In honor of me, who is stepping up, and creating the family feast this Thanksgiving (I’m not joking, this is real), thought we’d have a little fun and do a live draft of Thanksgiving menu items to round out the short work week. Surely, it’ll generate some ideas for what I should include in my spread – 100% chance I won’t be able to pull any of your favorite delicacies off, but have fun playing and getting my hopes up.

The rules are simple, once a Thanksgiving appetizer, beverage, dinner item, dessert or after-dessert appertif has been selected, it’s off the board. However, we’ll reward your creativity and allow you to double-up, sort of. For example, if some real Thanksgiving cretin selects “turkey”, then feel free to select ‘“bacon-glazed turkey brined in butter and olive oil” right on top of that.

Additionally, there’s no order or limit to the number of selections. That means, plenty of opportunity to berate other people’s picks, and ostensibly their Thanksgiving familial tradition. So make your picks, then take a break and write a diatribe against Granny Sooze’s banana creme pie.

I’ll be moderating, censoring almost nothing.

Enjoy, and please avail yourselves of Delish.com’s list of the Most Fattening Thanksgiving Foods. Drafting opens today, November 25, at 11:30 a.m. EST

This is not the WWF’s annual Turkey Bowl match, this is gravy wrestling competition at the World class level – the local fire crew even came out to hose down the wrestlers.

From Metro UK…

Huge crowds – well, around 100 people – gathered in Lancashire to watch competitors from around Britain battling it out in the annual World Gravy Wrestling Championships.


The contest saw 16 men and eight women grapple in front of a judging panel in a bid to be named the best gravy wrestler. …


Amateur wrestlers traveled from Devon, Derby, Scarborough and Leicester to take part – in fancy dress ranging from a city broker to a frog, a geisha girl, a doctor and Princess Fiona from Shrek.

This year marked the third annual WGWC, which is staged at the Rose n’ Bowl pub in Stackhead, Lancashire. 2,200 litres (440 gallons) – or some 40,000 ladles worth – of gravy was produced for the event. The crowd was made up mostly of the firemen, local ambulance volunteers, and some folks who asked the wrong locals: How do we get to the Meatloaf concert?

30-year old Scot Joel Hicks, wrestling under the name Stone Cold Steve Bisto, was crowned the World Gravy Wrestling Champion at the event. Here he is about to take a chair to his lumbar system -  I thought a similar event was going to break out at last year’s Thanksgiving when only half the table got to sample my mom’s bacon infused gravy.

Check out the scene for yourself…and remember it next time you’re having the southern-style breakfast at a Bob Evans…