Feast Mode
What is the term for soaking a turkey in a saltwater solution before cooking?
What is brining?
It is a bubbly Italian aperitif made with Prosecco and Aperol. Can you spell Aperol Spritz?
What is Aperol Sprtiz?
Showing up late to Friendsgiving is fine - unless you are in charge of this main dish.
What is turkey?
The first Thanksgiving meal included a turkey.
What is bluffing? (It was mostly venison, seafood, and corn)
When someone orders a "vodka cranberry, hold the cranberry" they really want this.
What is vodka on the rocks?
This liquid gold is the glue that holds mashed potatoes, turkey, and friendships together.
What is gravy?
This is an Italian coffee-based dessert made with ladyfingers and mascarpone cheese. Can you spell tiramisu?
What is tiramisu?
The one thing you usually bring if you are the friend who can't cook.
What is booze?
Acceptable answers: Liquor, alcohol, wine
In Italy, Thanksgiving is also celebrated the same week as in the U.S.
The alcohol in Tequila comes from this spiky desert plant - not a cactus.
What is Agave?
This herb, often used in stuffing, is also the perfect name for your friend who gives "old soul" energy.
What is sage?
This Friendsgiving seating essential is where all the smokers and "I need air" people congregate every 20 minutes
What is outside?
Acceptable answer: Porch
Canadians and the US celebrate Thanksgiving the same week.
What is bluffing? Canadians celebrate Thanksgiving the second Monday in October.
This liquor, made from fermented potatoes, is the main ingredient in a Moscow Mule.
What is Vodka?
The Pilgrims didn't have this Thanksgiving dairy staple that is used to make mashed potatoes because dairy cows hadn't arrived yet.
What is butter?
The state where the Plymouth Colony was established. Can you spell Massachusetts?
What is Massachusetts?
This starchy side dish essential is the most popular at Thanksgiving, beating out even turkey in many polls.
What is mashed potatoes?
Pumpkin pie was served at the very first Thanksgiving.
This cocktail is made of whisky, bitters, sugar, and regret.
What is an Old Fashioned?
This classic Thanksgiving side dish is topped with marshmallows, because America said "desserts counts as vegetables too". What is this dish?
What is sweet potato casserole?
A buttery, flaky, crescent shape French pastry you pretend you can pronounce on brunch menus.
What is croissant?
These pants are the most essential Friendsgiving item - worn by everyone who knows better than to wear jeans to a feast.
What is sweatpants?
Acceptable answers: Leggings, stretchy pants.
Thanksgiving wasn't an annual holiday until Abraham Lincoln said so.
What is stuffing? President Lincoln issued a proclamation declaring the last Thursday of November as a national day of "Thanksgiving and Praise".
This spirit's name comes from the Russian world for "little water".
What is Vodka?