Eggnog before Thanksgiving? Shoppers eager for a new season scramble retail calendars

Channel 3000 News/AP ^ | October 14, 2024 | AP Staff

[Diana in Wisconsin]

After sipping pumpkin spiced lattes in August and putting up Halloween decorations in late September, Samantha Kowalczyk already looks forward to drinking eggnog-flavored coffee and filling her Wilmington, Delaware, home with cinnamon and sugar cookie scented candles and other holiday aromas.

The 30-year-old thinks seasonal flavors and scents should be available year-round. And apparently others feel the same way.

In response to growing customer demand, stores of all stripes, from Bath and Body Works and online holiday decor retailer Balsam Hill to Whole Foods Market and doughnut maker Krispy Kreme, are bringing out their festive collections weeks before the Nov. 1 start of the holiday shopping season.

Inflation-weary shoppers may wait until the first cold snap to buy a sweater or gloves, but when it comes to seeking out deals tied to events like the start of a new school year or limited-time seasonal promotions, a fair number of consumers are finding it's never too soon.

“I want the season earlier and the things that go with the season earlier,” Kowalczyk said. “I want to enjoy it for as long as I can ... If I enjoy it, why should I have to wait?”

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Southern Comfort Old Fashioned sweet, with extra olives. No fruit! ;)

[KierkegaardMAN]

You need to be drinking pepto bismal if you’re actually going to watch the Steal
2.0 as it unfolds. Don’t forget, it might take two or three days for the commies to manufacture enough mail in votes if the computer manipulations don’t do the job on Election Day.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Exactly! Well said! I LOVE living in a place where we have four distinct seasons - and all that goes with each.

Tomatoes are almost at an end. Every October I put out the warning to the family: “This is the LAST BLT you will have for the year. Cherish it!”

[wardaddy]

We make it Deep south folded style eggnog that you have to eat with a spoon and sprinkle with nutmeg or cinnamon
And eat with a spoon it’s quite unlike the liquid Version and I’m willing to have it anytime
You have to prepare it in like three bowls at once And together mix it together
Egg whites and maybe a few yolks the cream
The whiskey cook the eggs

Anyhow, that’s how Mississippi does it

[wardaddy]

Egg nog is whiskey

[Jamestown1630]

I love it too. I don’t like alcohol in it, but I can make a breakfast of a glass of eggnog. I would like to have it available all year.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

My Creche goes up first, and comes down last. I remember Mom having a Christmas Tree in the family room until April one year! (We rarely used that room.) She probably had a fight with Dad and she was making a point.

Now she has her tree down 10 minutes after the last gift is unwrapped, LOL! Stay out of her way or you’ll get packed away, too! ;)

[wardaddy]

Purity a local middle Tennessee dairy which like most gets their milk from Mexico makes a drinkable carton nog and boiled custard
To be honest
Yankee style thin

[Sacajaweau]

Pumpkin Pie!!

[Sacajaweau]

Agree...I buy pound cake. This way when my Primary asks...I can say I don’t drink....and I buy the good stuff!!

[TexasFreeper2009]

I have started putting up Christmas decor just after Halloween. It is a long of time, work, and money to only enjoy for a month between Thanksgiving and Christmas. So I just skip straight to Christmas now on the decorations.

[j.havenfarm]

I have about 4 ounces, give or take, every year. A little egg nog goes a long way

[Liz]

Homemade Eggnog
Does spiking the homemade eggnog safeguard it against salmonella? Some say yes.

Ing doz eggs 1 qt ea h/cream, light cream 1 pint bourbon 1 qt rum nutmeg 1/2-3/4 lb sugar

Steps Beat eggs, add bourbon, rum slowly, stir to prevent egg proteins. Beat h/cream separately to peaks; add to egg/bourbon/rum mix. Add light cream, stirring. Add sugar to taste while mixing, then nutmeg to taste. Leave standing w/ lid slightly ajar in fridge. Mellow flavors. Serve after 2-3 weeks in the cold.

Can semi-boil eggs in shells a min before adding if you wish.

[CtBigPat]

The Holiday season is upon us!

It's The Most Fattening Time Of The Year

And don't Hog the Nog - it's MINE!

[tet68]

I’ve tried to make my own but can’t quite get it.

I think you should try George Washington’s recipe...

[Afterguard]

Lol! Yes it is a waste of rum. That’s why i only use Jim Beam in eggnog...

[Red Badger]

Eggnog should be sold year round!...................Especially ICE CREAM!.................

[jeffc]

IDK, it's an innocent indulgence to me.

I live in Florida. We don't have seasons, except for when one day you wake up and half of the trees are missing leaves....

[tet68]

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Hold on to your socks with this homemade old-school eggnog recipe from Mount Vernon, George Washington’s estate. There’s a good story to go with it, too.

Eggnog was certainly popular during colonial times. Brought over from Britain (and going back to medieval times), eggnog was a special-occasion drink due to its ingredients (milk, eggs, alcohol), which were quite expensive at the time.

According to kitchen records, George Washington served an eggnog-like drink loaded with alcohol to visitors at Mount Vernon. Below is his recipe, supposably penned in his own hand. We added ingredient amounts since folks tended to estimate back then.
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George Washington Eggnog Recipe

“One-quart cream, one-quart milk, one dozen tablespoons sugar, one-pint brandy, ½ pint rye whiskey, ½ pint Jamaica rum, ¼ pint sherry – mix liquor first, then separate yolks and whites of 12 eggs, add sugar to beaten yolks, mix well.

Add milk and cream, slowly beating. Beat whites of eggs until stiff and fold slowly into mixture. Let set in cool place for several days. Taste frequently.”

So, is this Washington’s recipe in his own hand? Although widely circulated as being true, it isn’t very likely. We contacted Mount Vernon’s librarians, who said no eggnog recipe has been definitively linked to Washington. It did not come from George or Martha Washington’s papers. It was not in Martha’s cookbook (which she inherited from her first marriage), nor was it provided in her personal copy of The Art of Cookery by Hannah Glasse, the popular English cookbook in America at the time.

[mware]

Make sense. Tangerines will always be associated with Christmas to me.. They really were a treat and about the only time we got them. To this day peeling tangerine takes me back to the Christmas.