it’s only Thursday in my part of the world, but I am thankful for a few things and yes, that includes this websight and most of the people here, who have been a constant source of entertainment and mostly sane discussion for a looooooong time now.

    You are the reason why Barney’s death in 97 wasn’t senseless! (citation needed)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epgXuMB1sF8

  2. Kyle

    November 28th, 2024 at 10:34 am

    Happy Thanksgiving Vern!

    I jumped on where real quick in case you posted a review today. BTW I’m gonna be ordering Seagology and Yippie Ki Yay for reading over Holiday break coming up. Do I order through your site link for those too? Sorry if you’ve been asked this 100 times just want to make sure you’re compensated.

  3. VERN

    November 28th, 2024 at 11:05 am

    Kyle – If you order them through my Amazon link I get some small cut from Amazon. Otherwise I don’t get anything because the ten year contract on those has passed so I don’t get residuals anymore. But I appreciate you reading them anyway, thank you!

    By the way, shout out to Skani who has been getting 403 errors when he tries to comment, and I can’t figure out why. If anybody else is having trouble with that email me at outlawvern at hotmail dot com so we can know how widespread the problem is.

  4. Kyle

    November 28th, 2024 at 12:09 pm

    Vern, thank you and I’m looking forward to reading them soon. I’m hanging in there just trying to wish a Worm On a Hook Part 2: The Final Weekend into existence one day from you. :)

    I thankfully haven’t had any issues other than it questions if I’m really a person or not sometimes.

  5. Miguel Hombre

    November 28th, 2024 at 1:39 pm

    Happy Thanksgiving Vern.

    Been with you since I stumbled across Seagalogy in my local bookstore before Christmas in 2008.

  6. Stu

    November 28th, 2024 at 3:04 pm

    Happy Thanksgiving all, from the UK.

  7. Llamakazi

    November 28th, 2024 at 4:26 pm

    Happy Thanksgiving, Vern.

  8. Glaive Robber

    November 28th, 2024 at 9:24 pm

    Yes, I’m late, but I hope y’all had a special day with people you care about. Happy Thanksgiving!

  9. Ben Railton

    November 29th, 2024 at 8:29 am

    Happy holiday weekend, Vern and all! Striving alongside y’all is one of the best parts about the intertubes for me.

    Ben

  10. Crudnasty

    November 29th, 2024 at 12:10 pm

    Happy belated giving of thanks day, erry one! I eat of the reheated, marshmallowed yam as I write this. I reflect on the fact that both Beastie Boys – Gratitude and Def Leppard – Pour Some Sugar on Me are songs for the holiday.

    Also I watched the Brady Bunch Christmas TV movie, that had all the original cast back in 1988 (except Cindy, who was played by the girl Venkman flirts with in the beginning of Ghostbusters), but with 50% more mustaches, and for a Christmas and Brady Bunch movie, it was surprisingly horny, with almost all the grown up kids and even the grandparents having their own onscreen makeout scene. Jan’s was almost softcore-adjacent.

    The plot involving an architect turning into first responder action hero was worth watching it to the end, but Florence Henderson makes an Aliens reference (followed by a little military snare drum stinger on the soundtrack) that made me want to recommend for strangely entertaining holiday weekend viewing.

  11. Ben C.

    November 29th, 2024 at 2:48 pm

    Chiming in late to voice my thanksgivingitude to Vern, this site and all y’all!

  12. Skani

    November 29th, 2024 at 4:07 pm

    Greetings, one and all. I hope your day holiday or regular Thursday was festive!

  13. Cycloptomese

    December 2nd, 2024 at 8:37 am

    Hi guys! Happy Thanksgiving Vern and everyone else. I don’t comment much but I read a lot of what you guys have to say and I genuinely enjoy the different perspectives. Anyway, I hope you guys had a great holiday!

  14. Charles

    December 2nd, 2024 at 9:10 am

    Thank you Vern for all the years of insightful and funny writing and for being an awesome dude! Your work means a lot and is greatly appreciated.

  15. pegsman

    December 2nd, 2024 at 10:19 pm

    Maybe this isn’t the time, but can anyone tell us ignorant Europeans just what Thanksgiving is? Judging from movies and TV shows you eat turkey (as I believe you do at every damn holiday you have), watch what you call football (as you do at just about every holiday you have) and try to stear clear of some racist uncle (as you do…you get the drift). But to parafrase the corporal in WHERE EAGLES DARE: What’s it all about?

  16. pegsman

    December 2nd, 2024 at 10:21 pm

    Oh, and Happy Thanksgiving, Vern!

