 
Sbradke
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Username: Sbradke
Post Number: 33
Registered: 05-2007
| | Posted on Sunday, November 11, 2007 - 11:57 am: |    |
Hi,
Instead of cooking, I was thinking of going out for Thanksgiving dinner with my two teenage boys. Any suggestions?
Thanks. |
Homer
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Username: Homer
Post Number: 243
Registered: 08-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, November 11, 2007 - 12:34 pm: | |
Yes. Put them on a spit over an open fire. Turn slowly and baste with a tangy BBQ sauce. Should take several hours depending on their size/age. Chubby 18 year olds about 6 hours, while a skinny 14 year old only about 3 hours. Bon Appetiet!•• |
Cmubryan
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Username: Cmubryan
Post Number: 473
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, November 11, 2007 - 12:41 pm: | |
We've gone to Mountain Jacks several times and it's been good. Also Steak and Ale isn't bad. |
Detroitteacher
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Username: Detroitteacher
Post Number: 1193
Registered: 06-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, November 11, 2007 - 12:55 pm: | |
Frankenmuth is great for Thanksgiving. Make reservations, though. |
Craig
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Username: Craig
Post Number: 413
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Sunday, November 11, 2007 - 12:58 pm: | |
Yes, to paraphrase WC Fields: children are delighful...if prepared properly. |
Blueidone
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Username: Blueidone
Post Number: 164
Registered: 03-2007
| | Posted on Sunday, November 11, 2007 - 2:02 pm: | |
Try the Sterling Inn (15 & VanDyke) Reservations required, and a bit pricey, but the food is terrific and if you are going to eat a lot, it's worth it. www dot sterlinginn dot com/events/Thanksgiving. |
Alfie1a
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Username: Alfie1a
Post Number: 5
Registered: 10-2007
| | Posted on Sunday, November 11, 2007 - 2:06 pm: | |
A few years ago, our family had thanksgiving dinner at Mitch Housey's in Livonia on Schoolcraft. Then, it was excellent. |
Iaintgotnostyle
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Username: Iaintgotnostyle
Post Number: 162
Registered: 10-2007
| | Posted on Sunday, November 11, 2007 - 2:08 pm: | |
What happened to traditional family dinners? Damn, at least once or twice a year. Its fun cooking together,watching tv,playing games ,snowball fights ,etc.
Going out on a major holiday is so blah. |
Cmubryan
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Username: Cmubryan
Post Number: 475
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, November 11, 2007 - 2:18 pm: | |
No one in my family cooks. We do have some (Jewish) holiday dinners at home together. |
Tony_box_42
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Username: Tony_box_42
Post Number: 111
Registered: 12-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, November 11, 2007 - 3:32 pm: | |
We have given up the traditional everybody at
Grandmas for going to Waves.We are all relaxed.
No worries about cooking ,cleaning or who eats
what. In past years it has been sit down,order off the menu (turkey with all the trimmings is main). This year they may change to buffet.I hope not. We are a group diverse in age and appetite.
We have never been disappointed.We go back to Grandmas for dessert and coffee. Waves is on E.Jefferson at 9mi. Call ahead. |
Smogboy
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Username: Smogboy
Post Number: 6425
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, November 11, 2007 - 3:35 pm: | |
Try any of the cool restaurants over in Windsor. In Canada, it's not a holiday like it is over here. To them, it's just another work day so why not take advantage of that and try a little experimenting south of the border here? |
Iaintgotnostyle
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Username: Iaintgotnostyle
Post Number: 164
Registered: 10-2007
| | Posted on Sunday, November 11, 2007 - 3:35 pm: | |
hahaha shameless commercialism
close up for the holiday and spend time with family and friends.
