Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for November 27, 2024

Don’t worry about the room. Worry about how much food you’re going to need.

I would scratch the last 2. This ain’t a freakin’ restaurant. Ya’ eat what we’re cookin’, or your eatin’ somewhere else.

At todays prices, can you imagine the cost to feed that many people? it’s enough to give you a heart attack.

Um Joan, you can cook and find room for YOUR guests. Actually I suspect it will be WALLY TO THE RESCUE! After all I seem to recall he’s a pretty good cook.

Why would vegetarians accept an invitation to a turkey dinner?

I don’t understand Joan inviting 3 additional people to someone else’s house without checking first. But that’s just me.

Or you could take your friends out to dinner…

Change of plans, eat out.

Set up that kids table in another room and seat Joan there with her friends. And give PLENTY of cranberry sauce, swt potatoes, and stove top stuffing. Dilemma solved.

maybe eating somewhere else could be an option, but I wouldn’t know where that would be.

My wife and I used to be put at the kid’s table with her cousin and his wife. A lot more fun…

When my step daughter was at home she was a vegetarian, and I used to do the cooking for our family. Adapting to that was not too hard. One day, in her mid-teens, she came in and said she wanted to go Vegan. I said, “Before you make that decision I’d like you to go on the internet and see exactly what is involved, because if you don’t do it right, you can get sick, really sick.” Oh and BTW, I am not going to fix Vegan meals, you can do your own meal prep. We’ll get the food and stock the pantry, but you have to prepare the shopping list and keep track of what you need, then fix what you want to eat.

She lasted about two weeks then said, “This is really hard, do you mind if I go back to Vegetarian and will you fix those meals?” “Yes sweetheart.”I had to give her points for trying however. All part of the process of finding out who “You” are.

I guess she needs to make the meals for her 2 friends.

No problem, Joan, you can cook them whatever you like!

Should be able to trade in sisters. Maybe get one not a narcissistic layabout.

How come people with dietary requirements expect to be accommodated but they do not accommodate those without? I mean, if a vegetarian comes to my house, I’ll serve non-meat and let them know what has meat in it. But if I go there, they don’t say “I made this steak just for you!”

You just need more potatoes, stuffing, etc for the veggies. It just means more turkey for everyone else. Also I would embarrass the sister who waited till the last minute to say something

Way to screw things up, Joan!

With sisters like this who needs enemies.

Joan, handle your own guests

Joan, you are in charge of chairs and vegetarian dishes.

Not vegan, but definitely no dairy. No one seemed to mind because I always brought apple pie.

Also, we never had a rule that a guest must eat some of everything. Mom always had asparagus that I never ate.

Is Joan’s support group CSA? Clueless Sisters Anonymous?

I think she’s getting the dreaded ‘Thanksgiving eye twitch’!

I’m over 60 and I still enjoy sitting at the ‘kids’ table. It’s certainly the most fun!

I think Joan might be related to Sponge Bob.

Justifiable homicide…..

I worked for a year or so at a startup vegetarian restaurant in Houston in the 60s. The owner was… not really a dedicated vegetarian, but just surfing the current fads… and for Thanksgiving, she cooked a turkey, then put on a fairy-princess hat and twisted some sparkly string around the big knife and after setting the turkey on the table waved the knife over it and said “Abracadabra, you are now a TURNIP!” About 3/4 of the staff ate turkey that day. The rest really WERE vegetarians and got to eat what I’d made: A very nice rice, eggs, cheese and nuts (and other goodies) “meatless loaf” instead. Everybody enjoyed the baked stuffing, sweet-potatoes and pies. And plenty of wine.

My niece is vegan. She brings her own food.