Soul Food Showdown
If it came from a can and still has the ridges on it, some folks swear it “just hits different” on Thanksgiving.
What is cranberry sauce?
This 1997 classic centers around Big Mama, Sunday dinners, and family drama on Chicago’s South Side.
What is Soul Food?
This type of music turns the living room into a mini-concert, complete with fake microphones and dramatic hand gestures.
What is ’90s R&B ?
After Thanksgiving, some folks wake up at 4 a.m. for this shopping tradition.
Answer: What is Black Friday?
This is what you call a turkey that tells jokes at the dinner table.
What is “a comedi-hen”?
This dessert has started more “who made it?” conversations than almost any other—especially if the top isn’t browned right.
What is sweet potato pie?
In this movie, Idris Elba, Chris Brown, and Regina King come home for the holidays and bring all the secrets with them.
What is This Christmas?
This type of dance has instructions in the lyrics and usually pulls everyone out their seat.
What is a line dance?
This newer shopping day happens online, where people hunt for promo codes instead of parking spots.
What is Cyber Monday?
This is what you call a turkey that keeps telling everyone its business.
What is “a gobblemouth”?
When somebody brings vegan dressing and dairy-free mac, they’re trying to make this kind of Thanksgiving for everyone.
What is a plant-based / vegan-friendly Thanksgiving?
Which film stars Forest Whitaker and Angela Bassett and features a gospel-inspired holiday story set in Harlem?
Black Nativity
“I Wanna Thank You” is a classic song of gratitude that often appears on old-school playlists. Which singer originally recorded it?
Alicia Myers
This card game is loud, competitive, and can ruin friendships if someone doesn’t know how to count books.
What is Spades?
This is what you call mashed potatoes that are too loud at the table.
What is “smashed potatoes”?
This food was not served at the first Thanksgiving.
What are mashed potatoes?
Technically a Christmas movie, this film with Taye Diggs and Morris Chestnut has enough family mess, tears, and laughter to qualify for Thanksgiving viewing too.
What is The Best Man Holiday?
Blessed” (“Blessed, blessed, blessed…”) is a well-known gospel song about being blessed in the city and the field. Which artist recorded it?
Fred Hammond
Who invented green bean casserole?
What is Campbell Soup Company?
This is what you call the turkey who refuses to be roasted and just keeps running laps around the yard.
What is “fast food”?
A root vegetable that is large and orange inside.
What is a sweet potato?
In this ’90s sitcom’s Thanksgiving episode “Talking Turkey,” a young man from West Philly ends up helping cook dinner in a Bel-Air mansion after his uncle insists the kids do the work.
“What is The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air?”
The viral “beans, greens, potatoes, tomatoes” clip comes from a sermon-turned-song by which legendary gospel singer and pastor?
Pastor Shirley Caesar
What food item symbolizes gratitude and the harvest?
What is corn, pumpkin, or squash?
Why don’t turkeys ever get lost?
Because they always follow the breadcrumbs.