Democratic Underground - Most of them eat a big meal with the family.

Thanksgiving has never been a big religious holiday. Especially for Catholics--the Puritans were not fond of Popery. However, just about everybody enjoys having a day or two off.

Calvin Trillin suggests an alternative to turkey: (In our family)...Thanksgiving has often been celebrated away from home. It was at other people's Thanksgiving tables that I first began to articulate my spaghetti carbonara campaign--although, since we were usually served turkey, I naturally did not mention that the campaign had been inspired partly by my belief that turkey is basically something college dormitories use to punish students for hanging around on Sunday... I reminded everyone how refreshing it would be to hear sports announcers call some annual tussle the Spaghetti Carbonara Day Classic.

I even had a ready answer to the occasional turkey fancier at those meals who insist that spaghetti carbonara was almost certainly not what our forebears ate at the first Thanksgiving dinner. As it happens, one of the things I give thanks for every year is that those people in the Plymouth Colony were not my forebears. Who wants forebears who put people in the stocks for playing the harpsichord on the Sabbath or having an innocent little game of pinch and giggle?

www.rlrubens.com/Thanksgiving.html

Going out for Chinese is another option.

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