Thanksgiving is arguably one of many yummiest celebrations within the US and one the place you’re anticipated to be residence for the vacations. However, what are your choices when going residence isn’t one? In current a long time, Friendsgiving has emerged because the go-to alternative as a further occasion or full various to Thanksgiving.

It may be robust in the course of the holidays with the pressures of attempting to get every thing good to current your self as a well-adjusted grownup internet hosting a Thanksgiving dinner, or to be present with family which will suppose they know what’s greatest for you. Friendsgiving has opened the door to do issues somewhat bit in a different way. The intention is to have a laid-back, low-pressure (or over-the-top, completely as much as the host) potluck-style dinner with associates and different folks in your chosen neighborhood — as a result of as tacky because it sounds, friends are the new family.

Friendsgiving was seemingly plucked from obscurity within the 2010s. Whereas its actual origins are debated, it was doubtless extensively practiced previous to its fame on The Actual Housewives of New Jersey in 2011. Even then, it took a couple of extra years for it to select up steam within the media.

Watch this video to learn the way Friendsgiving went from a pleasant potluck dinner to a cultural mainstay.

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