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Grandpa's Wild Long Island Thanksgivings
from Complete the Trip · #20
Audio-only archive episode — no video to seek.
4 minTim tells an extended nostalgic story about his Irish grandfather's huge, boozy Thanksgiving parties in Brookville, Long Island, complete with singing, fights, uncle Tommy's cocaine use, and grandma's gork salad.
- 27:34Grandpa's house hosted 50 people for Thanksgiving with a full bar, pool table, and hired bartender.
- 28:21Uncle Tommy would show up around 11 PM on cocaine with his friends, already drinking and high.
- 28:52Grandmother would sing the Wabash Cannonball, then someone would get knocked out and fights would break out.
- 29:22By 3:30 AM people would make sandwiches with stuffing and cranberry sauce on bread.
- 30:04His other grandmother made gorka salad—cucumbers and vinegar—with turkey and weird German stuffing called filet.
- 30:51The filet was a huge meatloaf of bread, bacon, and egg served as their version of stuffing.
- 31:21She'd serve a dull fruit cup to everyone on nice crystal, trying to be fancy.