****Giveaway Rules**** WATCH OUR FOR SCAMMERS IN THE COMMENTS!!!! 1) Like and Subscribe to the channel 2) Share your Thanksgiving tradition. Feel free to include any special pipes/tobacco you use during this time. Winner will be selected 11/24/204. I will let you know if you won and ask for you to message me for shipping details.
We have family come in from different areas and enjoy a typical Thanksgiving dinner . This will be my first thanksgiving as a pipe smoker. Looking forward to making a new tradition .
When I was younger my dad and I would go sight in our rifles for deer season that starts the monday after Thanksgiving in PA. We would get up early and go to a friends farm where we would be hunting a few days later and spend the morning shooting around. Its was great. I still remember one year the biggest deer i have ever seen walking by when we started making noise. He wasnt worried at all. He must have known he had a few days before he needed to worry about us but we sure were tempted to tempted to take a shot at him. But we didnt. Of course we never saw him when the season started but thats the way it goes I guess.
I go all out on this day. Start preparing and prepping a few days before, because everything is made from scratch. I even use whole pumpkins and roast the in the oven to make the pies with. Usually have enough leftovers that gets us through the weekend. This day is one of 3 days that I'm allowed to smoke the pipe in the house, the other two being Christmas and my bday 🎂. I bought a pound of the thanksgiving day blend a few years back and only smoke it on this day. Wife enjoys the smell and one I allowed to enjoy indoors. ❤❤❤
My favorite tradition is hunting and cooking the turkey with my father-in-law. Thanksgiving morning we always wake up early and go hunting. We rarely see any deer but it’s amazing to watch the sun rise over a frosty field. Then we head home to warm up and deep fry the family turkey and argue with the rest of the family. Great times and full bellies!
The best thanksgiving tradition that we have done since I was a little kid is everyone meets at my parents and we all sit at the supper table and go around the table saying what we are thankful for and what’s been the best part of the year. A couple years ago when I turned 21 I got to into cigars and now me and my dad smoke one on the back porch and that imo is the best time spent all year.
Traditions have changed a lot over the years. Starting with family, then Friends givings, how back to my own small family and creating new traditions. Good food has always been a part of it, and i look forward to creating interesting dishes again this year!
Thanks brother, and happy Thanksgiving. One of our family’s annual traditions is to put a construction paper TURKEY body on the dining room wall, and then after a meal pass out colorful paper “feathers” and write on them something we are thankful for. Then we go around the table and share our thanks aloud. After sharing we tape our feathers to the bird on the wall - and watch the turkey grow. Lots of fun for our seven kids and now spouses too.
I live away from family, so I’m typically celebrating with friends, so our tradition is to go around the table and everyone has to say the one thing that happened during the last year that they’re most thankful for. When I do get home to see my family, we always said a special thanksgiving prayer together before dinner.
On Thanksgiving we have a tradition of going around the table and telling one event that happened during the year that made us feel closer to our family.
Thanksgiving for us is about family getting together and remembering how blessed we are. We also try and invite those over who don't have anyone to celebrate with. When we sit down to eat, we always start with a prayer where we go around the table and each person says what they are thankful for. Hope you have a Happy Thanksgiving!
My dad always smoked his pipe and he would smoke a cavendish. C&D autumn evening reminds me 100% of that. My parents had 6 kids and Thanksgiving was one of the few days my dad had off throughout the year. Family being together and thanking god for what he provided was always important. We always had chocolates and cheeseball with crackers available and the the usual turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, and baked beans but, my favorite has always been the pumpkin pie.
We host both sides of the family for both Thanksgiving and Christmas. Thanksgiving is a traditional Turkey dinner (we’re in Grand Rapids Michigan). Christmas though has been a Texas bbq tradition since about 4 years ago. I smoke a full packer brisket and a couple racks of ribs. It’s a crowd favorite for the families! God bless you and Happy Thanksgiving!
Several decades ago, before I became a landlocked denizen of New Mexico, I was a sailor. Not the navy type, the sailboat type. Our family lived in west Los Angeles and sailed out of Marina del Rey. Each year we would sail to Catalina Island for the thanksgiving holiday. Before leaving the marina mom would put a small turkey in the oven and spend most of the voyage creating the family’s favorite dishes. By the time we arrived, the turkey would be cooked, the side dishes prepared and the feast laid on the salon table. Mom and dad are gone and I don’t sail anymore, but every year at thanksgiving I recall those family dinners at Catalina Island as some of the finest meals I have ever enjoyed.
I am going to share Thanksgiving traditions when I was a child. We always went to my grandma‘s house and she would cook each of us a Cornish game hen. She had the most scrumptious sweet potatoes with marshmallows in the middle and she would roll them in cornflakes and fry them! Of course there was always freshly made cranberry sauce. She had a fireplace and the house was very cozy. These were special times as my mom passed when I was 16 years old. Now I have grandchildren that are almost that old, and my kids and grandkids are all living far away from us. So today our tradition is going to a restaurant for Thanksgiving. But I still have my sweet memories from childhood. Thanks for allowing us to enter your contest. God bless!
Our family has a thanksgiving tradition after the feast, we gather around a fire pit in the backyard with pipes, cigars, hot cider, cocktails and a spirit of gratitude. Each person takes a turn sharing one thing they’re thankful for from the past year and one thing they hope to achieve in the next. It’s a time for storytelling, laughter, and connection. It's our way of blending warmth, tradition, and mindfulness into thanksgiving night!
Almost every Thanksgiving growing up was spent at my grandparents’ house. My favorite thing that has been passed down throughout the years is the pan that we roast the turkey in. It’s seen about five generations of my family now (including me), and every year we cook the same Great Depression era recipes (with a few modifications from each generation). And that’s my favorite part of the holiday, because, like pipe smoking, it reminds me of all of my favorite old people.
I have been watching your videos over the past month and really enjoyed the content! My family tradition growing up was going out into the woods behind our house and collecting pine cones and then decorating them as turkeys. We had a wonderful time in the outdoors and then had even more fun in the decorating. All the best to your family over this Thanksgiving Holiday!
Our tradition for thanksgiving is each of us helps make a dish or two. My mom usually makes green bean casserole, mash potatoes, stuffing, and seasons the turkey and cooks it partway. My dad usually helps finish the turkey by smoking it and he makes a sweet potato casserole. My older brother makes the cranberry sauce and a cheese cake pumpkin pie its to die for. I usually help my mom with peeling the potatoes and I make baked mac and cheese, gravy, and corn bread. There's a lot of fighting and chaos that usually in sues with all of us working in the kitchen but its given me some fond memory's I look back on. But once we are all finished making the food we all are thankful to each other for working together to make a lovely feast. PSA please make sure your turkey is fully defrosted if you plan on frying it. I remember one year my brother got experimental and wanted to make a fried turkey and well we almost burnt down my grandmas house cuz the turkey wasn't fully defrosted. But god was there and the oil flowed like a volcano out of the pot but some how all the oil that flowed out smothered the flame on the burner out and luckily he didn't get hurt and we all got to still eat a lovely turkey that year it still is my favorite turkey I had for thanksgiving.
My mom and dad had a tradition of always inviting (to our Thanksgiving meal) someone they knew who would be spending the day alone otherwise. I met men and women from all walks of life and and it gave me an awareness of those who might not have family to join on holidays. My parents set a great example of being generous of heart, and Thanksgiving will always remind me of that. And now, of course, we carry on the tradition.
We are Michiganders so we usually have Thanksgiving dinner on the table in time for the Lions football game. We watch football, pull out our nicer beers, have some old fashions, and eat pumpkin pie. This is my first Thanksgiving as a pipe smoker. I was planning to reach for something with some warm and cozy vanilla and baking spice room notes but your description of Peretti’s Thanksgiving Day blend here has really piqued my interest!
A tradition we have started is to do our Thanksgiving in a pot luck style so there is never one person getting overloaded with all the work. Hosting changes from year to year as family changes locations and what not. This year we are all traveling up north to Humboldt county to visit a family member who moved up there. We make a list where everyone can sign up for what they want to contribute for cooking. And another tradition is for everyone to help with clean up and finish the night off with a movie. Truly excited to spend time with loved ones this year and am super thankful for you offering this awesome giveaway! Thanks Spurgeonpiper!! Always enjoy your videos and have learned alot from you. Good luck to everyone and happy holidays!
Long time listener, first time commenter. Thanksgiving for us really starts in the summer. After scouting and many hours of prep we deer hunt during Thanksgiving week. In Arkansas the rut typically falls towards the end/ middle of November. After a morning hunt we head to town to visit family and have a traditional turkey lunch at my folks house. When we return home for the evening I like to make a hot toddy or hot buttered rum paired with a pipe. I started smoking LJP blends about a year ago and really enjoy Thanksgiving Day during the cooler months. Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!
