Depends on where you are. Just arrived at my in-laws an hour ago after a long multi-state drive.
Not breaking any rules tomorrow as there will only be 5 of us, and there’s no curfew where my in-laws live. But I was speeding a bit to get to one jurisdiction (and get through it) before their curfew kicked in. I was going about 1-2 miles over the speed limit, instead of my usual 5-6 miles over, once I entered because I wanted to make sure there was no reason for the cops to pull me over. I ended up violating their curfew by a few minutes but got away with it. Still… an unneeded stressor the day before Thanksgiving.
And in more than one state restaurants were closed except for carry-out.
I agree that it’s not the same. The kids aren’t off school and the adults aren’t off work. I can’t order an apple pie from the youth group fundraiser. (I love apple pie but it is my Achilles heel: the one thing I can never make right.) It’s harder to find a turkey. It feels weird to make a pumpkin pie in May, although since I use canned pumpkin… I assume that it’s still possible to make one.
There’s no football games on TV in the spring.
It’s always nice to have a meal as a family, but it’s not Thanksgiving when it’s in May.
I’m thinking all those things (well, except one; see below) can be scheduled then as well. Apple pies, pumpkin pies, kids off school, adults off work. I mean, it would be a national holiday, if only once, in May.
I guess I then need to ask, why are the football games needed? Peer pressure, I’m guessing. Oh, and the beauty of other people getting their brains ruined for our entertainment (though paid handsomely). Good times.
We’ll be outside until it gets too cold (it’s also going to be windy), and there will be songs from some streaming thing if we go indoors. So, no football here.
Naw. Pumpkin pie is usually made from canned pumpkins, and comes out exactly the same in the spring. But I make apple pie with fresh apples, and the varieties available (and even the quality of what i can get) is much lower in the spring than in the fall. I can’t get fresh Idareds, nor Jonathans, and certainly not Crimson Crisp in the spring.
When I was young I decided to make my grandmothers pumpkin pie. I went and bought a pumpkin, peeled it and got it ready. Then I called gramps for the recipe. She starts with ‘one can of pumpkin pie filling’. Wtf gramma.
My father used to grow giant pumpkins. Like, they weighed more than 100 pounds, and you could put a small child inside one.
So… One year, after we carved them into Jack-o-lanterns, my mother used the eyes and nose and mouths to make three pumpkin pies. The pies were mediocre. Jack-o-lantern pumpkins aren’t selected for flavor.
Honestly, I don’t like pumpkin pie enough to care, and my son, who loves pumpkin pie, is very happy with pie made from canned pumpkin.
It’s funny, because i like all the other winter squashes. I regularly cook acorn and butternut squash, and enjoy the others when they come my way. But pumpkin? Meh.
I hated pumpkin pie until I met my wife, who always made it with fresh pumpkin instead of canned. It’s completely different in texture and taste, to the point that they really are two different things IMO.
In an effort to establish new guildelines; let’s please divert conversations back to the vaccine instead of what pie you like.
Unless, of course, you’re intending to say that you’d like your vaccine administered in your favorite pie. But if this is the case, please be more explicit about that part of the discussion.
I’ll get the vaccine as soon as it’s available to me, I don’t think it will be available to me for a long time though (early 20s, relatively healthy). By the time it gets to me enough people will have been vaccinated that hopefully the spread has essentially stopped and it’ll be mostly symbolic at that point.
We tried making a pumpkin pie from a jack-o-lantern pumpkin once too and also had sub-par results. So Libby’s it is.
But I agree about the apples. My cousin’s wife’s mom makes amazing apple pie from a blend of 3 different apples, one of which has pink flesh. She’d drive several hours out to the orchard and literally pick the apples from the trees herself. They were very fresh!
I have a while to make this decision, I believe, since I’m not a health care worker nor immunocompromised nor a senior citizen.
I’m hearing it’s two doses and you get sick for a day after each one, or at a minimum after the second one. Like sick enough to require needing a day off work to spend in bed.
Still better than actually getting Covid-19, but way worse than a flu shot.
