Thanksgiving? No, How About Friendsgiving!

Patricia Fragoso

We all know about Thanksgiving, right? Your usual home-cooked meals, families eating dinner together, and about giving thanks & grace. Well have you ever thought about Thanksgiving but in a fashionable way for your friends? What exactly is a Friendsgiving? Well the name Friendsgiving is a mashup of “friends’ ‘ and “Thanksgiving” combined together, and it refers to a large meal eaten with friends either on or near Thanksgiving; which is the fourth Thursday in November. When it comes to Friendsgiving, people are serious about their Friendsgiving celebrations. There are how-tos, sample menus, rules, and even commandments for Friendsgiving.

The 10 commandments to a Friendsgiving are:
Thou shalt not repeat a dish
Thy host
shalt make thy turkey
Thou shalt not critique others dish
Remember thy date and keep it timelyHonor the host
Thou should not discuss politics
Thou shalt not assemble thy dish in thy host’s
kitchen
Thou shalt be aware of thy friends’ food allergies
Thou shalt not covet thy friend’s
dishes
Thou shalt enjoy the company.

To minimize the stress for the host-that way, every one can simply relax and enjoy the Friendsgiving party!