thankful

the smart economists tell me the economy will get waaaay worse before it gets any better. still, i'd like to think we're entering a period of hopeful austerity rather than soul-crushing malaise. i'm therefore reprising white castle's timeless stuffing and william devaughn's recession-era be thankful as my official foodstuff and soundtrack for thanksgiving 2008.

speaking of the holiday, here's a food n' family story from my aunt jan, who is pro-thanksgiving but anti-white castle:

From a genealogy magazine, Family Tree January 2009 issue (page 60), the following story about a Thanksgiving meal was printed. “My paternal grandmother, Olive Roberta (Hills) Gehrandt, was a terrible cook. But she outdid herself one Thanksgiving. As my Grandfather was starting to carve the turkey for the hungry guests, she commanded, ‘Gustav, don’t give anyone the stuffing from the front of the bird. I wanted Otto to have a taste of turkey, so I stuffed that section with his dog food’. Suddenly nobody was quite as hungry as before.”

yeesh. maybe nobody else was hungry, but i'll bet otto was thankful for what he got.