Holiday traditions are huge with my family, and with my own family now we are still establishing traditions. On thanksgiving we pray as a family thanking God for all of his blessings as well as both the answered and unanswered prayers for the year. We do the typical huge family dinner from 12pm-9pm along with naps and football. After dinner my wife, son and I come home and put on warm pajamas and do an all night Christmas movie marathon with peppermint bark and hot coco. The Friday after we get up and decorate for Christmas! On Christmas Eve we make Santa cookies with my grandmother at my parents house. We return home and I read the Christmas story and then finish off with reading from Luke before putting our son to bed. Once he’s in bed I go outside and put my Christmas blend for the year (this year is bobs chocolate flake) in my Christmas pipe of the year and enjoy a glass of bourbon. Christmas then becomes complete chaos of paper and boxes as my toddler rips through his presents 😂 it’s hard to get all of the awesome memories down in one comment….. also that thanksgiving blend sounds great! Thank you for the review!
Love your channel. Our thanksgiving tradition is mainly just spending time with family and friends. I usually do a small dinner with the wife and kids. The one tradition we do every year is go see the Xmas light display at our local potato chip factory call Herr's. It's a free drive through display that is very well done. I am newer to pipe smoking so i am starting new traditions in that sense.
Love your videos! Great content! We have 3 sons so we have them and their families over for a huge meal. We chase kids, watch some parade, then football. We eat early around 12-1 and then go dig in again later if we can get anything else in our bellies. Good day with family! Plenty to be thankful for. Good luck everyone!
Wilson, I love your enthusiasm about this blend! As a pastor who preaches every week, I think my favorite part of Thanksgiving is the Sunday prior to the holiday. I always focus that message on something that pulls us toward giving thanks. This week I am finishing up a series on some of Jesus' powerful one-liners, with a message on, "He causes the sun to rise on the evil and the good." It reminds me of Jeremiah's words to the exiles that God's mercies are new every morning. Maybe Jesus had those words in mind when He added, "Be merciful as your Father in Heaven is merciful"? What a great reason to give thanks! At this stage in life, the family is scattered around the country, so Thanksgiving Day ends up being a rather simple day with family and friends who are able to gather around our table, enjoy a good meal, and celebrate God's goodness. Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours.
Love Thanksgiving, it's like the first day of the Christmas season. Thanksgiving day we meet with all the wife's side of the family. Then Friday, we head to the family farm for day 2 of Thanksgiving with my side of the family. Always a great time and we look forward to it every year !
My family has had the tradition of hosting Thanksgiving at a family members house which rotates every year. We have the staples of thanksgiving, such as the Turkey, cranberry sauce and more. Further on food, each party of the extended family brings a different dish, which means that with everybody, the tables of food are bountiful. we go through the day, playing games, spending time catching up, and just enjoying the company of each other. I am a new piper, introduced by a friend after he gave me a project pipe. The pipe he gave me was a beautiful, 6 panel apple style pipe that had been well loved beforehand. And I have been enjoying a local blend that has small notes of berries somehow. Anyhow, Thank you Sir, your content is always soothing and entertaining to listen to, as well as watch. I wish you and your family a wonderful Thanksgiving!
I have returned this year after a long absence from my pipe smoking. I'm very much looking forward to sitting on the front porch after dinner has finished, family returning home and clean up has all be completed. I am watching this video because I just discovered the Peretti Thanksgiving Day blend and looked it up. Thinking of ordering this blend for this year's Thanksgiving Holiday. I have enjoyed your Channel and the content.
Thank you for all your reviews. I've had my eye on this blend for awhile and never pulled the trigger on it. I don't have much tradition come the holidays. With both my parents passing all I really have is my brother. My brother got me into the pipe and we enjoy sitting down and sharing a pipe together on the holidays and just enjoying the company. Thanks again for your videos and God bless you and everyone this holiday season. 🫶
I came to the channel for my love of Spurgeon and my love for smoking a pipe. Not to mention learning about new and amazing flavored tobaccos. I wish I could say the same for my Mom's turkey, lol! Happy Holidays! God Bless!
Another great video, sir! Thanksgiving was always one of my top favorite holidays as a kid as my mom and grandmother always made a huge deal of it. It was one of the few times a year that I got to see the majority of my family members. To this day, it’s some of the warmest memories I have. Have a wonderful week, sir, and I wish you and your family a wonderful Thanksgiving!
Hello Wilson! I live with my 2 brothers and my dad his mom, my grandma usually comes over for a small gathering. I am new to pipe smoking but I’m fairly certain my new hobby will be discussed. I can’t lie I’m excited to share my new found joy with my immediate family. I think my thanksgiving day blend will be Cobblestone Hiking. As for food we traditionally have a ham with stuffing mashed potatoes and whatever delicious sweet treat my Grandma makes to bring over. This is very cool and generous of you win or lose Im here to support my favorite pipe channel keep them coming!! Take care from mine to yours Happy Early Thanksgiving!!😄
Thanksgiving has a new meaning these past few years. As long as I remembered I would gather with my parents and extended family at my grand parents home for good fellowship, food , and many prayers of thanks. Unfortunately in a short time I have lost my grandparents and my father. I many precious memories with them. Now it is seeking a new normal. The gathering has been fragmented but my mom and I have always found a place to enjoy. While the circumstances have changed my thankfulness for those times and God's blessings have not. Happy Thanksgiving to you and the YTPC. God bless.
How very generous. Traditionally, Thanksgiving has taken place at my parents house. The day would begin by watching the Macys Day Parade and then the smells of cooking would soon fill the house. The family would come over and we'd begin dinner with a prayer, hand in hand and give thanks. Im the only pipe smoker in the family at the moment. Happy Holidays Wilson and Family.
When I was a teenager, we used to drive from Montreal (when we still lived there) to NYC to stay with my uncle in Manhattan every year. The uncles and older kids would get up early and trek on down to scope out the best spot for the Macy’s Parade, then all the uncles, aunts, cousins, grandparents, etc would meet us there a little later. After, we’d head back to my uncle’s to watch the Christmas Story marathon until dinner. I remember my dad at the parade telling us, “at this time, there is no other place to be in the world than right here. This is it, this where everyone wants to be.” He’s a real life Clark Griswald 😂 PS - It was great meeting you at the Texas Pipe Show. Still would love to have you on the pod.
Thanks for a special gaw! Our tradition is just trying to get everyone together at some point during the Thanksgiving week! Life is always happening so it’s nice to finally get together, slow down, enjoy the funny stories!
My Thanksgiving traditions. As a first responder I've worked on Thanksgiving for the past 17 years. We usually watch the Parade on TV when we can before I go off to work. We get together as a family on a chosen day before or after the actual holiday. (To give thanks with family can be any day you chose, not just the designated day after all.) My father makes a delicious homemade pumpkin squash soup, I smoke a turkey, and one of the many pies has to be a peanut butter chocolate for my sweet tooth. We always look forward to it, regardless of the work schedule. Great video as always. Cheers!
We love Thanksgiving. Turkey, ham and old family recipes. Pecan pie, pumpkin pie and football. We set an empty spot at the table and surround it with pictures of our family that have gone home before us especially our fathers in their military uniforms. Thanks for a great review.
Our family tradition brings family from Texas and around here in Fl. Everyone makes something to bring. I have a seventh grandbaby joining us this year and thats what i enjoy the most is spending time with the grandkids. Seeing them makes me very thankful and warms my heart. Have a wonderful and blessed Thanksgiving Spurgeon and all in the YTPC.
Thanksgiving traditions in my family start with watching the Macey’s parade. While that’s happening usually are preparing for dinner. My favorite part of the holiday is the joyful atmosphere, the aromas of delicious food being prepared, and sound of laughter from relatives I see too infrequently.
My family's Thanksgiving tradition is fairly traditional. We always have turkey, mashed potatoes etc. for dinner. My brother and his family come over for pie after they finish their meal and we hang out and visit and just pass time together. The day after (black Friday) we decorate the house for Christmas, and I always make a trip to my favorite local bottle shop to pick up that year's Bourbon County Brand Stout, as it always releases that day.
Being a Pecan Farmer here in Texas, Thanksgiving is one of the few Holidays taken off for. It usually includes a large spread of family and food, in which the cooking starts early that Thursday morning as I fry the family turkey every year. In the afternoon my wife and kids go out to the orchard to take new fall pictures in the trees as they change color, drop leaves and pecans before harvest. It has become a tradition that I am grateful for, and will resume for as long as I can.
We're actually still figuring out some holiday traditions in my home. We moved from NC to CA two years ago and holidays are still kinda new! However, I know this year will be my first Thanksgiving with a Meerschaum Corncob :) Thanks for helping new folks like me explore this fascinating realm of pipes and tobacco.
I’ve worked for the railroad most of my life, and my wife is an ICU nurse. Until we had kids, our thanksgiving tradition, was working that day/weekend so others with a family could spend it with them. Moved back home to the farm, she’s still an ICU nurse, and works most thanksgivings, but the rest of us get to go to her mothers home farm a few hours south and enjoy the day with family.
Family, friends, football, and food. Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday as I truly enjoy cooking the big meal and spend time with the ones I love, watching football and ending the night with a good bourbon and usually a solo smoke. I would love to pass along this pipe to my brother-in-law so we can create a new tradition of a Thanksgiving smoke together. Those will be the memories we'll remember fondly.
Thanksgiving is one of the few times all the family gets together at the same time. Lots of laughter and harassing each other along with the chaos of 9 nieces and nephews all running around. Lots of great food and desserts and I'll be bringing over some sleepy hollow this year! Be kind and safe everyone!
