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Default Why food writers secretly hate the November feast

blake murphy wrote:

> Thanksgiving? No Thanks!
> Why food writers secretly hate the November feast.
> By Regina Schrambling Posted Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2008
>
> As a food writer, I should never admit this, but I really hate
> Thanksgiving. Not the day, not the food, not the cooking or the
> shopping, not even the sappy reason Americans ostensibly gather to
> gorge in late November. What makes me totally crazy is the persistent
> pressure to reinvent a wheel that has been going around quite nicely
> for more than 200 years. Every fall, writers and editors have to
> knock themselves out to come up with a gimmick¡Xfast turkey, slow
> turkey, brined turkey, unbrined turkey¡Xwhen the meal essentially has
> to stay the same. It's like redrawing the Kama Sutra when readers
> really only care about the missionary position.


Corrected:

Why food writers openly love the November feast

When we get tired of writing about gimmicks for the damn turkey, we can
start writing about us being ****ed off by all that talking about gimmicks.
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