As I conducted a very informal survey of my Buzzy friends in the Store yesterday, it surprised me that most folks had a thumbs up on cranberry sauce. Only a couple folks flat out said that they didn’t care for it at all.
But what did surprise me somewhat was replies to my followup question as to which kind of cranberry sauce they preferred – canned or homemade? The majority of my Buzzy folks responded “Canned.” I would have thought that the homemade variety would hands down have been the flavor of choice. Some folks even clarified their preference for the canned variety by noting “I don’t want any nuts or anything else in my cranberry sauce.”
As for my preference, Buzzy had Ocean Spray for sale in the Store so that’s what we grew up noshing on at Thanksgiving. However, my choice was always to skip putting it on my plate simply because it took up too much room for other stuff that I liked much better. When it comes to choosing, I can take or leave (mostly leave) cranberry sauce. Thus, in my own poll, I would have been in the thumbs down group on cranberry sauce. (However, I do have to note that my Pam makes a killer homemade cranberry sauce that I now much prefer to the Ocean Spray that I grew up on.)
Recognizing that my not caring for cranberry sauce wasn’t the first time that I have ever been in the minority when surveying my Buzzy friends on a matter, I bounced around the internet some and landed on this semi-profane exchange on the issue:
And while speaking of being decidedly undecided, it wouldn’t be Thanksgiving with out some football and in turn doing some gambling on it – hence, the indecision.
In some betting circles, the “Parlay wager” is known as a sucker bet. That said, today, with three games on tap, let’s do what is called a Three Way Parlay. (Note that for those of you who always dreamed of having a Three Way, this may will be the only way you will ever get to have one!)
Regarding parlays as being sucker bets there is this explanation:
All that said, here then was my 6 a.m. first draft betting slip.
I had read the following and it swayed me to consider Da Bears:
However, I didn’t pull the trigger on this one because, as I usually do, I changed my mind at the last minute. I thought to myself “Ain’t no way the lousy Bears are going to beat the Lions on Thanksgiving Day – or for that matter any other day this season.” Plus, should the Bears crap the bed in the early game, that means I am done for the day. (Unless I then try to get even and we know how that rarely, if ever, works out!)
So I went back to the drawing board just now and changed the bet to a Three Way Parlay of the Lions, Boys and Dolphins.
And since we are talking about that maybe it is best not to do any gambling at all, here is Buzzy’s friendly-just-for-fun-non-gambling-pool on the Cowboys/Giants game at 4:30 today. (If you don’t know how this works, ask one of your crazy relatives at today’s dinner.)
Music wise, I caught Adam Sandler doing this on SNL’s Thanksgiving T-V special last night and noticed that he really can play guitar:
