Frazz by Jef Mallett for November 26, 2024

Go ahead and marginalize my mashed taters. I prefer the stuffing… but EITHER of them is worth a lot more with good gravy. Celebrate the GRAVY!

So he’s going to call it Mashed Potatoes Day? What about pie? Don’t marginalize pie!! ( You can see where this is headed.)

Don’t marginalize my mashed potatoes, only use real butter.

Stuffing yourself on Thanksgiving is definitely trite, but nobody seems to have a problem with it.

So don’t call it turkey day. I haven’t heard that phrase for many years.

I’m sure Recep Tayyip Erdoğan agrees with you Caulfield"

Happy Mashed Potatoes Day!

I’m still trying to work out where Caulfield got the idea that saying “Happy Holidays” is about forced inclusivity. It’s a perfectly fine greeting for the holiday period, as is (for the most part) “Merry Christmas”, “Seasons’ Greetings”, etc.

Y’all, Happy Holidays started because New Year’s is also a holiday and happens one week later. It wasn’t originally anything to do with inclusivity, forced or otherwise. It was because people literally used to send greeting cards which said “Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!” to people they hadn’t seen in a while. I guarantee no one in the 40s and 50s sending Happy Holiday cards was thinking about inclusivity.

In “A Hole is to Dig” by Ruth Krauss, it says “Mashed potatoes are to give everybody enough.” I’m with Caulfield on this one.

Gratitude should be naturally universal, but it isn’t.

Thanksgiving —- the real pie day!

I’m skipping the mashed potatoes, and having Tater Tots with my steak and mushrooms.

I don’t think I have ever heard someone use the term Turkey Day

Back in the oooold days (you got to say old days with a quavery voice) when people still sent holiday cards, we would take them and line them up on the mantle. There were some very fancy cards. My favorite were always the homemade cards from children.

When I was a kid, living in an agricultural area in the Midwest, Turkey Day was something different from Thanksgiving. It was a promotional “holiday” calling attention to the economic contribution of turkey producers and processors to the community. Or so I recall, many non-rural decades later. In any case, I almost never hear Turkey Day used as an alias for Thanksgiving, and when I do, it always sounds to me as if the speaker is trying to fit in with farm communities by using an idiom they would never use themselves. Maybe I’m mistaken.

I love the juxtaposition of Frazz holding a case of toilet paper while talking about overeating.

I’ve lost count of the number of times that Caulfield has spoken on a subject, and you think that he is being very thoughtful ("We’re supposed to focus on the “thanks”, not the turkey!“) and then his punchline indicates that he was going in an entirely different direction (”Why just the turkey? There’s a lot of other food on the table, you know! And what if you want to serve ham? Is it allowed? Or how about….")

Leave it to the disciplined, rail-thin endurance sports fanatic to point out how most of us are big tubs of goo.

What? It is not Cranberry Sauce Day?

Since there is no song for Thanksgiving, Cheryl Wheeler wrote one. The Potato Song, sung to the tune of the Mexican hat dance. ;-) >

Egg Nog Day! Served “neat!”

Someone is waiting for the TP?

Mashed potatoes are are waste of valuable turkey, stuffing, and cranberry sauce room. Overeat wisely!

I’m (slightly) less offended by Turkey Day than I am by the whole BCE/CE vs BC/AD mess…