Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.

It isn't just any free-for-all Friday. It is the post- Thanksgiving free-for-all Friday. Welcome to the Council of Trent podcast. I'm your host, Catholic Answers Apologists and Speaker, Trent Horn.

Mondays and Wednesdays, we talk apologetics and theology. One Thursday out of the year,

we eat turkey and a whole bunch of sides. And the following Friday, we just recover. That is what

you're doing today. It's probably what I'm doing today. I'm pre-recording this episode,

but I'm imagining the Friday after Thanksgiving, what will I be doing? Probably recovering a bit. My favorite thing is

when people say, oh, you want to know why you get so tired on Thanksgiving? It's because Turkey has

triptophan in it and tryptophan makes you sleepy. So that's why people are always tired on Thanksgiving

afternoon. Now, people are probably tired because they ate like 3,000 calories of food that's really

stock loaded with carbohydrates.

As I go through my list here, you'll see, I love carbs.

Isn't that funny?

Who could have guessed something like that?

So you're probably recovering today from being stuff full of goodness, stuffing, and tradition.

Because not all Thanksgiving food is created equally. It is not all equal. Get that egalitarian nonsense out of here. Some Thanksgiving food is better than other Thanksgiving food. Some Thanksgiving food, you eat out of politeness or out of a sense of etiquette or you eat it out of a sense of tradition because you feel like your plate has to look a certain way. There's one thing I can't stand, by the way, it's people who take pictures of their Thanksgiving plates. That's just the most unappetizing thing. No matter how you feel about the way Thanksgiving food tastes, it doesn't look very good. It's not photogenic. Any other time of the year, if there is a holiday and food related to it, you can usually take a picture of it and it looks good. Fourth of July, you've got hot dogs and burgers. Halloween, you can take pictures of all of your candy. Even at Christmas, when you have the Christmas ham and the Christmas dinner out, maybe it's all the lights in the background. I don't know what it is, but you can make Christmas dinner look pretty good and decent. But when you put Thanksgiving food on there, it just looks like a mess. You don't want to look at it too long. You want to eat that pretty quickly. So today I'm just going to go through. I'm going to rank the food. Mostly I'm going to rank the sides because the main dish, it's usually one or two things. Now, some people will go all out

and do something non-traditional. rank the food. Mostly I'm going to rank the sides because the main dish, it's usually one or two

things. Now, some people will go all out and do something non-traditional. I think that that's

great, actually, because the traditional thing is turkey, or maybe you'll do something like a

honey-baked ham. I'm really more of a honey-baked ham person, unless I am attending a Thanksgiving

dinner and somebody has put a ton of loving care into that turkey because it is really hard to get turkey right.

It's usually dry.

Throughout my whole life, the only turkey that I ever really enjoyed is deli-slice turkey because it isn't dry.

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