You won"t regret it. I promise. |
Karl_jr
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Username: Karl_jr
Post Number: 161
Registered: 06-2007
| | Posted on Sunday, November 11, 2007 - 6:03 pm: | |
chinese restaurant, get a duck!
oops sorry, that's a christmas dinner. |
Matt_the_deuce
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Username: Matt_the_deuce
Post Number: 761
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, November 11, 2007 - 6:43 pm: | |
Seldom Blues - a bit pricey, but a very nice spread, buffet style. |
Mauser765
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Username: Mauser765
Post Number: 2064
Registered: 01-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, November 11, 2007 - 7:20 pm: | |
hardtack and cigars for everybody ! |
Papermoon
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Username: Papermoon
Post Number: 17
Registered: 08-2007
| | Posted on Sunday, November 11, 2007 - 9:01 pm: | |
I agree with Iaintgotnostyle, those restaurant folks don't get a holiday off if they're working. Even if all you can make at home is a turkey TV dinner, let them enjoy the day with their friends and family!
(Message edited by papermoon on November 11, 2007) |
Sbradke
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Username: Sbradke
Post Number: 34
Registered: 05-2007
| | Posted on Sunday, November 11, 2007 - 9:06 pm: | |
Thanks for the suggestions.
Iaintgotno... Is the criticism necessary? You don't know me, my circumstances, nothing. I'm not criticizing your manner of thanksgiving, why do you feel the need to attack mine? |
Ghetto_butterfly
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Username: Ghetto_butterfly
Post Number: 772
Registered: 09-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, November 11, 2007 - 9:16 pm: | |
3 years ago, my son and I went home to Europe for a vacation and left on Thanksgivings Day. Great choice to book a flight on that day, the plane was almost empty. We got to the airport around lunchtime and decided to get something to eat. Not many places were open, we had to settle with a Denny's nearby. What a sad sight: A handful of lonely people, some younger, some old, but all of them alone, having a depressing lonely Thanksgiving dinner all by themselves. I never forget that scene. |
Jrvass
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Username: Jrvass
Post Number: 320
Registered: 01-2007
| | Posted on Monday, November 12, 2007 - 8:27 am: | |
Iaintgotnostyle is an asswipe.
He goes to the Detroit Rescue Mission for the $1.95 holiday dinners. |
Troy
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Username: Troy
Post Number: 210
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Monday, November 12, 2007 - 8:43 am: | |
I suggest Sweet Lorraines downtown. They are open on thanks giving and have a excellent menu. A lot of places are closed however since they are attached to the hotel they stay open. They have a large range from burgers/ to higher end plates. Very good and a locally owned place. |
Gnome
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Username: Gnome
Post Number: 360
Registered: 08-2007
| | Posted on Monday, November 12, 2007 - 9:07 am: | |
Sbradke, zig when everyone is zagging.
Go for a completely different idea, instead of going to a conventional restaurant and trying to duplicate a home-cooked turkeyday atmosphere, do something radically different.
Wherever you go, even the fanciest place in the world, it will pale in the minds of your kids simply because it isn't what they are use to.The uncles won't be talking football, the aunts won't be in their aprons and nice dresses, the Grandparents won't be fussing about this or that. Even if you go to the Whitney, the things that make Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving will be missing.
It sounds - forgive for jumping to this conclusion - that you are going through a family transition.
My suggestion is to go to a Korean bbq place. There is one on Northwestern in Southfield and another on Southfield just north of 12 mile road.
At these places you sit around a grill, they bring these huge platters of beef, chicken, pork plus bowls of vegies. Your kids can cook their own stuff and it is a real adventure. It's a real Ghengis Khan experience.
The foreign atmosphere will not compete with the memories your kids already have related to Thanksgiving and will let them establish a whole new memory.
Years from now your boys will remember the experience as the year they went Korean. You will laugh about it for years and years. |
Unclefrank
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Username: Unclefrank
Post Number: 116
Registered: 03-2006
| | Posted on Monday, November 12, 2007 - 9:17 am: | |
Hey Mauser! You forgot the Salt Pork and Coffee. Thanksgiving in the field, 1864! |
Gnome
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Username: Gnome
Post Number: 396
Registered: 08-2007
| | Posted on Monday, November 26, 2007 - 8:30 am: | |
Sbradke, ... just wondering what did you decide to do? Let us know. |