Early Holiday Dinner: I’ll Be Drunk as a Skunk
A few of my family members are visiting this weekend. Since my uncle, a truck driver, will not be able to attend Thanksgiving dinner with us next Thursday, the family decided to bring Thanksgiving to him. Tonight. Awww, isn’t that sweet? Yea, I thought so too. We may be model examples of dys-func-tion-al, but we still love each other. Ha!
So what does it mean when out of town guests are visiting?
You guessed it…spending money!
We were all given an assigned task to pull this dinner together. My cousins and I agreed to let the matriarchs handle the heavy artillery cooking. I’m still recovering from last year, so I was hoping to get something easy – like bake a few cakes or pies, make a side dish, etc. But noooooooo, they gave me the one and only task that requires spending mucho dinero. *sigh* Coincidence? I think not! I’m responsible for the alcohol and here’s what I picked up:
- Bacardi Rum
- Smirnoff Vodka
- E&J Brandy
- Baileys Irish Creme
- Tequila
- Pina Colada Mix
- Margarita Mix
- Green Apple Martini Mix
- Yuengling Beer
- Heineken Beer
- Sparkling Cider for the kids
- Plenty of ice & a new Blender
I don’t think anyone in my family is a wine drinker, so that should be more than enough to satisfy everyone’s preferences. If not, too bad! I’ll probably nurse a martini all night. Remember these cute little glasses I received as a gift? Love ‘em! I figured if I get really drunk, I’ll be immune to the usual drama once they commence to acting a fool.
If there’s anything leftover, I’m going to do something real ghetto – sneak into the kitchen, pack everything up, and take it home with me. LOL! Considering how much I just spent, everybody will drink this same liquor on Thanksgiving day. Once their glasses are full, they won’t even care to notice.
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At first I was going to say yeah pack up all the leftovers, why not? But then remembered how with my family, we always pack up leftovers and take some home as my parents wouldn’t be able to eat/drink everything afterward. .
So maybe everyone can take a bit of something — their fave alcohol, leftover food, etc and then it’s not so ghetto.
yeah, its def. not ghetto!! no one likes to eat the same leftovers day after day, so its really benefitting the host if you take home food :) i know i prefer it if people take stuff home (as long as they bring the tupperware back!!)
Shoot. If it were my family, by the time I “snuck” in the kitchen to pack up my ‘leftover’ liquor, some of them would have beaten me to it. Wouldn’t be nothing left but turkey bones & a few deviled eggs. LOL Enjoy!!
Shoot..my family is strickly “BYOT”–Bring Your Own Tupperware. It is not out of the ordinary AT ALL to see different folks tupperware lined up on the counter!! Call me ghetto and pass the collards, the ham and the mac-n-cheese so I can fill up my tupperware, thank you very much!
LMAO.. and save me some too! but wait with the week you been having you sure you didn’t drink it all? :) LOL
Ghetto?? Then am miss ghetto fabulous. I loves me some take home left overs. It saves me from having to cook or buy drinks for a few days.
Just to clarify because some of the comments seemed to misunderstand me. I called it ghetto because I’m packing up and taking home ONLY what I brought to the dinner. All the leftover alcohol, not the food. Then I’m taking the rest of the alcohol to the NEXT family dinner. So they’ll be drinking hand-me-down liquor. :-)
@ BK – It was plenty leftover, but please believe, I was LIT on Saturday night. LOL!
Forget the Smirnoff Vodka, go with the Grey Goose!!!