The Jack & 'Chill Podcast 04 | Thanksgiving
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In this episode of The Jack & 'Chill Podcast, Xochitl and Jack discuss American Thanksgiving traditions.
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Xochitl
You are listening to the Jack and Chill podcast.
Xochitl
Alright, Jack, today we are going to be talking about Thanksgiving, which our listeners may or may not know is a family holiday celebrated here in the US.
Xochitl
It traditionally was supposed to commemorate.
Xochitl
Sharing between the pilgrims and Native Americans, of course, we know that.
Xochitl
That's not historically accurate at all.
Jack
Right. Or it's a very oversimplified description of the situation, yeah.
Xochitl
The situation but.
Xochitl
Today, it's kind of divorced from its original meaning mostly, and it's kind of just a family holiday where you eat food together. So.
Jack
Right.
Xochitl
Yeah, I want to ask you, our viewers may or may not know there's some typical things you usually eat during Thanksgiving. I would say Turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, gravy.
Jack
Mashed mashed. Yeah.
Xochitl
I think those are the ones that like you basically can't skip.
Jack
Right.
Xochitl
And and then each family has. Sorry, go ahead.
발표자 3
It's just.
Jack
No, I was going to say that's exactly right. If there's no stuffing that it doesn't really. It's like that's one really important component of, like, Turkey Mashed potato, stuffing and cranberry sauce like you.
Jack
Have to have.
Xochitl
Like cranberry sauce gravy gotta have that.
Xochitl
And then most people have something green, like a green beans or a salad or some kind of green side. But I would feel those are like the.
Xochitl
Staples. And then each family has things that pretty much just their family makes. Oh, sweet potato casserole or sweet potatoes. And some preparation is another big popular food. Yeah.
Jack
Right.
Xochitl
I would say for the ones that my family makes, it's Kush which is like a cornbread dish with hard boiled eggs and green onion.
Xochitl
And then oysters, which is like oysters, literally strained canned oysters in a casserole dish with like, a bread crumb topping.
Xochitl
It's really good, you know both.
발표자 3
OK.
Xochitl
Of them sound weird, but they're both really delicious.
Jack
Yeah, yeah. I mean we, our, our weird one was lesa because we're the Scandinavian, right? My, my fan no left side is like a a potato pancake with just it just literally has butter on it and then sugar and then you roll it, roll it up. Yeah. I mean it's it's.
Xochitl
That sounds good.
Jack
It's full on, like causes diabetes, you.
Jack
Know what I?
Jack
Mean like you could trace it right back to to that. But but it's so good. It tastes so good.
발표자
Right.
Xochitl
Right. So my oh, and my thing is ever since I started making the Thanksgiving spread pretty much on my own, I started doing this since I was about 24 every year, I pretty much make the whole spread on my own. This year, my mom made the oysters, which were probably the best thing, actually.
Xochitl
Besides that, I've pretty much made everything else myself.
Xochitl
And ever since I started making this spread myself, I only make fried chicken instead of Turkey.
Jack
OK, wow. Alright. A substitution. A different bird. Yeah.
발표자
Yes. Yeah.
Xochitl
Yeah, I just Turkey is like a lot for a kind of smaller family gathering. I don't like the flavor as much. And then for like, one person cooking most of the main dishes, it's really hard for, like, one person to prepare the Turkey on their own pretty much.
Jack
And everyone likes fried chicken.
Xochitl
Is this something?
Jack
I mean you can.
Xochitl
Ohh yeah.
Xochitl
Come on.
발표자 3
You know.
Xochitl
Can't go wrong.
Jack
For for I prefer the Turkey like I'm a I'm a purist. OK, so.
Xochitl
How about you do you?
발표자
Sorry, go ahead.
Xochitl
You're freaking furious. Wow. Betrayed.
Jack
I'm a I'm a.
Jack
Thanksgiving purist like I I need my my Turkey. I I, I and I'm I'm the worst. Like I'm I'm such a typical American that I like the breast like that. You know the white meat which is like everyone knows it.
발표자 3
No, you betrayed.
Jack
That's the least flavor and the and it's the driest part.
Jack
Of the of the bird.
Jack
But I it's just like a tradition, like I when I was a kid, you know, we were picky. We I didn't want the dark meat. I wanted only the, you know, pure the muscle part, you know, just the the whitest of the white meat and a big old slice of it, you know.
발표자 3
That's the.
Jack
Heaping slice of of of dry as.
Jack
White, white meat. Turkey. Yeah. Turkey breast.
Xochitl
Yeah. Yeah, I'm.
Xochitl
The opposite, even as a kid, I always like dark meat, so I'd always want the Turkey leg. And now that I can make it on myself, I'm like, why would I even make Turkey when there's better proteins out there like fried chicken?
Jack
Right.
Xochitl
Yeah, just and.
Xochitl
Then you can.
Xochitl
It's so easy to make gravy with the fried chicken.
Xochitl
Like so. That's just it just knocks out two birds with one stone. Haha. Pun intended.
Xochitl
And yeah, so.
Xochitl
To me. So. So you're on the opposite.
Xochitl
OK, other unpopular Thanksgiving opinion? I did not know. I was on the unpopular end of this one.
Xochitl
I prefer homemade cranberry sauce to canned. I won't even eat the canned stuff. It's nasty.
Jack
No, no, no, no.
Xochitl
How about you?
Jack
I'm again. I'm a purist. I.
Jack
It has to come out of a can. It has to make the like plopping sound.
Jack
You know where you like it, kind of like.
Jack
You know, it falls on the plate. Like if it doesn't make that kind of weird sound when it comes out of the can as it slides out of the can. I'm not eating it. I mean, I'll eat it. Of course I.
Xochitl
Oh my God.
Jack
Would eat it. I'm I'm not.
Jack
I'm not rude, but but I prefer that kind of Jelly cranberry sauce.
Jack
From the can.
Jack
And I don't know. For me, it's like the perfect combination to the kind of salty, savory gravy and mashed potatoes. Then you get that super sweet, almost like a gel, gelatin, kind of cranberry sauce, you know, I know it's really crazy.
Xochitl
Oh my.
Xochitl
God, so I lost.
Jack
Right.
Xochitl
So much respect for.
Xochitl
You I cannot. My dad always.
Xochitl
Made it from scratch and I started making it from scratch. It's so easy. You just open a couple of bags of crap.
Xochitl
Berries with a little bit.
Xochitl
Of water, boil it in a pot with some sugar and I like to add in a little bit of I squeeze half an orange in there.
Xochitl
At the end.
Jack
Oh, a little citrus, a little little, a little zest.
Jack
To it or something a little.
Xochitl
Yeah, a little citrus zest and umm, it is pretty sweet. I try to add enough sugar so that it's not.
Xochitl
Too sour and try.
Xochitl
To make it.
Xochitl
Eat, of course. Cranberries themselves kind of have a naturally bitter sour flavor, like they're also bitter.
Xochitl
You know, but I I just prefer that so much that I honestly, I the canned stuff makes me gag. I hate the texture.
Jack
I love that texture. It's like Jelly or jello.
Xochitl
And it's like.
Xochitl
Oh God.
Jack
Or something gelatin. I know it's.
Jack
It's some gross too.
Xochitl
Oh my God, no I can't.
Xochitl
Go ahead.
Jack
Well, I'm. I'm just trying to think like, why
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