Every year we travel up a short jaunt north to my parents' house and start the day early. We typically make jalapeno poppers and snack on some decadent puppy chow as we are preparing the food. The main meal is at noon, and the dish I look forward to the most is a spicy squash casserole my father typically makes. Pecan pie always polishes it all off for me. I am a novice pipe smoker, and I just got a starter pipe about a month ago. It has a beautiful engraving of the Nativity scene, and I am doing my best to get that carbon buildup in the bowl. Shout out to the Catholic Pipe Company for my pipe (though I am an Anglican)! Your channel has been a welcome guide. Appreciate you!
Growing up my family would all get together at my great uncle's farm for the entire day. There were competing turkey cooking methods, cigar smoking, shooting pumpkins, catching up with everyone, playing with atvs and farm animals, and just having a genuine good time. Like many others, our tradition was going around and saying what we're most thankful for that year. Good luck everyone and Happy Thanksgiving!
Thank you for the review! It sounds like something I’ll definitely be picking up. My family has been visiting our cousins’ farm in Normal, Illinois since the 1950s. Nothing brought my grandfather more joy, before he passed, than seeing multiple generations continue this tradition. Two years ago, I brought a pipe for the first time. I shared some Arrowhead from Paul’s Pipe Shop with a few of my cousins. While not all of them picked up the hobby, they still request that I bring some of that wonderful blend every year.
I'm a new father spending Thanksgiving with my 2 sons, and my lady in the wilds of Prescott, AZ. New tradition we will be starting for our small family. Spending the holidays in a cabin, in the woods. I'll be enjoying my new Savinelli Alligator 311 ks green poker, a gift from my father for my birthday, which was the 16th. My pipe is stuffed with Peter Stokkebye English Oriental supreme. Thank you Wilson, for always coming out with great pipe smoking content, and happy holidays to you and your family, my brother 💨💨💨 May everything you smoke be sweet.
Our family Thanksgiving tradition is of course dinner at ma'maws. Home made everything by the legend herself. The staple or tradition for me has always been her cinnamon rolls she used to make at her restaurant. She always made us kids a pan to take home, but more often than not the full pan didnt make it. We always seem to find ourselves watching Christmas Vacation of an evening as well. As far as pipes go for me and Thanksgiving, I started smoking during covid and purchased my first Peretti Thanksgiving blend last year. Excellent stuff. Awesome giveaway good Sir. Happy Thanksgiving, and God bless.
I often had to work on Thanksgiving so my work mates and I would prepare a meal and share it with other members of our organization who also worked. Later on, after the holiday, I would be able to share a meal with family at home. Many holidays were like that for us so we learned "thanksgiving" was more about the company and the experience rather than the specific date. Cheers!
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. I am the cook in the family so my wife gets to relax while the kids and I prepare the Thanksgiving meal. We always have turkey, which we apple brine the night before, along with sweet potatoes, butternut squash, green bean casserole, mashed potatoes, stuffing, cole slaw, and cranberry sauce. We make pumpkin pies the night before. What makes this so special is that I have been doing this with my kids since they were kids and now they are adults in their twenties, and they still help me in the kitchen. After dinner and the dishes are clean, I can sit and enjoy a good pipe. I usually smoke C&D Autumn Evening, but this year I also have the LJ Peretti Thanksgiving Blend and I can't wait to try it.
This Thanksgiving is going to be different. This year I lost my father and I got married around the same time.. So while I will be spending this Thanksgiving with my Mom and my newlywed wife, we will be without my dad. I hope he is looking down at us from heaven and knows how much we love him. I hope yall have a safe and happy Thanksgiving with your family, make sure to let them know you love them
My wife is a RN and often has to work on Thanksgiving so we don’t always have the luxury of annual traditions on the holiday itself unfortunately. We make the best of it though and celebrate all of our blessings and gratitude together as a family the day before or the day after when we can all be together. My son’s birthday is the 26th so it occasionally falls on thanksgiving as well, which gives us another blessing to celebrate. I don’t have an official pipe or blend I smoke for thanksgiving but I usually do try to find a little time that day to enjoy a pipe and reflect on all that I have to be grateful for in life!
Thanksgiving is a time we spend with my wife’s family. Great food and company while the kids run around playing. I usually take a country gentleman corn cob pipe with some kind of Virginia blend. This year I think I’m going to take the maple shadows 2 , I’ve really been enjoying it this fall! Love your reviews, keep up the great videos.
Thanksgiving starts with a big breakfast together with lots of pancakes and watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade! Then, in the afternoon we have a traditional thanksgiving dinner with both turkey and ham. We go around the table and everyone says what they are thankful for. We watch football while we eat and then watch a movie on TV where most everyone falls asleep throughout the movie. God Bless you and your family during this day and throughout the year!
Growing up, one of our Thanksgiving traditions would actually take place on the Sunday after Thanksgiving! That Sunday after church we would go to my grandparent’s house on my mom’s side and meet up with the rest of the family to have a somewhat non traditional meal. Afterwards, we would all go to the theater to watch that year’s family friendly Christmas movie, and when we got back we’d help decorate their tree!
One of my favorite Thanksgiving traditions in my family is the day before thanksgiving. The whole family comes over and bakes pies, preps for the meal the next day, and spends time talking and conversing. It’s just as enjoyable as the meal itself since we get to spend time preparing the meal together. We all make a dish and enjoy sharing new recipes with each other. Cooking is one way we show how we love and are thankful for each other.
Thanksgiving has always been the main holiday for my mother’s, mother’s family and we would meet at the community center for a traditional meal followed by a football game in the yard. Even though my great grandparents have passed on now we still meet as a family for thanksgiving. I live on my great grandparents farm in the house that my great grandfather built. We all knew him as “Pa” and Pa is the reason I smoke a pipe.
My Thanksgiving tradition typically involves traveling to see my brother. He usually selects a place to have a wonderful Thanksgiving lunch after we attend the Thanksgiving church service. We have occasionally ended up in a cigar lounge for a cigar or a pipe. I've always been hesitant to try a new aromatic. You've convinced me to try Thanksgiving Day next year.
Our Thanksgiving tradition is the typical family gathering and the traditional turkey dinner. I will have a pipe but nothing specific for that day. Wilson, thanks for doing this giveaway and have a blessed Thanksgiving.
No crazy thanksgiving traditions… just the norm. I typically try to see both sides of my family on thanksgiving day since the locations both sides celebrate at are about 5 minutes apart. We have traditional dishes: turkey, Mac and cheese, dressing, green beans, rice, giblet gravy, pineapple casserole, and other various dishes. Since I have been married we have celebrated with her family on the following Saturday. In the past we have gone camping as a family on thanksgiving and that was a blast! I have only been pipe smoking for about a year so this will be my first thanksgiving as a pipe smoker! I will most likely smoke Chelsea morning that day seeing as that is my favorite blend currently. I hope you and your family have a happy thanksgiving ! Grace and peace.
Thanksgiving is a time of rest and family for us. Thanksgiving morning I go out to my grandfather's farm, while doing the farm work we make the most out of the time we have available not rushing through the work. We'll part ways to fulfill our meal contributions for later, and then we gather with the extended family for a meal, cards, games, and fellowship. Its simple, yet a time to evaluate how blessed we are to be together.
Getting together with family is always the best part. It's a day full of joy as we shoot clays, watch football, play games, and enjoy everyones amazing cooking! But the greatest part is gathering around the table and everyone sharing about the goodness of God shown to us the past year.
We have typically had 3 Thanksgiving dinners, one for my wife's side and 2 for mine, one with my mom and one at my dad's as they divorced about 30 years ago. But blessedly about 2 years ago they agreed to combine and it's been great!
Thanks! We have a Thanksgiving Parade that we go to in our town at the end of our block. A great time to be with family and community, and to give thanks. Thanks for hosting the giveaway.
We've always had Thanksgiving at my parents' house. WAY too much food, of which I've smoked the turkey the past couple years. No specific tradition other than gathering and eating together, but it's always been one of my favorite holidays and evokes a sense of nostalgia each year. Congratulations, in advance, to the winners! Happy Thanksgiving, and God's peace!
My Thanksgiving tradition is setting up the Christmas Tree. I know it's too early for some but for our family it was the only time that we were all together besides weddings or funerals. I got to see the amazing love and joy that my family has for each other while we're all around the tree. Laughing, talking, and enjoying being together. I'm sure if my grandparents were here they'd be happy so see that tradition kept alive. Happy Thanksgiving to all.
Hey Wilson, I truly appreciate the Thanksgiving season, just as much family as Christmas but for the simple pleasure of getting together for a time honored deal. Tradition in our house has always been watching the Lions game (I live in Michigan), and in recent years I have smoked a turkey which has brought new joys to the morning routine on Thanksgiving. Since I already smell like smoke from the smoker I usually sneak in a pipe as well. Hope you and your family have a great holiday season! Cheers, Alex
Hey Wilson! I've watched your videos for a while now and it's really helped me in my piping journey. I am 25 years old, so I do not have any Thanksgiving traditions I have started myself, but I will try to share some stories that I have experienced on thanksgiving over the years. My family is German, likes to cook, and can be quiet. For this reason, it seems at first that there isn't going to be any loud laughing or screaming going on in my family, especially around the holidays. Everyone tends to talk and rejoice that family is together while they cook turkey, ham, or pies, and no one seems to be overly loud or rambunctious. This tends to be the case all throughout the day, until we get to board games. My family has a tradition of playing catch-phrase which is a family game that is almost like verbal pictionary. You have a word, but you need to explain what it is without saying it. Once we group up into girls vs. guys, things get heated and fun. My grandparents and even uncle and aunt start screaming at each other in a competitive light, and so I really enjoy these memories on Thanksgiving. I tend to smoke Boswell's Christmas Cookie, Mac Baren Golden Extra, or My Mixture 965 around this time of the year.
