# Hope you all have a Happy Thanksgiving **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [November 25, 2021, 11:32pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/hope-you-all-have-a-happy-thanksgiving/180891 "2021-11-25T23:32:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Barkydog](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/barkydog/32/2470_2.png) [@Barkydog](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Barkydog)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2021, 11:32pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/hope-you-all-have-a-happy-thanksgiving/180891/1 "2021-11-25T23:32:00Z")
Missed all the festivities, wife has Covid, She got it 1 week after phizer booster, I am clear. We both had Moderna first 2 rounds. I went for moderna booster. I hope your day was great! Missing turkey and dressing, but not the rutabagas so much. ---
**Author:** ![davepsinbox\_157004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@davepsinbox\_157004](https://community.cartalk.com/u/davepsinbox_157004)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2021, 12:01am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/hope-you-all-have-a-happy-thanksgiving/180891/2 "2021-11-26T00:01:02Z")
And you and yours as well. Sorry to hear about your wife. ---
**Author:** ![Mustangman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/mustangman/32/44130_2.png) [@Mustangman](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Mustangman)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2021, 12:02am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/hope-you-all-have-a-happy-thanksgiving/180891/3 "2021-11-26T00:02:47Z")
Hope your wife recovers quickly with no lasting effects… and you avoid it, too! ---
**Author:** ![Barkydog](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/barkydog/32/2470_2.png) [@Barkydog](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Barkydog)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2021, 12:22am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/hope-you-all-have-a-happy-thanksgiving/180891/4 "2021-11-26T00:22:15Z")
So far I am fine, wife has more quarantine left. Nothing to serious but ups and downs, Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Renegade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Renegade](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Renegade)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2021, 12:32am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/hope-you-all-have-a-happy-thanksgiving/180891/5 "2021-11-26T00:32:45Z")
Our thoughts and prayers are with you. ---
**Author:** ![weekend-warrior](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/weekend-warrior/32/26122_2.png) [@weekend-warrior](https://community.cartalk.com/u/weekend-warrior)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2021, 1:37am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/hope-you-all-have-a-happy-thanksgiving/180891/6 "2021-11-26T01:37:32Z")
Hope all is well soon. ---
**Author:** ![asemaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@asemaster](https://community.cartalk.com/u/asemaster)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2021, 5:50am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/hope-you-all-have-a-happy-thanksgiving/180891/7 "2021-11-26T05:50:45Z")
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours as well, and best wishes for a speedy recovery to the better half! And I don’t know that I’ve ever heard rutabagas particularly associated with Thanksgiving. ---
**Author:** ![Renegade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Renegade](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Renegade)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2021, 2:31pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/hope-you-all-have-a-happy-thanksgiving/180891/8 "2021-11-26T14:31:39Z")
> [@asemaster](#): > > And I don’t know that I’ve ever heard rutabagas particularly associated with Thanksgiving. That makes two of us must be a regional thing. ---
**Author:** ![jtsanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@jtsanders](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jtsanders)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2021, 2:40pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/hope-you-all-have-a-happy-thanksgiving/180891/9 "2021-11-26T14:40:59Z")
Good thing she is fully vaccinated. That should mean a mild case. Still, you two shouldn’t spend too much time together. There’s plenty of time for togetherness at Christmas. Hang in ther @Barkydog and Mrs Barky. ---
**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/30_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2021, 3:29pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/hope-you-all-have-a-happy-thanksgiving/180891/10 "2021-11-26T15:29:29Z")
> [@Renegade](#): > > That makes two of us **must be a regional thing**. … or–possibly–an ethnic thing. My mother–whose father was English and whose mother was German–always served Mashed Rutabagas\* at Thanksgiving, and I really grew to like them. Occasionally, I still make them today. Mom also served Creamed White Onions at Thanksgiving, and I also loved that dish. I’m not sure whether those Mashed Rutabagas and Creamed Onions were an English “thing” or a German tradition, but I’m pretty sure that her parents’ countries of origin had something to do with serving those dishes. \*Some trivia: In The UK, Rutabagas are known as “Swedes”. ---
**Author:** ![jtsanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@jtsanders](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jtsanders)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2021, 3:53pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/hope-you-all-have-a-happy-thanksgiving/180891/11 "2021-11-26T15:53:13Z")
Yeah, my MIL always cooked sauerkraut with pork chops in it for my FIL. I think he brought that tradition from Germany when he moved here in the early 1950s. ---
**Author:** ![Renegade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Renegade](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Renegade)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2021, 4:13pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/hope-you-all-have-a-happy-thanksgiving/180891/12 "2021-11-26T16:13:05Z")
You may be right I never thought of ethnic. ---
**Author:** ![Barkydog](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/barkydog/32/2470_2.png) [@Barkydog](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Barkydog)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2021, 5:00pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/hope-you-all-have-a-happy-thanksgiving/180891/13 "2021-11-26T17:00:25Z")
The rutabagas were a favorite of wifeys father, he was Scottish, That worked out well as her mom did not like mashed potatoes. ---
**Author:** ![jtsanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@jtsanders](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jtsanders)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2021, 6:21pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/hope-you-all-have-a-happy-thanksgiving/180891/14 "2021-11-26T18:21:49Z")
I made mashed acorn squash a few days ago with butter and brown sugar. I microwaved the halved and cored squash for 15 minutes, scooped it out, mashed it then added the butter and brown sugar. Way good and very easy. ---
**Author:** ![woodyandsue\_176929](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ac91a4/32.png) [@woodyandsue\_176929](https://community.cartalk.com/u/woodyandsue_176929)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2021, 11:12pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/hope-you-all-have-a-happy-thanksgiving/180891/15 "2021-11-26T23:12:56Z")
Best wishes to you both.