Share your funny Thanksgiving cooking mistakes of the past (or someone else's).
I always did the entire dinner for a very large family from the time I was a very young wife. My stepmother would help with the last minute things while we were putting food on the table. I used to make the turkey broth the day before for use in making the gravy. I also always had some sort of relish tray for those before dinner hunger pangs. The relish tray almost always included two kinds of olives, both black and green. I knew enough to keep the olive juice from the black olives in a plastic container to put the left over olives in. My stepmother said she'd do the gravy and I yelled out to her, "There's a plastic container of turkey broth you can put in the pan with the drippings." She grabbed the olive juice container and used that. By the time we discovered it, I was able to somewhat fix the gravy by adding the broth. Most people couldn't even tell the difference, but we teased her about that for years.
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no one ever asked me to cook dinner since...
I was always the person who did it all. My siblings weren't in a position to help much, though my brothers always brought something - usually a six-pack for themselves
Brother used salt instead of sugar.
Who knew? 
How is it supposed to get brown? How do you fit it in the oven unless it's a really small turkey? Mashed potatoes you can eat with a spoon? I would expect better from a dietician.
Maybe she was book smart
