What should I expect from Thanksgiving with my Spanish-in-laws?

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I don't really know my husbands family. We just married this year. But now that thanksgiving is a few days away, they have invited us over for the holiday.

My husband said to prepare yourself... its not a normal Thanksgiving. No turkey, no stuffing, and no gravy.... What am I to prepare myself with?  They are PRican Spanish... Can someone give me an insight to this ordeal?

tentofield · Answer

So they are Puerto Rican not Spanish. Spain doesn't celebrate Thanksgiving, it is a purely USA holiday.  PR was a Spanish colony until 1898 when the USA took over. They had no tradition of Thanksgiving before than so they have been able to develop their own ideas. Why not ask your husband what to expect? If he wants it to be a surprise, why not go along with it and be surprised?

Mackenzie · Answer

Ah, it should be delicious. My husband is Puerto Rican, and his family at every celebration makes things like chicken and/or pork, rice, beans, fried plantains, empanadas, mofungo (yum-- some minced plantain-meat concoction), salads, bacalao (salted codfish) sancocho (a flavorful mixed meat stew), etc.

I learned to cook a lot of it for him, and while we don't eat it on Thanksgiving we have it other times during the year, especially his birthday, lol.

I wouldn't worry about it... just go with it and enjoy.  Puerto Rican food is delicious.

Anonymous · Answer

Prepare your self for a very good time.

Cord · Answer

Their probably roasting a whole pig on the front lawn.

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