In general, we try to celebrate Thanksgiving with one set of the family and have a big meal (Baja boat potatoes, Chick-Fil-A cloned macaroni, salad, stuffing, and of course Turkey). In the past, we have spent a few years out of the country, so the traditional became to try and recreate the environment of home for the kids as we celebrate on our own. A whole lot of cooking for a twenty minute experience, but it always seems worth it….until dishes are involved. Love the channel; keep up the good work and enjoy your Thanksgiving!
Our Thanksgiving tradition is to go to my in-laws' house and go deer hunting that week. We set up a Christmas model village and watch movies like "Elf" or "The Santa Clause." As I'm new to pipes I don't yet have a tradition in that regard, yet. I'm hoping to start one, though. Thank you for another great video. Happy Thanksgiving!
We spend Thanksgiving with my wife’s family. Since her father passed a couple years ago, these gatherings are so special for them. Afterwards I come home, pack a bowl to smoke and start planning my Christmas light display for our neighborhood!! Love the channel and share it often. Thanks for all you do. May God bless and keep you!
I’m new to the channel but I’m a big fan. I recently started pipe smoking again and your videos have been very helpful getting back into it. Unfortunately I have to work on Thanksgiving day but my family will be celebrating a couple days early. I have been enjoying English blends lately out of my Viking pipe that I bought while I was in the army years ago. Happy thanksgiving!
We try to get as much family together as possible. Start the meal with a prayer, and after we eat, we go around the table(s) and share something we are thankful for. My brothers and I have started to enjoy a cigar or pipe outside after the meal- not quite a family tradition yet, but we're working on it. Thanks!
Thanksgiving tradition has always been meal and time with family followed by enjoying football! This is my first Thanksgiving with a child of my own, so thinking of starting a new tradition of telling my wife and family of something I’ve been thankful for the last year, as well as a Thanksgiving day hike! This is my first Thanksgiving as a pipe smoker so I’m not sure what I’ll be smoking just yet!
Thanksgiving tradition for my family has changed over the years. Got married to my wife January of 2022, she is Brazilian so they don’t celebrate this holiday, but ever since she’s been here she has made a nice decadent cranberry sauce and some Brazilian dishes as well as our typical turkey, ham, and stuffing. Usually start the day off watching football with my dad while getting everything prepared and cooked. After dinner we usually go outside and light up the fire pit. I usually use a meerschaum and pack in petersons sherlock holmes… I just love the flavor and usually relaxes me after a long day. Love your videos. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to share my family’s thanksgiving tradition.
Our family tradition changed during COVID. Our church asked some of us to deliver meals on Thanksgiving to those stuck home with COVID...we loved it! So now we try to make Thanksgiving about inviting others to our meal and not simply celebrating it alone.
We usually have a fairly “standard” thanksgiving where my family has a get together and we all bring different foods and desserts. Being in Florida though, it varies whether we will have cool weather or leftover summer heat. Last year for example we had turkey, stuffing, as well as a mess of fried fish and clams! We usually finish up with some pumpkin pie and a cup of coffee. Then when back at the house and eating leftovers we crank up the Christmas music and decorate the tree. When it is cold I love to just sit outside by a fire, hopefully this year we may get that weather. I’m brand new to pipe smoking, not quite 3 weeks even! So far just with some Missouri Meerschaum corn cobs and I feel like I’m getting the hang of it slowly but surely! I’ve been wanting to purposefully slow down in life and enjoy the things that really matter, family time, being thankful and in awe of the Lord and all the blessings we as believers have, and of course good literature and art. From now on I’ll be adding pipe smoking to the list as well and it’s been a lot of fun watching creators like you and others discuss the joys of tobacco and a slow and reflective life. Happy Thanksgiving and God bless everybody!
Me, my wife, kids and in-laws pack up and drive to her aunt's place who lives on Medina Lake here in Texas, there we partake in the classic Thanksgiving goings-on. After eating dinner and pie we do the classic "what are you Thankful for" chat asking around the table. When the chatting turns to politics I take that opportunity to participate in my favorite tradition; lighting up a bowl of whatever I've got, this year it'll likely be PS24 Nougat out of my Country Gentleman, and enjoy a sunset. Thanks for your reviews and other insights.
I usually have to work Thanksgiving so we have to celebrate earlier. We like treat our feast as a potluck. Everyone brings their favorite dish. After dinner or lunch, we decorate a Christmas tree then have a family picture to track how our large family grows.
With my family so far spread apart these days we make it a tradition to meet back in Hawaii in our hometown every other thanksgiving. Thankfully this year is that year, so I am actually in Hawaii currently watching this and smoking Red Ribbon also! Love the channel and good luck to everyone in the giveaway and Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!
My family enjoys the bounty of Alaska. Our meal consists of King Crab along with all the traditional side dishes. We always thank God for our past year. I don’t have a tradition pipe for Thanksgiving as of yet as I’ve only been smoking a pipe for about a year.
As an Irishman who moved to Morocco, thanksgiving was never something we imagined we would partake in or pay any mind to. Though; in the process of moving overseas, we ended up meeting, working alongside and getting very close with a handful of Americans, who have blessed us by sharing this tradition. We now celebrate every year with our friends, smoke a bowl of Presbyterian mixture together, and of course eat plenty of brilliant food. Though we normally bring some classic Irish dishes, my wife and I are trying to work on learning some thanksgiving classics to bless our friends… hopefully the pecan pie turns out okay this year! One of those American friends is back in America for thanksgiving and Christmas, so should I happen to be chosen then the giveaway could eventually make its way around the world back to me! Always enjoy the videos, Wilson. Blessings, Ross
First of all, thanks for what you do! Thanksgiving has changed ,as with everyone, over the years. We celebrate at my house now with my inlaws. Lucky for me, I have a great relationship with my inlaws. We all share in the food preparation one of us says the blessing, and we dig in. I'm the only one who smokes a pipe, but my father in law may partake.
Our thanksgiving tradition is time around the fire with family and those who cook do not clean and those who do not cook must clean. as a newer pipe smoker I look forward to starting a new Thanksgiving pipe tradition!
Ever since my first deployment to Iraq, we came back to Germany just before Thanksgiving and had to learn to deep fry a turkey since German ovens are too small. Sine then I have deep fried a turkey every Thanksgiving. While sitting around the deep fryer it nice to enjoy a pipe or cigar. I also do a deep fried turkey for a men’s church event each year as well.
After Thanksgiving dinner, our family will enjoy a glass of eggnog and a small candy cane to "initiate the Christmas season". It's one of the few times during the year where all of us are together and it's been a tradition since I was a child. Thanks for the awesome review!
The first 10 years or so after college always meant being able to go home and have the holidays with family, specifically at my parents house. We were fortunate enough to move back (w/i 1 mile from them now) home about 5 years ago, and still celebrate at mom and dad's house. However, it's nice now being the welcoming crew as my younger brother and sister live a far, and look forward to our family time throughout the holiday. We always make sure to have some type of shoot throughout the holiday weekend, whether it's plinking cans in the back forty or heading to our local sportsmen club to do some sporting clays!
Thanksgiving has always been special to me as of all the other holidays, aside of my mom making a huge Thanksgiving meal from the Italian soup to the antipasto, artichokes, lasagna and of course a big huge butterball turkey for our wonderful Thanksgiving meal. But what really stands out from my memory was the night before Thanksgiving. I would always love to watch my mom prepare the turkey. I remember her preparing the stuffing which was a wonderful tasty homemade stuffing it had egg, hamburger, ground sausage and different seasonings. It was a delicious stuffing that she made that I will never forget. My mom would stuff the turkey full of her homemade stuffing so full that she would get a needle and thread and closed up the opening so the stuffing wouldn’t fall out she would then put the turkey in the oven let it cook all night on low ( 250 ) heat so that when we woke up Thanksgiving morning the whole house had that wonderful aroma of that delicious juicy turkey. She would then set the oven on Thanksgiving morning on a higher heat and finish cooking it. Beautiful Thanksgiving memories with the family that I will never forget.
My Grandma would make a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner at her house every year. The meal that always stuck out was the sweet potatoes with Pecans and marshmallows. I was thinking about getting some of this blend after finding out about it!
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We have family come in from different areas and enjoy a typical Thanksgiving dinner . This will be my first thanksgiving as a pipe smoker. Looking forward to making a new tradition .
