If we didn't have Brussels sprouts at Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners, there would be revolution, riots in the streets, arson, rape, and bloody murder from our family!

We don't have the tradition of roast parsnips in our family, but it sounds good to me.

For some reason having to do with the preferences of an ex-son-in-law, we are also saddled with the requirement of macaroni and cheese on the holiday board. Eminently forgettable. Oh, well.

Dave Oesterreich