• All fried food all the time …. it is the Deep (Fried) South after all.

• Health, family and friends.

• The in-laws will leave soon.

• Living in the greatest place on earth — Mississippi.

• The endless turkey sandwich possibilities we can experiment with for days to come … turkey and swiss, turkey bacon club, turkey and avocado, turkey and sardines with peanut butter.

• That Thanksgiving always falls on Thursday so we have the whole weekend to recuperate.

• That old friends come home.

• Meridian will soon have a Starbucks AND Japanese sushi restaurant.

• Football.

• Shopping the day after Thanksgiving.