What are your Thanksgiving memories as a kid? They can be good, sad, funny whatever Weird foods too

[Marthe48]

21. We'd get together with my uncle's family

My Dad's brother. There was the big table for the grown ups, and 1 or 2 card tables for us kids. I remember that sometimes a couple of us very young kids got to sit at the big table on a stack of phone books on a chair. In Cleveland, they were big, thick books.

I remember being at the big table one year, and my uncle told the story of being at his in-laws right after he and my aunt got married. He said they were sitting a huge, long table, and they were passing food around. My uncle called out to his mother-in-law, "Mother Jennings, do you want some stuffing up your end?" And then wished he could disappear. Everyone at our table laughed. Later my older brother said, "Uncle John, do you want some cranberry sauce up your end?" And everyone laughed again. It got to be a family joke, and somebody would say something like that every Thanksgiving.