this is me, being way too american

It is really hard to explain thanksgiving to people who haven't grown up with it. "was this before or after you killed the indians?" "what about buckle shoes?" "does this have anything to do with the irish?" and "why are there marshmallows in the potatoes?"

I'm not sure a holiday for which we commemorate the mass slaughter of a race of people by eating pie gives the best introduction to our culture, but the food was good and in the end that's really what thanksgiving is about. That and of course, hand turkeys, an age old tradition our british guests adopted with minimal enthusiasm. I was asked to bring a vegetable dish, evidence that none of these people knew me at all. I made carbonized root vegetables with peas, which is about 20 minutes past sweet caramelized root vegetables with peas. I tried passing this off as an advanced american cooking technique but no one bought it. next time I'm brining wine.