Northeast Gardening: What is Your Thanksgiving Menu This Year?, 1 by CapeCodGardener

CapeCodGardener wrote:

Quoting: Why is it that Thanksgiving takes hours, sometimes days, to prepare ... and then 25 minutes to eat? LOL! Just pondering here, but that's something I have always wondered about.

One of my heroes, Erma Bombeck, asked why it takes 18 hours to produce a Thanksgiving dinner, and then it takes 12 minutes to eat it. . . which was exactly how long it takes for a football halftime show. Coincidence. . . I don't THINK so!

I love the phrase "the survival of the cooks." And I don't have an answer either as to why it seems so important to produce a feast. Except, maybe, that that IS the point.