Friendsgiving

Friendsgiving is a Thanksgiving-themed feast meal eaten with friends typically prior to or instead of a family Thanksgiving dinner in the United States.

[4][5] Participants are generally close friends who live in the same area; when produced on Thanksgiving Day the meal is most common in places with many transplants for whom traveling home for the holiday is logistically or emotionally difficult.

[1] In 2022 Joe and Jill Biden celebrated with a traditional turkey dinner several days before Thanksgiving at a Marine base.

[2] In 2011 a liqueur advertisement with a Friendsgiving theme appeared[2] and the concept was a plot point in an episode of The Real Housewives of New Jersey.

[8] Michael Hendrix of the Manhattan Institute described it as "a table set with lonely millennials practicing traditions of their choosing", arguing it had developed partially a result of delayed household formation among that cohort.

[13] Malcolm Harris argues that the use of a "cutesy" portmanteau for a "scraped-together, potluck-style event popular with Millennials...implies approval by the powers that be of Millennial adults’ lower income and lower living standards compared with those of prior generations" and that its development is "an expected manifestation" of that lowered living standard; he called the event "a propaganda weapon used by the ruling class to further their plans for wage stagnation.