Every year all my immediate and extended family pile into my house to celebrate the holiday revolving around food and thanks. But if we are all being honest here, the food is what we really care about. Every year at my family thanksgiving we have the basics: turkey, ham, mashed potatoes and gravy, corn, green beans, cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie, seven layer salad, stuffing, and rolls. Lots and lots of rolls. But we have a specific food that is special just to our family: my aunt's special dip. This is the first food gone and there are never any leftovers for anybody to take home. Everyone normally eats this before Thanksgiving dinner is even ready, because we all get so hungry and impatient. At our family thanksgiving there are two things you have to do before getting to enjoy the meal: say grace and everyone has to take turns saying what they are thankful for. After both of those things are done then everyone eats and enjoys good company, naps or watches football, and all the girls in the family get ready to go black Friday shopping later in the evening. Thanksgiving is one of my most favorite and cherished holidays. I have some of the best memories with my family from this day that we celebrate every year and a lot of the memories I remember revolve around the food present at the Thanksgiving dinner table. A lot of people tie certain foods back to their memories and because Thanksgiving dinner is specific to each individual family and their traditions it makes everyone's experience on Thanksgiving unique.
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