We’ve had close to a decade now to ruminate on Friends and two things I think we can agree that the show always did well were 1) Thanksgiving episodes and 2) Joey + food. A piece of my soul will forever be trapped in the zeitgeist of the late ’90s so I don’t anticipate a point in my life where I hear “Thanksgiving episode” and don’t think of Monica’s apartment. That’s just the way it is. I’ve learned to accept it.
To compound on that I enjoy just about every piece of random Joey Tribbiani media that I stumble across on the web a little too much. Especially anything food related. The man-whose-spinoff-never-happened’s culinary wisdom is timeless, and sitting here a week from Thanksgiving we’re in the perfect position to reflect on — and gain from — that knowledge. Not all of these lessons were taught during Thanksgiving episodes, but they all apply to the holiday. Get your notepads ready…
