Everyone Is Doing Friendsgiving Wrong, Actually
No double dipping!
Friendsgiving
(noun) A time when friends (also very loose acquaintances whose last name you don’t even know, and sometimes your friend’s significant other who they literally JUST started dating two weeks ago will be invited but other than that, it’s friends) come together to share a meal that falls on or around Thanksgiving in lieu of going home to spend the holiday with their families.
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You’d think with that definition, a definition Merriam-Webster hisself told me (we had brunch last week—too many bellinis chile), that people would understand whomst and what a Friendsgiving entails, but no! The jury is still out! Y’all just doing whatever!
You can’t have a Friendsgiving and then go home to your family and also have a Thanksgiving?!?! You’re having your pumpkin pie and eating it too! You must choose!
Now more than ever—I need y’all to realize Friendsgiving is for the outcasts, the people who have been living in a new city for three years who have gone home for Thanksgiving the two years prior but have finally made good (non-flaky) connections in their new city!
It’s for the people who shirk turkey in favour of eating lots of little appetizers, numerous breads, and drinking lots of alcohol. It’s for people who have STOPPED being polite, and STARTED getting real!
Anyway, some required watching—this scene from the Thanksgiving episode of Gossip Girl (obviously) and Friends S9 E8, because Christina Applegate is at her absolute best in the whole episode, but especially this clip. I know she is/has retired from acting because of her worsening MS, but this Friendsgiving, lets pray for her!
Anyway, love you! Happy Holidays! Watch this space for a special announcement!
I also hate when I tell people I’m hosting Thanksgiving (on the holiday) for a group of friends and then the person I tell this to corrects me and says “oh so you’re having a *friendsgiving*” which feels like they’re diminishing it. Like it’s not a real Thanksgiving unless you’re subject to the company of your family. Okay girl.
eating lots of little appetizers, numerous breads, and drinking lots of alcohol. It’s for people who have STOPPED being polite, and STARTED getting real!---this is my only style of entertaining if cooking is involved, at any time of year 😂