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Thanksgiving Monopoly Night, Carrigan Price

USU Student Folklore Fieldwork

We go to my Grandma Judy’s house and we eat stuffing and more pie and then everybody goes home except for the cousins that are 12 to 18, well 12 to 20 and we play a game of Monopoly that sometimes goes until 5 in the morning! And we just go until somebody wins the game. We play the board game and play house rules. We do it individually so like there’s no teams and one person is the banker and one person gives out the properties and everybody else just takes care of their piece. After we finish, we …

Deep Fried Turkey, Carrigan Price

USU Student Folklore Fieldwork

My family celebrates Thanksgiving every year at our house, we don’t switch off and go to other people’s Thanksgivings or whatever. Every year Thanksgiving is at our house for the solid reason that we deep-fry our turkeys. I can’t remember the exact degree, but you get all of the oil, and basically you have to put cardboard down because it can spill and that will stain your driveway- if it’s windy, you need to take that into account. You never deep-fry a turkey inside because you’ll start a fire. Umm basically you check it every once in a while by …

"Holiday Scramble- Our Family Version Of Chex- Mix", Alexis Robb

USU Student Folklore Fieldwork

I’ve had scramble every holiday for as long as I can remember, it’s not Christmas without it. (Pauses to reflect) You make it in a big bowl used for canning and it makes a lot. It takes almost all day for us to make it because it makes so much, I have memories of our family making it and watching White Christmas, that was our favorite movie to watch together. (Laughs, from the memories) I love it because it makes the house smell so good, and it’s a good snack.

“Holiday Scramble- our family version of Chex- mix”

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