"Vox Humana" > wrote in message
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> I'm back from a week away at a relative's house. It was a bad experience
> all around, and home never looked so good. In addition to the unpleasant
> circumstances of the visit, Thanksgiving dinner was truly awful:
> under-seasoned and overcooked turkey, sweet potatoes that were way too
> sweet, and glue-like potatoes, the dressing was unthinkably bad. It was
> make from that dried seasoned bread and had small colorful bits in it. I
> thought that some frozen mixed vegetables had been blended in for color,
but
> unfortunately that wasn't the case. The confetti-like pieces in the
> stuffing turned out to be mixed candied fruit -- the kind that people use
in
> fruitcakes! That's right, the stuffing had rubbery pieces of candied
citrus
> peel, glace cherries, and pineapple. I think the recipe came from a
> mid-1960's cookbook.
>
> I wonder if anyone can top that?
>
>

That description just doesn't bring out the over-achiever in me.

Jack Hidden