Tribal People's First Impressions of American Thanksgiving Dinner 

Thanksgiving traditions differ in various states and regions based on the local cuisine and history. There are also different family traditions. For instance, in my family we eat sweet potato pie instead of pumpkin pie and/or candied sweet potatoes rather than mashed potatoes. We also don't like turkey in my family so we're more likely to bake a hen.

You betcha! Sweet potato casserole with brown sugar & mini-marshmallows, and don't forget the whipped topping or vanilla ice cream with the pumpkin pie!

As a Brit across the pond...food looked yummy...why spoil it with pumpkin pie ...sorry Americans ...to me it is like eating wet sand and far too sweet... !! Not pleasant !! A good apple pie with flaky pastry base and top.. Next a good dollop of double cream..or indeed custaed !!

@@shirleydurr411 Some people also do chicken instead of turkey. There are also a variety of Thanksgiving side dishes to choose from.

Gotta have the jellied cranberry sauce. Never saw a doughnut at Thanksgiving but it's alright.

For sure. I’d welcome them to my home any day.

Immense gratitude to God, is taught through their religion Islam. As with many other religions.

Me too.

@@DurkMcGerk yeah me too man!

They are sweet and loving human beings...Just like our American brothers and sisters...God bless❤

The gravy should be thick with sliced boiled eggs and the giblets (liver, heart, and gizzard) from the bird, boiled, chopped fine and added to the gravy. The neck of the bird should be boiled with the giblets and stripped of some meat to shred fine and add to the gravy as well. The broth created by boiling these things naturally goes into the gravy, if the recipe you're using calls for broth or water. Are the guys allowed to eat giblets? I never thought about that before.

Another gravy lover here! That's the best part. Lol

​@@BrutishYetDelightfuli believe they are forbidden from certain animals, but any part of the animal is okay. They've eaten testicles on the show lol

I'm the rare one that wants white peppered gravy for the mashed potatoes. Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm!

I'm from New Mexico and we always have red chile too. Bless you and your families

Don't forget the candied yams.

Especially gravy to go with the stuffing.

cannot forget cranberries (ex: a sauce, or slices of that canned stuff)

Fermented Skate and Offal is a must.

@@markplott4820what? 🤣

Well said ❤

they are muslims; they dont believe in the Lord Jesus.

True, but if you're going to label a video as an "American Thanksgiving Dinner," especially to showcase a first impression, you should add more traditional dishes. The point isn't to hand them Pakistani food and call it a Thanksgiving dinner. Omitting gravy, ham, stuffing, green bean casserole, cornbread, sweet potato casserole, cranberry relish, and any kind of dessert, and then adding donuts to the table, is ridiculous. Just having turkey in a meal does not equal Thanksgiving dinner.

@@swedishshortsnout5610 I agree. And I have never had Thanksgiving dinner with doughnuts lol.

@@swedishshortsnout5610you sound miserable. Let them enjoy their meal.

@@mrvonfrites What part of my comment makes me sound "miserable?" I stated facts. And I didn't say they couldn't enjoy their not-Thanksgiving meal.

LOL! They make Chaudhary very thankful though!

He held onto that cork like a pro eh 😎😁👍

Donuts?

⁠@@lisalarouge6309 LOL! That’s what I said!

I saw that video, I believe that same family is currently in the USA right now, they finally made their dream of a trip to America a reality, hope they’re enjoying themselves 🤗😁

@@MegaKittykat05 They are! I saw a video of their first time in WalMart, and they went NUTS over all the variety of products. They made another video in their hotel room when they tried all the treats they'd bought.

What do you mean, everything was missing lmao. No deviled eggs, candied yams, stuffing, whipped cream, ham, dinner rolls, gravy etc, etc, etc...

Sweet potato pie for the black folks. I eat them year round. 😋

​@@newrivertroll1553 Yep. My family always has Turkey, ham, dressing(stuffing), macaroni and cheese, gravy, baked sweet potatoes, sweet potato pies, cranberry sauce and potato salad. My sister tried to get a vanilla cake with fudge icing but Publix was charging $22 so she bought 30 cupcakes instead. Someone baked a lemon meringue pie too but that isn't normally part of our meal.

@@newrivertroll1553 They don’t eat ham. 🙄

@catherinelw9365 that could make a really funny vid, call it 'Tribal people react after they discover that they've just eaten pork 🤣

Hey, from a Yank living in Arkansas also, God bless and Happy Thanksgiving.