When I was younger my dad and I would go sight in our rifles for deer season that starts the monday after Thanksgiving in PA. We would get up early and go to a friends farm where we would be hunting a few days later and spend the morning shooting around. Its was great. I still remember one year the biggest deer i have ever seen walking by when we started making noise. He wasnt worried at all. He must have known he had a few days before he needed to worry about us but we sure were tempted to tempted to take a shot at him. But we didnt. Of course we never saw him when the season started but thats the way it goes I guess.
One day you'll get your shot at that monster! Happy Thanksgiving broher
I go all out on this day. Start preparing and prepping a few days before, because everything is made from scratch. I even use whole pumpkins and roast the in the oven to make the pies with. Usually have enough leftovers that gets us through the weekend. This day is one of 3 days that I'm allowed to smoke the pipe in the house, the other two being Christmas and my bday 🎂. I bought a pound of the thanksgiving day blend a few years back and only smoke it on this day. Wife enjoys the smell and one I allowed to enjoy indoors. ❤❤❤
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My favorite tradition is hunting and cooking the turkey with my father-in-law. Thanksgiving morning we always wake up early and go hunting. We rarely see any deer but it’s amazing to watch the sun rise over a frosty field. Then we head home to warm up and deep fry the family turkey and argue with the rest of the family. Great times and full bellies!
Thanksgiving to me is about spending time with family, enjoying good food, and expressing gratitude for all we're blessed with. Good luck everyone!
The best thanksgiving tradition that we have done since I was a little kid is everyone meets at my parents and we all sit at the supper table and go around the table saying what we are thankful for and what’s been the best part of the year. A couple years ago when I turned 21 I got to into cigars and now me and my dad smoke one on the back porch and that imo is the best time spent all year.
Traditions have changed a lot over the years. Starting with family, then Friends givings, how back to my own small family and creating new traditions. Good food has always been a part of it, and i look forward to creating interesting dishes again this year!
Thanks brother, and happy Thanksgiving. One of our family’s annual traditions is to put a construction paper TURKEY body on the dining room wall, and then after a meal pass out colorful paper “feathers” and write on them something we are thankful for. Then we go around the table and share our thanks aloud. After sharing we tape our feathers to the bird on the wall - and watch the turkey grow. Lots of fun for our seven kids and now spouses too.
Thanksgiving has always been a time for reflection on the blessings received for the year. I celebrate this season in being truly thankful.
I live away from family, so I’m typically celebrating with friends, so our tradition is to go around the table and everyone has to say the one thing that happened during the last year that they’re most thankful for. When I do get home to see my family, we always said a special thanksgiving prayer together before dinner.
On Thanksgiving we have a tradition of going around the table and telling one event that happened during the year that made us feel closer to our family.
I might just borrow that tradition from you
Thanksgiving for us is about family getting together and remembering how blessed we are. We also try and invite those over who don't have anyone to celebrate with. When we sit down to eat, we always start with a prayer where we go around the table and each person says what they are thankful for. Hope you have a Happy Thanksgiving!
My dad always smoked his pipe and he would smoke a cavendish. C&D autumn evening reminds me 100% of that. My parents had 6 kids and Thanksgiving was one of the few days my dad had off throughout the year. Family being together and thanking god for what he provided was always important. We always had chocolates and cheeseball with crackers available and the the usual turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, and baked beans but, my favorite has always been the pumpkin pie.
We host both sides of the family for both Thanksgiving and Christmas. Thanksgiving is a traditional Turkey dinner (we’re in Grand Rapids Michigan). Christmas though has been a Texas bbq tradition since about 4 years ago. I smoke a full packer brisket and a couple racks of ribs. It’s a crowd favorite for the families! God bless you and Happy Thanksgiving!
Several decades ago, before I became a landlocked denizen of New Mexico, I was a sailor. Not the navy type, the sailboat type. Our family lived in west Los Angeles and sailed out of Marina del Rey. Each year we would sail to Catalina Island for the thanksgiving holiday. Before leaving the marina mom would put a small turkey in the oven and spend most of the voyage creating the family’s favorite dishes. By the time we arrived, the turkey would be cooked, the side dishes prepared and the feast laid on the salon table.
Mom and dad are gone and I don’t sail anymore, but every year at thanksgiving I recall those family dinners at Catalina Island as some of the finest meals I have ever enjoyed.
I am going to share Thanksgiving traditions when I was a child. We always went to my grandma‘s house and she would cook each of us a Cornish game hen. She had the most scrumptious sweet potatoes with marshmallows in the middle and she would roll them in cornflakes and fry them! Of course there was always freshly made cranberry sauce. She had a fireplace and the house was very cozy. These were special times as my mom passed when I was 16 years old. Now I have grandchildren that are almost that old, and my kids and grandkids are all living far away from us. So today our tradition is going to a restaurant for Thanksgiving. But I still have my sweet memories from childhood. Thanks for allowing us to enter your contest. God bless!
Our family has a thanksgiving tradition after the feast, we gather around a fire pit in the backyard with pipes, cigars, hot cider, cocktails and a spirit of gratitude. Each person takes a turn sharing one thing they’re thankful for from the past year and one thing they hope to achieve in the next. It’s a time for storytelling, laughter, and connection. It's our way of blending warmth, tradition, and mindfulness into thanksgiving night!
Thanks for your video and giveaway. One of our favorite traditions is a couple things you are grateful that year.
Almost every Thanksgiving growing up was spent at my grandparents’ house. My favorite thing that has been passed down throughout the years is the pan that we roast the turkey in. It’s seen about five generations of my family now (including me), and every year we cook the same Great Depression era recipes (with a few modifications from each generation). And that’s my favorite part of the holiday, because, like pipe smoking, it reminds me of all of my favorite old people.
I have been watching your videos over the past month and really enjoyed the content! My family tradition growing up was going out into the woods behind our house and collecting pine cones and then decorating them as turkeys. We had a wonderful time in the outdoors and then had even more fun in the decorating. All the best to your family over this Thanksgiving Holiday!
Our tradition for thanksgiving is each of us helps make a dish or two. My mom usually makes green bean casserole, mash potatoes, stuffing, and seasons the turkey and cooks it partway. My dad usually helps finish the turkey by smoking it and he makes a sweet potato casserole. My older brother makes the cranberry sauce and a cheese cake pumpkin pie its to die for. I usually help my mom with peeling the potatoes and I make baked mac and cheese, gravy, and corn bread. There's a lot of fighting and chaos that usually in sues with all of us working in the kitchen but its given me some fond memory's I look back on. But once we are all finished making the food we all are thankful to each other for working together to make a lovely feast. PSA please make sure your turkey is fully defrosted if you plan on frying it. I remember one year my brother got experimental and wanted to make a fried turkey and well we almost burnt down my grandmas house cuz the turkey wasn't fully defrosted. But god was there and the oil flowed like a volcano out of the pot but some how all the oil that flowed out smothered the flame on the burner out and luckily he didn't get hurt and we all got to still eat a lovely turkey that year it still is my favorite turkey I had for thanksgiving.
My mom and dad had a tradition of always inviting (to our Thanksgiving meal) someone they knew who would be spending the day alone otherwise. I met men and women from all walks of life and and it gave me an awareness of those who might not have family to join on holidays. My parents set a great example of being generous of heart, and Thanksgiving will always remind me of that. And now, of course, we carry on the tradition.
We are Michiganders so we usually have Thanksgiving dinner on the table in time for the Lions football game. We watch football, pull out our nicer beers, have some old fashions, and eat pumpkin pie. This is my first Thanksgiving as a pipe smoker. I was planning to reach for something with some warm and cozy vanilla and baking spice room notes but your description of Peretti’s Thanksgiving Day blend here has really piqued my interest!
I’m new to the hobby and I greatly appreciate all the knowledge I’ve learned from your channel and videos. Thank you.
A tradition we have started is to do our Thanksgiving in a pot luck style so there is never one person getting overloaded with all the work. Hosting changes from year to year as family changes locations and what not. This year we are all traveling up north to Humboldt county to visit a family member who moved up there. We make a list where everyone can sign up for what they want to contribute for cooking. And another tradition is for everyone to help with clean up and finish the night off with a movie. Truly excited to spend time with loved ones this year and am super thankful for you offering this awesome giveaway! Thanks Spurgeonpiper!! Always enjoy your videos and have learned alot from you. Good luck to everyone and happy holidays!
Long time listener, first time commenter. Thanksgiving for us really starts in the summer. After scouting and many hours of prep we deer hunt during Thanksgiving week. In Arkansas the rut typically falls towards the end/
middle of November. After a morning hunt we head to town to visit family and have a traditional turkey lunch at my folks house.
When we return home for the evening I like to make a hot toddy or hot buttered rum paired with a pipe. I started smoking LJP blends about a year ago and really enjoy Thanksgiving Day during the cooler months.
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!
Holiday traditions are huge with my family, and with my own family now we are still establishing traditions. On thanksgiving we pray as a family thanking God for all of his blessings as well as both the answered and unanswered prayers for the year. We do the typical huge family dinner from 12pm-9pm along with naps and football. After dinner my wife, son and I come home and put on warm pajamas and do an all night Christmas movie marathon with peppermint bark and hot coco. The Friday after we get up and decorate for Christmas! On Christmas Eve we make Santa cookies with my grandmother at my parents house. We return home and I read the Christmas story and then finish off with reading from Luke before putting our son to bed. Once he’s in bed I go outside and put my Christmas blend for the year (this year is bobs chocolate flake) in my Christmas pipe of the year and enjoy a glass of bourbon. Christmas then becomes complete chaos of paper and boxes as my toddler rips through his presents 😂 it’s hard to get all of the awesome memories down in one comment….. also that thanksgiving blend sounds great! Thank you for the review!
