Ritual sacrifice with pie

bear or snarkhunter or anybody who knows: what's that quote about Thanksgiving, the one that ends with "It's a sort of ritual sacrifice, with pie"? And where is it from? I keep thinking Buffy, but am not sure.

I must say, nice as it is to have people over at our house for Thanksgiving, it's certainly a lot more relaxed when we decide to do it just for us. Because this morning I woke up and thought, "Oh god. We have to get dinner ready. We have to somehow make a turkey, and stuffing, and gravy, and cranberry sauce, and mashed potatoes, and sweet potatoes, and pies, and turkey, and gravy, and mashed potatoes... hey... wait a minute... that's all we have to do. We don't have to have it all ready by the time the guests arrive. We don't have to childproof for other people's children. We don't have to have the house relatively clean and tidy. Wow. ::sigh of relief:: Happy Thanksgiving to us!"

And the nice thing is, all that food won't go to waste with just the four of us eating it, because we're going to take huge chunks of it to Guy and to ninja_kat's house.

Whee!!

As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!

Name that quote :)

A Thanksgiving feast was had by the four of us, in a rather dishevelled house, in rather dishevelled clothing. And, at Justin's insistence, we stopped for a moment before eating to say thanks.

"Who are we thanking, Justin?" asked Chris.

"Everybody! For EVERYthing! For the people who built the HOUSES, and the people who made the TURKEY, and EVERYBODY!" (accompanied by expansive little hand gestures)

(Like I said this summer, Sarah, we have an Italics!Boy too - although he's more of a CAPSLOCK!Boy)

Turkey, stuffing, gravy, mashed potatoes, squash, cranberry sauce, wine, pumpkin pie, apple pie, vanilla ice cream & strawberry... thing.

Mostly done for Justin's sake, because I think he would've been heartbroken if we didn't have a turkey. But it benefitted us all. Including ninja_kat & family, who got a bunch of tupperwares with bits of our feast :) And tomorrow we'll try to drop some off at Guy's too.