I swear, every family has a legendary tale of some horrible Thanksgiving cooking mishap, and in retrospect, they are almost always hilarious. So, I decided to ask members of our BuzzFeed Community to dish (haha, get it? Dish?) their family's most infamous Thanksgiving cooking fails. Here are some of their best responses: 6.
"One year my grandma was carving the turkey ceremoniously and as she was leaning over the bird, her sleeve caught on fire. She didn't notice for a while and my uncle was just yelling, '[Grandma,] you're on FIRE! On FIRE!!!'" "When she finally noticed, she ripped her shirt off and jumped up and down on it for an eternity. The image of my topless grandmother stomping on her flaming Anne Klein blouse has haunted me.
I see it in slow motion every year when I watch somebody cut into the turkey. Rest in peace Grandma, that was lowkey hilarious, sorry about your shirt." — alicefitzgerald99 9.
"Mine is not crazy, just funny. I only have three people in my immediate family so we will just do a turkey breast for the main course..
. not the full thing. Well, my sweet mother did not realize that the breast also takes hours to thaw, so we had no main course.
.. Luckily her dogs are very spoiled and always get turkey sandwich meat on top of their dog food.
. so we had that instead. The were still the best part.
;)" — kate3 11. "Not so much a cooking disaster, but when my mom was first living in LA, her parents decided to visit her for Thanksgiving. My mom decided to ta.