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Love your channel.
Our thanksgiving tradition is mainly just spending time with family and friends. I usually do a small dinner with the wife and kids. The one tradition we do every year is go see the Xmas light display at our local potato chip factory call Herr's. It's a free drive through display that is very well done. I am newer to pipe smoking so i am starting new traditions in that sense.
Love your videos! Great content!
We have 3 sons so we have them and their families over for a huge meal. We chase kids, watch some parade, then football. We eat early around 12-1 and then go dig in again later if we can get anything else in our bellies. Good day with family! Plenty to be thankful for. Good luck everyone!
Wilson, I love your enthusiasm about this blend!
As a pastor who preaches every week, I think my favorite part of Thanksgiving is the Sunday prior to the holiday. I always focus that message on something that pulls us toward giving thanks. This week I am finishing up a series on some of Jesus' powerful one-liners, with a message on, "He causes the sun to rise on the evil and the good." It reminds me of Jeremiah's words to the exiles that God's mercies are new every morning. Maybe Jesus had those words in mind when He added, "Be merciful as your Father in Heaven is merciful"? What a great reason to give thanks!
At this stage in life, the family is scattered around the country, so Thanksgiving Day ends up being a rather simple day with family and friends who are able to gather around our table, enjoy a good meal, and celebrate God's goodness.
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours.
Love Thanksgiving, it's like the first day of the Christmas season.
Thanksgiving day we meet with all the wife's side of the family. Then Friday, we head to the family farm for day 2 of Thanksgiving with my side of the family. Always a great time and we look forward to it every year !
My family has had the tradition of hosting Thanksgiving at a family members house which rotates every year. We have the staples of thanksgiving, such as the Turkey, cranberry sauce and more. Further on food, each party of the extended family brings a different dish, which means that with everybody, the tables of food are bountiful. we go through the day, playing games, spending time catching up, and just enjoying the company of each other.
I am a new piper, introduced by a friend after he gave me a project pipe. The pipe he gave me was a beautiful, 6 panel apple style pipe that had been well loved beforehand. And I have been enjoying a local blend that has small notes of berries somehow.
Anyhow, Thank you Sir, your content is always soothing and entertaining to listen to, as well as watch. I wish you and your family a wonderful Thanksgiving!
I have returned this year after a long absence from my pipe smoking. I'm very much looking forward to sitting on the front porch after dinner has finished, family returning home and clean up has all be completed. I am watching this video because I just discovered the Peretti Thanksgiving Day blend and looked it up. Thinking of ordering this blend for this year's Thanksgiving Holiday.
I have enjoyed your Channel and the content.
Thank you for all your reviews. I've had my eye on this blend for awhile and never pulled the trigger on it.
I don't have much tradition come the holidays. With both my parents passing all I really have is my brother. My brother got me into the pipe and we enjoy sitting down and sharing a pipe together on the holidays and just enjoying the company. Thanks again for your videos and God bless you and everyone this holiday season. 🫶
I came to the channel for my love of Spurgeon and my love for smoking a pipe. Not to mention learning about new and amazing flavored tobaccos. I wish I could say the same for my Mom's turkey, lol! Happy Holidays! God Bless!
Another great video, sir! Thanksgiving was always one of my top favorite holidays as a kid as my mom and grandmother always made a huge deal of it. It was one of the few times a year that I got to see the majority of my family members. To this day, it’s some of the warmest memories I have. Have a wonderful week, sir, and I wish you and your family a wonderful Thanksgiving!
Hello Wilson! I live with my 2 brothers and my dad his mom, my grandma usually comes over for a small gathering. I am new to pipe smoking but I’m fairly certain my new hobby will be discussed. I can’t lie I’m excited to share my new found joy with my immediate family. I think my thanksgiving day blend will be Cobblestone Hiking. As for food we traditionally have a ham with stuffing mashed potatoes and whatever delicious sweet treat my Grandma makes to bring over. This is very cool and generous of you win or lose Im here to support my favorite pipe channel keep them coming!! Take care from mine to yours Happy Early Thanksgiving!!😄
Thanksgiving has a new meaning these past few years. As long as I remembered I would gather with my parents and extended family at my grand parents home for good fellowship, food , and many prayers of thanks. Unfortunately in a short time I have lost my grandparents and my father. I many precious memories with them. Now it is seeking a new normal. The gathering has been fragmented but my mom and I have always found a place to enjoy. While the circumstances have changed my thankfulness for those times and God's blessings have not. Happy Thanksgiving to you and the YTPC. God bless.
How very generous.
Traditionally, Thanksgiving has taken place at my parents house. The day would begin by watching the Macys Day Parade and then the smells of cooking would soon fill the house. The family would come over and we'd begin dinner with a prayer, hand in hand and give thanks. Im the only pipe smoker in the family at the moment.
Happy Holidays Wilson and Family.
When I was a teenager, we used to drive from Montreal (when we still lived there) to NYC to stay with my uncle in Manhattan every year. The uncles and older kids would get up early and trek on down to scope out the best spot for the Macy’s Parade, then all the uncles, aunts, cousins, grandparents, etc would meet us there a little later. After, we’d head back to my uncle’s to watch the Christmas Story marathon until dinner. I remember my dad at the parade telling us, “at this time, there is no other place to be in the world than right here. This is it, this where everyone wants to be.” He’s a real life Clark Griswald 😂 PS - It was great meeting you at the Texas Pipe Show. Still would love to have you on the pod.
Thanks for a special gaw!
Our tradition is just trying to get everyone together at some point during the Thanksgiving week! Life is always happening so it’s nice to finally get together, slow down, enjoy the funny stories!
My Thanksgiving traditions. As a first responder I've worked on Thanksgiving for the past 17 years. We usually watch the Parade on TV when we can before I go off to work. We get together as a family on a chosen day before or after the actual holiday. (To give thanks with family can be any day you chose, not just the designated day after all.) My father makes a delicious homemade pumpkin squash soup, I smoke a turkey, and one of the many pies has to be a peanut butter chocolate for my sweet tooth. We always look forward to it, regardless of the work schedule. Great video as always. Cheers!
We love Thanksgiving. Turkey, ham and old family recipes. Pecan pie, pumpkin pie and football. We set an empty spot at the table and surround it with pictures of our family that have gone home before us especially our fathers in their military uniforms. Thanks for a great review.
Our family tradition brings family from Texas and around here in Fl. Everyone makes something to bring. I have a seventh grandbaby joining us this year and thats what i enjoy the most is spending time with the grandkids. Seeing them makes me very thankful and warms my heart. Have a wonderful and blessed Thanksgiving Spurgeon and all in the YTPC.
Thanksgiving traditions in my family start with watching the Macey’s parade. While that’s happening usually are preparing for dinner. My favorite part of the holiday is the joyful atmosphere, the aromas of delicious food being prepared, and sound of laughter from relatives I see too infrequently.
My family's Thanksgiving tradition is fairly traditional. We always have turkey, mashed potatoes etc. for dinner. My brother and his family come over for pie after they finish their meal and we hang out and visit and just pass time together. The day after (black Friday) we decorate the house for Christmas, and I always make a trip to my favorite local bottle shop to pick up that year's Bourbon County Brand Stout, as it always releases that day.
Being a Pecan Farmer here in Texas, Thanksgiving is one of the few Holidays taken off for. It usually includes a large spread of family and food, in which the cooking starts early that Thursday morning as I fry the family turkey every year. In the afternoon my wife and kids go out to the orchard to take new fall pictures in the trees as they change color, drop leaves and pecans before harvest. It has become a tradition that I am grateful for, and will resume for as long as I can.
We're actually still figuring out some holiday traditions in my home. We moved from NC to CA two years ago and holidays are still kinda new! However, I know this year will be my first Thanksgiving with a Meerschaum Corncob :)
Thanks for helping new folks like me explore this fascinating realm of pipes and tobacco.
I’ve worked for the railroad most of my life, and my wife is an ICU nurse. Until we had kids, our thanksgiving tradition, was working that day/weekend so others with a family could spend it with them. Moved back home to the farm, she’s still an ICU nurse, and works most thanksgivings, but the rest of us get to go to her mothers home farm a few hours south and enjoy the day with family.
My dad and I used to go out and eat Chinese buffet, before he passed away. He introduced me to pipes 30 years ago. Miss him.
Family, friends, football, and food. Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday as I truly enjoy cooking the big meal and spend time with the ones I love, watching football and ending the night with a good bourbon and usually a solo smoke. I would love to pass along this pipe to my brother-in-law so we can create a new tradition of a Thanksgiving smoke together. Those will be the memories we'll remember fondly.
Thanksgiving is one of the few times all the family gets together at the same time. Lots of laughter and harassing each other along with the chaos of 9 nieces and nephews all running around. Lots of great food and desserts and I'll be bringing over some sleepy hollow this year! Be kind and safe everyone!
