00:00We had a lady from Zimbabwe who invited us for Thanksgiving dinner and she cooked us turkey
00:10and it was dry, dry as hell. And then she also cooked at the cornmeal, the one that I was telling
00:15you about, that is also dry. So we had to sit there and eat it with no greens, no nothing,
00:21nothing to sop it up and just, we were thirsty. Our just, our throats were just parched. I'm sorry
00:26if you're watching, but I'm sorry, but it was parched, but that kind of ruined turkey
00:31for me. So that's like the biggest Thanksgiving memory I had. I had a Jewish Thanksgiving.
00:34I thought I was going to die. Wait, what? You were attending. Hold on. What's a Jewish Thanksgiving?
00:40We got invited to Thanksgiving. My mom, my mom, I love this family. I love y'all. They gave
00:46me the best gift for my wedding. I love y'all. Y'all know who y'all are. The only Jewish family
00:50I know. And we got invited to their house for Thanksgiving. This was like one of the years
00:56that my dad, and this is, this is going to come back to Popeye's. So one of the years
00:59that my dad, who lives in Ghana, had come to the U.S. and he was like, okay, I'm going
01:04to be here. And I was like, well, I'll do Thanksgiving. And my mom was like, no, you know, this family
01:09that, you know, we're really close to, they would like for us to do Thanksgiving with them.
01:12So I was like, I, well, I, I guess. So my dad and I drove, oh, my dad and my mom, we drove
01:18over to their house, had Thanksgiving. And I had never seen a turkey so pale. Ooh. And it was
01:25like everything came from the supermarket. It was like everything, everything came from
01:29The turkey was Jewish too. Right. The turkey was everything. And it was just like the turkey
01:33was pale. And I call it a Jewish Thanksgiving because this is a Jewish family. So I just
01:38assumed and had never had Thanksgiving. I'd never had dinner with them before. So did you
01:41eat it? And we had no choice. And so we eat, everything was just like, it was pale. And then
01:47it was like the turkey wasn't crisp. It had no seasoning. And then there was like some type of
01:52laki, some type of potato contraption. Everything, everything left my poor father, who had traveled
02:02all the way from Ghana, so angry. Oh my God. He was like, this holiday, it's a wrap. He
02:08drinks the wine. We get in the car. We're coming back. He goes, I said, Daddy, what's wrong?
02:14He goes, and he says it in the tree. He's like, I'm hungry. I don't know what to do. I said,
02:24you know, I didn't go grocery shopping because my mommy said we were going to this place and blah,
02:28blah, blah. And he goes, so what am I to do? I'm hungry. Ain't no McDonald's open. And so I lived in
02:36Harlem at the time and the only thing open was Popeyes. So I went to Popeyes and I got me a good
02:43set of chicken. I got some mashed potatoes. And all that. And I came home and I said, well, Daddy,
02:50you know, I have enough stuff to make like a stew and I'm going to make some jollof rice. And so he
02:55was like, hey, hey, yes. Let's make it. Let's make it. And so I cooked. It was like, by this time,
03:02we looking like nine o'clock. My dad is starving and he sat there. He helped me chop onions and we
03:07cooked. We laid out our Popeyes and our biscuit. And my mother was like, how, how can you still be
03:14hungry? I was like, cause I . Right, right. You needed some flavor. I needed some flavor.
03:20Popeyes game. And Popeyes worked it out.
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