What was your biggest Thanksgiving disaster - and how could you have prevented it?

inviting the puritans to eat the food the Indians brought to that supper that day. they should of just poisoned those boat people.

My dad overcooked the turkey in the deep fryer and it was so soft and difficult to get out, because it was falling apart. Smoke was everywhere! It could have been prevented by cooking it for the correct time period.

LOL...Working Man, I love your story; I bet that was gross!

Some fools didn't show up on Thanksgiving - WE had to call them and they said they'd be over. We waited and waited, but they never showed. We called again, they said, "Wow. We can't get going today. Sorry, we're not coming over." I was so mad and so sorry for my roommate. She put out her best china and silverware and she was all excited. I HATE those people and I hope they never have a good Thanksgiving. My roommate forgave them soon. She is a better person than me. I'd drop those people as friends like a hot brick. This was Thanksgiving! Not some weekend baseball game in the park where we were BBQing hot dogs. Some people just have absolutely no class!

couldnt be prevented...oven stopped working one wk before so my friend cooked the turkey at her house..

When I was newly married I wanted to make the perfect turkey for my hubby. I just forgot to take the bag of innards out of the turkey before baking. Need I add any more sordid details? :)

I deep fried a turkey for the first time. It was to be cooked at 350 degrees. I put the turkey in monatored the temp and the oil wouldn't get about 310 so I kept turning up the fire. It didn't help so I left it cooking for an extra 15 minutes. I took it out and my 20# turkey weighed about 2#. Found out that my temperature gauge was wrong and I cooked all the meat away except for the carcous. I also burnt away a rack of deer ribs. I asked my nephew to watch them while I ran to the store. I got back and the bbqa was billowing out smoke. I opened it and there was about 4 inches of rib bone left. I asked my nephew if he had watched it and he said "yes, I watched them burn away to nothing". luckily, I had a ham in the oven that survived so thanksgiving was not a total ruin.