Friends, food and entertainment. What more could one ask for?
Our friend Mel decided to rise to the Thanksgivukkah challenge issued by Buzzfeed and hosted a feast. Everyone brought either one of the proposed dishes or another type of deliciousness and Mel prepared the main dishes in house. Everything was great. Turkey, challah stuffing, latkes with cranberry sauce, horseradish mashed potatoes with chives, (turkey) bacon wrapped dates stuffed with horseradish cheddar... several other good things I can't remember.
Thanksgiving and Hanukkah lead the table to be decorated with cornucopias overflowing with candy corns and their pumpkin cousins and Hanukkah Gelt and then there were dreidels a plenty. It was simple decor but indeed awesome. And being the kind of weird, geeky people that we are, several of us insisted on playing with the dreidels. We used candy corns to gamble with and figured out the rules with the help of wikipedia when Mel's strange explanation didn't seem to make any sense at all. Apparently (self admittedly) she was always more interested in eating the chocolate gelt than playing.
It was a lot more confusing for 4 college educated people than it probably should have been. Can we claim cultural ignorance? Would it be better to blame the fermentation of grapes? Once we finally got the hang of the game (probably still wrong if we were to play with kids who celebrate Hanukkah every year), we learned an interesting lesson: the typically socialist, equality for all touting Kenny turns into a capitalist 1%-er when he's winning at Dreidel.
Rematch-continuation-whatever-let's-play-dreidel-during-hanukkah is set for 11:52 am, Friday in Harcourt 4. We'll see if it happens, but it might be a cool lunch break if it does.
It's not quite here yet, but I declared Thanksgivukkah to be Awesome!
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