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Article: Please pass the pigskin Football fans at this table will be get a taste of their own medicine this Thanksgiving
- Article from:
- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- November 26, 1996
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I am fed-up, up to my eyeballs with football every holiday. And
my family is in for a big surprise this Thanksgiving.
I will have my dining-room table stretched out to it's full length
of 12 feet. It will be set with the "good" China and the silverware
handed down from my mother and a floral centerpiece. The table will
be crammed full of bowls of creamy mashed potatoes, green beans
almandine, glazed orange candied yams, assorted gelatin and a fruit
salad topped with a perfect bright red maraschino cherry.
The table will be lined with relatives from end to end. Then I
will make my grand entrance (I can just hear the oohs and ahs) and
on a large platter roasted to golden perfection will be ...