Bringing Your Own Food To Thanksgiving, Rude Or Not?

Let me put a disclaimer here, this is for entertainment purposes only.

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday.

I have fond childhood memories of helping my grandparents prepare the Thanksgiving meal, plus I really love the Thanksgiving food.

When I was a kid, if a diner had a Thanksgiving sandwich on the menu I was always going to order it. Yes, I love the Gobbler from Wawa too.

To me, the Thanksgiving meal has to include turkey, gravy, stuffing, mashed potatoes, sweet potato casserole, and cranberry sauce.

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I could not care less if there was a vegetable on the table. I operate on the assumption that people only have a veggie included just so they feel a little bit better about themselves, no one actually wants it.

The last food on my list is important for my question, cranberry sauce needs to be on the table for Thanksgiving.

I know not everyone likes cranberry sauce, it is probably the most controversial food on the Thanksgiving table.

Sadly, I married into a non-cranberry sauce family. (Remember this is for entertainment purposes only, I am just kidding...they don't eat cranberry sauce, but the "sadly" is for effect only).

We spend Thanksgiving with my husband's family, which means no cranberry sauce for me on Thanksgiving.

So, dear reader, I ask you this...would it be rude to bring my own can of Ocean Spray cranberry sauce?

I don't mean the whole berry version, I want the jelly one that comes out in the shape of the can.

No one else would eat it and I doubt I could finish the whole can by myself, but to me it's essential for the Thanksgiving meal.

Do I think that my in-laws would care if I brought cranberry sauce for myself? Probably not, but I would still feel slightly weird about it.

I'll just have to have a Gobbler this week to get my cranberry sauce kick.