  17. Borg9

    December 3rd, 2024 at 3:24 am

    C’mon, pegsman, as an ignorant Briton and, yes, European, I’ve not been in Norway at this time of year, but I’m pretty sure you do have festivals there that aren’t just folk-horror murder-cult parties, even if that’s what y’all want the rest of the world to think. Think of Thanksgiving as a harvest festival, albeit one that’s been hijacked by the spirit of commercialism.

    I’ve not done Thanksgiving in the US, but in Canada, where it’s a month earlier and probably more low key – I’m guessing – I had a good time at Thanksgiving. I hope everyone here had a good one this year.

  18. pegsman

    December 3rd, 2024 at 4:06 am

    You’re partly right. All the big ones comes from the Vikings – Yule Tide, a variant of Easter and Midsummer – even if they have been Shanghai’d by various religions along the way. Halloween came along 15-20 years ago, but the agents of commericialism have yet to introduce Thanksgiving here in Scandinavia. I’m not so ignorant that I can claim that I don’t know what it’s about, but I was curious to know what todays Americans get out of it.

  19. Borg9

    December 3rd, 2024 at 4:23 am

    We can blame the Celts, rather than the Vikings, for Halloween, although it’s still just a harvest festival. I miss the 5th of November, Bonfire Night, which has pretty much been usurped by Halloween here over the last 15-20 years and really deserves a better movie than V FOR VENDETTA. So many childhood memories of building giant bonfires to burn Catholics on. Happy days.

  20. pegsman

    December 3rd, 2024 at 4:37 am

    That is sort of what I was angling for, the religious aspect of it. But people here a too classy for my un-sophisticated traps.

  21. daniel

    December 3rd, 2024 at 5:33 am

    There are sections in ADDAMS FAMILY VALUES that explain the history of Thanksgiving :) As far as religion is concerned, I think Puritan settlers to America came up with the whole thing, and it commemorates the first harvest festival in the new land. But I’m also an ignorant European so I’m not sure, all I really know is that the people that it comes from kinda look like Robert E. Howard’s Solomon Kane.

  22. CJ Holden

    December 3rd, 2024 at 6:19 am

    Germany used to have Thanksgiving in October, but it wasn’t really anything relevant. More like “another day off”, if I remember right. Then the Berlin wall fell and it got replaced with the Day Of German Unity, which is also just another day off, but at least everybody knows what it’s about, even if it’s not on the actual date of the fall of the wall.

  23. VERN

    December 3rd, 2024 at 7:05 am

    I don’t think anyone thinks of it as a religious holiday. When I was growing up it was supposedly about pilgrims and “Indians” sitting down and having a meal together, but we didn’t think as much of their religion as just that they were the first European settlers here. And that aspect has been downplayed as time has moved on and people have started to see it as a whitewash of horrible events.

    So yes, the idea is to give thanks and the central tradition is people getting together with their family or friends and having a huge early dinner which traditionally includes turkey and cranberry sauce, and for many of us sweet potatoes (plus a bunch of other staples). The dessert (or one of the desserts) is often pie, traditionally pumpkin (and pecan? Or is that just my family?) Yes, there are always football games scheduled that many people watch, and both my late mom and living mother-in-law insisted on watching this dog show that’s just as bad.

  24. MaggieMayPie

    December 3rd, 2024 at 5:41 pm

    The traditional Thanksgiving meal includes turkey and stuffing (the type of stuffing depends on your family traditions and region), mashed potatoes and gravy, sweet potatoes or yams, cranberry sauce and some kind of bread. The traditional pies are pecan, pumpkin, and apple. There’s usually some kind of vegetable in there as well. The most common ones I’ve seen are green beans, brussel sprouts, and carrots. Baked mac and cheese is big in the Black community, which I had no idea was a part of Thanksgiving dinner well into my adulthood, but I think it’s becoming more widespread. Then you have weird outlier dishes that are family/region specific. My family makes a fruit salad with jello that isn’t like what you think of as jello. It’s a packet of orange jello mix, cool whip, cottage cheese, canned pineapple and mandarin oranges. Yes, it’s trashy and a sugar bomb and it’s fucking delicious. It’s a Mormon thing. They’re big on jello.

  25. VERN

    December 3rd, 2024 at 8:17 pm

    I can’t believe I forgot to mention stuffing!

    Maggie, that fruit salad sounds so ’70s. I remember stuff like that. Not in the same era but my mom used to make this Jello that was like 7 thin layers of different flavors. Took her forever.

  26. pegsman

    December 3rd, 2024 at 10:19 pm

    So it’s basically like holidays all over the world eventually turns out: It’s about the food!

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