Every year we travel up a short jaunt north to my parents' house and start the day early. We typically make jalapeno poppers and snack on some decadent puppy chow as we are preparing the food. The main meal is at noon, and the dish I look forward to the most is a spicy squash casserole my father typically makes. Pecan pie always polishes it all off for me.
I am a novice pipe smoker, and I just got a starter pipe about a month ago. It has a beautiful engraving of the Nativity scene, and I am doing my best to get that carbon buildup in the bowl. Shout out to the Catholic Pipe Company for my pipe (though I am an Anglican)! Your channel has been a welcome guide. Appreciate you!
Growing up my family would all get together at my great uncle's farm for the entire day. There were competing turkey cooking methods, cigar smoking, shooting pumpkins, catching up with everyone, playing with atvs and farm animals, and just having a genuine good time. Like many others, our tradition was going around and saying what we're most thankful for that year. Good luck everyone and Happy Thanksgiving!
Thank you for the review! It sounds like something I’ll definitely be picking up.
My family has been visiting our cousins’ farm in Normal, Illinois since the 1950s. Nothing brought my grandfather more joy, before he passed, than seeing multiple generations continue this tradition. Two years ago, I brought a pipe for the first time. I shared some Arrowhead from Paul’s Pipe Shop with a few of my cousins. While not all of them picked up the hobby, they still request that I bring some of that wonderful blend every year.
I'm a new father spending Thanksgiving with my 2 sons, and my lady in the wilds of Prescott, AZ.
New tradition we will be starting for our small family. Spending the holidays in a cabin, in the woods.
I'll be enjoying my new Savinelli Alligator 311 ks green poker, a gift from my father for my birthday, which was the 16th. My pipe is stuffed with Peter Stokkebye English Oriental supreme.
Thank you Wilson, for always coming out with great pipe smoking content, and happy holidays to you and your family, my brother 💨💨💨
May everything you smoke be sweet.
Our family Thanksgiving tradition is of course dinner at ma'maws. Home made everything by the legend herself. The staple or tradition for me has always been her cinnamon rolls she used to make at her restaurant. She always made us kids a pan to take home, but more often than not the full pan didnt make it. We always seem to find ourselves watching Christmas Vacation of an evening as well. As far as pipes go for me and Thanksgiving, I started smoking during covid and purchased my first Peretti Thanksgiving blend last year. Excellent stuff.
Awesome giveaway good Sir. Happy Thanksgiving, and God bless.
I often had to work on Thanksgiving so my work mates and I would prepare a meal and share it with other members of our organization who also worked. Later on, after the holiday, I would be able to share a meal with family at home. Many holidays were like that for us so we learned "thanksgiving" was more about the company and the experience rather than the specific date. Cheers!
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. I am the cook in the family so my wife gets to relax while the kids and I prepare the Thanksgiving meal. We always have turkey, which we apple brine the night before, along with sweet potatoes, butternut squash, green bean casserole, mashed potatoes, stuffing, cole slaw, and cranberry sauce. We make pumpkin pies the night before. What makes this so special is that I have been doing this with my kids since they were kids and now they are adults in their twenties, and they still help me in the kitchen. After dinner and the dishes are clean, I can sit and enjoy a good pipe. I usually smoke C&D Autumn Evening, but this year I also have the LJ Peretti Thanksgiving Blend and I can't wait to try it.
This Thanksgiving is going to be different. This year I lost my father and I got married around the same time.. So while I will be spending this Thanksgiving with my Mom and my newlywed wife, we will be without my dad. I hope he is looking down at us from heaven and knows how much we love him.
I hope yall have a safe and happy Thanksgiving with your family, make sure to let them know you love them
My wife is a RN and often has to work on Thanksgiving so we don’t always have the luxury of annual traditions on the holiday itself unfortunately. We make the best of it though and celebrate all of our blessings and gratitude together as a family the day before or the day after when we can all be together. My son’s birthday is the 26th so it occasionally falls on thanksgiving as well, which gives us another blessing to celebrate. I don’t have an official pipe or blend I smoke for thanksgiving but I usually do try to find a little time that day to enjoy a pipe and reflect on all that I have to be grateful for in life!
We spend Thanksgiving at home with good food and watching a good movie with the kids in the afternoon. Wishing a happy Thanksgiving day to everyone!
Thanksgiving is a time we spend with my wife’s family. Great food and company while the kids run around playing. I usually take a country gentleman corn cob pipe with some kind of Virginia blend. This year I think I’m going to take the maple shadows 2 , I’ve really been enjoying it this fall! Love your reviews, keep up the great videos.
Thanksgiving starts with a big breakfast together with lots of pancakes and watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade! Then, in the afternoon we have a traditional thanksgiving dinner with both turkey and ham. We go around the table and everyone says what they are thankful for. We watch football while we eat and then watch a movie on TV where most everyone falls asleep throughout the movie. God Bless you and your family during this day and throughout the year!
Growing up, one of our Thanksgiving traditions would actually take place on the Sunday after Thanksgiving! That Sunday after church we would go to my grandparent’s house on my mom’s side and meet up with the rest of the family to have a somewhat non traditional meal. Afterwards, we would all go to the theater to watch that year’s family friendly Christmas movie, and when we got back we’d help decorate their tree!
One of my favorite Thanksgiving traditions in my family is the day before thanksgiving. The whole family comes over and bakes pies, preps for the meal the next day, and spends time talking and conversing.
It’s just as enjoyable as the meal itself since we get to spend time preparing the meal together. We all make a dish and enjoy sharing new recipes with each other. Cooking is one way we show how we love and are thankful for each other.
Thanksgiving has always been the main holiday for my mother’s, mother’s family and we would meet at the community center for a traditional meal followed by a football game in the yard. Even though my great grandparents have passed on now we still meet as a family for thanksgiving. I live on my great grandparents farm in the house that my great grandfather built. We all knew him as “Pa” and Pa is the reason I smoke a pipe.
My Thanksgiving tradition typically involves traveling to see my brother. He usually selects a place to have a wonderful Thanksgiving lunch after we attend the Thanksgiving church service. We have occasionally ended up in a cigar lounge for a cigar or a pipe. I've always been hesitant to try a new aromatic. You've convinced me to try Thanksgiving Day next year.
Our Thanksgiving tradition is the typical family gathering and the traditional turkey dinner. I will have a pipe but nothing specific for that day. Wilson, thanks for doing this giveaway and have a blessed Thanksgiving.
No crazy thanksgiving traditions… just the norm. I typically try to see both sides of my family on thanksgiving day since the locations both sides celebrate at are about 5 minutes apart. We have traditional dishes: turkey, Mac and cheese, dressing, green beans, rice, giblet gravy, pineapple casserole, and other various dishes. Since I have been married we have celebrated with her family on the following Saturday. In the past we have gone camping as a family on thanksgiving and that was a blast! I have only been pipe smoking for about a year so this will be my first thanksgiving as a pipe smoker! I will most likely smoke Chelsea morning that day seeing as that is my favorite blend currently. I hope you and your family have a happy thanksgiving ! Grace and peace.
Thanksgiving is a time of rest and family for us. Thanksgiving morning I go out to my grandfather's farm, while doing the farm work we make the most out of the time we have available not rushing through the work. We'll part ways to fulfill our meal contributions for later, and then we gather with the extended family for a meal, cards, games, and fellowship. Its simple, yet a time to evaluate how blessed we are to be together.
Getting together with family is always the best part. It's a day full of joy as we shoot clays, watch football, play games, and enjoy everyones amazing cooking! But the greatest part is gathering around the table and everyone sharing about the goodness of God shown to us the past year.
We have typically had 3 Thanksgiving dinners, one for my wife's side and 2 for mine, one with my mom and one at my dad's as they divorced about 30 years ago. But blessedly about 2 years ago they agreed to combine and it's been great!
Thanks! We have a Thanksgiving Parade that we go to in our town at the end of our block. A great time to be with family and community, and to give thanks. Thanks for hosting the giveaway.
We've always had Thanksgiving at my parents' house. WAY too much food, of which I've smoked the turkey the past couple years. No specific tradition other than gathering and eating together, but it's always been one of my favorite holidays and evokes a sense of nostalgia each year.
Congratulations, in advance, to the winners! Happy Thanksgiving, and God's peace!
My Thanksgiving tradition is setting up the Christmas Tree. I know it's too early for some but for our family it was the only time that we were all together besides weddings or funerals. I got to see the amazing love and joy that my family has for each other while we're all around the tree. Laughing, talking, and enjoying being together. I'm sure if my grandparents were here they'd be happy so see that tradition kept alive. Happy Thanksgiving to all.
Hey Wilson, I truly appreciate the Thanksgiving season, just as much family as Christmas but for the simple pleasure of getting together for a time honored deal. Tradition in our house has always been watching the Lions game (I live in Michigan), and in recent years I have smoked a turkey which has brought new joys to the morning routine on Thanksgiving. Since I already smell like smoke from the smoker I usually sneak in a pipe as well. Hope you and your family have a great holiday season! Cheers, Alex
Hey Wilson!
I've watched your videos for a while now and it's really helped me in my piping journey.