Well said 🤗

Green bean casserole is a big NO in our family.

@@katw3070 the vegetable sides are a matter of preference to some degree, but you can't deny that green bean casserole is considered a typical side for Thanksgiving.

I always wonder where they get their misinformation from.

​@@billstill1794There's no "misinformation" here. It's just good people doing the best they can with what they have available. I'm sure that the turkey alone was quite expensive, since it's not at all a commonly available form of poultry in Pakistan. I truly don't understand why some people seem to think that everything that can be found in Western countries, is somehow widely available in other countries. If you've done any research into this channel, you'd know that it's run by people who actually came from the same type of poor rural villages as the reactors. The reason they started it, wasn't to be absolutely perfect with every detail about Western cultures and cuisines. It was created in the hope that it would build bridges between countries and cultures, as well as a way to show that we're all more alike than we realize. To narrow the meaning of this channel down to whether or not they get every single detail right, is truly doing a great disservice to the original mission of the channel, to the participants and to the viewers. I thought they did an excellent job of showing these gentlemen a glimpse into a uniquely American tradition. Perfection has never been the goal and if you expect it to be, then maybe the food network would be a better option for you. Have a blessed day.

You could just say thank you for celebrating a day with you which means absolutely nothing to them.

It meant a full stomach though! @@iluvmywifesomuch

@@bobbiejojackson9448 It's definitely either pure misinformation or laziness. Nobody is asking for perfection, just the barest hint of a resemblance to Thanksgiving other than eating turkey and potatoes. They have sweet potatoes in Pakistan. They have the bread, onion, butter, and herbs to make a quick version of stuffing. Lentils like peas are staple protein sources in a Pakistani diet. They can make a bad version of cranberry relish from dried cranberries, which is found everywhere in Pakistan. It takes about 20 minutes to make gravy from scratch with flour, water, milk, fat drippings, stock, etc. The people in the comments who are saying they don't have access to this food don't know what they are talking about. They don't live in some hut in a ditch in the middle of nowhere. They have a proper apartment style house with a large kitchen, washroom, a TV, etc.

I made homemade cranberry sauce this time around. It's really good, and so easy. My recipe gets a good slug of sweet red wine - I know the guys aren't supposed to drink it, but can they have a sauce that was cooked with it? The booze cooks out of it, but the sweet red flavor left behind does a nice dance with the orange juice and they both blend marvelously in when the cranberries all pop open. It gets chicken broth and a bit of sugar, too. Chinese rock sugar is extraordinary for this if you have it. It's a really good cranberry sauce.

How about fresh green beans cooked with ham, a ham hock or bacon?

No one I know misses green bean casserole.

@@katw3070 I do 🤣

Not necessarily. The original pilgrims had to make do with what they had available to them at the time and this channel obviously made do with what they were able to access at the time this meal was prepared. The gentlemen just had pumpkin pie last month and I believe they've tried apple pie in the past on the channel. We always have pumpkin, apple and pecan pies for Thanksgiving. And this year, we also had cheesecake, chocolate cream pie and carrot cake. Different families celebrate differently and that's the beauty of this melting pot we call home. Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours! 🦃🍂

The gravy for sure is needed.

How wonderful that would be!

Yeah this was not an traditional American Thanksgiving dinner.I have never seen any of these side dishes served at Thanksgiving.There is nothing wrong with having those foods but it isn’t a reposition of the traditional meal.

My favorite dish for thanksgiving is the stuffing/dressing covered in turkey gravy.

No to the green bean casserole. Ugh.

NYE celebration would be amazing!

I believe it was originally a celebration for surviving the first full year in the new land.

My father used to make oyster dressing. Delish!

I would bet money that you live in the South.

They don't celebrate Thanksgiving in Pakistan. They're just trying foods they think we serve on Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is only an American holiday.

Must be halal

Bless your heart, you didn’t mention green bean casserole! Thank you, thank you! No doubt there will be those who will get the vapors that some hate that gbc mess.

While I appreciate your desire to see them eat these foods next thanksgiving, given their location, it is very probable that they can’t source a lot of these ingredients which for yourself are a given. I’m thinking especially of the turkey, yams/sweet potatoes cranberries and even the halal approved marshmallows. You might have to organise a crowd sourced food parcel delivery for them with some recipes/suggestions a week or so early so they could attempt a more realistic rendition of a traditional American thanksgiving dinner.