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Instead of just plain mashed potatoes, many Hispanic families love serving this creamy, mashed-and-fried plantain dish alongside dinner.
What is Mofongo or Mangú?
This famous department store hosts the massive annual parade in New York City featuring giant floating balloons and Broadway performances.
What is Macy's?
This traditional Puerto Rican holiday drink is made with rum, coconut milk, condensed milk, evaporated milk, and warm spices like cinnamon and nutmeg.
What is Coquito?
This term describes the universal, irresistible urge to take a long, heavy nap on the couch right after eating a massive holiday meal.
What is a Food Coma?
This is the person who is responsible for making the caldero/pot of rice in our family for every event.
Who is Grandma?
This essential aromatic seasoning blend—made with onions, garlic, peppers, and cilantro—gives Latin Thanksgiving dishes their signature flavor base.
What is Sofrito?
According to home cooks, this is the exact number of days after Thanksgiving that the family officially gets tired of eating leftovers.
What is 3 days (or by Sunday night)?
This traditional roasted bird is the undisputed centerpiece of almost every classic Thanksgiving dinner table.
What is the Turkey?
This traditional autumn harvest fruit—often harvested in orchards across the country—is the star of seasonal baking long before winter arrives.
What are Apples?
This is the simple gesture of holding hands around the dinner table right before the meal begins to share a moment of collective thanks.
What is a Prayer/Blessing?
While turkey is great, many families roast one of these large marinated pork options (often slow-roasted in a caja china) as the star of the feast.
What is Lechón or Pernil?
This NFL team has played a home game on Thanksgiving Day almost every single year since 1934? (There are 2, name 1).
Who are the Detroit Lions or Dallas Cowboys?
This famous 1960s animated television special features the main character trying to put together an unconventional holiday dinner with toast, popcorn, and pretzel sticks.
What is A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving?
As the sun sets earlier on Thanksgiving evening, families love gathering outside around this backyard feature to stay warm.
What is a Fire Pit or Bonfire?
This is when each relative brings their famous signature dish to share with everyone.
What is a Potluck?
Sweet potatoes often get a marshmallow topping, but this rich, creamy Latin American caramel custard or soaked sponge cake are massive holiday favorites (Name one).
What is Flan or Tres leches?
Breaking this fork-shaped bone from the turkey with a family member is said to grant the winner's secret wish.
What is the Wishbone?
This iconic family-favorite board game about buying, trading, and bankrupting your relatives is a go-to tradition while hanging out in the living room.
What is Monopoly?
This is the colorful, crunchy backyard activity that kids (and kids-at-heart) love doing right before heading inside for Thanksgiving dinner.
What is Raking and Jumping into a pile of leaves?
This is the motto you tell yourself when you look at a plate piled high with more food and desserts than you planned on eating?
What is La dieta empieza el lunes or Diet starts tomorrow?
In many Caribbean households, these savory, seasoned grated root vegetable or green banana dough pockets wrapped in banana leaves are a holiday staple made together as a family.
What are Pasteles?
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, this is the massive milestone weight reached by the heaviest turkey ever raised in history.
What is 86 pounds? (will accept answer within 5 lbs: 81-91)
This is the ultimate symbol of Thanksgiving abundance, traditionally filled with plastic fruit, gourds, and autumn vegetables as a table centerpiece.
What is a Cornucopia?
This classic autumn outdoor activity involves navigating through a massive, winding maze carved out of a tall field of dried stalks.
What is a Corn Maze?
This is the quiet, beautiful realization at the end of a long day that the best part of the holiday isn't the food, the games, or the gifts, but simply...
What is Being together/with family?