I am 25 years old, so I do not have any Thanksgiving traditions I have started myself, but I will try to share some stories that I have experienced on thanksgiving over the years.
My family is German, likes to cook, and can be quiet. For this reason, it seems at first that there isn't going to be any loud laughing or screaming going on in my family, especially around the holidays. Everyone tends to talk and rejoice that family is together while they cook turkey, ham, or pies, and no one seems to be overly loud or rambunctious. This tends to be the case all throughout the day, until we get to board games. My family has a tradition of playing catch-phrase which is a family game that is almost like verbal pictionary. You have a word, but you need to explain what it is without saying it. Once we group up into girls vs. guys, things get heated and fun. My grandparents and even uncle and aunt start screaming at each other in a competitive light, and so I really enjoy these memories on Thanksgiving.
I tend to smoke Boswell's Christmas Cookie, Mac Baren Golden Extra, or My Mixture 965 around this time of the year.
In general, we try to celebrate Thanksgiving with one set of the family and have a big meal (Baja boat potatoes, Chick-Fil-A cloned macaroni, salad, stuffing, and of course Turkey). In the past, we have spent a few years out of the country, so the traditional became to try and recreate the environment of home for the kids as we celebrate on our own. A whole lot of cooking for a twenty minute experience, but it always seems worth it….until dishes are involved. Love the channel; keep up the good work and enjoy your Thanksgiving!
Our Thanksgiving tradition is to go to my in-laws' house and go deer hunting that week. We set up a Christmas model village and watch movies like "Elf" or "The Santa Clause." As I'm new to pipes I don't yet have a tradition in that regard, yet. I'm hoping to start one, though. Thank you for another great video. Happy Thanksgiving!
We spend Thanksgiving with my wife’s family. Since her father passed a couple years ago, these gatherings are so special for them. Afterwards I come home, pack a bowl to smoke and start planning my Christmas light display for our neighborhood!! Love the channel and share it often. Thanks for all you do. May God bless and keep you!
I’m new to the channel but I’m a big fan. I recently started pipe smoking again and your videos have been very helpful getting back into it. Unfortunately I have to work on Thanksgiving day but my family will be celebrating a couple days early. I have been enjoying English blends lately out of my Viking pipe that I bought while I was in the army years ago. Happy thanksgiving!
We try to get as much family together as possible. Start the meal with a prayer, and after we eat, we go around the table(s) and share something we are thankful for. My brothers and I have started to enjoy a cigar or pipe outside after the meal- not quite a family tradition yet, but we're working on it. Thanks!
Thanksgiving tradition has always been meal and time with family followed by enjoying football!
This is my first Thanksgiving with a child of my own, so thinking of starting a new tradition of telling my wife and family of something I’ve been thankful for the last year, as well as a Thanksgiving day hike!
This is my first Thanksgiving as a pipe smoker so I’m not sure what I’ll be smoking just yet!
I love pumpkin pie and making it from scratch is a wonderful Thanksgiving tradition i love. Cheers and happy Thanksgiving!!!
Thanksgiving tradition for my family has changed over the years. Got married to my wife January of 2022, she is Brazilian so they don’t celebrate this holiday, but ever since she’s been here she has made a nice decadent cranberry sauce and some Brazilian dishes as well as our typical turkey, ham, and stuffing. Usually start the day off watching football with my dad while getting everything prepared and cooked. After dinner we usually go outside and light up the fire pit. I usually use a meerschaum and pack in petersons sherlock holmes… I just love the flavor and usually relaxes me after a long day. Love your videos. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to share my family’s thanksgiving tradition.
Our family tradition changed during COVID. Our church asked some of us to deliver meals on Thanksgiving to those stuck home with COVID...we loved it! So now we try to make Thanksgiving about inviting others to our meal and not simply celebrating it alone.
We usually have a fairly “standard” thanksgiving where my family has a get together and we all bring different foods and desserts. Being in Florida though, it varies whether we will have cool weather or leftover summer heat. Last year for example we had turkey, stuffing, as well as a mess of fried fish and clams! We usually finish up with some pumpkin pie and a cup of coffee. Then when back at the house and eating leftovers we crank up the Christmas music and decorate the tree. When it is cold I love to just sit outside by a fire, hopefully this year we may get that weather. I’m brand new to pipe smoking, not quite 3 weeks even! So far just with some Missouri Meerschaum corn cobs and I feel like I’m getting the hang of it slowly but surely! I’ve been wanting to purposefully slow down in life and enjoy the things that really matter, family time, being thankful and in awe of the Lord and all the blessings we as believers have, and of course good literature and art. From now on I’ll be adding pipe smoking to the list as well and it’s been a lot of fun watching creators like you and others discuss the joys of tobacco and a slow and reflective life. Happy Thanksgiving and God bless everybody!
Me, my wife, kids and in-laws pack up and drive to her aunt's place who lives on Medina Lake here in Texas, there we partake in the classic Thanksgiving goings-on. After eating dinner and pie we do the classic "what are you Thankful for" chat asking around the table. When the chatting turns to politics I take that opportunity to participate in my favorite tradition; lighting up a bowl of whatever I've got, this year it'll likely be PS24 Nougat out of my Country Gentleman, and enjoy a sunset.
Thanks for your reviews and other insights.
I usually have to work Thanksgiving so we have to celebrate earlier. We like treat our feast as a potluck. Everyone brings their favorite dish. After dinner or lunch, we decorate a Christmas tree then have a family picture to track how our large family grows.
With my family so far spread apart these days we make it a tradition to meet back in Hawaii in our hometown every other thanksgiving. Thankfully this year is that year, so I am actually in Hawaii currently watching this and smoking Red Ribbon also! Love the channel and good luck to everyone in the giveaway and Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!
My family enjoys the bounty of Alaska. Our meal consists of King Crab along with all the traditional side dishes. We always thank God for our past year. I don’t have a tradition pipe for Thanksgiving as of yet as I’ve only been smoking a pipe for about a year.
As an Irishman who moved to Morocco, thanksgiving was never something we imagined we would partake in or pay any mind to.
Though; in the process of moving overseas, we ended up meeting, working alongside and getting very close with a handful of Americans, who have blessed us by sharing this tradition.
We now celebrate every year with our friends, smoke a bowl of Presbyterian mixture together, and of course eat plenty of brilliant food. Though we normally bring some classic Irish dishes, my wife and I are trying to work on learning some thanksgiving classics to bless our friends… hopefully the pecan pie turns out okay this year!
One of those American friends is back in America for thanksgiving and Christmas, so should I happen to be chosen then the giveaway could eventually make its way around the world back to me!
Always enjoy the videos, Wilson.
Blessings, Ross
First of all, thanks for what you do! Thanksgiving has changed ,as with everyone, over the years. We celebrate at my house now with my inlaws. Lucky for me, I have a great relationship with my inlaws. We all share in the food preparation one of us says the blessing, and we dig in. I'm the only one who smokes a pipe, but my father in law may partake.
Our thanksgiving tradition is time around the fire with family and those who cook do not clean and those who do not cook must clean. as a newer pipe smoker I look forward to starting a new Thanksgiving pipe tradition!
Ever since my first deployment to Iraq, we came back to Germany just before Thanksgiving and had to learn to deep fry a turkey since German ovens are too small. Sine then I have deep fried a turkey every Thanksgiving. While sitting around the deep fryer it nice to enjoy a pipe or cigar. I also do a deep fried turkey for a men’s church event each year as well.
After Thanksgiving dinner, our family will enjoy a glass of eggnog and a small candy cane to "initiate the Christmas season". It's one of the few times during the year where all of us are together and it's been a tradition since I was a child. Thanks for the awesome review!
The first 10 years or so after college always meant being able to go home and have the holidays with family, specifically at my parents house. We were fortunate enough to move back (w/i 1 mile from them now) home about 5 years ago, and still celebrate at mom and dad's house. However, it's nice now being the welcoming crew as my younger brother and sister live a far, and look forward to our family time throughout the holiday. We always make sure to have some type of shoot throughout the holiday weekend, whether it's plinking cans in the back forty or heading to our local sportsmen club to do some sporting clays!
Thanksgiving has always been special to me as of all the other holidays, aside of my mom making a huge Thanksgiving meal from the Italian soup to the antipasto, artichokes, lasagna and of course a big huge butterball turkey for our wonderful Thanksgiving meal. But what really stands out from my memory was the night before Thanksgiving. I would always love to watch my mom prepare the turkey. I remember her preparing the stuffing which was a wonderful tasty homemade stuffing it had egg, hamburger, ground sausage and different seasonings. It was a delicious stuffing that she made that I will never forget. My mom would stuff the turkey full of her homemade stuffing so full that she would get a needle and thread and closed up the opening so the stuffing wouldn’t fall out she would then put the turkey in the oven let it cook all night on low ( 250 ) heat so that when we woke up Thanksgiving morning the whole house had that wonderful aroma of that delicious juicy turkey. She would then set the oven on Thanksgiving morning on a higher heat and finish cooking it. Beautiful Thanksgiving memories with the family that I will never forget.
My Grandma would make a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner at her house every year. The meal that always stuck out was the sweet potatoes with Pecans and marshmallows. I was thinking about getting some of this blend after finding out about it!